The Wheel of Time Companion

by Robert Jordan

  Charn. 1) A pikeman in Juilin Sandar’s squad in the Last Battle. He was killed by a Sharan with a mace to the head. 2) Coumin’s father’s greatfather, and Rand’s distant Aiel ancestor from the War of Power. He served Mierin in the Age of Legends, and was planning to accept Nalla’s offer of marriage on the day the Bore was drilled. He was hanged many years later because he told people that he once served Lanfear when she was Mierin. Rand saw him as part of his visions through the glass columns in Rhuidean.

  Charral. A Seanchan damane who belonged to Tuon and was taken to Ebou Dar with her. She had gray hair and gray eyes, and was the most agile of Tuon’s damane in her spinning. She was part of Karede’s group that searched for Tuon when she was missing.

  Chaser. A gambler Mat encountered at The Dead Man’s Breath in Caemlyn. He was tall and lean with a pinched face. Chaser told Mat of a man being found with his throat torn out and drained of blood.

  Chavana brothers. Four acrobats in Valan Luca’s circus who claimed to be brothers, but though they were all short, compact men, they ranged in coloring from green-eyed Taeric—his high cheekbones and hooked nose proclaiming his Saldaean blood—to Barit, who was darker than Juilin and had Sea Folk tattoos on his hands. Another brother was Brugh; the fourth was unnamed. See Barit, Brugh and Taeric Chavana

  Cheade, Muad. See Muad Cheade

  Chel Vanin. A Redarm in Mat’s Band, from Maerone, Andor. Despite not looking the part, he was a masterful thief, and Mat made him the chief of his scouts. He was very fat and sat his saddle like a sagging sack of suet, but he could ride anything with hair. Vanin was balding, with a gap-toothed grin—he spat through the gap in his teeth—and a round face that could assume a look of utter innocence. About 5'10" tall and weighing more than 250 pounds, he could, according to others, steal a horse out from under a nobleman and the nobleman wouldn’t know it for three days; he could steal the eggs from under a hen pheasant without disturbing her, though it was unlikely he wouldn’t stuff her in his sack as well. He claimed to be an itinerant stableman and sometime farrier, when he could find the work. Though an Andoran, he had lived in Maerone and ranged wide on both sides of the Erinin. The Band’s other scouts got triple pay; he got quadruple. Vanin didn’t like nobles, but Elayne had him knuckling his forehead to her after a very short time. He was with her in the Rahad when the gholam attacked, but he survived.

  Vanin was chosen to accompany Faile while she delivered the Horn of Valere to Mat. Vanin and Harnan believed that the chest holding the Horn contained tabac and tried to steal it, leading Faile to think that they were Darkfriends. They fled and allowed themselves to be captured by a Darkfriend caravan and taken to the battle. When Faile arrived there and was betrayed by Aravine, he and Harnan and other prisoners broke loose and created enough confusion that Faile was able to escape.

  Chelsaine Palace. A small palace in Ebou Dar that Jaichim Carridin rented near the Three Towers Gate. Mat followed Lady Shiaine there, and an old man (Noal) told him who occupied the palace.

  Cheltan. In a previous Age, the Cheltans had the dubious distinction of being heavily taxed by their rulers. Birgitte used the phrase: “avoiding him like a Cheltan flinching from the tax-collector.”

  Chenda. The roofmistress of Mainde Cut. She belonged to the Jenda sept of the Tomanelle Aiel. Chenda demanded to be made gai’shain when Bair was a girl and was featured in a funny (to Aiel) story told to Egwene concerning two raiding septs. She was presumed dead at the time the story was told.

  Chesa. Egwene’s dark-haired maid, chosen by Sheriam in Salidar. She was barely twice Egwene’s age when they first met. She was 5'3" to 5'4" tall, and plump, just short of stout, with a twinkle in her eye and a merry smile. Chesa gave advice to Egwene circumspectly, making her examples seem stories that applied to herself or others. She oversaw the other maids, Selame and Meri, who helped dress and undress her, and attended her during the day. Meri and Selame were murdered by Halima, because they might have seen or overheard something that would have endangered Halima’s own position and safety. Chesa survived simply because she wasn’t a spy for anyone, just a maid.

  Chesmal Emry. A Ghealdanin Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah publicly and of the Black Ajah in truth. Her strength level was 18(6). Born in 863 NE, she went to the White Tower in 878 NE. After seven years as a novice and six years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 891 NE. She was a handsome woman standing 5'7" tall, with dark hair and eyes, and she was stern and arrogant. She had no Warder. Chesmal was almost sent away from the White Tower twice as a novice and once as Accepted because of serious discipline infractions involving attacks on others. She was one of the most talented Healers anyone had seen in years, and she could kill with the Power by stopping all electrical activity in the body. In this Talent, she ranked with Samitsu Tamagowa and Suana Dragand. She might have rediscovered a part of Healing using other flows than the standard, although this was never confirmed.

  Chesmal claimed to have participated in putting Tamra Ospenya to the question and to inducing the Red Ajah to murder Sierin Vayu before Sierin could order her arrest. She was one of the first thirteen members of the Black Ajah identified. When Moghedien coopted Liandrin’s group, she ordered Chesmal to hunt for Nynaeve. When Birgitte shot Moghedien with an arrow in Tel’aran’rhiod, Chesmal Healed her. Moghedien then ordered Chesmal to follow her to Ghealdan. Chesmal and other Black Ajah members waited there until Kennit, Eldrith’s Warder, who was not a Darkfriend and intended to kill Eldrith, found them. She and the others then fled to Caemlyn, where they went to Lady Shiaine’s house. Elayne, Careane, Sareitha and Vandene surprised them there. Chesmal killed Vandene and Sareitha, and helped capture Elayne. Chesmal and the others were then captured in turn by Birgitte and Elayne’s forces. Wearing a Forsaken disguise, Elayne later tried to question Chesmal; in the fight that ensued, Chesmal was killed by a burst of flame from Elayne, but only after Healing Elayne of a wound inflicted by Doilin Mellar.

  Chet. An old man whom Mat met in a Low Caemlyn tavern. Long-faced, with dappled silver stubble unable to cover the thick, angry-looking scar on his cheek, Chet wore tattered clothing that appeared vaguely military. He told Mat, who was there incognito because of gholam and Darkfriends trying to kill him, rumors about Matrim Cauthon, the leader of “that Band.”

  Chiad. A Maiden of the Spear of the Stones River sept of the Goshien Aiel. Chiad had dark reddish hair and gray eyes; she was 5'7½" tall. She was about the same age as Egwene and Elayne, as well as Bain. Although they were from clans with a blood feud, she adopted Bain as her first-sister; neither would let a man come to her without the other. Chiad went to the Stone of Tear; she and Bain became friends with Faile, and accompanied her and Perrin to Caemlyn, Cairhien and Ghealdan. She also went to Dumai’s Wells at Faile’s request for her to look after Perrin, and also to put herself in front of Gaul. Chiad was taken gai’shain by Sevanna when Faile’s riding party was captured by the Jumai Shaido. After Sevanna was taken by the Seanchan, Chiad became gai’shain to Gaul, who was in love with her and wanted to marry her, but was not interested in Bain. During the Last Battle, Chiad and Bain helped in the Healing facility set up at Berelain’s palace in Mayene, and began collecting the wounded from the battlefields.

  Chianmai. A Seanchan Banner-General in the Ever Victorious Army. He had a honey-brown face. He was killed by the damane Zakai, who lost control of her channeling in a battle against Rand and the Asha’man and struck her own people with lightning.

  Chiantal, Stedding. A stedding located in Kandor.

  Chiape. The Sh’boan, or empress, of Shara. She was beautiful, with very dark skin. Graendal took her for one of her pets.

  Chiarid. An Aiel Maiden of the Spear. She was a merry-eyed blonde old enough to be Rand’s mother and was part of Rand’s guard in Caemlyn. She usually liked to make jokes at his expense when they were alone; he understood some of them. Chiarid saw Rand as a younger brother who needed to be kept from getting too big for his hat.

  Chiendelna. A minor House in M
urandy that Lord Luc, while making mischief in the Two Rivers, claimed as his own.

  Chilares Arman. A Murandian Kin and member of the Knitting Circle who worked as a rug seller in Ebou Dar. Born in 657 NE, she went to the White Tower in 672 NE. After twelve years as a novice, she refused to complete her test for Accepted. Her strength level was 37(25), not strong enough for her to make a gateway of any size whatsoever. Slender and willowy, with large, deep brown eyes, she had touches of gray in her hair, understandable given that she was over 343 years old, and she appeared to be well into her middle years. Traces of Murandy clung to her accent. She traveled with Elayne to the Royal Palace in Caemlyn.

  Child. A generic term used to describe any member of the Children of the Light; however, it was also used as a title for younger members of the order.

  Child of the Dragon. An appellation used by Someshta, a Nym called the Green Man, when speaking to Rand.

  Children of the Light. A society of men who followed strict ascetic beliefs, owing allegiance to no nation and dedicated to the defeat of the Dark One and the destruction of all Darkfriends. Founded by Lothair Mantelar in FY 1021 during the War of the Hundred Years to proselytize against an increase in Darkfriends, they evolved during the war into a completely military society. They were extremely rigid in their beliefs, and certain that only they knew the truth and the right. They considered Aes Sedai and any who supported them to be Darkfriends. Known disparagingly as Whitecloaks, a name they themselves despised, they were headquartered at the Fortress of Light in Amador, Amadicia, but were forced out when the Seanchan conquered the city. Their sign was a golden sunburst on a field of white, and the sunburst was displayed on their cloaks and tabards. An exception was the garb worn by the Hand of the Light (also referred to pejoratively as Questioners), a relatively independent investigative branch within the Children’s organization; their cloaks were adorned with a red shepherd’s crook behind the sunburst. Questioners reported to the High Inquisitor, who only wore the red shepherd’s crook, suggestive of his independent authority. The Children were a cavalry force, and their largest unit was a legion, which was roughly two thousand troops. Officers wore golden knots to indicate rank. The last known leader of the Children was Galad Damodred. They fought alongside the armies of the Light in the Last Battle.

  Chimal. One of Tuon’s sisters who was quiet in her ambition to gain the throne, and who might have plotted against Tuon.

  Chin Akima. The owner of a traveling circus who was beheaded by Masema in Samara for disobeying him.

  Chin Ellisor. The captain of the Blue Crane, which took Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne down the River Erinin until the ship ran aground on a mudflat near Jurene and they disembarked. He was born and bred in Tar Valon, and not one to question Aes Sedai.

  Chinden, Stedding. A stedding located in the Mountains of Mist.

  chinje wheel. A gambling device from the Age of Legends.

  Chion. An Aiel Maiden of the Spear taken gai’shain by the Taardad Aiel. She showed Rand to his room in Cold Rocks Hold after he gave the bracelet to Aviendha and talked to the Wise Ones. Chion was pretty, with a thin scar slanting just above one pale blue eye into hair so light as to look almost silver; she was killed by a Draghkar at Cold Rocks Hold. Rand added her name to his list of women who died for him.

  Chisaine Nurbaya. A Domani Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah and the loyalist contingent. Part of the expedition to kidnap Rand, she was captured at Dumai’s Wells and treated as da’tsang by the Aiel; as part of Chisaine’s punishment, Verin saw her dragging rocks behind her on a cowhide. Under Verin’s Compulsion, she found reason to swear to Rand, which she did before Cadsuane departed Cairhien for Far Madding. Chisaine and the other Reds among the captives were the very last to swear.

  Chisen, General. A Seanchan officer with a large force who unsuccessfully tried to find Mat’s Band of the Red Hand in the Molvaine Gap, northeast Altara.

  Chishen Mountains. A range found in southern Andor near the River Erinin and the border with Murandy.

  Choedan Kal. The two great sa’angreal statues that were originally constructed to seal the Dark One in Shayol Ghul during the War of Power, and later used by Rand to cleanse the taint from saidin. The male statue, attuned to saidin, was located near Tremonsien; the female statue, attuned to saidar, was located on the island of Tremalking. Because of the statues’ power, special ter’angreal access keys were required to activate them. During the cleansing of the taint, the female statue melted and its corresponding access key was destroyed.

  chokevine. A weedy vine with pale, narrow leaves.

  Chooser, the. 1) Another name for Calian, a Hero of the Horn who wore a red mask and who rode beside her brother, Shivan the Hunter. 2) In Seanchan, Choosers were individuals who picked out young male da’covale for the Deathwatch Guard.

  chop. A card game. Five rulers was the best hand.

  chora tree. A tree once prevalent before the Breaking. It was a construct made with the One Power and had large green trefoil leaves which emitted an aura of peace and well-being. All but extinct, one existed in the Third Age, in Rhuidean, and was known by the Aiel as Avendesora. A sapling of that tree, known as Avendoraldera, was given by the Aiel to Cairhien; Laman chopped it down to make a throne, precipitating the Aiel War.

  Chora Fields, the. A forest of chora trees surrounding Rhuidean in a scenario created during the fight between Rand and the Dark One in the Last Battle.

  Choren. The tenth month of the year.

  Chosen, the. The Forsaken’s name for themselves; short for “Those Chosen to Rule the World Forever.”

  Chosium, Stedding. A stedding located in Saldaea.

  choss-hauler. A pejorative epithet applied by Sammael to Rand, having to do with Rand’s farmboy background, probably referring to animal excrement.

  Chowin Tsao. An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah who served as advisor to Artur Hawkwing before he initiated the siege of the White Tower.

  Chronicles, Keeper of. Once simply the Amyrlin’s secretary and the official historian of the White Tower, since more than five hundred years before the Trolloc Wars the Keeper had been second-in-command to the Amyrlin. Like the Amyrlin, the Keeper left her old Ajah, though she wore a narrow stole of the color of that Ajah. In the early days, the Keeper was traditionally raised from the same Ajah as the Amyrlin, but this was not required by Tower law. As time progressed, though, a Keeper of an Ajah other than the Amyrlin’s was almost invariably imposed on the Amyrlin by the Hall. This was done for various reasons: as a political quid pro quo, giving that office to one Ajah and the Amyrlin Seat to another, or to keep an eye on an Amyrlin who despite her raising was thought unreliable in some way.

  Chuain, Ishar Morrad. Aginor’s name during the Age of Legends.

  Chubain, Jimar. See Jimar Chubain

  Chulein. A Seanchan morat’raken who was flying over the Kin’s farm when Elayne and her party were leaving. Her raken’s name was Segani. She was thinking of buying a damane who could create Sky Lights, using part of the taking price for helping to capture marath’damane. Eliya, the other woman on Segani, fell off and was killed in the explosion from Elayne’s unweaving. Chulein thought that she would have to make the report about the farm being destroyed because she was the only one left.

  Chuliandred. A small Cairhienin noble House. Among its members were Alaine, Doressin and Meneril.

  Chulin, Alesune. See Alesune Chulin

  Chumai. A sept of the Taardad Aiel.

  Chunla, Shein. See Shein Chunla

  Chuonde. A Maiden of the Spear of the Spine Ridge sept of the Miagoma Aiel. She died at the Battle of Dumai’s Wells. Rand added her name to the list of women who had died for him.

  Cian. A fat Tairen woman from Siuan’s past who disciplined her as a young girl for fighting.

  Cian do Mehon a’Macansa. A Murandian noblewoman, one of the Murandians and Andorans to meet with Egwene and her party as they were passing through Murandy on the way to the siege against the White Tower. Cian was stocky and graying
; she snorted loudly, and had a cool, collected demeanor. She made common cause with the intruding Andorans against the rebel Aes Sedai and later came to further agreements with the Andorans.

  Ciar. A stocky, dark sul’dam who accompanied Semirhage when she posed as the Daughter of the Nine Moons and attempted to capture Rand. Ciar vomited on herself in the aftermath, having learned that they had accompanied a Forsaken, not the Daughter of the Nine Moons, and that Rand was the Dragon Reborn.

  Ciel. A serving girl at The Stag and Lion in Baerlon, Andor.

  Cieryl Arjuna. One of Careane Fransi’s Warders. He was Tairen, stood six feet tall, and seemed gangly and all bones, though his shoulders were wide. He was in his late twenties. He was not a Darkfriend. Cieryl was killed while trying to rescue Careane from Lady Shiaine’s house on Full Moon Street.

  Cilia Cole. An Emond’s Field girl. She was born in the fall of 979 NE. Cilia was pink-cheeked, big-eyed and pleasingly plump. She was the first girl that Perrin ever kissed. She insisted that Verin and Alanna test her, and she passed, but they wouldn’t take her because she was too old. She eventually became a novice after learning that the novice book had been opened to all.

  Cinchonine, Mistress. Innkeeper at The Crown of Roses in Caemlyn. The embassy from the rebel Aes Sedai wishing to meet with Rand stayed at the inn and met with Alanna and Verin there.

  Cinda. A serving girl at The Stag and Lion in Baerlon, Andor.

  Cindaking. A Sea Folk island south of Mayene off the Tairen/Mayener peninsulas in the Sea of Storms.

  Cindal, Rafela. See Rafela Cindal

  Cinny Wade. A woman featured in a haunting song performed by Thom, “The Marriage of Cinny Wade.” Mat learned it as “Always Choose the Right Horse,” though that version had a faster tempo than Thom’s.

  Circle, the Great. A huge gathering place in Tanchico that could hold thousands to watch horse races or displays of fireworks. It was located on the Calpene, the westernmost hilly peninsula on Tanchico Bay.