The Wheel of Time Companion

by Robert Jordan

  dragons. The name Aludra gave to her powerful new weapons capable of firing explosive shells over long distances, causing extensive damage to the enemy. The dragons were used to great effect in the Last Battle.

  dragons’ eggs. The name given to the round explosive shells fired by dragons.

  Dragonsworn. A term used for those sworn to the Dragon Reborn. These groups began appearing after the battle at Falme. They were at first disparate groups, even small armies, that formed in many countries, sometimes confronting local military forces. Many of these groups were sincere, and joined in fighting enemies of the Dragon Reborn; others were made up of brigands, who terrorized local populations. Their reputation was further soiled by Whitecloak intervention—Carridin created bands of Dragonsworn composed of a few incognito Whitecloaks at the core, with ruffians filling their ranks, which committed many atrocities. The Dragonsworn became associated with the Prophet Masema, who at the height of his movement had gathered ten to twelve thousand in Ghealdan, virtually taking over that country. After Masema agreed to help Perrin, most of these Dragonsworn were killed during Perrin’s campaign against the Shaido at Malden.

  Dragonwall. A north-south-oriented mountain range separating the Aiel Waste from the populated lands to the west.

  Drapaneos, Kiril. See Kiril Drapaneos

  Dreadbane. A Borderlander title for one who slayed a Myrddraal.

  Dreadlords. Those men and women who, able to channel the One Power, went over to the Shadow during the Trolloc Wars, acting as generals over armies of Trollocs, Myrddraal and Darkfriends. They were occasionally confused with the Forsaken by the less well-educated.

  Dreamer. A person with the Talent to foretell events by having and interpreting true dreams; some were able to enter Tel’aran’rhiod. According to the Wise Ones, dream interpretation was not straightforward; dreams told only one possible future, usually the most likely future. Dreams were often conveyed in images, allegories, or puns; consequently, the Dreamer needed training in interpreting the Dream. See also Talents

  dreamshard. A world created by a powerful Dreamer or dreamwalker, distinct from Tel’aran’rhiod.

  dreamspike. A ter’angreal that prevented Traveling.

  dreamwalker. The Aiel term for one able to enter Tel’aran’rhiod; a verb, to dreamwalk, was also used. Aes Sedai sometimes used the term to refer to Dreamers, but rarely. Channeling was not necessary to dreamwalk. Aiel Wise Ones were especially good at dreamwalking, even though it was rare among them, because their survival had depended on it—when they needed to find water or find a new hold in the Waste, they used need, a technique to find what was vital or required while in Tel’aran’rhiod for that purpose. Before Egwene, there had not been a dreamwalker in the White Tower in a thousand years, according to Moiraine, or five hundred years, according to Bair. In dreamwalking, the dreamwalker entered Tel’aran’rhiod fully; whatever happened there to the dreamwalker was sustained in the waking world as well, including death.

  Dromand, Nuhel. See Nuhel Dromand

  Drowned Lands. A huge, treacherous saltwater swamp between the Dragonwall and Mayene. This miasmal landscape, choked with foliage and grasses, supported a multitude of fauna, including many dangerous creatures such as the dreaded hooded vipers.

  Duadhe Mahdi’in. An Aiel warrior society; the name was Old Tongue for “Water Seekers.”

  Dubaris, Meashan. A member of the Domani Council of Merchants. She was killed by a mob.

  duckberry. A plant whose fruit was bitter or sour when ripe.

  Duhara Basaheen. A Domani Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah publicly and of the Black Ajah in truth. Of the loyalist contingent, she had a strength level of 23(11). Born in 764 NE, she went to the White Tower in 779 NE. After spending twelve years as a novice and nine years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 800 NE and raised Sitter in 929 NE, serving until 953 NE. Duhara was Keeper of the Chronicles for Sierin Vayu from 979 to 984 NE, and was raised Sitter again in 999 NE to replace Teslyn Baradon.

  She was 5'7½" tall, and slim, with coppery skin, large dark eyes and a long slender neck. She moved gracefully, but stood almost rigidly straight. She looked at everyone as if she were wondering what wrongdoing they had been up to. Basically she was meaner than a snake, though only her mouth gave any outward hint. During the execution portion of the male channeler pogrom, she participated eagerly. Her involvement was discovered, and she received a stiff penance. There was speculation that she might have been involved in Sierin Vayu’s death, but she was unlikely to have been involved, despite being Red, as the Black had been called off the pogrom in 983 NE when Ishamael came into the world again. She stood to depose Siuan, one of only eleven needed to give the greater consensus under the circumstances. Elaida thought Duhara was firmly in her pocket, but Duhara chafed. Elaida sent her to Caemlyn in 1000 NE to act as an advisor to Elayne while she was seeking the throne; Elayne did not cooperate. Duhara was coopted by Graendal and killed by Aviendha in the Last Battle.

  Dulain, Lord. A young Murandian nobleman who the Tower thought could truly unify Murandy, which caused the Amyrlin Siuan to make Gareth Bryne back down over border raids. He was killed by an Andoran sheepfarmer who put an arrow through him on a sheep raid.

  Dumai’s Wells. A watering hole more than halfway from Cairhien to Tar Valon, four days from Alianelle Spring. The oasis consisted of three stone wells in a small copse. It was the site of a battle after Aes Sedai had kidnapped Rand. A large contingent of Shaido Aiel attacked the Aes Sedai in an attempt to acquire Rand themselves, but Perrin’s rescue forces joined by Asha’man arrived on the scene and won the day; however, there was great loss of life.

  Dumera Alman. An Aes Sedai who lived at the time of the formation of the White Tower.

  Dunsinin. The legendary female lover of Rogosh Eagle-eye.

  dur Ahmid, Toma. The man who developed the Toman Calendar after the Breaking.

  Dura, Tervail. See Tervail Dura

  Duram Laddel Cham. Be’lal’s name during the Age of Legends.

  Duranda Tharne. The innkeeper at The Good Night’s Ride in Lugard, and an agent of the Blue Ajah. She was a tall, heavyset woman with dark eyes, a thrusting chin and a hard mouth; she wore tight silk dresses, and had a brassy personality. Her curls were a shade of red that nature never made. She had already been a Blue agent when Siuan took over the network, and had married daughters she thought were older than Siuan, whom she did not recognize. Duranda referred to Siuan as an old buzzard. When Siuan approached her, she embarrassed Siuan but gave her the code name “Sallie Daera.” She told Siuan to tell Aeldene that she was still loyal.

  Durnham. A member of the King’s Guard in Bandar Eban who became a beggar. Under the influence of the Dragon Reborn, he pulled himself together and was named commander of the city under its steward, Lord Iralin.

  Durhem. A cavalry leader in Ituralde’s forces in Saldaea.

  Durrent. An officer in the Younglings who became a Warder after the reunion of the Tower.

  Duster. Tylee Khirgan’s horse.

  Dusty Wheel, The. An inn in Caemlyn where the windows were always dirty. Hatch was its innkeeper. It was also known as the Rumor Wheel because it was the best place in Caemlyn to listen to gossip. Most of the rumors were untrue, but its patrons enjoyed discussing them.

  Dyelin Taravin. High Seat of House Taravin in Andor; her House symbol was the Owl and Oak. She was about 5'6" tall, with golden hair going gray and blue eyes. Dyelin was Morgase’s cousin and her nearest female relative aside from Elayne; had Morgase and Elayne both died without issue, Dyelin would have been next in line for the Lion Throne. Some people thought that she should take the throne after Morgase was presumed dead, because they worried about Elayne being Aes Sedai or because they disliked Morgase. Dyelin refused to accept prodding that she should take the throne. She and three other nobles—Pendar, Ellorien and Luan—met with Rand, when Rand told them he wanted Elayne on the Andoran throne. After Elayne returned to Caemlyn, Dyelin was a staunch supporter of Elayne’
s claim to the throne, going so far as to meet with many of the noble Houses of Andor to gain their support for Elayne, and publishing her support for her cousin. Dyelin was severely wounded protecting Elayne when Elayne was fed forkroot tea and attacked in the Royal Palace, requiring Healing from Nynaeve. Dyelin and Birgitte did not get on well, but they were still able to work together on Elayne’s behalf. Dyelin personally led a force of troops against Arymilla’s forces who were attacking Caemlyn. She was part of Elayne’s army in the Last Battle.

  Dyfelle, Alind. See Alind Dyfelle

  Dyrele. The wife of Maeric, sept chief of the Moshaine Shaido. Her eyes were green. After the Moshaine used Sammael’s nar’baha and found enemy clans coming at them, Maeric told her to prepare to put on the white. She was taken gai’shain by one of the septs that crossed the Plains of Maredo to Illian.

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  Eadwin. Verin’s sweetheart before she went to the White Tower.

  Eadwin Deosin. A Murandian man who was on Moiraine’s list as the father of a possible Dragon Reborn. His wife was Saera.

  Eadwina. Verin’s nom de guerre in Far Madding.

  Each Castle. A biography that Min studied.

  Eadyth. An Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah. She served as a Sitter for the Blue and First Selector when Moiraine and Siuan were raised to the shawl.

  Eagan Padros. An Illianer who led a group of soldiers following Lord Brend. He had a long runny nose, a narrow face and dark eyes, but was brighter than he looked. When told he and his men must lay down their arms or join Rand, he chose to join Rand. He later tried to kill Rand with a crossbow, and was in turn killed by Asha’man.

  Eagle’s Reach. A fort in Coremanda, in the Splintered Hills. Doreille was thought to have written many of her best poems there.

  Ealsin. Perrin’s unmarried great aunt. She had a sharp nose and sharper eye for discovering what everyone around her was up to. She was killed by Fain, along with much of the rest of the Aybara family.

  Eamon Valda. A high-ranking officer of the Children of the Light. He was a blademaster. His primary goal was self-aggrandizement, though he professed to be—and perhaps believed he was—a model Child of the Light. He hated Aes Sedai, considering them all Darkfriends or dupes of Darkfriends, and in his book, a dupe was just as guilty as anyone else. If he had had his way, he would have killed every Aes Sedai, razed Tar Valon and the Tower and salted the ground to remind people of the horror that had been there. He commanded Whitecloaks in the vicinity of Tar Valon, then brought soldiers back to Amador at Niall’s order. There he entered into a conspiracy with Rhadam Asunawa, the High Inquisitor, which resulted in the assassination of Niall by Abdel Omerna and Omerna’s death at Valda’s hands. Valda became Lord Captain Commander and faced down Asunawa over Morgase; Asunawa supported someone else for Lord Captain Commander until Valda revealed that other Lords Captain in the Fortress of Light supported him personally—since he had brought half a legion inside the Fortress walls. He allowed Asunawa to have Morgase for Questioning. After a time, he offered Morgase to make it stop if she slept with him, which she did. He rode out to take on the Prophet the day before the Seanchan invaded Amador. Valda eventually took what he considered a pragmatic view of the Seanchan. At first he fought them as invaders, but their far greater numbers and their use of damane in battle made them very hard to match. They were humans, not Trollocs, and no more likely to be Darkfriends than anyone else. Most important of all, in a way, they collared women who could channel; that wasn’t quite as good as killing them, but then again, using them—making them pay for their sins while alive, in a way—was perhaps even better. Valda didn’t find it that hard to convince himself to make an agreement. He was killed in a duel with Galad after Galad challenged Valda over his treatment of Morgase.

  Earth. One of the Five Powers. See Five Powers

  Earth Singing. The Talent of controlling movements of the earth. It could be used to cause or prevent earthquakes or avalanches, among other things.

  Earwin. A soldier of the Children of the Light. He was a big man with gray eyes and a long mustache. Bornhald commanded him and then sent him to the Questioners. He, Wuan and Questioners attacked a village on Almoth Plain and hanged thirty people, some of them children.

  Easar Togita. The King of Shienar and High Seat of House Togita. His sign was a white hart. His nickname was “the Lion of Kabila,” for a battle he won against Trollocs at very heavy odds. He was born in 940 NE and married in 960 NE; his wife died in 989 NE. He was said by many to still be grieving her death many years later. Easar wrote poetry for her, though he hardly looked a poet. He had sons old enough by Borderland standards to ride to war with him; they accompanied him to Tarwin’s Gap in 998 NE, when Easar won over Shadowspawn with Rand’s aid. He was about 5'7" tall, and slim, with a square, unwrinkled face and a shaved scalp except for a white topknot. He was a fine soldier, wise ruler and skilled diplomat. Easar, Ethenielle, Paitar and Tenobia joined together and left the Borderlands seeking Rand. They met with Elayne in Braem Wood. When Rand met with the Borderlanders at Far Madding, Easar backhanded Rand hard enough to draw blood while trying to determine if Rand fulfilled the prophecy from Paitar’s ancestor; Rand stumbled, but did not strike back, as the prophecy had indicated. He swore fealty to Rand in exchange for his Aes Sedai being taught Traveling so that he could fight in the Last Battle. He did so, alongside Lan at Tarwin’s Gap.

  Easing the Badger. An inn located in Illian. Its innkeeper, Nieda Moroso, was one of Moiraine’s eyes-and-ears. This was a lower-class establishment, suited to sailors and dockworkers, built of green-veined stone and having a green tile roof. A dangerous offer was made to Bayle Domon at the inn, in fact a plot to have him killed. When Moiraine, Lan, Perrin, Loial and Faile stayed there, awaiting boat passage to Tear to intercept Rand, six Gray Men attacked Perrin. He and his group killed them and fled on horseback, pursued by Darkhounds. Moiraine learned there that Sammael was in Illian.

  Eastern Sea. One of the Seanchan names for the Aryth Ocean.

  Eastern Marches. The territory along the Spine of the World.

  Eastpoint Lighttower. A tower located on the eastern part of the bay in Ebou Dar. It had beacons to guide ships entering the bay.

  Eawynd, King. The ruler of Safer at the signing of the Compact of the Ten Nations.

  Eazil Forney. A bleary-eyed Andoran farmer who had drunk too much to drive his cart home from the inn in Arien to his farm the night before, and was thus available to give Mat and Rand a ride out of town the morning after they had performed at the inn.

  Eban Vandes. The author of The History of the Stone of Tear. Rand learned about the Stone by reading this book.

  Eben Hopwil. An Andoran Dedicated, later raised to Asha’man by Rand. He was born in 984 NE; he claimed to be twenty when he first appeared at the Black Tower, but he was really four or five years younger. Eben was skinny when he arrived, but later filled out considerably. The blotches on his face lessened as time passed, but his nose and ears were markedly on the large side, and he was still far from stocky. He was about 5'9" tall. Among the first to come at Rand’s call for men who wanted to learn to channel, he was chosen to accompany Rand after Dumai’s Wells. Eben was not part of the attack on Illian; he stayed with the army, fighting at the hillforts. Eben was sent to scout around Amador after Rand heard reports of the Seanchan from Lord Gregorin via Illianer merchants; there he encountered a Seanchan patrol with a damane and sul’dam. He had to kill the patrol, later burning to ash their bodies, the horses, everything, with the Power. After that, he spent a lot of time staring “at something beyond the horizon” and looked at people without blinking, sometimes seeming to look through them, all of which Rand at first thought was because he had had to kill two women. Eben accompanied Rand when he went to talk to the large group of men from Sammael’s former army. After the attack on Rand in Cairhien, Eben was uncertain of returning safely to the Black Tower and remained in Cairhien, where Daigian Moseneillin, one of Cadsuane’s Aes Sedai, persuaded him to be bo
nded a Warder. Taim placed him on the deserters list. Eben died at Shadar Logoth at the age of sixteen, fighting Aran’gar.

  Ebou Dar. The capital of Altara. It lay on the southern coast of Altara at the mouth of the River Eldar. In earlier times, it was the site of the city of Barashta. Most of the buildings in Ebou Dar were white; some were banded with strips of color, but white prevailed.

  The Tarasin Palace, east of the Eldar, was the seat of the King or Queen of Altara and the home of the Throne of the Winds. Mol Hara Square, in front of the palace, held a statue of Nariene, a long-dead queen.

  The Rahad, the roughest section of Ebou Dar, lay on the far side of the River Eldar from Ebou Dar proper. It was dangerous enough that the Civil Guard stepped lightly there. Even an Aes Sedai could have a knife in her back there before she knew it, from someone wanting to steal her fine clothes, although if the clothes were fine, a very narrow blade was used so there would be little blood. The Rahad residents didn’t always kill the one they robbed. The victim could wake up in an alley or on a heap of refuse, stark naked, since even stockings and smallclothes had some value. Buildings in the Rahad were made of brick and rose five or six stories high. They were crowded together and covered patchily with flaking white plaster.

  There were lighttowers on each side of the bay to assist ships in navigation.

  On the south side of the city lay the Moldine Gate; other gates included the Three Towers Gate and the Dal Eira Gate. The Circuit of Heaven racetrack lay north of the city, the Cordese Hills lay to the west and the Rhannon Hills to the southeast.

  Ebou Dar, like Illian, had many canals. Here the bridges were ornate with buildings on them and statues at the ends, at least in the better parts of the city. The canals in the city proper, on the west bank of the river, were heavily used for barge traffic. Those on the east side of the river, in the Rahad, were largely silted up and unusable.