The Ages of the Characters

By Linda

This article is in three sections: non-channellers, female channellers, and male channellers. There is also a section on slowing of aging.

It should be noted that Jordan’s descriptions of ages are consistent with the shorter life expectancies of the 15th to 18th centuries, so that people in their early 30s are described as ‘just into their middle years’.

Likely birth dates are given first, followed by ages at the time of A Memory of Light.

Non-Channellers

Abell Cauthon – b. 955 NE, 45
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Adim – b. 977 NE, 13
Almen Bunt’s nephew was 13 in Towers of Midnight.

Adora Aybara – b. 974 NE
She was 16 in The Eye of the World, Earlier.

Ailil Riatin – b. 950–965 NE, 35–50
Ailil is described as middle aged in Towers of Midnight, Choosing Enemies.

Master Aldragoran – b. 952–953 NE, 47–48
A Malkieri merchant who was only a toddler (2–3 years old) when Malkier fell in 955 NE (Knife of Dreams, The Golden Crane).

Alene al’Vere – b. 969 NE, 31
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Egwene’s second-eldest sister.

Alliandre – b. 972 NE, 28
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Described as “well short of her middle years” and therefore in her mid to late twenties (The Fires of Heaven, Encounters in Samara).

Almurat Mor – b. 960–970 NE, 30–40
Described as in his middle years and has no grey in his hair (The Shadow Rising, Hidden Faces), therefore probably in his thirties.

Alsbet Luhhan – b. 955 NE, 45
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Her braid was grey.

Aludra Nendenhald – b. 959 NE, 41
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Is “at least 10–15 years older than” Mat (The Dragon Reborn, A Hero in the Night) and “perhaps 10 years older than” Mat (Winter’s Heart, In Need of a Bellfounder).

Amathera Aelfdene Casmir Lounalt – b. 974 NE, 26
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. She is “well short of her middle years” (The Shadow Rising, Need).

Amondrid Osiellin – b. 958–68 NE, 32–42
Is 15–20 years older than Rand (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Andere – b. 954–5 NE, 45–6
Andere was the young guard berated by Bukhama in New Spring (Towers of Midnight, Into Canluum) and is a year or two younger than Lan (New Spring, Into Canluum).

Antol – b. 964 NE, 36
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Aram – b. 978 NE, 22
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Was "about the same age as Perrin” (The Eye of the World, The Travelling People).

Areina Nermasiv – b. 978 NE, 22
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Arwin – b. 978–980 NE, 18–20
Was “a good ten years younger than Sevanna” (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Arymilla Marne – b. 964–954 NE, 36–46
Was “old enough to be Rand’s mother” (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Astoril Damara – b. 935 NE, 65
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Aurana – b. 986 NE, 14
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Tuon regarded her as too young to be plotting against her.

Bain – b. 981 NE, 21
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Bair – b. 900–929 NE, 70–100
Bair “had to be seventy or eighty” (Lord of Chaos, Courage To Strengthen). According to The Wheel of Time Companion, she was in her late nineties or more.

Ban al’Seen – b. 979–80 NE, 20–21
Is a little older than Perrin (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Bandry Crawe – b. 979–80 NE, 20–21
Is ten months younger than Rand in The Eye of the World, A Place of Safety.

Basel Gill – b. 943–48 NE, 52–57
Was fifty to fifty-five years old in The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Bavin Rockshaw – b. 945–955 NE, 45–55
Bavin Rockshaw has greying hair and was a quartermaster during the Aiel War (Towers of Midnight, Shanna’har).

Bayle Domon – b. 954–56 NE, 44–46
Was about forty-five years old at the time of the Last Battle (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Belevaere Osiellin – b. 968–71 NE, 29–32
Is ten years older than Rand (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Berelain – b. 974 NE, 26
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Is "at most" a year older than Rand in The Shadow Rising, Whirlpools in the Pattern, only a few years older than Rand in Lord of Chaos, The Wheel of a Life.

Berowyn al’Vere – b. 965 NE, 35
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Egwene’s oldest sister.

Brandelwyn al’Vere – b. 937 NE, 63
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He was first elected myor in 978 NE.

Lord Branlet Gilyard – b. 987 NE, 13
Is thirteen in Knife of Dreams, A Bronze Bear. His voice is breaking and he is eyeing Birgitte in her snug trousers (Crossroads of Twilight, High Seats).

Breane Taborwin – b. 956 NE, 44
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Brys Noromaga – b. 940 NE, 60
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Calle Coplin – b. 970 NE, 30
Calle Coplin is 20 in The Eye of the World, Earlier.

Lady Catalyn Haevin – b. 985 NE, 15
She “will reach sixteen in a year’s time” (Crossroads of Twilight, High Seats).

Catrona – b. 975–976 NE, 24–25
Catrona is Min’s age (A Memory of Light, Friendly Fire).

Cenn Buie – b. 932 NE, 68
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Rand’s belief that Cenn is “not quite as old as Loial” in The Eye of the World, Web of the Pattern is way off.

Charlz Guybon – b. 970–975 NE, 25–30
Well short of his middle years. Elayne thinks that a man of his age would expect to become Captain in perhaps 10 or 15 years (Knife of Dreams, Siege).

Chesa – b. 964 NE, about 36
Is “at least twice Egwene’s age” in Lord of Chaos, The Amyrlin Is Raised, “barely twice Egwene’s age” in A Crown of Swords, The Figurehead.

Chiad – b. 980–1 NE, 19–20
Is about the same age as Elayne, Egwene and Bain (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Cieryl Arjuna – b. 971–3 NE, 27–29
Was in his late twenties (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Coine din Jubai – b. 960 NE, about 40
Age given in Jordan’s Sea Folk notes.

Colar Najima – b. 966–67 NE
Was in her early teens at the end of the Aiel War (New Spring).

Lord Conail Northan – b. 984 NE, 16
He is sixteen (Crossroads of Twilight, High Seats). He is a few months past his sixteenth nameday (Knife of Dreams, A Bronze Bear).

Couladin – b. 969–72 NE, 28–31
Was short of his middle years (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Dain Bornhald – b. 972–973 NE, 27–28
Galad mentions that he lacked only a few years on himself. If Galad is 30, Dain would be about 27–28 (Knife of Dreams, Embers Falling on Dry Grass).

Dannil Lewin – b. 978 NE, 22
Dannil Lewin is 13 in The Eye of the World, Earlier, when Egwene is 9 and Mat, Rand and Perrin are 12.

Daved Hanlon – b. 954 NE, 46
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Prince Derin – b. 974 NE, 26
Birth year listed in Robert Jordan’s Kandor notes.

Deselle Aybara – b. 978 NE
She is 12 in The Eye of the World, Earlier.

Prince Diryk – b. 971 NE
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Dorindha – b. 981–2 NE, 18–19
A Jindo Maiden of about Egwene’s age (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Dyelin Taravin – b. 957–960 NE, 40–43
She “was a girl when Tigraine vanished, but more than a child”, Lord of Chaos, Tellings of the Wheel. Tigraine vanished in 972 NE and Dyelin would have been about 12–15 at the time.

King Easar Togita – b. 940 NE, 60
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Edeyn ti Gemallen Arrel – b. 934 NE, 66
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Egeanin Sarna – b. 965 NE, 35
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Eldrin Cauthon – b. 984 NE, 16
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. She is sixteen in early summer, 999 NE, two years younger than Egwene.

Lord Elegar – b. before 962 NE, over 38
Is at least eighteen years older than Rand (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Elisa al’Vere – b. ~974 NE, ~26
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Elise Marwin – b. 973 NE, 27
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Elisa al’Vere is 18 in The Eye of the World, Earlier, a year older than Nynaeve.

Ellorien Traemane – b. 951–4 NE, 46–49
Is “a few years older than Morgase” (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Ellya Mowly – b. 978 NE, 22
Was born just after the Battle of the Shining Walls (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Elyas Machera – b. 943 NE, 57
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Elyas “has a greying brown beard” (The Eye of the World, Wolfbrother). Lan said Elyas taught him much (The Eye of the World, Rescue). Elyas has “spent most of the last 15 years on foot”, which is the amount of time he has been a Wolfbrother (The Path of Daggers, Beginnings). He is bonded to a woman (Rina) who became Aes Sedai less than 50 years ago (Crossroads of Twilight, A Mark). Elyas was already Rina’s Warder in New Spring, The Itch (978 NE). Lan became Warder shortly after the Aiel War at age 25, so Elyas is probably a few years older.

Erith – b. 915–919 NE, 81–85
Loial’s mother says Erith is over eighty and therefore old enough to marry (Knife of Dreams, Vows).

Eselle Najima – b. 966–67 NE
Was in her early teens at the end of the Aiel War (New Spring).

Ethenielle Kirukon Materasu – b. 946 NE, 54
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Ewin Finnegar – b. 984 NE, 16
Is 14 in The Eye of the World, Strangers.

Faile – b. 981 NE, 19
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. She is “about Perrin’s age” in The Dragon Reborn, The Falcon, "of an age" with Ewan Finnegar in Lord of Chaos, Prologue. Faile was “not old enough to marry without her mother’s permission” in Lord of Chaos, Beyond the Gate, so she was under 18 at that time. She has also been described as seventeen in an unsourced quote from Jordan.

Fergin – b. 964 NE, 36
He was about thirty-five when he joined the Band of the Red Hand (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Frielle Anan – b. 982 NE, 18
Is 18 in A Crown of Swords.

Furen Alharra – b. 950–2 NE, 48–50
Is close to fifty at the time of Dumai’s Wells (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Furyk Karede – b. 958 NE, 42
Mor lists his age in Crossroads of Twilight, The Tale Of A Doll.

Galad Damodred – b. 970 NE, 30
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He was born prior to Tigraine’s disappearance in 972 NE (The Eye of the World, Glossary) and described as a young man in The Eye of the World, The Web Tightens. He was a child when Tigraine left in 972 NE and is too old to be Morgase’s son (A Crown of Swords, Irrevocable Words). Galad was about 2 when Tigraine left.

Gadren Grady – b.995 NE, 5
According to Rand, Jur Grady’s son Gadren was 4 in Lord of Chaos, A Woman’s Eyes.

Gareth Bryne – b. ~939 NE, 61
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Siuan “could not be more than 10 years younger than he, but it was hard to remember she was Siuan Sanche while looking at a face nearer 30 years younger” (The Fires of Heaven, Trapped). Siuan is about 42 and looks in her early 20s, which would fit better if Bryne were in his early 50s. However, Bryne was Captain-General of the Guards for Mordrellen and also served her mother.

Gaul – b. 971–2 NE, 28–9
Is a little older than Nynaeve (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Gawyn Trakand – b. 979 NE, 21
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Is “a little older than Elayne” in The Eye of the World, The Web Tightens, "a few years past twenty" in Lord of Chaos, Prologue, and the earliest he could have been born is 975 NE, since Taringail married Morgase after the Succession ended in 974.

Gerard Arganda – b. prior to 942 NE, at least 58
Fought against Whitecloaks and Aiel and has been a soldier since the age of 15. If he was older than 15 during the Whitecloak War (957 NE), that would make him at least 58. This would fit with his greying hair and high rank.

Gorderan – b. 964 NE, 36
Was about 35 when he joined the Band of the Red Hand (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Hahn – b. 685 NE, 15
Hahn is 15 (Towers of Midnight, Apples First).

Hal Moir – b. 681–2 NE, 18–19
Hal was two years older than Jisao (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Elder Haman – b. 665–680 NE, 320–335
Loial notes that 500 years is a ‘lifetime for very old Ogier’. Elder Haman is ‘well above 300 years old’ (Knife of Dreams, Vows).

Haral Luhhan – b. 950 NE, 50
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He has quite a bit of grey in his hair now but is far from frail, for which Perrin is thankful (A Memory of Light, Two Craftsmen).

Harine din Togara – b. 945–60 NE, 40–55
She is a handsome woman in her middle years, with white streaking her hair (The Gathering Storm, A Tale of Blood), and is twenty-two years younger than Shalon.

Harnan – b. ~960 NE, ~40
Is about forty (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Havien Nurelle – b. 978 NE, 21
Is Perrin’s age (Lord of Chaos, The Sending).

Lord Henren – b. ~960 NE, 39–41
At lest eighteen years older than Rand (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Hurin – b. prior to 950 NE, over 50
He has grey hair and a lined face (The Gathering Storm, Scents Unknown).

Ilain Togita – b. 967 NE, 33
Birth year in Jordan’s Shienar notes.

Isam Mandragoran – b. 951–53 NE, 47–9
Was an infant when Breyam fled Malkier shortly before Malkier fell (The Eye of the World, More Tales of the Wheel) in 953 NE (Lord of Chaos, Glossary), so he was less than 2 then.

Iselle Arrel – b. 962 NE
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Jaem – b. 922 NE, 78
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He was bonded at 27 years old.

Jaichim Carridin – b. 948–958 NE, 40s
Well into his middle years with a touch of grey in his hair, yet fit and hard, so in his forties at the time of The Dragon Reborn Prologue.

Jain Charin Farstrider – b. 925 NE, 75
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Was “a young man” when Malkier fell in 953 NE (The Eye of the World, More Tales of the Wheel), so was 20–28 at that time. This fits with the descriptions of Noal Charin in Winter’s Heart and Crossroads of Twilight.

Jalani – b. 983 NE, 17
Was 16 at the start of Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Jarene – b. 966 NE, 34
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Jargen – b. 950–960 NE, 40–50
Jargen’s black hair was dusted with gray (Towers of Midnight, Prologue).

Jaril – b. 993 NE, 7
Is 6 in The Fires of Heaven.

Jerasid – b. 970–1 NE, 29–30
He is just short of his middle years (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Jillie Lewin – b. 973 NE, 27
She is 17 in The Eye of the World, Earlier.

Jimar Chubain – b. prior to 960 NE, 40s
He is in his forties according to Saerin in The Gathering Storm, A Fount of Power.

Jisao – b. 683–4 NE, 16–17
Jisao hardly needed to shave (A Crown of Swords, Prologue).

Juilin Sandar – b. 961 NE, 39
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He is in his middle years with no grey hair (The Dragon Reborn, A Storm In Tear).

Kaisel Noromaga – b. 983–987 NE, 13–17
Kaisel is not yet grown into a man, but was encouraged by his father to go to Tarwin’s Gap with Lan’s forces (Towers of Midnight, Stronger Than Blood).

Keemlin Rai – b. 986 NE, 14
He was about to turn 14 in Towers of Midnight, Prologue.

Keilin – b. 978–80 NE, 20–22
He was about Mat’s age (Knife of Dreams).

Kenley Ahan – b. 979 NE, 21
He is two years older than Egwene in The Eye of the World, Earlier.

Kenley Maerin – b. 981–2 NE, 18–19
Barely old enough to marry or leave home in Lord of Chaos.

Ladalin
Ladalin is old (probably 60–80s).

Lamgwin Dorn – b. 951 NE, 49
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Lan Mandragoran – b. 953 NE, 47 (Lord of Chaos, Glossary).

Laras – b. 950–952 NE, 48–50
Laras was short of her middle years and quite pretty in New Spring, The Human Heart, so in 978 NE she was in her late 20s, and is currently 48–50.

Lem Thane – b. 979 NE, 21
Lem Thane is 8 months younger than Rand (The Eye of the World, A Place of Safety).

Lerian – b. 980–2 NE, 18–20
She was about Faile’s age (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Liah – b. 978–80 NE, 20–22
She was about Rand’s age (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Lini – b. prior to 925 NE, over 75
She nursed Elayne, Morgase and Maighdin (three generations) (Lord of Chaos, Memories). This is about 60 or more years, since Elayne is now 18. If 14 is the youngest she would have been given such a responsibility, she is at least 75.

Loial – b. 908 NE, 92
Loial is ninety years old in The Eye of the World, Web of the Pattern.

Loise al’Vere – b. 976 NE, 24
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. She is 15 in The Eye of the World, Earlier.

Loral – b. prior to 925 NE, over 75
She has served the Chadmar family through three generations (The Gathering Storm, Rivers of Shadow).

Luc Mantear – b. 954 NE, 46
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He was 17 when he went to the Blight.

Lusara – b. 957–61 NE, 39–43
Is well into her middle years with no grey hair (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Prince Madon – b. 977 NE, 23
Birth year listed in Robert Jordan’s Kandor notes.

Maedin Bashere – b. 983 NE, 17
Is two years younger than Faile (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Maira – b. prior 969 NE, over 31
She was at least 10 years older than Rand (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Malidra
Malidra is 18 (Towers of Midnight, Near Avendesora).

Marah Anan – b. 980 NE, 20
Is about 19 in A Crown of Swords.

Marin al’Vere – b. 940 NE, 60
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Martyn Tallanvor – b. 966–7 NE, 33–4
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion as 971 NE. He is “a few years older than Galad and Galad is too old to be Morgase’s son. Morgase was playing with dolls when Tallanvor was born,” and ignorant of where babies came from (A Crown of Swords, Irrevocable Words). Galad is about 30 and Morgase is 43. Morgase must be less than 11 years older than Tallanvor to be ignorant of the facts of life.

Mat Cauthon – b. 978 NE, 22
Is the same age as Rand in The Eye of the World, A Place of Safety. Mat is 12 in The Eye of the World, Earlier.

Mattin Stepaneos – b. prior 937 NE, over 63
He was taken captive while King of Illian during the Whitecloak War in 957 NE. If he was at least 20 at this time, then he is 63 at the youngest. In Knife of Dreams, Honey in the Tea, he is described as almost entirely bald with a white beard and a heavily creased face.

Medore Damara – b. 981 NE, 19
Birth year listed in Robert Jordan’s Tear notes.

Melitene – b. 945–960 NE, 40–55
Melitene, Fortuona’s der’sul’dam is stout and greying (Towers of Midnight, A Teaching Chamber). She has the potential to learn to channel but has never done so, so she has not slowed.

Metwyn – b. 969 NE, 31
Was about 30 when he joined the Band of the Red Hand (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Mili Skane – b. ~977 NE, 23
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Milisair Chadmar – b. 967–969 NE, 31–33
She is young, barely into her thirties according to Rand (The Gathering Storm, Into Bandar Eban).

Min Farshaw – b. 975 NE, 25
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Is “almost” Nynaeve’s age in Lord of Chaos, The First Message and “a little older than Rand” in The Eye of the World, Strangers and Friends.

Mintel – b. prior to 940 NE, over 60
Demandred said that Mintel is old, and was thank that he was not frail. He is completely bald with a short grey beard (River of Souls).

Nakomi – possibly b. 950–955 NE, apparently 45–50
Aviendha describes Nakomi as middle aged in Towers of Midnight, in the Three-fold Land and was unable to sense any ability to channel in Nakomi. Rand said she had grey hair (A Memory of Light, To See The Answer). She is more likely to be a Hero of the Horn, and thus ageless.

Lord Nasin Caeren – b. ~930 NE, ~70
His last wife died nearly 30 years ago and his granddaughter is a young woman. Therefore, he was about 70 and mentally unstable.

Natti Cauthon – b. 956 NE, 44
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Nazar Kurenin – b. prior to 930 NE, over 70
Lan thinks that Nazar must be past his seventieth year (Towers of Midnight, Lighter Than a Feather).

Ned Yarman – b. 978 NE, 22
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Noal Charin – b. 925–936 NE, 64–75
As Jain Farstrider, he would have to have been 19 at the very least to have been able to bring Cowin Fairheart to justice when Malkier fell in 955 NE. He was also described as being young at the time, so no more than 30. This age group would be feasible from what we know of Noal (The Eye of the World, Glossary).

Olver – b. 990 NE, 10
He is 9 in Lord of Chaos, A Different Dance and Winter’s Heart, News In a Cloth Sack, 10 in Crossroads of Twilight, Two Captains.

Lady Omira – b. 969 NE, 31
Birth year listed in Robert Jordan’s Kandor notes.

Paetram Aybara – b. 990 NE
He was a baby in The Eye of the World, Earlier, and is 9 when he and his family are killed by Padan Fain in The Shadow Rising.

King Paitar Nachiman – b. 937 NE, 63
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He is old, with only a thin ring of white hair remaining and has grown grandchildren.

Pedron Niall – b. 911 NE, 89
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Lord Perival Mantear – b. 987–8 NE, 12
Twelve in Knife of Dreams, A Bronze Bear. His voice has not yet broken and he has not yet had the teenage growth spurt in Crossroads of Twilight, High Seats.

Perrin Aybara – b. 978 NE, 22
Is the same age as Rand (The Eye of the World, A Place of Safety).

Renald Fanwar – b. prior to 940 NE, over 60
He has farmed for 40 years and has a grandson who made him a chair, so he is at least 60.

Renna – b. 971–2 NE, 28–9
In Robert Jordan’s Seanchan notes, Renna is said to be in her late 20s. As a sul’dam, she might have been included with the female channellers, but she never channelled.

Rodrivar Tihera – b. 951–2 NE, approaching 50
Age given in Robert Jordan’s Tear notes.

Ronam – b. 991 NE
Ronam is 10 years older than Padra, and was very young when Rand came to Cold Rocks Hold. He told Padra this 17 years after the Last Battle. Padra was born after the Last Battle or else Aviendha would already be pregnant, yet she is old enough in Towers of Midnight, Court of the Sun to command other Maidens. Padra would be 16 and Ronam 26. Ronam would have been 9 at the Last Battle and 8 or so when he saw Rand.

Ronde Macura – b. ~960 NE, ~40

Ronde Macura is listed as about 40 in Robert Jordan’s Amadicia notes.

Ross Anan – b. 985 NE, 15
Is 14 in A Crown of Swords.

Ryne Venamar – b. 948 NE
Was 5 years older than Lan.

Seirin – b. 978–80 NE, 20–22
About Rand’s age (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Selucia – b. 956 NE, 44
She has been Tuon’s nursemaid and guard from Tuon’s birth:

Selucia’s mother had given her to Tuon for a cradle gift, to be her nursemaid, and more important, her shadow, a bodyguard no one knew about. The first twenty-five years of Selucia’s life had been training for those jobs, training in secret for the second.

- Winter’s Heart, What A Veil Hides

Tuon is 19, so Selucia is 25 years older at 44.

Sevanna – b. 972–3 NE, 27–28
Was “well short of her middle years” in The Shadow Rising, A Breaking in the Three-fold Land, although The Wheel of Time Companion lists her as in her late twenties to early thirties.

Seve – b. 992 NE, 8
Is 7 in The Fires of Heaven.

Lady Shiaine Avarhin – b. ~973 NE, 26
Is “about Nynaeve’s age” (A Crown of Swords, White Plumes).

Sigmont – b. ~950 NE, ~50
He is about 20 years younger than Demira (Lord of Chaos).

Stevan Gedarien – b. ~950 NE, ~50
He is about 20 years younger than Demira (Lord of Chaos).

Sylvase Caeren – b. ~ 975 NE, ~25
Was about 25 when Elayne won Caemlyn in Knife of Dreams.

Talmanes Delovinde – b. 976–977 NE, 23–4
A few years older than Mat in Lord of Chaos, A Different Dance, three years older tham Mat at most (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Tam al'Thor – b. 940 NE, 60
He has grey hair. He left the Two Rivers as a boy in 956 NE. He joined the army of Illian and served in the Whitecloak War (in 957 NE) and the last 2 wars with Tear (The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn). If he was 16 when he left, and joined up, then he was in his late 30s when Rand was born at the end of Aiel War, by which time he was Second Captain of the Illianer Companions (The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn). Tam became a blademaster in 966 NE.

Taringail Damodred – b. 948 NE, 52
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Tava
Tava is 14 (Towers of Midnight, Near Avendesora).

Tenobia – b. 975 NE, 25
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. When Faile was 8, Tenobia was 16 and was already Queen at that time (The Shadow Rising, Goldeneyes).

Teryl Wynter – b. 968–70 NE, 30–32
Is about 30 at the time of Dumai’s Wells (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Thom Merrilin – b. after 938 NE, at least 62
He has white hair and was advisor to Morgase’s mother. People are surprised a man as old as Thom can do acrobatics. He was “in his prime” and became Morgase’s lover shortly after Taringail died in 984 NE. A year later, Owyn was captured and he left Caemlyn and Morgase 15 years ago (The Dragon Reborn, To Race the Shadow). Thom was twice Morgase’s age in 984–5. She was 28, so he was in his mid 50s. However, in Robert Jordan’s Andor notes, Thom is said to be 19–20 years older than Morgase, which would make him about 62–63.

Theril – b. 986 NE, 14
Is about 30 at the time of Dumai’s Wells (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Tigraine Mantear – b. 950 NE, 50
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Tuon – b. 981 NE, 19
Is 19 in Winter’s Heart, What a Veil Hides and will be 20 in 5 months’ time in Crossroads of Twilight, A Fan of Colours. Tuon might have been included with the female channellers, but she hasn’t actually channelled yet.

Wil al’Seen – b. 977 NE, 22–23
Wil al’Seen is a year older than Perrin (The Shadow Rising, Questions To Be Asked.)

Yurin Togita – b. 970 NE, 30
Birth year given in Jordan’s Shienar notes.

Yurith Azeri – b. 972–3 NE, 27–28
Is short of her middle years (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Zaida din Parede Blackwing – b. 945–960 NE, 40–55
She has strands of grey in her black hair (A Memory of Light, To Ignore The Omens).

Channelers

All channelers naturally live for much longer than non-channelers. The aging process is somehow slowed down for them. As Elayne explains:

We slow, Nynaeve. Somewhere between twenty and twenty-five, we begin aging more slowly. How much depends on how strong we are, but when doesn't. Any woman who can channel does it.

-A Crown Of Swords, The Kin

In his Aes Sedai notes, Jordan wrote that if trained when young. a woman working with the Power typically begins to slow in her aging between 20–25, but rarely up to a couple of years outside this range, giving a total range of 18–27. There isn’t any correlation between strength and age of slowing—weak women can slow early and strong women might slow late.
The rate of slowing is set by the strength of the channeller, not the frequency or amount they channel.

When the effects of slowing are not restrained by use of the Oath Rod, aging continues, but at a much slower rate than for people who cannot use the Power. After slowing, it takes a number of years for an individual to age one apparent year. The actual number of years to age one apparent year varies according to strength and also according to individuals.

When a woman doesn't learn to channel until later in life, after the period when she would have slowed with early training, slowing takes on a different characteristic. Instead of aging simply seeming to slow down, initially there is an apparent regression in age. A woman who began the process at 30 or 35 might find a regression of five years, rarely more, while a woman who began at 80 years of age might achieve a rollback of as much as 30 apparent years. It could be less, but is rarely less than 20 years. This apparent age then becomes the base from which aging occurs.

Since the age at which you begin channeling doesn't change the lifespan that a certain strength in the Power gives, this means that women of a given strength who began training later in life will take a longer period to age one apparent year than will women who began training, and slowed, at a younger age.

Robert Jordan, Aes Sedai notes

Slowing doesn’t occur until someone actually starts to channel. For example, Sharina Melloy can learn to channel and will do so with great strength, yet she will only slow now that she has begun to channel. Jordan has said that Sharina will lead a long life but not as a young woman. On his blog, he explained further:

As an aside, I saw somewhere that I supposedly said that Sharina Melloy will not grow younger. If I did, then I misspoke. Sharina will not grow young, but she will grow younger in appearance, as will any other older women who begin to channel. For Sharina, by way of example, she will "regress" into apparent middle age, but no younger.

Translation: the menopause is not reversed.

Male channellers also slow. The male Forsaken lived for centuries before they were sealed in the Bore. While male channellers are stronger than female channellers, and therefore would slow more, the onset of slowing occurs later in males at around 30 or so; and women in general have longer lifespans than men. So it may well even out and they have about the same lifespans.

In the Age of Legends:

There are records of some Aes Sedai being considered barely middle-aged at three hundred years [Mesaana, for one said this], and some channelers may have lived seven hundred years or longer.

-The World of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, The Age of Legends

Damane live a very long time. Alivia has a few white threads in her hair, yet:

“She was collared at thirteen or fourteen, Elayne, she’s not certain which, and she’s been damane for four hundred years!”

-Winter’s Heart, Sea Folk and Kin

The Kin also live centuries:

“Reanne, if you don’t mind telling me, how old are you?”
The woman hesitated... “My next naming day,” Reanne said as if it was the most ordinary thing in the world, “will be my four hundred and twelfth.”

Merilille fainted dead away.

-A Crown of Swords, Mashiara

"Reanne was called Eldest because she was the oldest Kinswoman in Ebou Dar. The oldest anywhere is a woman called Aloisia Nemosni, an oil merchant in Tear. Egwene, she's nearly six...hundred...years...old!"

-Winter’s Heart, A Plan Succeeds

The Aes Sedai were shocked and disbelieving because they rarely reach, let alone exceed, 300 years. The distance they keep between themselves and the Kin prevented them from noticing that the Kin live far longer than they, nor would they imagine that the Tower’s “rejects” have ended up with the better deal. The Oath Rod reduces the lifespan of Aes Sedai (see Oath Rod section of Ter’angreal article), but until now Aes Sedai have been too certain of what they know.

"The Light knows three hundred years is a long time,” Elayne put in, “but I can't say I'm happy myself at the prospect of perhaps cutting my life in half, Egwene.”

-Winter’s Heart, A Plan Succeeds

This is indeed the amount of reduction swearing one Oath causes.


While most Kinswomen are weak channellers, they still could expect to live 200 years or more (Robert Jordan’s Kin notes), and a strong channeller put out for failing the tests can easily live for 600 years or more, twice as long as the strongest Aes Sedai.

The Kin assumed that Aes Sedai live as long as they themselves, and that Kinswomen don’t acquire the ageless look of Aes Sedai because they don’t use the power as much. This is erroneous; the ageless look is due to the oaths Aes Sedai swear on the Oath Rod, as is their shortened lifespans. The Kin are aware that the stronger a channeller, the more slowly she ages and go to a great deal of trouble to hide their long lives from the general populace by moving to another country after some years have elapsed. The Seanchan see the long lifespans of damane as proof that they are not human (Robert Jordan’s Seanchan notes)—and justification for treating them as they do. They assume that Aes Sedai live as long as damane.

Ranking among Aes Sedai is based firstly on strength in the Power (see Saidar Strength article), then on time spent training, and then on age. These are all inter-related, since the stronger the channeller, the longer she lives and the faster she usually trains. Among Sitters, age and length of time in the Hall are the ranking criteria, although again, strength plays a part: the stronger the channeller, the more likely she will be promoted to important positions.

By tradition the eldest Sitter made pronouncements from the Hall.

-Lord of Chaos, A Pile Of Sand

and the two oldest Sitters sit closest to the Amyrlin, the seat of power.

Until Egwene’s decree, novices are/were usually 15–18 when enrolled. Few are older, and younger girls are only taken if they have already begun to channel:

Toveine hastily smoothed the sneer from her lips. Ignorant louts. The Tower accepted girls under fifteen only if they had already begun channeling.

-Winter’s Heart, Snow

Most novices came to the Tower at fifteen or sixteen, and until recently, none over eighteen, except for a handful who had managed to carry off a lie.

-Winter’s Heart, The Sea Folk And Kin

The typical length of training time is 20 years:

Most women spent ten years as a novice and ten as Accepted. True, some moved faster, even much faster. Siuan had. But she [Egwene] herself had been a novice less than a year, and Accepted an even shorter time.

-Lord of Chaos, Journey To Salidar

Only one other woman had ever finished novice training in just three years. Elaida a’Roihan, a detestable woman, had completed her time as Accepted in three years, too, also a record, and it seemed at least possible that they might match that, as well.

-New Spring, A Wish Fulfilled

Elaida, Moiraine and Siuan are weaker than Cadsuane, yet spent less time training, however they were raised in a time of turmoil and were promoted far too quickly.

In this article, women of similar strength are assumed to have spent a similar length of time in training. Aes Sedai with greying, grey or white hair are assumed to be over 200 years old. Sitters who are the proper age (not too young) are assumed to have worn the shawl at least 100 years before being raised (Crossroads of Twilight, Secrets).


Female Channellers

Adeleas Namelle (Brown Ajah) – b. 735 NE, 265
Enrolled: 17; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent five years as a novice and five as Accepted. In 970 NE, Adeleas and Vandene retired from the White Tower to Tifan's Well to write a history of the world since the Breaking (The Great Hunt, Watchers). Kirstian claimed to have run away from the White Tower almost 300 years ago, when Adeleas was an infant, if not before she was born. Vandene and Adeleas knew they didn’t have many years left to live. Their hair was all white.

Adelorna Bastine (Green Ajah Head) – b. 796 NE, 204
Enrolled: 17; Training: 18
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent seven years as a novice and ten as Accepted.

Adine Canford (Blue Ajah) – b. 905 NE, 95
Enrolled: 15; Training: 23
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 11 as Accepted.

Aeldene Stonebridge (Blue Ajah) – b. after 800 NE, over 200
Enrolled: 24; Training: 19
Has no grey in her hair. According to The Wheel of Time Companion, she lied about her age, and spent 10 years as a novice and 9 as Accepted.

Aeldra Najaf (Blue Ajah) – b. prior to 778 NE
Had white hair in New Spring, The Itch, so was well over 200 then.

Aisha Ravenos (Grey Ajah) – b. 698 NE
Enrolled: 16; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 as Accepted.

Aisling Noon (Green Ajah) – b. 954 NE, 46
Enrolled: 16; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 as Accepted. She earned the ring in 5 years, in the same year as Moiraine and Siuan (975 NE), and in 978 Moiraine thought she might test for the shawl in another year, perhaps less (New Spring, Practice).

Akarrin Comeris (Brown Ajah) – b. 801 NE, 199
Enrolled: 15; Training: 21
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 10 as Accepted.

Alanna Mosvani (Green Ajah) – b. 951 NE, 44
Enrolled: 15–18; Training: 11 (12 in The Wheel of Time Companion).
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. There are, or were, two conflicting ages for Alanna. Alanna was a novice for five years and Accepted for six according to Merana (Lord of Chaos, The Crown of Roses). (Six years a novice, according to the Companion.) She was an Accepted with Moiraine, Sheriam and Siuan in 978 NE according to The Dragon Reborn, Sealed and New Spring, Practice, and would be in her 40s. This is taken as the correct age. She was described by Cadsuane as having worn the shawl for almost 40 years in The Path of Daggers, New Alliances, in which case she would be in her late 60s, but in the e-book version of The Path of Daggers, Cadsuane now thinks Alanna has worn the shawl for “over twenty years”, not forty.

Aledrin Malenry (White Sitter) – b. 950 NE, 50
Enrolled: 14; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 6 as Accepted. Accepted at the time of New Spring. Too young to be a Sitter, she is nevertheless the second youngest in the rebel Hall (The Path of Daggers, The Law) and was born in the same year as the youngest Sitter, Kwamesa.

Alise Tenjile (Kin) – b. 819 NE, 181
Enrolled: 16; Training: 2.5
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 2.5 years as a novice before being put out of the Tower for lack of strength in saidar.

Alivia (former damane) – b. 586–587 NE, c. 413–414
Alivia has white threads in her hair and fine lines at the corners of her eyes. She was collared at thirteen or fourteen and has been damane for four hundred years (Winter’s Heart, Sea Folk and Kin). Rand also states that she is a hundred years older than any living Aes Sedai (Knife of Dreams, The Golden Crane). This would make her just over 400. However, Rand also mentions in Knife of Dreams, News For The Dragon, that Alivia has been damane for five hundred years. This seems to be an error.

Aloisa Nemosni (Kin) – b. ~405 NE, nearly 600
She is the oldest member of the Kin and is described as nearly six hundred years old in Winter’s Heart, A Plan Succeeds.

Althyn Conly (novice) – b. 982–5 NE, 15–18
Enrolled: 15–18; One of the Two Rivers novices (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Alviarin Freidhen (White Ajah) – b. 943 NE, 57
Enrolled: 16; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 as Accepted. Alviarin was very young to have been in charge of an Ajah.

Amico Nagoyin – b. 967 NE (Companion), 976–7 NE (ebook), 43, 33–34
Enrolled: 15; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. In the e-book version of The Dragon Reborn, Amico is said to be 15 years older than Egwene, not 4 as formerly stated (see below). She spent 6 years as a novice and 4 as Accepted and had the ageless look.

Amira Moselle (Red Sitter) – b. 823 NE, 177
Enrolled: 16; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 9 as Accepted and was Sierin’s Mistress of Novices. A perhaps temporary Sitter for the Red in Siuan’s Hall, she stepped down and was replaced by Elaida. She was a particularly unfortunate member of Elaida’s ill-fated embassy to Rand, being killed in the battle of Dumai’s Wells.

Amys (Wise One) – b. 957–8 NE, early 40s
Amys saw Tigraine enter the Waste more than one year before she gave up the spear to become a Wise One (The Shadow Rising, He Who Comes with the Dawn). Since Aviendha gave up the spear at 18–19 and this was considered later than it should have been, Amys was probably 16–17 when she went to Rhuidean and would have been 14–15 when Tigraine entered the Waste in 972 NE.

Anaiya Carel (Blue Ajah) – b. 868 NE, 132
Enrolled: 15; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 7 as Accepted. She had worn the shawl fifty or sixty years when Kairen came to the White Tower (Crossroads of Twilight, What the Oath Rod Can Do). Kairen was already Aes Sedai in 978 NE and would have been in the Tower at least 15 years.

Andaya Forae (Grey Ajah) – b. 901 NE, 99
Enrolled: 17; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 10 as Accepted. Andaya is one of the Tower’s too-young Sitters, having worn the shawl for less than seventy years (Crossroads of Twilight, A Chat With Siuan) before she was raised in 999 NE to Elaida’s Hall as a replacement for Varillin.

Angla (Novice) – b. 973 NE, 27
Enrolled: 17; Training: 10+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. According to the Companion, she has spent 10 years as a novice so far.

Annharid Matoun (Yellow Ajah) – b. 894 NE, 106
Enrolled: 15; Training: 14
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 6 as Accepted.

Annoura Larisen (Grey Ajah) – b. 838 NE, 162
Enrolled: 16; Training: 22
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 10 as Accepted.

Anlee (Blue Sitter in Tamra’s Hall) – b. prior to 778 NE, over 200
Her hair was greying in New Spring, Just Before Dawn.

Ashmanaille (Grey Ajah) – b. 902 NE, 98
Enrolled: 16; Training: 21
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 10 as Accepted.

Asne Zeramene (Green Ajah) – b. 837 NE, 163
Enrolled: 16; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 8 as Accepted. She had worn the shawl for a hundred and thirty-odd years (Winter’s Heart, A Plan Succeeds).

Asra Zigane (Kin) – b. 913 NE, 87
Enrolled: 16; Training: 4 months
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 4 months as a novice before being sent away.

Atuan Larisett (Yellow Ajah) – b. 809 NE, 191
Enrolled: 17; Training: ?
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. This is inconsistent with her being Accepted at the time of New Spring.

Aviendha (Wise One) – b. 980 NE, 20
She is a year older than Egwene (Crossroads of Twilight, A Blazing Beacon).

Beldeine Nyram (Green Ajah) – b. 966 NE, 34
Enrolled: 16; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 8 as Accepted. She had been Aes Sedai for only three years (The Path of Daggers, Prologue).

Bennae Nalsad (Brown Ajah) – b. prior to 800 NE, over 200
Enrolled: 16; Training: 24
She spent 13 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted (The Wheel of Time Companion). Has dark hair liberally streaked with grey (Knife of Dreams, Honey in the Tea).

Beonin Marinye (Grey Ajah) – b. 936 NE, 64
Enrolled: 16; Training Estimate: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted (The Wheel of Time Companion). Beonin was an Accepted when Turanine Merdagon died. She states that the woman was ‘more than forty years dead’ (Knife of Dreams, The Dark One’s Touch).

Bera Harkin (Green Ajah) – b. 938 NE, 62
Enrolled: 15; Training: 8
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 4 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Berana Shermon (White Sitter) – b. 930 NE, 70
Enrolled: 17; Training: 18
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted (The Wheel of Time Companion). Berana was one of the too-young Sitters in the rebel Hall (The Path of Daggers, Unexpected Absences).

Berenicia Morsad (Yellow Ajah) – b. 838 NE, 162
Enrolled: 16; Training: 14
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Bernaile Gelbarn (White Ajah) – b. 919 NE, 81
Enrolled: 17; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Berowin Doraisin (Kin) – b. 758 NE, 242
Enrolled: 17; Training: 23
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted, then failed her test for Aes Sedai (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Berylla Naron (Blue Ajah) – b. 933 NE, 67
Enrolled: 15; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted.

Bharatine (Green Ajah) – b. 921 NE, 79
Enrolled: 15; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Bodewhin Cauthon (novice) – b. 982 NE, 18 (983 NE, 17 (The Wheel of Time Companion))
Enrolled: 17; Training:
She is seventeen in early summer, 999 NE, a little younger than Egwene, and her hair is braided in Lord of Chaos, A Saying in the Borderlands.

Brendas (White Ajah) – b. 946 NE, 54
Enrolled: 17; Training: 22
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 10 years as an Accepted and was an Accepted at the time of New Spring.

Cabriana Mercandes (Blue Ajah) – b. 911 NE, 89
Enrolled: 16; Training: 19
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Cadsuane Melaidhrin (Green Ajah) – b. 705 NE, 295
Enrolled: 15; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion and A Crown of Swords glossary. She spent 6 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. With little patience with administration, Cadsuane refused to be raised a Sitter in Parenia’s Hall at age 141 in 846 NE, and likewise, Green Ajah in 862 NE, and avoided being raised Amyrlin at the slightly young age of 195 at the end of Sereille Bagand’s reign by expediently staying away from the White Tower for 10 years. Distracted by events at the end of the Last Battle, she was not quite so vigilant, and looks to be guiding the Aes Sedai into the Fourth Age.

Cairlyn Nesolle (Yellow Ajah) – b. 936 NE, 64
Enrolled: 16; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 10 years as an Accepted.

Calindin (Accepted) – b. 960 NE, 40
Enrolled: 17; Training: 23+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 11 years so far as an Accepted.

Careane Fransi (Green Ajah) – b. 910 NE, 90
Enrolled: 16; Training: 23
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted. She had worn the shawl over fifty years (Crossroads of Twilight, Talk Of Debts), and was a novice with Zarya (who is over 90) for two years about 70 years ago.

Carelle (Wise One) – b. 960–65 NE, 35–40
Is 15 or more years older than Perrin according to The Wheel of Time Companion.

Cariandre Temalien (Red Ajah) – b. 932 NE, 68
Enrolled: 15; Training: 25
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 12 years as an Accepted.

Carlinya Sorevin (White Ajah) – b. 954 NE, 46
Enrolled: 15; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted, and was novice and Accepted with Siuan (The Fires Of Heaven, Sallie Daera).

Cathal Devore (Brown Ajah) – b. 942 NE, 58
Enrolled: 15; Training: 17
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted.

Celestin Eguilera (Yellow Ajah) – b. 960 NE, 40
Enrolled: 16; Training: 9
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted.

Chaelin (Wise One) – b. prior to 800 NE, 200+
Over 200, almost as old as Sorilea (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Chesmal Emry (Yellow Ajah) – b. 863 NE, 137
Enrolled: 15; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted.

Chilares Arman (Kin) – b. 657 NE, 343
Enrolled: 15; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice.

Cilia Cole (novice) – b. 979 NE, 21
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. Is a couple of years older than Egwene and less than a year older than Perrin according to From The Two Rivers, Ravens. Was too old to be taken with the other girls to Tar Valon (Lord of Chaos, A Saying In The Borderlands), but became a novice when Egwene decreed the novice book open to all.

Coiren Saeldain (Grey Ajah) – b. 861 NE, 139
Enrolled: 16; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted.

Coladara (Green Ajah) – b. 941–958 NE, 42–59
Accepted at the time of New Spring.

Colinda (Wise One) – b. 908–912 NE, 88–92
Was about 90 years old (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Corele Hovian (Yellow Ajah) – b. 876 NE, 124
Enrolled: 18; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted.

Coride (novice) – b. 982 NE, 18
Enrolled: 15; Training: 1+
A novice who is a year younger than Egwene (Knife of Dreams, Honey in the Tea).

Covarla Baldene (Red Ajah) – b. 919 NE, 81
Enrolled: 17; Training: 14
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted and has been Aes Sedai as long as Elaida has been alive (A Crown of Swords, Sealed to the Flame).

Dagdara Finchey (Yellow Ajah) – b. 848 NE, 152
Enrolled: 15; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted and has greying hair (The Fires of Heaven, To Teach and Learn).

Daigian Moseneillin (White Ajah) – b. 907 NE, 93
Enrolled: 14; Training: 48
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 27 years as a novice and 21 years as an Accepted, the longest in memory.

Dalevien (Brown Ajah) – b. prior to 800 NE, over 200
Has grey-streaked dark hair (Knife of Dreams, Honey in the Tea).

Danelle (Brown Ajah) – b. 899 NE
Enrolled: 15; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted, the longest in memory. She was killed by Mesaana in 999 NE.

Darea Candwin (novice) – b. 985 NE, 15
One of the Two Rivers novices (Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers), she was about 15.

Deane Aryman (Amyrlin raised from the Blue Ajah) – b. FY 920
Enrolled: 14; Training: 9
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted, and became Amyrlin at the age of 72, the youngest ever at that time. Perhaps she was originally elected as a puppet for the Hall to guide through the aftermath of Bonwhin’s disastrous legacy. She died in FY 1084 after ruling over 90 years.

Delana Mosalaine (Grey Sitter) – b. 950 NE, 50
Enrolled: 18; Training: 10
She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. Her birth year is given in The Wheel of Time Companion but is contrary to where she stands in the line of Salidar Sitters: she stands less than halfway down the line age (Lord of Chaos, In the Hall of the Sitters). There are nine too young Sitters according to Siuan in The Path of Daggers, Unexpected Absences, and Delana is one of them. Being less than halfway down the line would mean that more than two are yonger than her, whereas, in fact, exactly two Sitters in the rebel Hall are younger than Delana: Kwamesa, the youngest Sitter, and Aledrin, the second youngest Sitter, and they both share Delana’s birth year of 950 NE.

Delora (Wise One) – b. 952–4 NE, 46–48
Was more than 25 years older than Rand, Mat and Perrin (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Demira Eriff (Brown Ajah) – b. 930 NE, 70 Enrolled: 17; Training: 17
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted. She had an agent in Caemlyn nearly 30 years. Her Warder has grey at temples and yet is nearly 20 years younger than her (Lord of Chaos, Beyond the Gate). Demira’s Warder is probably in his late 40s. She must have acquired her agent soon after being raised in her 30s.

Derys Nermala (Kin) – b. 911 NE, 89
Enrolled: 15; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice before being made to leave after breaking the rules about no male lovers.

Desandre Alraed (Yellow Ajah) – b. 941–958 NE, 42–59
Enrolled: 15–18; Training: 13
She spent 6 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted and was an Accepted at the time of New Spring.

Dimana Corrand (Kin) – b. 677 NE, 323
Enrolled: 17; Training: 3
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 3 years as a novice before being put out of the Tower due to lack of sufficient strength.

Doesine Alwain (Yellow Sitter) – b. 867 NE, 133
Enrolled: 15; Training: 14
She spent 6 years as a novice and 78years as an Accepted. She was raised a Sitter at 114 in 981 NE during Sierin Vayu’s reign, despite having worn the shawl just under 100 years, and has no grey in her hair.

Duhara Basaheen (Red Sitter) – b. 764 NE, 236
Enrolled: 15; Training: 21
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted. A Sitter who had worn the shawl well over 100 years when first raised in 929 NE in Kirin Melway’s Hall, she served there until 953 NE, when she was replaced by Lirene Doirellin. Duhara was Keeper for Sierin in 979–984 NE, and replaced Teslyn Baradon in Elaida’s Hall in 999 NE. Despite her age, she has no grey in her hair.

Eadyth (Blue Sitter in Tamra’s Hall) – b. prior to 778 NE
Had white hair in New Spring, Just Before Dawn.

Edarra (Wise One) – b. 860–922 NE, 78–140
Age range given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Edesina Azzedin (Yellow Ajah) – b. 944 NE, 56
Enrolled: 15; Training: 21
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 10 years as an Accepted. She was Accepted at the time of New Spring.

Egwene al’Vere (Amyrlin of no Ajah) – b. 981 NE, 19
Enrolled: 17; Training: < 2
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. Two years younger than Rand (The Eye of the World, The Peddler). 18 in Lord of Chaos, Leaning on the Knife, barely 18 in Lord of Chaos, The Amyrlin is Raised, and 18 in A Crown of Swords, The Figurehead. She is likely around two and a half years younger than the three ta’veren.

Elaida do’Avriny a Roihan (Amyrlin from the Red Ajah) – b. 950 NE, 50
Enrolled: 17; Training: 6
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 3 years as a novice and 3 years as an Accepted. She became Morgase’s advisor nearly 3 years before the events of New Spring (New Spring, The Human Heart). Elaida was only Accepted for the first year Siuan and Moiraine spent in the Tower (New Spring, Practice). This means that Elaida came to the Tower five years earlier. Elaida was raised a Sitter in Siuan’s Hall in 998 NE, when Amira Moselle stepped down, and promptly engineered Siuan’s removal and her own raising as Amyrlin. It is not known which of the Red Sitters in her Hall replaced her, since all were said to have been serving ever since they were raised in 985 NE.

Elaiva Walfor (Grey Ajah) – b. 806 NE, 194
Enrolled: 16; Training: 18
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted.

Elayne Trakand (Green Ajah) – b. 981 NE, 19
Enrolled: 17; Training: < 2
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. Perhaps 2 or 3 years younger than Rand (The Eye of the World, The Web Tightens). She is 18 in Lord of Chaos, Leaning On The Knife and A Crown of Swords, The Figurehead.

Eldase Takashi (Kin) – b. 665 NE, 335 (Kin notes in box 54 have 676 NE as birth year)
Enrolled: 18; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 7 years as Accepted before being put out of the Tower due to having an intractable temper.

Eldrith Jhondar (Brown Ajah) – b. 884 NE, 116
Enrolled: 17; Training: 19
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Elin Warrel (Brown Ajah) – b. 953 NE, 47
Enrolled: 18; Training: 29 (New Spring, A Wish Fulfilled)
In New Spring, A Wish Fulfilled, Elin had been a novice for 7 years. Elin was the oldest Accepted in the Tower at the time Nynaeve was last there, i.e. during The Dragon Reborn, and appeared as a newly raised Aes Sedai in Crossroads of Twilight, Glimmers of the Pattern.

Elise Marwin (novice) – b. 982–5 NE, 15–18
One of the Two Rivers novices (Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers).

Elle (novice) – b. 982–3 NE, 17–18
A Two Rivers novice whose hair is braided (Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers).

Else Grinwell (novice) – b. 977–980 NE, 17–20
Enrolled: 15–18; Training: <1
Went to the White Tower about the end of The Eye of the World and was put out during The Great Hunt.

Elza Penfell (Green Ajah) – b. 874 NE, 126
Enrolled: 17; Training: 22
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 10 years as Accepted and has spent twenty years cultivating the rumor that she and Fearil are married, so no one questions their private meetings. It appears Fearil is not her first Warder, since she also thinks that some might find it peculiar that she had never had more than one Warder at a time (Crossroads of Twilight, A Strengthening Storm).

Emara (Accepted) – b. 968 NE, 32
Enrolled: 17; Training: 15+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 6 years so far as an Accepted.

Emry Lewin (novice) – b. 984 NE, 16
One of the Two Rivers novices (Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers). She was about 15 when she was recruited (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Erian Boroleos (Green Ajah) – b. 951 NE, 49
Enrolled: 15; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted.

Escaralde Hamdey (Brown Sitter) – b. 927 NE, 73 Enrolled: 15; Training: 17
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted. She is described by Siuan as "not much past seventy" in The Path of Daggers, Unexpected Absences, and thus too young to be a Sitter, normally. After Romanda and Moria, she is the oldest of the nine other Sitters chosen in Salidar.

Ester Stepashin (Green Ajah) – b. 955 NE, 45
Enrolled: 17; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted.

Evanellein Lorn (Grey Sitter) – b. 855 NE, 145
Enrolled: 17; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Evanellein was raised a Sitter in 997 NE in Siuan’s.

Faeldrin Harella (Green Ajah) – b. 937 NE, 163
Enrolled: 15; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted.

Faiselle Darone (Green Sitter) – b. 829 NE, 171
Enrolled: 16; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 10 years as an Accepted and was raised a Sitter for the Green in 981 NE during Sierin Vayu’s reign.

Falion Bhoda (White Ajah) – b. 873 NE, 127
Enrolled: 16; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted.

Famelle Juarde (Kin) – b. 658 NE, 342
Enrolled: 16; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and was put out of the Tower after refusing to complete the test for Accepted.

Faolain Orande (Blue Ajah) – b. 970 NE, 30
Enrolled: 16; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. She was an Accepted in The Shadow Rising that was ready to be raised to Aes Sedai by Lord of Chaos. She is a little older than Min in The Shadow Rising, Seeds of Shadow. She was declared Aes Sedai by Egwene in 999 NE.

Fera Sormen (White Ajah) – b. 864 NE, 136
Enrolled: 18; Training: 22
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted.

Ferane Neheran (White Sitter) – b. 727 NE, 263
Enrolled: 15; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Ferane was elected a Sitter in 981 NE during Sierin Vayu’s reign and served 11 years, then stepped down when she was elected First Reasoner. After the breaking of the White Tower, she most unusually chose herself to become a Sitter again when she had only stepped down less than ten years ago (Crossroads of Twilight, Glimmers of the Pattern). No grey is mentioned in her dark hair.

Gabrelle Brawley (Brown Ajah) – b. 902 NE, 98
Enrolled: 15; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Gabrelle was Aes Sedai long before Logain was born (Crossroads of Twilight, Glimmers of the Pattern).

Galina Casban (Red Ajah) – b. 875 NE, 125
Enrolled: 16; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted. She had worn the shawl for less than ninety years in A Crown of Swords, Spears, and is twice Katerine’s age (Lord of Chaos, Prologue), who is about 50. Note that Galina was young to be elected Ajah Head in 981 NE.

Gitara Moroso (Blue Ajah) – b. 672 NE
Enrolled: 17; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted and whe Tamra was raised Amyrlin in 973 NE, she made Gitara her Keeper of the Chronicles. Gitara was rumoured to be more than 300 years old when she died while Foretelling Rand’s birth in 978 NE. If so, she was very old for an Aes Sedai. Her hair was as white as snow (New Spring, A Wish Fulfilled).

Haesel Lusara (Brown Ajah) – b. 878 NE, 122
Enrolled: 13; Training: 14
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice—extra long because she lied about her age—and 4 years as an Accepted.

Hilde Barran (novice) – b. 982–5 NE, 15–18
One of the Two Rivers novices (Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers).

Ibrella (novice) – b. 980 NE, 20
Enrolled: 19; Training: 1+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Ieine (Kin) – b. 629 NE, 371
Enrolled: 17; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and was put out of the Tower after refusing to complete the test for Accepted.

Irgain Fatamed (Green Ajah) – b. 931 NE, 69
Enrolled: 15; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted.

Ispan Shefar (Blue Ajah) – b. 891 NE, 109
Enrolled: 17; Training: 14
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted.

Ivara (Kin) – b. 664 NE, 336
Enrolled: 16; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and was put out of the Tower after refusing the test for Accepted three times.

Jala Bandevin (Green Ajah) – b. prior to 778 NE
Has grey hair in New Spring, The Itch.

Jancy/Janacy Torfinn (novice) – b. 985 NE, 15
At 14 she was the youngest of the Emond’s Field novices in Lord of Chaos, A Saying in the Borderlands.

Janina (Wise One) – b. 945–8 NE, 52–55
Is more than 30 years older than Rand, Mat and Perrin (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Janine Pavarla (Red Ajah) – b. 963 NE, 37
Enrolled: 15; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted, and is so recently raised she does not look ageless yet (A Crown of Swords, High Chasalaine).

Janira (Kin) – b. 604 NE, 396
Age given in Robert Jordan’s Kin notes.

Janya Frende (Brown Sitter) – b. 816 NE, 184
Enrolled: 16; Training: 19
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 12 years as an Accepted. Raised Sitter in 993 NE during Siuan’s reign, Janya left for the rebels off her own bat, where she was the third oldest Sitter in the rebel Hall (Lord of Chaos, In the Hall of the Sitters), although The Wheel of Time Companion says she was the second oldest. Moria is younger than Janya.

Jarna Malari (Grey Sitter) – b. 760 NE
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. Was a Sitter in New Spring who had dark hair white at the temples, until she was killed by Ishamael in 983 NE at age 223 in punishment for instituting the male channeller pogrom.

Javindhra Doraille (Red Sitter) – b. 842 NE, 158
Enrolled: 16; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. In 985 NE, when all 3 Red Sitters were unchaired, Javindhra was raised Sitter.

Jeaine Caide (Green Ajah) – b. 912 NE, 88
Enrolled: 16; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted.

Jennet Cobb (Grey Ajah) – b. 851 NE, 149
Enrolled: 15; Training: 19
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted.

Jerilin al’Caar (novice) – b. 982–5 NE, 15–18
One of the Two Rivers novices (Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers).

Jesse Bilal (Brown Ajah Head) – b. 752 NE, 248
Enrolled: 16; Training: 21
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 10 years as an Accepted and served as Sitter 905–927 NE during the reigns of Aleis Romlin and Kirin Melway. Later, she was elected Brown Ajah Head.

Jezrail (Red Ajah) – b. 880–900 NE, 100–120
Pevara says that she was engaged to marry a boy before she left for the Tower and that her grandchildren would have had grandchildren by now. Assuming a range of 25–30 years for each generation, this would make her between 100 and 120 years old (Knife of Dreams, Epilogue).

Joiya Byir (Grey Ajah) – b. 828 NE, 172
Enrolled: 16; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted.

Joline Maza (Green Ajah) – b. 899 NE, 101
Enrolled: 14; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. She gained the shawl while Elaida’s mother still a child, and was taught by Teslyn as a novice (A Crown of Swords, The Triumph of Logic). Elaida was born about 950 NE, Elaida’s mother would be a child about 930–945 NE. Joline gained the shawl in 925 NE at about 26 years of age. She was a Sitter for only a few weeks under Elaida and was not old enough to be of an acceptable age, having been an Aes Sedai for only 75 years.

Juilaine Madome (Brown Sitter) – b. 903 NE, 97
Enrolled: 16; Training: 18
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted and is one of the Tower’s too-young Sitters, having worn the shawl for less than seventy years (Crossroads of Twilight, A Chat With Siuan) when she was elected as a dispensible replacement for Takima.

Kairen Stang (Blue Ajah) – b. 937 NE, 63
Enrolled: 15; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted.

Kara Defane (former damane) – b. 953–955 NE, 47–49
Former damane in Caemlyn who is “nearly fifty years old” (Knife of Dreams, Siege).

Kateri Nepvue (White Ajah) – b. 937–955 NE, 45–63
Enrolled: 15–18; Training Estimate: 10–25
Kateri had been a sister for 20 years (Towers of Midnight, Writings).

Katerine Alruddin (Red Ajah) – b. 950 NE, 50
Enrolled: 17; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted. She has been Aes Sedai for seventeen years and Black Ajah for twelve (Lord of Chaos, Prologue) and was made Elaida’s mistress of Novices when Silviana was demoted and imprisoned.

Keatlin (novice) – b. 973 NE, 27
Enrolled: 16; Training: 1+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Kerene Nagashi (Green Ajah) – b. 793 NE
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She was about two hundred years old and her dark hair was lightly touched with white (New Spring, The Itch) when she was killed by the Black Ajah.

Kirstian Chalwin (Kin) – b. 680 NE, 320
Enrolled: 18; Training: <1
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. Kirstian was enrolled in the novice book over 300 years ago and ran away less than one year later (Knife of Dreams, Wet Things).

Kiruna Nachiman (Green Ajah) – b. 939 NE, 61
Enrolled: 14; Training: 8
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 4 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted. Her brother, King Paitar, has a creased face and thin gray hair (Winter’s Heart, Snow).

Kumira Dhoran (Brown Ajah) – b. 886 NE, 114
Enrolled: 16; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted.

Kwamesa Taramasu (Grey Sitter) – b. 950 NE, 50
Enrolled: 15; Training: 9
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted and was Accepted at the time of New Spring. The youngest Sitter in the rebel Hall (The Path of Daggers, The Law), though only by months.

Kymer (Wise One) – b. 985–89 NE, 25–29
Kymer is less than 10 years older than Aviendha (A Memory Of Light Prologue).

Lanita (novice) – b. 977 NE, 23
Enrolled: 17; Training: 6+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Larelle Tarsi (Grey Ajah) – b. 732 NE
Enrolled: 15–18; Training: ?
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. Her hair is white at the temples in New Spring, An Arrival. She was killed by Merean in 979 NE.

Larie (Lady Lemore Genhal) (damane) – b. 980 NE, 20
Turned 19 while held in Caemlyn by Elayne.

Larine Ayellin (novice) – b. 982 NE, 18
Larine is the oldest of the novices from Emond’s Field. She is about the same age as Egwene (Crossroads of Twilight, What the Oath Rod Can Do) and a good three years younger than Rand in Lord of Chaos, A Saying in the Borderlands. Her hair is braided (Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers).

Leane Sharif (Blue, then Green Ajah) – b. 952 NE, 48
Enrolled: 15; Training: 9
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted. She was a novice with Siuan and Moiraine (The Great Hunt, Summoned), Accepted for a time with Moiraine and raised the year before them (New Spring, Just Before Dawn).

Lelaine Akashi (Blue Sitter) – b. 827 NE, 173
Enrolled: 17; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Lelaine is the second oldest Sitter in Salidar, but has no grey in her hair (Lord of Chaos, In the Hall of the Sitters), although The Wheel of Time Companion states that Janya is the second oldest. She has been a Sitter for nearly forty years (A Crown of Swords, A Morning of Victory), having been raised in 962 NE during Noane Masadim’s reign, and became First Selector after the Tower split. Moria is younger than Lelaine.

Lemore Genhal (former damane) – b. 980–1 NE, 19–20
Former damane in Caemlyn who was 19 when being held there (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Letice Murow (novice) – b. 971–2 NE, 28–9
Enrolled: 28–29; Training:
Is close to her middle years (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Liandrin Guirale (Red Ajah) – b. 964 NE, 36
Enrolled: 15; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. Described as young and pretty, though with the ageless face. She is younger than Moiraine, who thinks of her as a girl (The Great Hunt, Summoned).

Lirene Doirellin (Red Sitter) – b. 820 NE, 180
Enrolled: 15; Training: 14
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Was raised a Sitter for the Red in 953 NE during Noane Masadim’s reign and was exiled along with the other 2 Red Sitters in 985 NE by Marith Jaen as punishment for the male channeller pogrom.

Lucilde (novice) – b. 978 NE, 22
Enrolled: 15; Training: 7+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Ludice Daneen (Yellow Ajah) b. prior to 848 NE
Had worn the shawl for well over a hundred years in New Spring, The Itch and was murdered by the Black Ajah in early 979 NE.

Lyrelle Arienwin (Blue Sitter) – b. 833 NE, 167
Enrolled: 16; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted and was raised a Sitter in 995 NE in Siuan’s Hall.

Magla Daronos (Yellow Sitter) – b. 839 NE, 161
Enrolled: 15; Training: 14
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted and was raised a Sitter in 985 NE at age 146 during Marith Jaen’s reign.

Malind Nachenin (Green Sitter) – b. 941 NE, 59
Enrolled: 16; Training: 23
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted. She had been Aes Sedai only 19 years when raised, and is one of the nine too-young Sitters in the rebel Hall, according to Siuan in The Path of Daggers, Unexpected Absences.

Marah (novice) – b. 984–985 NE, 15–16
A novice in the Tower (Knife of Dreams, Honey in the Tea).

Marce Eldin(novice) – b. 984 NE, 16
One of the Two Rivers novices who was about 15 in Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers.

Marille (damane)
Marille has been a damane for a long time and looked in her middle years (Towers of Midnight, A Good Soup). How old she is depends on how strong she is in the One Power. If she is very weak, she is probably 150–200 years old, if strong, up to 500.

Marillin Gemalphin (Brown Ajah) – b. 848 NE, 152
Enrolled: 15; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted.

Marinna
Ronam is 10 years older than Padra, Marinna's fellow quad, and was very young when Rand came to Cold Rocks Hold. He told Padra this 17 years after the Last Battle. Padra was born after the Last Battle or else Aviendha would already be pregnant, yet she is old enough in Towers of Midnight, Court of the Sun to command other Maidens. Padra and Marinna would be about 16 and Ronam 26.

Marisa Ahan (novice) – b. ~983 NE, ~17
One of the Two Rivers novices, she was about 16 in Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers.

Marith Jaen (Amyrlin from the Blue Ajah) – b. 700 NE
Enrolled: 17; Training: ?
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She retired in 973 NE but was recalled to be raised Amyrlin in 984 NE. Her death at age 288 was natural.

Marith Riven (Brown Ajah) – b. 968 NE, 32
Enrolled: 16; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted and is so recently raised she does not look ageless yet (A Crown of Swords, High Chasalaine).

Marline (Wise One) – b. prior to 959 NE, over 41
She was at least 20 years older than Rand (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Martine Janata (Brown Ajah) – b. 902 NE, 98
Enrolled: 15; Training: 9
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted. Martine studied ter’angreal more than 40 years, almost from the time she gained shawl until she was burned out (The Path of Daggers, Unweaving). Once burned out, she would have been removed from the Oaths and would look young again. She can no longer even sense the source, so she would then age as a normal person. This was more than 25 years ago, in 973 NE, and although she is 98 now, she looks between 45 and 50. Note that she is the same age as Zarya, whom Setalle Anan recognised.

Masuri Sokawa (Brown Ajah) – b. 935 NE, 65
Enrolled: 15; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Mayam Colona (White Ajah) – b. 960 NE, 40
Enrolled: 17; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted.

Meidani Eschede (Grey Ajah) – b. 949 NE, 51
Enrolled: 18; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted. Meidani and Elaida were pillowfriends as novices more than thirty years ago, but Elaida broke off the friendship when she was raised to Accepted in 970–1 NE (Crossroads of Twilight, Glimmers of the Pattern).

Meilyn Arganya (White Ajah) – b. 698 NE
Enrolled: 18; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. In New Spring, An Arrival, she was considerably older than Cadsuane at about 280 years old and had silvery grey hair (New Spring, The Human Heart).

Melaine (Wise One) – b. 890–916 NE, 84–110
Age range given in The Wheel of Time Companion. According to Egwene she is no more than 10–12 years older than Aviendha (The Fires of Heaven, Among the Wise Ones).

Melare (Red Ajah) – b. 920–950 NE, 50–90
Pevara notes that she sends money to her great-nephews and nieces. Assuming between 25 and 30 years for each generation plus a little leeway, she would be between 50 and 90 years old (Knife of Dreams, Epilogue).

Melavaire Someinellin (Grey Ajah) – b. prior to 800 NE, over 200
Has white flecks in her dark hair (Knife of Dreams, Honey in the Tea) and is thus probably a little over 200.

Melore (Kin) – b. 689 NE, 311
Age given in Robert Jordan’s Kin notes.

Merana Ambrey (Grey Ajah) – b. 889 NE, 111
Enrolled: 18; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Merana had worn the shawl for more than 25 years when Cadsuane retired 25 years before the Aiel War started (A Crown of Swords, Diamonds and Stars). The Aiel War started in 976 NE, so Merana was raised at least fifty years earlier. Note this clashes with Merana’s statement that she had worn the shawl ten years when Alanna was born (Lord of Chaos, The Crown of Roses), but this is being amended to Merana having been Aes Sedai over thirty years the day Alanna was born (see Maria Simon’s reply in The Verin Q&A). The many wars Merana prevented and treaties she arranged supports an age of over 100 (A Crown of Swords, Diamonds and Stars).

Merean Redhill (Blue Ajah) – b. 716 NE
Enrolled: 15–18; Training Estimate: 10–15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. Had mostly grey hair (New Spring, The Human Heart) and was over 260.

Merilille Ceandevin (Grey Ajah) – b. 827 NE, 173
Enrolled: 18; Training: 25
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 12 years as an Accepted. Merilille has worn the shawl over a hundred years (Crossroads of Twilight, Talk of Debts) but has no grey in her hair. She taught both Teslyn and Joline when they were novices (A Crown of Swords, The Triumph of Logic).

Merise Haindehl (Green Ajah) – b. 798 NE, 202
Enrolled: 13; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 15 years as a novice, because she lied about her age, and 5 years as an Accepted.

Mikio Vadere (Green Ajah) – b. 907 NE, 93
Enrolled: 16; Training: 23
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted.

Mirlene Cornwell (Green Ajah) – b. 867 NE, 133
Enrolled: 16; Training: 18
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Miyasi (White Ajah) – b. prior to 800 NE, over 200
Has iron grey hair (Knife of Dreams, Honey in the Tea).

Moiraine Damodred (Blue Ajah) – b. 956 NE, 44 (Lord of Chaos, Glossary)
Enrolled: 16; Training: 6 (New Spring, Practice)
She spent 3 years as a novice and 3 years as an Accepted.

Morgase Trakand – b. 957, NE 43
Enrolled: 14; Training: 1
She was almost 16 when she contested the Succession in 972 NE. Morgase looks young for her age because she has slowed (Robert Jordan on his blog), due to her successful attempt/s to channel the One Power.

Moria Karentanis (Blue Sitter) – b. 840 NE, 160
Enrolled: 14; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted and has been Aes Sedai for a hundred and thirty years (Crossroads of Twilight, Surprises) when raised as a Sitter for the Blue in the rebel Hall.

Morvrin Thakanos (Brown Ajah) – b. 777 NE, 223
Enrolled: 18; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted and has grey-streaked hair (The Fires of Heaven, The Practice of Diffidence).

Musarin (Yellow Ajah) – b. prior to 800 NE, over 200
Has white hair (The Gathering Storm, When Iron Melts).

Myrelle Berengari (Green Ajah) – b. 954 NE, 46
Enrolled: 14; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. Siuan remembers punishing her when she was a novice during the Aiel War (The Fires of Heaven, Sallie Daera and The Practice of Diffidence). She is already Accepted in New Spring, Practice. Elayne also notes that Myrelle has been Aes Sedai less than fifteen years in Lord of Chaos, Unexpected Laughter, which is an underestimate, since Myrelle had been one for 17–18 years at that time. The rebel Greens raised Myrelle as their Captain General.

Nacelle Kayama (Green Ajah) – b. 855 NE, 145
Enrolled: 15–18; Training Estimate: 15–25
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Namene (novice) – b. 984–985 NE, 15–16
A novice in the Tower (Knife of Dreams, Honey in the Tea).

Narenwin Barda (Yellow Ajah) – b. 913 NE, 87
Enrolled: 15; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted.

Nelavaire Demasiellin (Green Ajah) – b. 850 NE, 150
Enrolled: 13; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted.

Nesune Bihara (Brown Ajah) – b. 826 NE, 174
Enrolled: 15; Training: 9
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted.

Nevarin (Wise One) – b. after 890 NE, less than 110
Age range given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Niande Moorwyn (Grey Ajah) – b. 851 NE, 149
Enrolled: 16; Training: 25
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 12 years as an Accepted.

Nicola Treehill (novice) – b. 975 NE, 25
Enrolled: 24; Training: 1
Nicola is about Nynaeve’s age (Lord of Chaos, The Storm Gathers). She is at least 6–7 years older than Egwene (A Crown of Swords, A Pair of Silverpike).

Nisain a’Cowel (Grey Ajah) – b. 873 NE, 127
Enrolled: 15–18; Training: 15–25
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Nisao Dachen (Yellow Ajah) – b. 821 NE, 179
Enrolled: 16; Training: 18
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Nynaeve al’Maera (Yellow Ajah) – b. 974 NE, 26 (Lord of Chaos, Leaning on the Knife)
Enrolled: 24–25; Training: < 2
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent no time as a novice and less than 2 years as an Accepted.

Padra
Ronam is 10 years older than Padra, and was very young when Rand came to Cold Rocks Hold. He told Padra this 17 years after the Last Battle. Padra was born after the Last Battle or else Aviendha would already be pregnant, yet she is old enough in Towers of Midnight, Court of the Sun to command other Maidens. Padra would be about 16 and Ronam 26.

Pedra (Accepted) – b. 971–2 NE, 28–9
An Accepted a little older than Nynaeve (The Great Hunt, New Friends). In Crossroads of Twilight, One Answer, we see that Pevara thinks Pedra will be raised soon. In Knife of Dreams she is still an Accepted.

Pevara Tazanovni (Red Sitter) – b. 839 NE, 161
Enrolled: 16; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted, and was a novice with Seaine who has been Aes Sedai for 134 years (Winters Heart, Snow). Pevara was raised Sitter soon after Seaine in 985 NE at age 146 after all 3 Red Sitters were unchaired by Marith Jaen.

Pritalle Nerbaijan (Yellow Ajah) – b. 941–958 NE, 42–59
Accepted at the time of New Spring.

Rafela Cindal (Blue Ajah) – b. 948 NE, 52
Enrolled: 16; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted and was raised Aes Sedai a year before Leane (New Spring, Just Before Dawn).

Razina Hazzan (Brown Ajah) – b. 870 NE, 130
Enrolled: 16; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted.

Reanne Corly (Kin) – b. 588 NE, 412 (A Crown of Swords, Mashiara)
Enrolled: 15; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and was put out of the Tower after refusing to continue the test for Accepted.

Reiko Kerevon (Blue Ajah) – b. 827 NE, 173
Enrolled: 15–18; Training: 15–25
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Rianna Andomeran (White Ajah) – b. 924 NE, 76
Enrolled: 16; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Rina Hafden (Green Ajah) – b. 923 NE, 77
Enrolled: 15; Training: 17
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted and has worn the shawl less than fifty years (Crossroads of Twilight, A Mark). Rina was raised Sitter in Elaida’s Hall as a replacement for Joline Maza, who was unchaired by Elaida. When the Tower was reunited, Rina stepped down for Farnah.

Romanda Cassin (Yellow Sitter) – b. 726 NE, 274
Enrolled: 17; Training: 8
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 3 years as an Accepted. According to Cadsuane, she is “nearly as old as I am” (New Spring, An Arrival). Romanda is the eldest of the Salidar Sitters and has white hair with grey streaks. According to The Wheel of Time Companion During Sereille Bagand’s reign, Romanda was raised a Sitter for the Yellow in 885 NE at age 159 and held this position until she resigned (Crossroads of Twilight, Surprises) and went into retirement in 973 NE when Tamra Ospenya was elected Amyrlin (The Path of Daggers, The Law). Holding her chair for 88 years was unprecedented, but Romanda came out of retirement to be a Yellow Sitter in the rebel Hall and also Yellow Ajah Head among the rebels, and kept this seat upon reunification until her death in the Last Battle.

Ronelle (Accepted) – b. 969 NE, 31
Enrolled: 15; Training: 15+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 6 years so far as an Accepted.

Rubinde Acedone (Green Sitter) – b. 853 NE, 147
Enrolled: 17; Training: 19
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted, and had worn the shawl just over 100 years when raised at age 139 in 992 NE during Siuan’s reign, according to The Wheel of Time Companion. The Companion’s date may be a transcription error, since Robert Jordan’s Aes Sedai notes notes repeatedly give the year that Rubinde was raised Sitter as 972 NE, near the end of Noane Masadim’s reign, when she would have been 119 and worn the shawl less than 100 years. Rubinde has no grey in her hair.

Ryma Galfrey (Yellow Ajah) – b. 902 NE, 98
Enrolled: 15; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Saerin Asnobar (Brown Sitter) – b. 781 NE, 219
Enrolled: 17; Training: 22
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She was trained for two years by the Daughters of Silence, who were found and disbanded in 798 NE. They had been training girls for four years (Winter’s Heart, Glossary). In the Tower Saerin spent 12 years as a novice and 10 years as an Accepted. She was a novice and Accepted twice as long as the other Black Ajah hunters due to the stigma attached to unofficial training. During Kirin Melway’s reign, she was raised a Sitter at age 179 in 960 NE. At 40 years, her tenure was longer than anyone else then in the Tower Hall (Winters Heart, Snow). Saerin was the oldest Sitter present at Egwene’s raising in the Tower (The Gathering Storm, To Be Forged Again). She has slight touches of white at her dark temples (The Path of Daggers, The Extra Bit).

Salita Toranes (Yellow Sitter) – b. 933 NE, 67
Enrolled: 17; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted. An overly young Sitter elected to the rebel Hall, she has been Aes Sedai for thirty-five years (Crossroads of Twilight, Secrets) and stood down at reunification.

Samalin Naerodan (Green Sitter) – b. 935 NE, 65
Enrolled: 17; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. She is one of the too-young Sitters in the rebel Hall, according to Siuan in The Path of Daggers, Unexpected Absences.

Samitsu Tamagowa (Yellow Ajah) – b. 856 NE, 145
Enrolled: 14; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted.

Sarainya Vostovan (Kin) – b. 924 NE, 76
Enrolled: 16; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and was raised Accepted for political reasons and then put out of the Tower.

Sareitha Tomares (Brown Ajah) – b. 965 NE, 35
Enrolled: 15; Training: 18
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted. She had been barely 3 years as Aes Sedai, and not yet with the ageless face (The Path of Daggers, Into Andor and Winter’s Heart, The Streets of Caemlyn).

Sarene Nemdahl (White Ajah) – b. 955 NE, 45
Enrolled: 15; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted and was friends with Moiraine when novices and Accepted, although Moiraine was a year ahead (New Spring, Leaving the Tower).

Saroiya Farseen (White Sitter) – b. 857 NE, 143
Enrolled: 16; Training: 24
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted and was raised a Sitter for the White in 987 NE at age 130 during Marith Jaen’s reign.

Sashalle Anderley (Red Ajah) – b. 816 NE, 184
Enrolled: 16; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted.

Seaine Herimon (White Sitter) – b. 841 NE, 159
Enrolled: 15; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 4 years as an Accepted and gained the shawl the year Sereille Bagand was raised Amyrlin, which was in 866 NE (A Crown of Swords, Sealed to the Flame), 134 years ago. In 986 NE, she was raised Sitter for the White at age 145 in Marith Jaen’s Hall.

Sedore Dajenna (Yellow Sitter) – b. 813 NE, 187
Enrolled: 16; Training: 16
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted. A Sitter who had worn the shawl over 100 years when raised at age 148 in 961 NE in Noane Masadim’s reign, and has no grey in her hair.

Senine din Ryal (Windfinder) – b. prior to 500 NE, over 500
Is over 500 years old (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Seonid Traighan (Green Ajah) – b. 928 NE, 72
Enrolled: 18; Training: 25
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 12 years as an Accepted.

Serafelle Tanisloe (Brown Ajah) – b. 862 NE, 148
Enrolled: 29; Training: 14
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice due to lying about her age and 4 years as an Accepted.

Serancha Colvine (Grey Ajah) – b. 835 NE, 165
Enrolled: 15; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. From 974–990 NE she was a Sitter for the Grey, and resigned her chair upon becoming Ajah Head.

Sereille Bagand (Amyrlin from the White Ajah) – b. 586 NE
Enrolled: 15; Training: 24
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted due to being a discipline problem. From 738–759 NE she was a Sitter for the White, then spent 107 years as Mistress of the Novices, an unprecedented length of tenure. This ended when she was raised Amyrlin in 866 NE.

Shahal Comanli (Grey Ajah) – b. ~700 NE, ~200
Enrolled: 15–18; Training: 15–25
Approximate age given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Shalon din Togara (Windfinder) – b. 923–48 NE, 62–77
Is twenty-two years older than her sister Harine (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Shana Goridien (White Ajah) – b. 882 NE, 118
Enrolled: 16; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted.

Sharina Melloy (novice) – b. 933 NE, 67
Sharina is a grandmother and Romanda states that she is 67 (Knife of Dreams, Call to a Sitting). The Wheel of Time Companion lists her as 5 years younger, with a birth year of 938 NE.

Shemerin (Yellow Ajah) – b. 828 NE, 178
Enrolled: 17; Training: 31
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 14 years as a novice and 17 years as an Accepted due to her unsuitability for testing.

Sheriam Bayanar (Blue Ajah) – b.953 NE, 47
Enrolled: 17; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted and was raised Aes Sedai two weeks after Moiraine and Siuan (New Spring, Changes). Appointed as Mistress of Novices in 992 NE when Siuan became Amyrlin, she was extremely young for the job at only 39.

Shevan (Brown Sitter) – b. 843 NE, 157
Enrolled: 16; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 4 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. A Sitter who had worn the shawl well over 100 years when raised in 999 NE to replace Janya Frende, she has no grey in her hair.

Shimoku (Accepted) – b. 973 NE, 27
Enrolled: 15; Training: 12+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 1 year so far as an Accepted.

Sibella (Kin) – b. 613 NE, 387
Enrolled: 14; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted, but failed her test for the shawl and was put out of the Tower.

Sierin Vayu (Amyrlin from the Grey Ajah) – b. 736 NE
Enrolled: 16; Training: 17
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted and was raised Amyrlin in 979 NE without holding a place in the Hall previously. Killed in 984 NE when she was 248.

Silviana Brehon (Red Ajah) – b. 849 NE, 151
Enrolled: 18; Training: 23
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 12 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted.

Siuan Sanche (Amyling from the Blue Ajah) – b. 958 NE, 42
Enrolled: 15; Training: 6
Siuan spent 3 years as a novice and 3 years as an Accepted. She was raised Amyrlin in 988 NE at age 30 (Lord of Chaos, In the Hall of the Sitters). However, The Great Hunt, Glossary has (or had) her accession year as 985 NE.

Solain Morgeillin (Kin) – b. 818 NE, 182
Enrolled: 15; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted, but was put out of the Tower for repeated theft.

Sorilea (Wise One) – b. prior to 800 NE, over 200
Age range given in The Wheel of Time Companion. The oldest Wise One with Rand. Her nephew is the grandfather of a man wanting to marry Enaila (The Fires of Heaven, The Fifth I Give You). She wants Egwene to marry her granddaughter’s youngest grandson (Lord of Chaos, Courage to Strengthen). Cadsuane suspects that Sorilea is about her own age in The Path of Daggers, New Alliances and she may be right.

Suana Dragand (Yellow Sitter) – b. 784 NE, 216
Enrolled: 14; Training: 28
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 16 years as a novice and 12 years as an Accepted. She served as Sitter for the Yellow Ajah for “forty years” (Crossroads of Twilight, Prologue) from 919–952 NE and became First Weaver toward the end of her tenure in 947 NE. After sending Magla to join the rebels, she appointed herself Sitter in Elaida’s Hall.

Sumeko Karistovan (Kin) – b. 598 NE, 402
Enrolled: 16; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted, but failed her test for the shawl and was put out of the Tower. Sumeko is more than two hundred years older than Alise (Knife of Dreams, The House on Full Moon Street), but younger than Reanne.

Surandha (Wise One Apprentice) – b. 976 NE, 23 Is 5 years older than Egwene (Lord of Chaos, Gifts).

Susa al’Seen (novice) – b. ~984 NE, ~16
One of the Two Rivers novices (Lord of Chaos, Lessons and Teachers), she is about 16 (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Tabitha/Tabiya (novice) – b. 983 NE, 17
Enrolled: 15; Training: 2+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She has spent two years as a novice so far.

Takima Deraighdin (Brown Sitter) – b. 844 NE, 156
Enrolled: 14; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Takima has been a Sitter for nine years (A Crown of Swords, A Morning of Victory), being raised during Siuan’s reign in 991 NE at age 147.

Talene Minly (Green Sitter) – b. 840 NE, 160
Enrolled: 15; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Talene came to the White Tower when Seaine was Accepted (A Crown of Swords, Sealed to the Flame). Seaine might have been Accepted between the ages of 19 and 32. Talene would have been 15–18 when she came to the Tower and therefore Seaine is between 1 and 17 years older than her. Talene was raised a Sitter in 994 NE at age 154 in Siuan’s reign.

Tamarla (Kin) – b. 681 NE, 319
Enrolled: 15; Training: 2+
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 2 years as a novice and then was put out of the Tower because she was not strong enough to test for Accepted.

Tamra Ospenya (Amyrlin from the Blue Ajah) – b. prior to 778 NE
Had hair lightly streaked with grey in New Spring making her probably over 200 at that time. Considering that her death in 979 NE was believed to be due to natural causes, she was probably well over 200.

Tarna Feir (Red Ajah) – b. 950 NE, 50
Enrolled: 14; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 9 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted and has been Aes Sedai for just over twenty years (Crossroads of Twilight, One Answer). Tarna became Accepted 1 year before Moiraine (in 974 NE) after being a novice for 9 years (New Spring, Practice). Promoted to Keeper of the Chronicles in 999 NE after Alviarin was sent off on an extended mission by Mesaana, she was young for the position.

Temaile Kinderode (Grey Ajah) – b. 943 NE, 57
Enrolled: 17; Training: 19
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted and was Accepted at the time of New Spring.

Teslyn Baradon (former Red Sitter) – b. 870 NE, 130
Enrolled: 15; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. Teslyn taught Joline when she was a novice and was herself taught by Merilille (A Crown of Swords, The Triumph of Logic). Teslyn was elected as Sitter for the Red Ajah in 985 NE at age 115, young to be a Sitter, following Marith’s unchairing of the 3 Red sitters as punishment for the male channeller pogrom.

Theodrin Dabei (Brown Ajah) – b. 966 NE, 34
Enrolled: 15; Training: 18
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Therava (Wise One) – b. prior to 800 NE, over 200
Age range given in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Therva Maresis (Yellow Ajah) – b. 862 NE, 148
Enrolled: 17; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted.

Tiana Noselle (Grey Ajah) – b. 937 NE, 63
Enrolled: 18; Training: 12
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 6 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Promoted to the post of Mistress of the Novices, she was one of many too-young holders of positions among the rebels, being younger than at least one of her own novices.

Toveine Gazal (former Red Sitter) – b. 811 NE, 189
Enrolled: 18; Training: 21
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 10 years as an Accepted. Toveine was raised a Sitter for the Red in Noane Masadim’s Hall in 952 NE at age 141 and sat until she was exiled in 985 NE as punishment for the male channeller pogrom. She has no grey in her hair.

Tsutama Rath (former Red Sitter) – b. 827 NE, 163
Enrolled: 14; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Raised a Sitter in 964 NE at age 137 during Noane Masadim’s reign, she was exiled in 985 NE as punishment for the male channeller pogrom. Her hair is untouched by grey.

Turese (Red Ajah) – b. 960–970 NE, 30–40
Enrolled: 15–18; Training Estimate: 10–25
She is a young Aes Sedai, new enough to the shawl that her face doesn't show the ageless look yet (The Gathering Storm, A Visit From Verin Sedai).

Valene Sural (Red Ajah) – b. 972 NE, 28
Enrolled: 16; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted.

Valera Gorovni (Brown Ajah) – b. 748 NE, 252
Enrolled: 17; Training: 14
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. She had worn the shawl for well over a hundred years in New Spring, The Itch.

Vandene Namelle (Green Ajah) – b. 737 NE, 263
Enrolled: 15; Training: 10
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 5 years as an Accepted. About seventy ago, Adeleas and Vandene retired from the White Tower to Tifan's Well to write a history of the world since the Breaking (The Great Hunt, Watchers). Kirstian claimed to have run away from the White Tower almost 300 years ago, when Vandene was an infant, if not before she was born. Vandene and Adeleas knew they didn’t have many years left to live. Their hair was all white.

Varilin Zanaire (Grey Sitter) – b. 831 NE, 169
Enrolled: 17; Training: 13
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted, and was raised a Sitter in 992 NE at age 161 in Siuan’s reign.

Vayelle Kamsa (Red Ajah) – b. 914 NE, 86
Enrolled: 18; Training: 24
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 13 years as a novice and 11 years as an Accepted.

Velina Behar (White Sitter) – b. 859 NE, 141
Enrolled: 18; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 11 years as a novice and 9 years as an Accepted. A Sitter who was a trifle young when she was raised at age 115 in 974 NE, early in Tamra’s reign. She has no grey in her hair.

Verin Mathwin (Brown Ajah) – b. 849 NE, 151
Enrolled: 15; Training: 11
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and 6 years as an Accepted. Merana thinks that Verin is maybe as much older than her as she is older than Alanna (about 50 years or so). Therefore, Verin’s hair greyed prematurely. She was forced into the Black Ajah in 929 NE.

Yukiri Haruna (Grey Sitter) – b. 837 NE, 163
Enrolled: 15; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 8 years as a novice and 7 years as an Accepted. Yukiri was raised Sitter in 978 NE at age 141 (Robert Jordan’s Aes Sedai notes).

Zarya Alkaese/Garenia Rosoinde – b. 908 NE, 92
Enrolled: 15; Training: 5
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 5 years as a novice and then ran away in 928 NE about 70 years ago (A Crown of Swords, Next Door To A Weaver). She was a novice with Careane for 2 years (The Path of Daggers, Crimsonthorn) and is now more than 90 years old (Winter’s Heart, With Sea Folk and Kin).

Zemaille Amassa (Brown Ajah) – b. 931 NE, 69
Enrolled: 29; Training: 20
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 10 years as a novice and 10 years as an Accepted. From Moiraine’s observations in New Spring, there are hints that she is deliberately making herself appear average in learning time, which is why she earned the shawl after 20 years training.

Zerah Dacan (White Ajah) – b. 928 NE, 72
Enrolled: 15; Training: 15
Birth year given in The Wheel of Time Companion. She spent 7 years as a novice and 8 years as an Accepted and has had the shawl less than fifty years (The Path of Daggers, The Extra Bit).


A possible error occurs with respect to Amico Nagoyin and Joiya Byir:

“No two were born in the same city, and no more than two in any one country. Amico Nagoyin was the youngest, only four years older than Egwene and I [Elayne]. Joiya Byir could be our grandmother.”

-The Dragon Reborn, Questions

Amico is also described as having the ‘ageless’ look. This is quite clearly impossible if she were four years older than Egwene. She is unlikely to have earned the shawl in that time, never mind gained the Ageless look, something that occurs around 5 years after swearing on the Oath Rod. It is an error which was corrected in the e-book version of The Dragon Reborn, where Elayne says that Amico is fifteen years older than her. Joiya Byir is 172 and older than Egwene’s grandmother could be. Verin might have given the girls erroneous information but it’s more likely that Jordan had not yet worked out the details of channeller and Aes Sedai ages, since these are the first Aes Sedai ages, apart from Siuan and Moiraine, we get in the series.

Male Channellers

Even with the spark, boys never channel before 18 or 19, unless they try to learn how, and in some men the spark does not come out until they are 30 (New Spring, Practice). Like the women, men also slow in aging once they channel. The madness caused by the taint on saidin can take years, or just months to take effect. Any effects caused by the taint are irreversible, although Nynaeve Healed the madness (Towers of Midnight, Use A Pebble).


Alarch
Ronam is 10 years older than Padra, Alarch's fellow quad, and was very young when Rand came to Cold Rocks Hold. He told Padra this 17 years after the Last Battle. Padra was born after the Last Battle or else Aviendha would already be pregnant, yet she is old enough in Towers of Midnight, Court of the Sun to command other Maidens. Padra and Alarch would be about 16 and Ronam 26.

Androl Genhald – b. 965–969 NE, 31–35
Androl is in his middle years (Towers of Midnight, Working Leather). He was approximately 30 years old when he went to the White Tower, according to The Wheel of Time Companion.

Arlen Nalaam – b. 971 NE, 29
He is “just shy of his thirtieth year” (Towers of Midnight, Working Leather).

Atal Mishraile – b. 974–976 NE, 24–26
He is a young man, “younger than Logain” in Crossroads of Twilight, Glimmers of the Pattern.

Charl Gedwyn – b. 974–976 NE, 24–26
He was a few years older than Rand (The Path of Daggers, Answering the Summons).

Damer Flinn – b. 942 NE, 58
He was in the Queen’s Guards for forty years (A Crown of Swords, Blades) and probably joined around 18–20 years of age.

Demandred
Demandred is one day younger than Lews Therin, who was a little over 400 years old when he suicided.

Eben Hopwil – b. 984 NE, 16
He was just 16 in The Path of Daggers, Floating Like Snow. Birth year given in Jordan’s Cadsuane notes.

Enkazin – b. 970–1 NE, 29–30
He is just short of his middle years (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Evin Vinchova – b. 983–4 NE, 16–17
He was about 16 when he went to the Black Tower (The Wheel of Time Companion).

Fager Neald – b. 983 NE, 17
He is seventeen (Knife of Dreams, A Hell In Maderin).

Fedwin Morr – b. 984 NE, 16
He was of an age with Hopwill (The Path of Daggers, Message from the M’Hael).

Jahar Narishma – b. 977 NE, 23
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He is "a little older than Rand" (A Crown of Swords, As the Plough Breaks the Earth), and not much past 20 (Lord of Chaos, Letters).

Janduin
Ronam is 10 years older than Padra, Janduin's fellow quad, and was very young when Rand came to Cold Rocks Hold. He told Padra this 17 years after the Last Battle. Padra was born after the Last Battle or else Aviendha would already be pregnant, yet she is old enough in Towers of Midnight, Court of the Sun to command other Maidens. Padra and Janduin would be about 16 and Ronam 26.

Jonan Adley – b. 974 NE, 26
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He was perhaps 4 years older than Rand (A Crown of Swords, Pitfalls and Tripwires).

Jur Grady – b. 972 NE, 28
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He is 6–7 years older than Rand (Lord of Chaos, A Woman’s Eyes).

Karldin Manfor – b. 981 NE, 19
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion.

Lews Therin
Lews Therin was 400–450 years old when he suicided since Rand says

"I'm nearly four and a half, I suppose. Do my years in this Age add to those I had before?"

Towers of Midnight, A Testing

Rand probably added his twenty years to Lews Therin’s tally to get this number since earlier he said that Lews Therin was 400 years old when he died during the Age of Legends.

Logain Ablar – b. 972 NE, 28 (A Crown of Swords, Glossary), 971 NE, 29 (The Wheel of Time Companion).
He was a false Dragon in 997 NE, (The Fires of Heaven, Glossary) and began channelling shortly before declaring himself (in his mid 20s).

Manel Rochaid – b. 980–1 NE, 19–20
He was maybe 2 years younger than Rand (The Path of Daggers, Answering The Summons).

Mazrim Taim – b. 972 NE, 28
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He looked about 15 years older than Rand in Lord of Chaos, A New Arrival, due to his hard journey, according to Jordan. However, Taim apparently is in fact in his late twenties and now looks it:

Jordan: "Taim has slowed, but one thing I am not going to reveal it in the books, so I’ll tell you, men slow later than women do. And yes, he has slowed, and he is in his late twenties, yes his late twenties."

Mezar Kurin – b. 945–960 NE, 40–55
Mezar is greying (Towers of Midnight, Something Wrong). He would barely have begun to slow yet.

Moridin – b. 974–976 NE, 24–26
Demandred said Moridin has ‘a boy’s body’ (Winter’s Heart, Wonderful News) and Rand thinks Moridin is a few years older than he (Knife of Dreams, News For the Dragon).

Peral Torval – b. 971–972 NE, 28–29
He was just short of his middle years (Lord of Chaos, The Black Tower).

Raefar Kisman – b. 980 NE, 20
Birth year listed in The Wheel of Time Companion. He was younger than Rand (Lord of Chaos, Black Tower).

Rand al'Thor – b. 978 NE, 22
He was born in the last year of the Aiel War (The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn). The Aiel War ended close to the end of 978 NE (New Spring, The Hook). He was “not yet twenty” in The Eye of the World, The Stag and Lion and so first began to channel at age 19 (The Eye of the World, The Road to Taren Ferry.)

Saml al’Seen – b. 985–986 NE, 13–14
A Two Rivers boy training at the Black Tower who Pevara thinks is too young to be carrying a sword, though a noble’s son would have been training for a few years. She also refers to him as still being a child (Knife of Dreams, Remember the Old Saying).

Taril Canler – b. ~940 NE, about 60
Canler is the oldest of the group including Emarin (Towers of Midnight, Working Leather).

Welyn Kajima – b. 964–66 NE, 34–36
There are conflicting quotes to his age or appearance. In Knife of Dreams he is both described as an ‘Asha’man in his middle years’ and short of his middle years. According to The Wheel of Time Companion, he was about 35 when he joinend the Black Tower.



Written by Linda, February 2009 and updated December 2015 and December 2018

Contributor: Moridin_2000