The Wheel of Time Companion

by Robert Jordan

  Lydel Elonid. A woman in Ebou Dar who purchased The Wandering Woman from Setalle Anan. Many Seanchan officers stayed there, but the standards went down after she took over the inn.

  Lyncon. A Cairhienin master carpenter taken gai’shain by the Shaido. After he was freed, he still looked as though the will had been beaten out of him. Perrin didn’t trust him to do a proper inspection of wagon wheels, but thought that he would fix a problem when it was pointed out to him.

  Lyndel, Larissa. See Larissa Lyndel

  Lyndelle. The ninth queen of Andor. The daughter of Morrigan, she ascended the throne in approximately FY 1114 and reigned for fifty-one years. She was credited as one of the Queens that held the nation together during the War of the Hundred Years. The generally accepted date for the end of the war was FY 1117, though it could have been as early as FY 1115 or as late as FY 1119 (records vary), so the major portion of Lyndelle’s reign occurred after the end of the war.

  Lyonford. A former king of Saldaea who could not keep his temper. Faile used him as an example to Perrin when she was arguing that no leader was perfect.

  Lyrelle Arienwin. A Cairhienin Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 24(12). Born in 833 NE, she went to the White Tower in 849 NE. After spending six years as a novice and four years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 859 NE and raised a Sitter for the Blue Ajah in 995. About 5'4 " tall, she had a pale complexion and large dark eyes, and somehow seemed beautiful without being at all pretty. Elegant and graceful, her movements were flowing, and it was rumored she had been a dancer before going to the White Tower. She fled the Tower with the rebels and was raised a Sitter in Salidar as well. She led a group of rebel Aes Sedai to the Black Tower to bond Asha’man Warders in keeping with Rand’s offer to let them bond forty-seven. Lyrelle was part of the group that pressured Cadsuane to become Amyrlin after the Last Battle.

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  M’Hael. Taim’s self-imposed title and later his name as a Forsaken. Old Tongue for “leader,” according to Dashiva, its true meaning was something grander. See also Mazrim Taim

  M’jinn. A great city of the Age of Legends. It was known for its changeable weather, as used in a remark by Graendal.

  Ma’combe. A so’jhin with strong arms. He told Tuon after she had returned to the Tarasin Palace in Ebou Dar that Tylee Khirgan was seeking an audience.

  Ma’vron. Old Tongue for “watchers.”

  Mabriam en Shereed. An Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah, with a strength level of 9(+4). Mabriam was Queen of Aramaelle and considered mainly responsible for forming the Compact of the Ten Nations, which was signed in 209 AB. Stories said that she was ta’veren. Merana, impressed by her memory, thought that when Kiruna and Bera first saw Cadsuane, it must have struck them the same way seeing Mabriam would be for her. Her name was sometimes rendered as “en Shareed.”

  Mabriam’s Day. A feast celebrated on the eighteenth day of Tammaz. All labor was avoided on this day; the food was cooked the day before. Young women played tricks on young men they were interested in, but doing so in such a way that it was not obvious which young woman was responsible for the trick. If a man determined who was responsible, he earned a forfeit of a kiss, or even kisses from an entire group.

  Macer, Renald. See Renald Macer

  Machan. A Warder in Salidar who saw twenty-odd men approaching Salidar and reported it to other Warders. The men in question were Bryne and his men.

  Macharan, Lord. An Andoran noble of a lesser House who was a bear of a man. He accompanied Lady Arathelle, Lord Pelivar and Lady Aemlyn with her husband Culhan to confront the rebel Aes Sedai in Murandy. One of those who had opposed Gaebril, Macharan returned to Caemlyn after Rand took it but did not pay his respects at the palace. Present at the meeting with the rebel Aes Sedai and Murandians, he was reluctant to speak to Egwene and tripped over his own boots avoiding having to talk with her.

  Machera, Elyas. See Elyas Machera

  Machin Shin. A cold wind howling with voices of death and decay that blew through the Ways where no wind should stir. Called Machin Shin, the Black Wind, by the Ogier, it haunted the Ways and fed upon unwary travelers, stealing minds and souls and leaving survivors empty husks. Possibly, since the Ways were born of tainted saidin, the Black Wind was also. Some said that it might have begun as a natural parasite that was corrupted. Others believed it was a remnant of the War of the Shadow that hid in the Ways and could not find a way out.

  Machir. A powerful Domani nobleman who was supposed to be following Ituralde. Because Alsalam’s orders sometimes went straight to the men under Ituralde instead of to him, four pitched battles occurred between different groups of Ituralde’s men, Machir among them.

  Macoll. A soldier in the Band of the Red Hand. In Mat’s battle against the Seanchan who were after Tuon, Macoll unfurled and carried the banner of the Band.

  Maconar, Caraighan. See Caraighan Maconar

  Macu. A morat’raken who died when her raken was shot down by Aes Sedai at the Kin’s farm.

  Maculhene, Sawyn. See Sawyn Maculhene

  Macura, Ronde. See Ronde Macura

  Mada. A serving woman at The Woman of Tanchico in Tar Valon. She was pretty with brown eyes. She and Saal—who Mat thought was Mada’s younger sister—took care of Thom when he stayed there, and tried to keep him from drinking too much; they did not like it when Mat bought Thom wine, but after Mat convinced Thom to go with him to Caemlyn, they were happy because it was the most alive that they had seen Thom in a long time.

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

  Maddin Todande. The nobleman who founded Altara. He claimed to be a descendant of the last Queen of Shiota, and may actually have been so. He was a strong respected ruler.

  Maddin’s Day. A festival celebrated in Ebou Dar. Named after the founder of Altara, it was celebrated two days after the Feast of Embers.

  Maddow, Slone. A wide-eared Redarm with the Band of the Red Hand. After the gholam attacked Mat’s tent and killed Lopin, Maddow told Mat that he thought Olver was with Noal.

  Madel. One of the kings in the gleeman tale “Mara and the Three Foolish Kings.” He wound up with a fish entangled in his long beard.

  Maderin. A prosperous town in Altara approximately eight days northeast of Jurador and somewhat larger. Its lord was Nathin Sarmain Vendare. Farms and olive groves reached right to the stone walls of Maderin. Tile-roofed buildings three and four stories tall, most of brick, lined the wide, stone-paved main street; shops and inns with signs that swung in the stiff breeze crowded in beside stables and rich people’s homes with large lamps above the arched doorways and humbler structures that housed poorer folk. A rougher part of town contained a maze of twisting streets, paved with rough stone blocks the size of a man’s two fists. Many of those ways were too narrow for horse carts. Luca’s show made a short stop there, right after the incident where a Shiotan village and its ghosts mysteriously disappeared. Tuon wanted to visit a “hell” there, and Mat took her to The White Ring. They were attacked on the way out of the inn, and Mat decided that they would all leave the show.

  Madic. A servant in the Tarasin Palace, one step below Laren and the final link before Laren in the chain that led Mat from entering the palace to Queen Tylin’s presence. He was a balding Darkfriend who reported to Moridin just after Elayne and the others fled the palace. Moridin, in a rage, crushed Madic with the True Power without even realizing it. After Moridin left, the gholam came and fed on Madic’s still-warm blood. The circumstances of Madic’s death were such that an Aes Sedai was sure to be blamed.

  Madmen, Land of the. See Land of the Madmen

  Madness, Time of. See Time of Madness

  Madoc Comadrin. A general from around six hundred years before Hawkwing. He was a genius of military strategy and wrote Fog and Steel, a book about soldiering from which Mat liked to quote. In one of his memories, Mat recalled meeting him after losing to him in battle.

  Madome, Juilaine. See Juilai
ne Madome

  Madresin Mandevwin. A captain with the Band of the Red Hand. Mandevwin was a stocky one-eyed man who had been with the Band since the first days in Cairhien. He earned the gray streaks in his hair in past battles against Andor and Tear. Mandevwin was to go to Trustair to find out who was distributing pictures with Mat’s likeness; he did not like it that in the story Mat made up, Mandevwin abandoned his sick aunt. In Ebou Dar, Mat used his name as a nom de guerre. Mandevwin was with Faile’s group that went to fetch the Horn of Valere from the White Tower in the Last Battle, and, as a gateway opened to return them to the Field of Merrilor, they were sent instead to the Blight. After Vanin and Harnan fled after being caught with the Horn of Valere, Mandevwin insisted that they were not Darkfriends. He was caught in flows of Air when Aravine betrayed them, and released when Olver stabbed the channeler holding him.

  Madwen. See Barin and Maglin Madwen

  Madwin. A member of the Band of the Red Hand. He and Dongal led men on the south slope of a hill near the Malvide Narrows, in an ambush against the Seanchan.

  Maecine. A king of Eharon, one of the Ten Nations to rise after the Breaking. In one of his earliest memories, Mat remembered fighting alongside him against the Aelgari some three to four hundred years before the Trolloc Wars.

  Maedin Bashere. The son of Deira and Davram Bashere. He was two years younger than his sister Faile. When Davram took Maedin to the Blightborder, Faile ran away to join the Great Hunt of the Horn.

  Maeldan, Yarin. See Yarin Maeldan

  Maenadrin. A Saldaean Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah whom Egwene saw in the hallways of the White Tower. Maenadrin and a section of the Brown Ajah quarters had been relocated to a different part of the Tower, caused by Pattern slippage, a result of the Dark One’s growing influence.

  Maeric. Chief of the Moshaine sept of the Shaido Aiel. He was also the leader of Seia Doon. He had a wife, Dyrele; a daughter, Suraile of Far Dareis Mai; and a son, Darin, of Shae’en M’taal. He hoped to be sent to Rhuidean to become the next clan chief of the Shaido. At Dumai’s Wells he wanted to maintain screens of scouts and a reserve. Maeric died or was taken prisoner and made gai’shain on the Plains of Maredo after being tricked by Sammael into going through a gateway.

  Maerin. An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah who fought in Kandor in the Last Battle. She did not travel light; Egwene slept in her large tent at one point to keep her location secret.

  Maerin, Kenly. See Kenly Maerin

  Maerion. A name Birgitte was known by in a past life; she used that name while traveling with and performing in Luca’s circus.

  Maerone. A village in Cairhien across the River Erinin from Aringill, Andor. Small, dusty and unwalled, it was full of refugees and soldiers. Most of its brick and stone buildings were single-storied, with a variety of roofs; the streets were dirt and refugee camps ringed the town. Mat’s Band of the Red Hand stayed there for a time, and Mat saved Olver from a beating. Daved Hanlon impregnated an ironmonger’s daughter from Maerone, and killed her before she could tell anyone.

  Mafal Dadaranell. The Ogier-built capital city of Aramaelle, one of the Ten Nations after the Breaking. It had grand towers, graceful arching buildings and intricate palaces joined by wide avenues. During the Trolloc Wars, it was destroyed; survivors rebuilt it, but since Ogier stonemasons were not available, they built it solid and simple; that later city was known as Fal Dara.

  Magami. A term meaning “little uncle”; it was what Lady Amalisa called King Easar in private.

  Magde Aybara. A Two Rivers woman who was married to Eward Aybara and was Perrin’s aunt. She was stout and looked like her husband. She, along with the rest of the family, was murdered by Padan Fain, although it was believed that Trollocs killed them.

  Mageen. Old Tongue for “Daisy,” and the name of the dun mare ridden by Aviendha in Caemlyn.

  Magla Daronos. An Illianer Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 29(8). Born in 839 NE, she went to the White Tower in 854 NE. After spending seven years as a novice and seven years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 869 NE. Her Warder was Rorik. Magla had broad shoulders and was well muscled, as if she could have worked at a blacksmith’s forge, but she was not fat or unshapely. Her personality went with her body type: direct and forceful, sometimes overpowering. She was raised a Sitter for the Yellow in 985; in 999 NE Suana Dragand ordered her to join the rebellion to control and defuse events. Magla had a difficult time going against Romanda in any way, but since following Romanda helped to counter Lelaine and usually resulted in stalemate, she did not try very hard. Magla believed the stories concerning Logain and the Red Ajah. She was against any alliance with the Black Tower and worked to delay an embassy to it; she also opposed bonding Asha’man. She was part of the group, with Faiselle, Saroiya, Takima and Varilin, who negotiated with the White Tower to try to end the split.

  Maglin Madwen. The innkeeper at The Nine Rings in Tremonsien. She was a lean woman with a long nose, graying hair and a ready smile. She was a Lugarder; her husband was Barin. They were married for twenty-three years, and when they weren’t fighting they were kissing. Ready to go back to Lugard when her husband died, she had to stay in Tremonsien, because he left her the inn and his brother the money instead. She was tight with silver. After Selene asked for a room to herself, Maglin tried to get Rand to knock on Selene’s door and say whatever had angered Selene was his fault, even if it wasn’t.

  Magonine, Jalid. A craftsman in Ancarid, Seanchan, who owned Karede as a boy.

  Mah’alleinir. Perrin’s hammer, forged in combination with the One Power. Its name was Old Tongue for “he who soars.” It had a thick, powerful head, like a maul or sledge, but the back was formed cross-face and flattened like a blacksmith’s tool. It was four feet from bottom to top, and the haft was all of steel. There was a crosshatch pattern with the leaping wolf that looked like Hopper stamped on one side. Perrin only felt a comfortable warmth when he touched the hammer head, but it burned Shadowspawn when he hit them with it.

  Mahdi. Old Tongue for “Seeker.” The term was used for the leader of a Tuatha’an caravan.

  Mahiro Shukosa. Rafela Cindal’s Kandori Warder. He had graying temples, a noble nose, dark eyes and long fingers. A lord in his native land, he had visited the court of almost every land, traveled with a small library, and could recite poetry, play the harp and dance like a dream. Mahiro could also solve iron tavern puzzles quickly and usually wore two swords on his back. He accompanied Rafela and the rebel embassy to Rand in Caemlyn; he looked on Min as a younger sister.

  Maia, the Feast of. A feast celebrated on the sixth day of Amadaine in Andor, Ghealdan, Altara, Murandy and Illian.

  maiden’s hope. A white wildflower found in the Mountains of Mist.

  Maiden’s Kiss. A game in which a group of Maidens held spears to a man’s throat; he had to kiss each one. If the Maiden thought it was a good kiss, they eased up on the spears. If the Maiden did not like the kiss, they pressed a little harder for encouragement. When Mat played, he did not make it back to his own bed until daybreak.

  maiden’s ruin. A dice game that Mat played in Tar Valon.

  Maiden’s Spear. A rock formation near Cold Rocks Hold.

  Maidens of the Spear. Far Dareis Mai, the female warrior society of the Aiel. A great majority of Maidens of all clans rallied to Rand, acting in some ways as if he had come from their society. Some Shaido Maidens followed Couladin and Sevanna, but others joined the Maidens around Rand, and no Maidens from other clans went to join the Shaido. Relatively few Maidens fell into the Bleakness, compared to the Aiel general population. Nearly one thousand Maidens went to Dumai’s Wells after Rand had been kidnapped; 151 died. The Maidens fighting to free Rand at Dumai’s Wells wore a strip of red cloth tied around their upper arms so that their wetlander allies could distinguish them from Shaido Maidens, but they were not happy about it.

  Each society had its secret hand signals, in addition to those known to all algai’d’siswai, bu
t only the Maidens had developed their signs deeply enough to be able to carry on normal, everyday conversations in it. In Maiden handtalk, a hooked little finger made a term mocking or sarcastic. For example, it was used in “spearsister” when applied to a woman who had given up the spear and then tried to behave as if she had not.

  Maigan. An Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 15(3). She was beautiful with large eyes and full lips, but she seemed elongated somehow. Maigan accompanied Siuan to Fal Dara and was appointed a member of Egwene’s advisory council after the death of Anaiya, the only one not oathsworn to Egwene. Maigan had been a strong ally of Siuan when Siuan was Amyrlin, but after the Tower split she was one of many who blamed Siuan for the loss and breaking of the Tower. Siuan had to beg to be accepted back into the Blue Ajah, and rumor had it that Maigan had been the most insistent on the begging. Maigan was part of Lelaine’s faction in Salidar. In view of the Asha’man situation, she once proposed altering the Warder bond so that the man had to obey; at Lelaine’s behest, she also proposed that the bond be modified to eliminate the sharing and thus protect sisters from bonding a man fated to go mad.

  Maigan Nem. Admer’s wife in Kore Springs, Andor. Their barn burned when Logain, Siuan, Leane and Min were discovered there; Logain fought with Admer, knocking the lantern into the hay. The three women were caught and Nem prosecuted them; Logain escaped. Maigan asked Bryne to whip the women and run them to Jornhill on a rail.

  Maigdhal. The ninth month of the year.

  Maighande, Battle of. See Battle of Maighande