The Wheel of Time Companion

by Robert Jordan

  Karldin Manfor. An Andoran Asha’man. Born in 981 NE, he was one of the early Asha’man, a pale-haired youth with blue-gray eyes, present on Rand’s second visit to the farm. After Dumai’s Wells, he was chosen to accompany Rand. Karldin and Loial visited many of the stedding to ensure that guards were posted at the Waygates; after he returned to Cairhien, he used the name Underhill. When he Traveled with Logain and Bashere to Algarin’s manor, Rand raised him to full Asha’man. Karldin and Bashere met with the High Lady Suroth to try to arrange a meeting between Rand and the Daughter of the Nine Moons. Beldeine Nyram bonded him, and they accompanied Rand to the meeting with the false Tuon. Karldin and Beldeine were killed in the Last Battle; he collapsed from exhaustion and Sharans stabbed him.

  Karm. Tylee Khirgan’s longtime quartermaster. He was a solid man who made very few mistakes.

  Kash. An Asha’man in Taim’s faction. He joined shortly before the Last Battle, quickly became very strong and was promoted to full Asha’man. He fought for the Shadow in the Last Battle; he was trapped in a stedding by Androl near the end of it.

  Kashgar. A Saldaean under-lieutenant of the Children of the Light. He appeared almost boyish despite a great hooked nose and thick mustaches like inverted horns. He reluctantly held Valda’s helmet and sword belt before Valda’s duel with Galad. After the duel, he cleaned Valda’s sword and presented it to Galad.

  Kasi. A woman who was a kitchen helper in the Sun Palace in Cairhien. She was present when Loial and Karldin arrived there after visiting many stedding.

  Katar. A city-state just across the southern border of Arad Doman. It traditionally gave fealty to the rulers of Arad Doman. Ituralde, thinking of his past military victories, thought about the fact that he had taught the Lords of Katar not to sell products of their mines and forges to the enemies of Arad Doman. Katar was proposed by Rand as a meeting place with the Seanchan; they refused.

  Kateri Nepvue. An Aes Sedai of the White Ajah. A prodigious reader, she refused to heed the Amyrlin’s advice to stay alert and not go about alone; she was killed by a Bloodknife in a small reading room of the White Tower.

  Katerin. A golden-haired Maiden of the Spear who guarded Rand’s tent the night before the meeting at the Field of Merrilor.

  Katerine Alruddin. An Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah publicly and of the Black Ajah in truth. Of the loyalist contingent, her strength level was 15(3). Born in 950 NE, she went to the White Tower in 967 NE. After spending eight years as a novice and seven as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 982 NE and joined the Black Ajah in 987 NE. About 5'6" tall, she was sharp-faced, with wavy black hair that hung below her waist. Katerine was part of the expedition to kidnap Rand and bring him to Tar Valon; she was captured at Dumai’s Wells. She escaped with the aid of Darkfriends among the Aiel before she could be questioned by Verin, and made her way back to the Tower. She got to the White Tower after the arrival of the rebel army, bringing news of Dumai’s Wells and events in Cairhien, but not of the oaths made by the other captives to Rand, as she escaped before any were given. A short time later, she was named Mistress of Novices. She left the Tower with the Black Ajah, and was killed by Egwene in Tel’aran’rhiod while disguised as Mesaana.

  Kathana. The innkeeper of The Yearly Brawl in Ebou Dar. She was married to Jame, a Seanchan. She was short with dark hair, fair skin and a motherly air. Mat thought she would lecture a tree for growing in the wrong spot.

  Kati. A serving girl at The Dusty Wheel in Caemlyn. Beautiful, with raven hair and a wide smile, she flirted with Mat even though he had told her he was married.

  Katrine do Catalan a’Coralle. The first queen of Murandy. Meri do Ahlan a’Conlin, a woman Moiraine met when collecting the names of babies born near Dragonmount, claimed to be Katrine’s direct descendant.

  Kavarthen Wars. Wars that occurred while Balladare Arandaille was Amyrlin, following the reign of Artur Hawkwing.

  Kayacun. A town in Saldaea where Aldragoran, a gem merchant originally from Malkier, was selling gems when Nynaeve arrived to spread the news that Lan was riding to Tarwin’s Gap.

  Kayama, Nacelle. See Nacelle Kayama

  Kayen Yokata. The Lord of Fal Eisen, Shienar. A sharp-faced man with a harsh voice, he directed Elayne, Aviendha and Birgitte to the place in camp where they were meeting with the Borderlanders in Braem Wood.

  Kayenzi, Shivena. A Saldaean philosopher who was influenced by Willim of Manaches. Meilyn tested Moiraine on her knowledge of the two when she was Accepted.

  Kaylin. A maid with the Salidar Aes Sedai. Chesa thought that she and Nildra were terrible gossips and would say mean things when someone’s back was turned.

  Kazadi, Tenobia si Bashere. See Tenobia si Bashere Kazadi

  Kazin. A Saldaean stableman at the Gates of Heaven in Canluum. Skinny with a hooked nose and tilted eyes, he fetched Arrow for Moiraine, and she tipped him a silver penny, even though she heard him say that only a fool noble would ride out at such an early hour.

  Keatlin. An Altaran novice with the rebels in Salidar, where she was recruited, with a potential strength level of 25(13). Born in 973 NE, she was older than Nynaeve, and did not like being ordered about by a mere girl like Elayne.

  Keemlin Rai. The son of Malenarin Rai, the commander of Heeth Tower on the Blightborder. He was a few days short of his fourteenth nameday when Trollocs attacked Heeth Tower; Keemlin was at the top of the list of those to be sent as messengers to the capital. Because Tian’s mother had already lost four sons, Keemlin let Tian go in his place. His father raised him to a man on the spot, and they fought the Trollocs and died.

  Keene, Mistress. The innkeeper at The Counsel’s Head in Far Madding. She wore her white hair in a tight bun and had a pointed chin. She was suspicious and disapproving of men and did not try to hide it; each room was furnished with a strap so that women could keep their husbands in line. Still, the accommodations were comfortable and the food good. Mistress Keene delivered to Min a letter that was addressed to Rand, and warned Min that she should watch her friends since her husband was so pretty.

  Keeper of the Chronicles. A slightly less formal usage was “the Keeper.” 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. The Keeper bowed to the Amyrlin Seat rather than curtsying.

  While the Keeper traditionally was chosen by the Amyrlin (although this was not a matter of law, only very strong custom), she was confirmed by the Hall, much as in the election of an Amyrlin, and she could be removed only by the Hall. As with removing the Amyrlin Seat, removing the Keeper required the greater consensus, and the Ajah from which she had been raised would have been excluded from a vote on removing her.

  She was also traditionally raised from the same Ajah as the Amyrlin, but this was not required by Tower law. All history was deeply buried in Tower records, but Keepers from Ajahs that differed from their Amyrlins’ were 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.

  The Keeper was a part of ceremony in the Hall, in that she announced the Amyrlin’s imminent arrival and made the call for consensus among other things, but she took no part in discussion in the Hall and could not enter the Hall without the Amyrlin Seat.

  Keeping. A weave that preserved things. It could be laid on food, flowers or just about anything. It adhered closely to the surface of whatever it was laid on, preserving it as if time did not pass inside the weave. Whether time stopped within the weave or simply slowed down was a matter of some argument. Laying a Keeping on anything that breathed would kill it, though; the Keeping would preserve the subject perfectly, but dead. It was one of Egwene’s “discoveries,” courtesy
of Moghedien.

  Keilar. A young gate guard in Maderin, Altara, who was about Mat’s age. He was obviously a farmer although he was wearing coin armor. When Thom asked why there were so many guards at Maderin, he told Thom that the Seanchan had said that there weren’t enough and Lord Nathin listened to the Seanchan; his companion guard clouted him for that and threatened to have him back behind a plow.

  Keilin. A bold man in a song sung at The White Ring in Maderin.

  Keille Shaogi. A persona Lanfear used when she traveled with Hadnan Kadere. In this guise she was a foot shorter than Kadere and immensely fat, with dark eyes buried in rolls of fat and a hatchet nose that dwarfed Kadere’s. She wore a white lace shawl held above her head on elaborate ivory combs thrust into long, coarse black hair. Her voice was extremely beautiful and melodious. She moved with incongruous lightness, almost like one of the Maidens. See also Lanfear

  Kelwin Janevor. An Andoran man who was High Seat of his House. A vinegary old man, he was loyal to Elayne and brought ten armsmen to her service.

  Kely Huldin. An Andoran weaver who was one of the first to be tested for Asha’man at the farm. Lumpy and dark-haired, he did not have the ability to learn to channel. He was hangdog about it, but his wife was happy.

  Kema. A Kinswoman who was part of Elayne’s contingent at her Cairhienin coronation. She was dark-skinned and wore her black hair in three long braids.

  Kemali. A city in the Age of Legends.

  Kendral. A prince of Arafel who was the grandson of King Paitar. He and his armies joined Lan as he rode for Tarwin’s Gap, and he invited Kaisel to come along.

  Kenley Ahan. A young Two Rivers man who joined Perrin’s band and was killed in an ambush by Trollocs.

  Kenly Maerin. A young Two Rivers man who followed Perrin to Dumai’s Wells. Short and stocky, he was barely old enough to marry or leave home; he tried to grow a beard like Perrin’s. He had fought Trollocs in Emond’s Field and did well on the battlefield. Praise from Perrin made him grin broadly. After Perrin supposedly slept with Berelain, he shaved off his beard, but had begun growing it back by the time he went into Malden through the aqueduct in the battle against the Shaido. He continued as part of Perrin’s army, and fought in the Last Battle.

  Kennar Miraj. A Seanchan Captain-General of the Ever Victorious Army, and of the Blood. He was a scout lieutenant and a morat’raken before being raised to the Blood for riding fifty miles in a night to warn the Empress of an approaching rebel army; he was too low to shave the sides of his head and was only allowed to lacquer the nails of his little fingers. Suroth ordered him to wipe the Asha’man off the face of the earth. He was killed in the battle against Rand when Rand went wild with Callandor.

  Kennit. Eldrith’s Warder. He was not a Darkfriend, and intended to kill her when he found her despite the cost to himself. Eldrith failed to keep her bond masked, and he tracked her down in Ghealdan and tried to kill her there; she didn’t want him killed, given the potential effect on her, so she and her companions fled.

  Kera Haellin. A Tairen of noble birth, an Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah and the loyalist contingent. She had the blue eyes and fair hair that occasionally showed up among Tairens. Kera had all the arrogance common to Greens. She curtsied to Alviarin, though it was not required to the Keeper; it made her grind her teeth. As much as she hated it, she tried to curry a little favor with Alviarin; Elaida seemed to strike without warning, where least expected, and Kera thought Alviarin might offer some protection.

  Keraille Surtovni. A Kinswoman who appeared to be Saldaean. Her strength level was 49(37), not strong enough for her to test for Aes Sedai, and not strong enough for her to make a gateway of any size whatsoever. Short and slim, with tilted green eyes and fiery red curls, she left Ebou Dar the day after the Feast of the Half Moon with Derys, and went to the Kin’s farm. She was among the women who went to Caemlyn with Elayne; there she worked some with the captured damane. Birgitte sent Keraille and Julanya to keep an eye on the six strong Houses; they reported when Ellorien, Luan and Abelle broke camp, and returned to those camps posing as laundresses.

  Kerb. A Domani youth who worked as a chandler’s apprentice. Under Graendal’s Compulsion, he killed the messenger she sent to Bandar Eban with a pretense of being from Alsalam, after Milisair Chadmar had him sent to a dungeon to be put to the question. Nynaeve found him out, and at Rand’s request removed the Compulsion; he died, but only after revealing that Graendal was at Natrin’s Barrow.

  Kerene Nagashi. An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah with a strength level of 11(+2). She was born in 793 NE. Her short dark hair was lightly touched with white and her eyes were nearly black. She was reputed to adhere to the strictest letter of the law no matter what her own feelings were, whether pity or contempt. Her Warders were Stepin and Karile. It was generally considered that she would be the next Amyrlin Seat after Sierin Vayu, though such talk made Kerene nervous and infuriated Sierin. Kerene was one of those called in by Tamra Ospenya and sent out in secret to search for the boychild Dragon Reborn. She reportedly fell off a ship in the River Alguenya during a storm and drowned; in truth, she was killed by the Black Ajah.

  Kerenmosa, Rashima. See Rashima Kerenmosa

  Kerevon, Reiko. See Reiko Kerevon

  Kert Wagoner. A man from the Two Rivers who fought in the Last Battle. At the Field of Merrilor, he spoke to Rand about how bad things looked; Rand reassured him.

  kesiera. A small jewel on a fine chain like a necklace, worn with the chain fastened in a woman’s hair so that the chain made a V on her forehead supporting the jewel centered above her eyebrows. It was a Cairhienin ornament, slightly old-fashioned and not much worn by the time of the Last Battle, though a few did.

  Kev Barstere. A Two Rivers man who went with Tam and joined Perrin’s army at Malden. Perrin noted that he must have gotten out from under his mother’s thumb since he was there.

  Kevlyn Torr. A Two Rivers man with Perrin. He told Perrin of the stand of trees that had mysteriously died and dried in one night. Perrin told him to harvest them for firewood.

  Kevrim al’Azar. An elderly Two Rivers man. Even though he was so old that his grandsons had grown sons, he participated in the defense of Emond’s Field.

  Kharendor. A nation that arose after the Trolloc Wars.

  Khirgan, Tylee. See Tylee Khirgan

  Khodomar. A nation that arose after the Trolloc Wars.

  Khoweal. A city or region in Seanchan whose denizens’ complexions were coal black. Miraj thought of it as among the named, honored regiments from different parts of Seanchan that were represented among his troops.

  ki’sain. A small mark, a dot, which an adult Malkieri woman painted on her forehead each morning in pledge that she would swear or had sworn her sons to fight the Shadow. This pledge was not necessarily that they would be warriors, but that they would oppose the Shadow every day in every way that they could. Like the hadori, the ki’sain was considered a symbol of connection to Malkier, and of the bonds that united a woman with other Malkieri. Also like the hadori, the ki’sain was a sign of adulthood. The ki’sain gave information about the woman who wore it: A blue mark was worn by a woman who had not married, a red mark by a married woman, and a white mark by a widow. In death, she would be marked with all three, one of each color, whether she had ever married or not. See also hadori

  Kiam Lopiang. An Aes Sedai who lived at the time of the formation of the White Tower.

  Kidron, The Victory of. The three-masted greatship with ribbed sails that brought Tuon from Seanchan to Ebou Dar. Its captain was a woman named Tehan.

  Kiem Lewin. A girl in the Two Rivers whom Mat in his youth had tried to save from drowning, although she really hadn’t been drowning.

  Kigali. An alternate name for the nation of Shara.

  Kigarin, Alliandre Maritha. See Alliandre Maritha Kigarin

  Killers of the Black Veil, The. A flawed book about the Aiel by Soran Milo that Rand read before going to the Waste.

  Kimry Lewin. A young woman fr
om Emond’s Field. Nynaeve caught her with Bar Dowtry in his father’s hayloft; both were punished severely, and a month later were married. It was said that neither could sit for a week after the wedding.

  Kimtin. The man who taught Tam to summon the flame and the void.

  Kin. A secret organization that harbored women put out of the White Tower and runaways from it. Its ruling body was called the Knitting Circle, and a member of the Kin was called a Kinswoman. There were a total of 1,783 women on the books of the Kin when they were first encountered by Elayne and Nynaeve.

  The Kin began by chance during the chaos of the Trolloc Wars. A group of women who had been put out of the White Tower (for the Tower maintained its standards even then) remained together for safety, going to the city which would one day become Ebou Dar. What began as a temporary measure very soon turned into a permanent organization.

  Rank among the Kin had nothing to do with strength in the Power; it was based solely on age. The Kin adopted what they believed was an Aes Sedai system of rules and justice (aside from those rules dealing with keeping themselves secret), but since they had knowledge of Aes Sedai ways only from the vantage points of novices or, less often, Accepted, their rules and punishments were much more in accord with those set for novices and Accepted. They were very strict as to behavior in almost every circumstance, few if any excuses were accepted and punishments were the sort that novices and Accepted might have expected—which is to say very high in labor and physical chastisement.

  The prime rules were: 1) All Kinswomen were subject to the Rule, even the Eldest. 2) All Kinswomen would obey any order of the Eldest, and those of the Knitting Circle. 3) The existence of the Kin had to be kept secret from anyone who was not a Kinswoman. 4) It was forbidden to claim to be Aes Sedai, or to do anything whatsoever, under any circumstances, that might lead anyone to believe that one was Aes Sedai. 5) It was forbidden to attempt to learn more of the use of the One Power or to try to increase one’s skills, abilities or Talents beyond where those things stood when one left the White Tower. 6) It was forbidden to use the One Power except in certain carefully specified instances, or at great need. Anyone using the Power in an instance other than those specified was brought before a court and could receive severe punishment. 7) It was forbidden for anyone save the Knitting Circle or those named by the Knitting Circle to attempt to recruit any woman, or for anyone at all to attempt to recruit any woman who could channel except those who had been put out of the White Tower or had run away.