The Wheel of Time Companion

by Robert Jordan

  Muadh. A grizzled Child of the Light who was with Geofram Bornhald on Toman Head. Muadh fell into the hands of Darkfriends once; his face was so scarred from it that it took even the strongest aback, and he could only speak in a whispered growl. In a village where thirty people, including some children, were hanged, Muadh told Geofram that the group that had done the hanging included two men who looked just like Child Wuan and Child Earwin. Those two were men that Geofram had been forced earlier to hand over to Questioners.

  mudfish. A fish not worth eating.

  mudgin. A fool.

  Muelin. A woman who was a contortionist with Valan Luca’s show, hired from a show that had been nearly destroyed by a rioting mob. She lived with other contortionists in a virulently yellow wagon.

  Mulaen. A Seanchan superior servant in Falme in the house where the damane were kept; she had charge of the quarters for damane. She burned Min’s coat and breeches and gave Min her choice of garments to indicate her place in the hierarchy. Min had to comply if she wanted to continue visiting Egwene. Mulaen had a droning nasal voice and a sharp way with any damane who did not remember every word of her boring lectures.

  Mulan, Leuese. An old Tairen fisherman who became wealthy after finding three cuendillar bowls and a cup in his nets, but later could not remember where. He bought a trading ship.

  Mulinda. A Salidar serving woman in service to the rebel Aes Sedai. She was skinny and gaped a lot. She shared a room with Satina, Emara and Ronelle in the same house where Elayne and Nynaeve lived. She was there the night the “bubble of evil” hit, and was caught under the bed when it flipped.

  Mull, Alpert. See Alpert Mull

  mura. A tree found in Seanchan. It had ropelike bark and green tufts of thick needlelike leaves.

  Muradin. A man of the Shaido Aiel and first-brother of Couladin. Muradin was allowed to enter Rhuidean to see whether he could be chief of the Shaido, replacing the deceased Suladric. He and Couladin had big plans, involving crossing the Dragonwall again and conquering and holding Cairhien; Sevanna planned to marry Muradin when he became chief. Muradin could not accept the history of the Aiel; he found it so repellent that he ripped out his own eyes and ate them. He did not come out of the ter’angreal.

  Murandy. A nation north of Illian; its capital was Lugard. Its sigil was a red bull: the Red Bull. Its banner was the Red Bull on a field vertically striped blue and white—three blue and two white. The banner was fringed in red if flown when the sovereign was present.

  Murandy was founded approximately FY 1047 by Lady Katrine do Catalan a’Coralle, who had just captured the city of Lugard, taking its name from an old name for the region around Lugard. She was assassinated after less than a year on her throne and succeeded by her son, who was succeeded in turn by his four brothers, with the throne then passing to the next generation of the House. It was estimated by some historians that during the War of the Hundred Years, Murandy averaged a new ruler every two years, and even after the war was over, the average length of rule was only eight years, usually ending with assassination or an “accident” or otherwise mysterious death. By approximately 200 NE, rulers began holding the throne for much longer periods, but only because the crown had become essentially valueless in a nation that was really only a patchwork of allegiances to towns and individual nobles. It was generally considered that Murandy survived in large part because its much stronger neighbors all had opponents or possible opponents strong enough that they were unwilling to turn their backs long enough to swallow Murandy. There was a history of border raids into Andor by Murandians going back to the War of the Hundred Years. Raids the other way were usually punitive. Northern Murandy was occupied by Andor more than once, but Andor never considered it worth the effort to hold. Murandy had one of the three false Dragons who sprang up after Logain was captured and before Rand declared himself. Murandians were quite proud of having seized the false Dragon who appeared in their midst, and doing so quickly. What they were not so proud of was the fact that they burned him alive. This was done under influence from Illian, in fact, from Lord Brend.

  Murandy could have either a king or a queen. It was a hereditary monarchy, with the throne going to the eldest child alive at the ruler’s death. Murandy rarely changed its ruling House because no one cared enough to take a position that was at best a figurehead, though occasionally some lord or lady would think he or she was strong enough to unite the land. The ruler seldom controlled more than Lugard itself, and often not all of that. The countryside was a crazy quilt of individual nobles’ fiefs, and those nobles raided one another, formed alliances against one another and betrayed those alliances to form new ones at the drop of a handkerchief. Those along the border also invested considerable time in raiding across said border, mainly for horses and cattle, but also sometimes as little more than glorified bandits looting villages and manors.

  The army of Murandy historically consisted of the personal levies of the nobles, who often squabbled over the command. Nobles even removed their troops in times of dire need because of these arguments. Noblewomen almost invariably used a Master of the Horse to command their soldiers, and very rarely took the field themselves. Noblemen were expected to lead whether or not they were competent to do so. There was never a permanent formation in Murandy such as the Queen’s Guards in Andor. The throne was weak, and while anyone who held the throne would have wanted such a formation to strengthen it, no one else wanted the throne strengthened, since that lessened their own power.

  Murandy had some mining, including gold and silver, but the political situation never allowed any large-scale or well-organized efforts. It had a good trade in wool, and was famed for its lace. Beef, mutton and leather were also produced.

  Murasaka sisters. Six women who were acrobats first with Sillia Cerano’s show and then with Valan Luca’s show. Although they called themselves sisters, they were obviously not related. Andaya and Kuan were two of the six.

  Murdru Kar. Words uttered by Trollocs while fighting Lan in the Last Battle.

  Murel. A Seanchan soldier in Jurador who, with two others, tried to get into Luca’s show without paying. His eyes were tilted like a Saldaean’s, and his skin was the color of honey. His standardbearer confined the three to camp for ten days and docked them ten days’ pay, since they were supposed to be unloading wagons.

  Murellin. Shiaine’s henchman who posed as her servant. He was heavily muscled with sunken knuckles and sullen eyes. He was big enough that he could easily pick up a cask of brandy that Daved Hanlon didn’t think he himself could have lifted, but Murellin easily tipped it to pour the contents down the funnel stuck in Jaichim Carridin’s mouth. Shiaine made Falion available for Murellin; she asked Hanlon for something to make Murellin sleep through the night. When Elayne and her party went to Full Moon Street, Murellin was drunk in the stable; Jaem tied him up.

  Murow, Letice. See Letice Murow

  Musar, Lord. One of the Saldaeans who, along with his wife and another couple, met with Taim under the parley flag and tried to kill him with daggers. He and his wife were rendered unsuited for anything except serving others after the encounter.

  Musara. A sept of the Reyn Aiel.

  Musarin. An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah and the loyalist contingent. Tall and white-haired, Musarin was guarding Leane when Egwene visited. When Leane’s cell started melting, Musarin and Gelarna used saidar to pull Leane free, and Musarin called for help.

  Musenge. A captain in the Deathwatch Guard. A grizzled, weathered man with black hair and seemingly built for endurance, he commanded Tuon’s personal bodyguard and led five hundred of the Deathwatch Guard and one hundred Gardeners. He accompanied Karede in the search for Tuon with one hundred members of the Deathwatch Guard and twenty Gardeners. When Karede went into Mat’s camp, Musenge waited in case it was a trap. After Musenge fought alongside Mat to save Tuon, he took Elbar’s head to Tuon in Ebou Dar. When Tuon met with Rand at Falme, Musenge placed archers on nearby roofs to protect her.

  mus
hroom, deathshead. A poisonous mushroom.

  mushroom, Queen’s Crown. A flavorful type of mushroom.

  mushroom, shadowshand. A mushroom that made rings on fallen logs.

  Musicar. A member of the Deathwatch Guard. When Rand surprised Tuon in the garden of the Tarasin Palace, Tuon shouted for Musicar to run and fetch damane.

  Mutch. A stableman at The Stag and Lion in Baerlon, Andor. Wiry and surly, Mutch complained when Moiraine and her party came in the back way at the inn, and scowled at Rand when he went off to see Baerlon. When the party was leaving, he complained about readying the horses, and sourly watched them depart.

  Muyami. A group of Seanchan who did not hold to oaths strongly. Egeanin stated that she had made an oath so strong that not even a Muyami would break it.

  Muyami Uprising. An unpleasantness in Seanchan during which Karede served and gained honors.

  Mycal Crossin. A grain merchant in So Habor with whom Perrin did business. At first he thought that Perrin and his companions were ghosts; he was afraid of the ghosts that were appearing in So Habor. His fear overwhelmed him to the point that he stopped caring about cleanliness. Although he agreed to sell grain, the grain was full of weevils and had to be winnowed.

  Myershi, Reo. An ancestor of King Paitar of Arafel who heard a Foretelling of importance about the Dragon Reborn and passed it down through his family.

  Myk. A pikeman in Juilin Sandar’s squad in the Last Battle.

  Mylen. A damane belonging to Tuon. She was formerly an Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah whose name was Sheraine Caminelle and who was captured at Falme; her Warder died trying to protect her. She was then taken back to Seanchan, where she arrived half dead, skin-and-bones, and refusing to eat. Tuon bought her on the docks at Shon Kifar. A Cairhienin who looked a great deal like Moiraine, she was about 4'10" and under Tuon’s care became a little plump and definitely round of bosom and bottom. Mylen had dark eyes, black hair and a pale complexion. She became the quintessential damane under Tuon’s training, utterly devoted to her. She was part of Karede’s group that searched for Tuon when she was missing. Mylen was particularly eager to free Tuon, particularly incensed that she was taken by Aes Sedai (or so she believed), and somewhat guilty because she herself used to call herself Aes Sedai, as she thought of it. She was well and truly Tuon’s, and would have fought not only for Tuon, but to stop anyone from removing her collar. She could not, of course, use the Power as a weapon even under the influence of the collar, and the other two oaths held her as well.

  Myrddraal. Creatures of the Dark One, commanders of the Trollocs. They were the twisted offspring of Trollocs in which the human stock used to create the Trollocs resurfaced, but tainted by the evil that made the Trollocs. In different lands they were known by many names, among them Halfman, the Eyeless, Shadowman, Lurk, Fetch and Fade.

  A Myrddraal appeared to be a fairly tall man, over six feet, with a pale, pasty-white complexion. The hair was black and flat, the lips thin and pale. There were no eyes, no eyebrows, no sign or hint that there should have been any eyes. They saw like eagles in day or night, however. Their look caused fear in the one they looked at. They moved sinuously, graceful and deadly, like serpents. They had a superior sense of smell, and a weakness for some strong odors.

  Myrddraal could become all but invisible in shadows. They had a trick of seeming to vanish while remaining right there. Entering a shadow, they could travel, in a way not even the Forsaken understood, to another shadow far distant. Myrddraal could cloak themselves, and their mounts, in silence, so that not even their horses’ hooves on paving stones could be heard.

  Trollocs and Myrddraal loathed deep water; neither could swim. Myrddraal would not wade into anything more than waist deep, especially if it was moving, and reluctantly at best. They had no ability to channel, but could detect the channeling of either sex. Their range was greater than even the Forsaken’s, but very dependent on the level of the One Power being used. Used very close to them, quite small flows (easily detectable by human channelers at that range) would have produced only a sort of unease, an uncertainty whether there was channeling or not. They could detect the residues of channeling at fainter levels than humans, though without being able to tell anything about what the channeling was—excepting Shaidar Haran, of course.

  One of the Myrddraal’s abilities was that of controlling and cowing Trollocs consistently over time. Even Forsaken had difficulty with this; Trollocs were easily enough cowed, but the lesson seemed to last almost no time, except for Myrddraal lessons. Myrddraal could also link with a number of Trollocs, completely overriding their bestial nature and taking control of their minds and wills to create a deadly, well-disciplined fighting force almost as effective as was originally intended. Unfortunately, the Myrddraal was then the weak link. If it was killed, the Trollocs sharing the link died with it. Myrddraal were also better able to control a number of other sorts of Shadowspawn. There were, however, some sorts of Shadowspawn which even Myrddraal had a hard time controlling, and some, such as Worms, which they could not control at all.

  Myrddraal had no sense of humor in the usual sense, though they did have an extremely sadistic whimsy. Myrddraal did not smile, and they certainly didn’t laugh, again excepting Shaidar Haran. A Myrddraal’s sword caused a blue flash when struck against a Power-wrought blade. The process of making these weapons was unknown, although each sword had to be quenched in a living human body in the making.

  Myrdin Paendrag Maregore. The King of Shandalle and father of Artur Hawkwing. He died during the Black Plague epidemic in FY 939.

  Myrelle Berengari. An Altaran Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 15(3). Born in 954 NE, she went to the White Tower in 968 NE. After spending seven years as a novice and five years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 980 NE. Among the rebels, she served as the Captain-General of the Green Ajah. About 5'4" tall, with an olive complexion and large dark eyes, she was beautiful. Her face was a perfect oval, and usually wore a knowing smile. Myrelle was noted for her fiery temper, even among the Greens. She was the first Aes Sedai in centuries to save more than one Warder whose previous Aes Sedai had died; she was able to save Nuhel Dromand and Avar Hachami. For that reason, she was chosen by Moiraine to receive Lan’s bond if anything should happen to her. After Moiraine vanished through the redstone doorway, Myrelle recruited Nisao to help heal Lan’s mind. Nicola and Areina blackmailed Myrelle and Nisao over the secret passing of the bond; Nicola wanted more lessons and Areina wanted to be around Lan.

  When Egwene discovered that the bond had been passed without Lan’s agreement, she had Myrelle swear fealty to her to avoid punishment. After Kairen Stang was murdered, Myrelle bonded her Warder Llyw, although some arm-twisting by Faiselle was required for her to do it. Rumor said that she was married to Nuhel, Avar and Croi Makin, her other Warder. Myrelle passed Lan’s bond to Nynaeve after Nynaeve passed the test for Aes Sedai.

  Myrelle was part of the delegation sent to the Black Tower, part of the group camped outside the walls while Taim tried to Turn Logain. Myrelle and the delegation took on new Warders and then joined Egwene’s army fighting Shadowspawn in the Last Battle on the Kandori-Arafellin border.

  Myriam Copan. An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah who served as Amyrlin from 754 to 797 NE. She was justifiably known as “Beauty.” Myriam began as a weak Amyrlin known for her concern with her own looks and for her sulks and temper tantrums, as well as for her dislike of being cooped up in Tar Valon and her complete disinterest in having anything to do with running the Tower or the Aes Sedai. In 758 NE she supposedly went on a two-month retreat by herself, after which she underwent a sudden and unexplained about-face. In fact, she had been kidnapped by Cadsuane Melaidhrin and put through a short but tough course in what it meant to be adult and Amyrlin. She restored the power and authority of the Amyrlin Seat and had a distinguished reign. She was not among the most powerful of Amyrlins, but far from the least, and she developed a deft political hand.r />
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  N’Delia Basolaine. Putative translator of The Prophecies of the Dragon, First Maid and Swordfast to Raidhen of Hol Cuchone.

  N’Kon. A city or region in Seanchan with honey-brown denizens. When fighting Rand’s army, Miraj reflected on the named, honored regiments from different parts of Seanchan that were represented among his troops, including this group.

  N’Shar in Mameris, a. An expression of Birgitte’s taken from her past; the reference came up when she was watching Nalesean and Mat, and realized that Mat was the more dangerous of the two. Mameris was a city that was the center of a pacifistic movement, unfortunately coupled with a belief in bluntly saying what one thought. A N’Shar was someone from the land encompassing the Shadow Coast who had taken a blood oath of revenge; he or she was a walking time bomb, ready to kill in a twitch, ready to die, until the oath was fulfilled.

  Naath and the San d’ma Shadar. People from Mat’s memories of battles; he thought of them while preparing for the battle at Merrilor.

  Nacelle Kayama. A Malkieri Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah in public but of the Black Ajah in truth. Part of the rebel contingent, she had a strength level of 36(24). Born in 855 NE, she was tall and slender with blue eyes. Romanda thought that she was not particularly intelligent. Nacelle was one of six sisters sent to investigate the large channeling event when Rand cleansed the taint from saidin, because of her ability to read residues. Nacelle developed a weave to detect a man channeling, although it did not identify the flows. Nacelle’s name was on Verin’s list of the Black Ajah.

  Nachenin, Malind. See Malind Nachenin

  nachi. A multilegged creature found in tidal pools.

  Nachiman. The royal family of Arafel. See Hirare, Kiruna, Menuki and Paitar Neramovni Nachiman

  Nad. One of the two thugs with Falion and Ispan in Ebou Dar when they were torturing and killing the Wise Woman; Nad disposed of the body. He was all black hair and beady eyes and had more muscles than any three men could need.