The Wheel of Time Companion

by Robert Jordan

  Rose Crown of Andor. The crown worn by the Queen of Andor.

  Rose of the Eldar, The. An inn found in Ebou Dar. Mat, Nalesean and others sat outside it and drank while watching the house of the Kin.

  Rosebud. A dun mare ridden by Selucia.

  Rosel of Essam. A woman who wrote two hundred years after the Breaking about a ciphered document that held secrets the world could not face. She claimed that more than a hundred pages of the document survived the Breaking, but only one page remained for Verin to study.

  Rosene. One of Berelain’s serving women. Plump, plain-faced and dark-eyed, she looked like the other serving woman, Nana. Although not pretty, the two animated Berelain’s usually taciturn thief-catchers. Rosene served Perrin breakfast after he had slept in Berelain’s tent; she or Nana spread the word that Perrin had done so. When Perrin was trying to locate Masema and his men, Rosene told him, amid much smirking and tittering, that she thought they were two or three miles away.

  Roshan. Samitsu’s Warder. He had not wanted to be a Warder until she decided she wanted him for one. Samitsu left Roshan in the city when she visited the rebel camp near Cairhien; when the bubble of evil hit, she wished that she hadn’t.

  Rosi. The name that Tuon intended to give Joline as a damane.

  Rosil. An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah who replaced Tiana as Mistress of Novices under Egwene.

  Rosoinde, Garenia. See Garenia Rosoinde

  Ross Anan. The youngest son of Setalle Anan. He was fourteen years old when Mat stayed at his mother’s inn. He helped the serving girls in the inn and worked the fishing boats with his father, depending on the time of year and need.

  Rossaine, Clan. A clan of the Atha’an Miere.

  Rosse. A member of Jarid Sarand’s personal guard. Faced with Jarid’s growing insanity, Rosse and Jarid’s other men rebelled against him, and tied him to a tree. The men then went off to fight in the Last Battle.

  Rossin. An officer under Rodel Ituralde in Maradon. Ituralde directed him to find out why a trumpet sounded an early retreat, leading to great losses for Ituralde, but he was killed in a skirmish before he was able to do so.

  Roundhill. A village Perrin visited. The smith there was careless, and had burn scars on his hands

  Rovair. A stout follower of the High Lord Darlin in the rebel camp below Cairhien. When Min and Rand visited the camp, Darlin told Ines and Rovair to give them their horses. Rovair answered with a toadying smile for Darlin and a cooler but still greasy one for Rand.

  Rovair Kirklin. Masuri Sokawa’s Warder. A compact man with receding dark hair, he usually had a ready grin, but was glum over Masuri’s treatment by the Wise Ones. He and Masuri went with Perrin when he met with Masema; on their return they found Faile had been kidnapped, and Rovair was one of the scouts who looked for her. Masuri and Rovair met with Masema in secret, and the two went with Perrin to So Habor. Rovair traveled into Malden through the aqueduct; he was with Perrin when Perrin was reunited with Faile.

  Rowahn. An Aiel leader after the Last Battle, seen in Aviendha’s viewings of the future in Rhuidean. Tall and red-haired, Rowahn tried to keep to some of the core beliefs of the Aiel; he wore the cadin’sor and was clean-shaven, but when his hold was attacked and burned by the Seanchan, he picked up a sword and used it to preserve his daughter Tava. He tried to keep the people of the hold together, but they all walked away.

  Rowan Hurn. A member of the Village Council in Emond’s Field. He joined Perrin’s army at Malden; Perrin tasked him with making sure that Galad had released the prisoners before his trial.

  Royal Inn, The. An inn found in Four Kings, Andor. The Darkfriend Howal Gode went there looking for Rand and Mat.

  Royal Library of Cairhien, the. One of the great libraries of the world, thought by many to be second only to the Library of the White Tower. It was spared by the Aiel in the Aiel War.

  Royal Palace of Andor, the. Residence and seat of the Queen of Andor, found in the Inner City of Caemlyn. Its main gates opened onto the oval Queen’s Plaza, and the South Stable Gate was where the stables for the palace were to be found. Built on the highest point of the city, the palace was connected to the rest of the city by curving streets that flowed along the contours of the terraced hill upon which it was built. The palace had pale spires, golden domes, shining white walls, high marble balconies and intricate stonework traceries; the Lion of Andor waved from every prominence. The Grand Hall was the throne room, and there was a Rose March in the gardens. Charlz Guybon, along with his troops and refugees from the city, sheltered there at the start of the Last Battle; Talmanes fought through Trollocs to reach the palace. After the occupants evacuated the palace, it was seized by Trollocs and subsequently burned.

  Rubinde Acedone. A Mayener Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah and of the loyalist contingent. Her strength level was 19(7). Born in 853 NE, she went to the White Tower in 869 NE. After spending ten years as a novice and nine years as Accepted, she was raised Aes Sedai in 888 NE and chosen as a Sitter for the Green Ajah in 992 NE. About 5'5" tall, with a sturdy build, Rubinde had raven hair and eyes as blue as sapphires. She usually seemed ready to walk through a wall. Sometimes she grimaced in what might have been meant for a smile, but her lips simply writhed. Impatient with what she considered useless talk, she frequently managed to overtop Sedore’s Yellow arrogance, and that was something even for a Green. She stood to depose Siuan, one of only eleven needed to give the greater consensus under the circumstances. She thought the rebels were caught in the snows of Murandy and figured that by spring, things could be made hot enough that they would come crawling back. She was nervous about Elaida, when Elaida stretched her wings free of Alviarin.

  After the Seanchan raid on the Tower, she was one of the Sitters who raised Egwene to the Amyrlin Seat, and she was part of the group that pressured Cadsuane to become Amyrlin after the Last Battle.

  Ruffled Goose, The. A disreputable inn in Chachin. Moiraine went there looking for Siuan.

  Rugan, Chai. See Chai Rugan

  Rulan Allwine. The stout innkeeper at the only inn in Market Sheran, Andor. His inn was clean and warm, with no drunkenness, and the serving maids seemed happy. Allwine insisted that Rand and Mat pay in advance, and the price was steep.

  Rumann. A sword-juggler with Luca’s show. He was about six feet tall, and handsome. Egeanin pulled a knife on him before departing Ebou Dar, because he was suggestive in asking her to have some wine with him in his wagon. He took up with Adria, one of the contortionists.

  Rumor Wheel, The. See Dusty Wheel, The

  Runnien Crossing. A town in Altara, a day northeast of Jurador. It lay near a shallow, narrow river where a stone bridge crossed. It possessed four inns, each three stories of stone roofed in green or blue tiles. There was nearly half a mile of hard-packed dirt between the village and the river where merchants could park their wagons for the night. Farms, with their walled fields and orchards and pastures, made a quilt of the countryside for a good league along the road and maybe more beyond the hills to either side of it. Luca’s show stopped in the village to put on a performance, and Egeanin and Domon were married there.

  running sheepsfoot. A kind of knot.

  Running Wave, Caire din Gelyn. See Caire din Gelyn Running Wave

  Ruthan. Aldragoran’s Saldaean clerk. He was hard-eyed, but didn’t know one end of a sword from the other. He and Aldragoran were in The Queen’s Lance when Nynaeve arrived to drum up support for Lan before the Last Battle.

  Ryddingwood. The home of the poet Anasai.

  Ryden. A dragon squadleader in the Band of the Red Hand. His squad blasted through part of Caemlyn’s wall so that the Band could escape with the dragons in the Last Battle.

  Ryma Galfrey. An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah with a strength level of 29(17). Born in 902 NE, she went to the White Tower in 917 NE. After spending eight years as a novice and seven years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 932 NE. Known for being haughty, she was 5'2½" tall, with dark hair and blue eyes. Ryma was capture
d by the Seanchan in Falme. She was made damane and given the name Pura, and was kept close at hand by the High Lady Suroth. See also Pura

  Ryn Anhara. A male inventor at the Academy of Cairhien who trapped lightning in jars, using wire and wheels and big clay jars. His invention worked well enough to electrocute a rat that jumped onto it.

  Ryne Venamar. A Malkieri man. Five years older than Lan, he was Lan’s oldest friend besides Bukama. He was charming, with blue eyes and a dimpled cheek. When he was fifteen, his father moved the family to Arafel; Ryne embraced Arafellin ways, wearing his hair in two bell-laced braids and bells on his boots and sleeves, and looking women in the eye. An excellent swordsman, he claimed to have gone to Canluum as a merchant guard for a merchant who had been killed. He journeyed with Lan and Bukama from Canluum to Chachin; they acquired Moiraine’s company along the way. At Aesdaishar Palace, he was not happy to be given a bannerman’s room to stay in. A Darkfriend working with Merean, he tried to kill Lan, and did kill Bukama. Lan fought him while Moiraine was fighting Merean; though Ryne was the better swordsman, Lan killed him.

  Rysael din Yulan. A relatively high-ranking Sea Folk Windfinder. Her strength level was 16(4). She took part in using the Bowl because she was one of the strongest available among the remaining Windfinders in Ebou Dar. She fled to Caemlyn with Elayne and her companions when the Seanchan attacked. Normally a dignified woman, she quivered when Birgitte asked the Windfinders for a gateway big enough to transport forces to rescue Elayne from the Black Ajah in Caemlyn.

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  s’Gandin. Birgitte talked of Luca going to fetch Nynaeve from Samara, accompanied by two lads who had shoulders like s’Gandin quarrymen.

  s’redit. The Seanchan name for the animals that Luca called boar-horses. Large and gray, with a long nose and tusks, they were from a southern part of the Seanchan Empire; a similar animal with larger ears could be found in Shara. In terms of social standing, morat for non-exotics, such as s’redit, ranked below those for exotics (i.e., those obtained from alternate worlds). In ancient times, s’redit were a very effective battle animal, and maintaining them was a tradition that predated Hawkwing’s invasion but was still linked to the Imperial family, who had a certain favoritism for them by tradition. While s’redit were still used in battle in later times, and their effectiveness strongly defended by their trainers and handlers, they were in fact deployed very carefully because they were not particularly useful except in stampeding untrained horses and as platforms for archers or sul’dam and damane, placing these at a greater height for longer visibility. In this employment, they were well armored and always well screened by infantry and horse because they themselves were very vulnerable. Their primary use was for moving heavy loads such as shunt engines or powering hoists to lift very heavy loads.

  Sa souvraya niende misain ye. Old Tongue for “I am lost in my own mind.”

  Sa’las Plains. Flatlands located in Seanchan.

  sa’angreal. An extremely rare object allowing an individual to channel much more of the One Power than would otherwise be possible or safe. A sa’angreal was like unto, but much, much more powerful than an angreal. The amount of the Power that could be wielded with a sa’angreal compared to the amount of the Power that could be handled with an angreal was analogous to the amount of the Power that could be wielded with the aid of an angreal compared to the amount of the Power that could be handled unaided. Remnants of the Age of Legends, the means of their making was lost by the Third Age. As with angreal, there were male and female sa’angreal.

  sa’sara. An indecent Saldaean dance, outlawed by numerous Saldaean queens to no avail. Saldaean history recorded three wars, two rebellions, countless unions and/or feuds between noble Houses and innumerable duels sparked by women dancing the sa’sara. One rebellion was supposedly quelled when a defeated queen danced it for the victorious general; he married her and restored her throne. This tale was not found in any official history and was denied by every queen of Saldaea.

  The sa’sara was a dance without any one set form, though it followed general patterns. Ten women dancing the sa’sara might dance without one repeating a movement or expression from any other. It was characterized by fluid and suggestive movements and hip-rolling; movements to suggest self-caressing or being caressed by another; facial expressions and gazes at the onlooker(s) which changed between those variously described as smoky or sultry and those which conveyed startlement. Not infrequently, the dancer performed most of the dance as if unaware that anyone was watching, and the emotions expressed, facially and otherwise, upon “discovering” that she was being watched went from surprised to coy to flirtatious to seductive, and frequently by the suggestion—never the reality—that limbs, or shoulders, or possibly even breasts, might be exposed. The clothing worn by the dancer could be skimpy or not, but nearly always it was arrayed for ease of shifting or removal, though rarely was even one piece actually removed. The shifting of clothing was such that it seemed a caress in itself, and the body part that seemed about to be exposed never was, yet the onlooker was left with the impression that perhaps it was.

  The sa’sara was danced only by women, and always by one woman at a time. When the sa’sara was danced in the lower or rougher sort of taverns, or at some private affairs, guards were usually posted to keep patrons from throwing themselves at the dancer. The dancer usually traveled with a bodyguard. A sa’sara dancer who could perform with any facility was usually well paid for her dancing, and often made ten, twenty or even a hundred times as much through the coins tossed to her by watchers.

  It was generally said that the sa’sara was danced for an audience of one no matter how many eyes watched. Some said that it was in actual truth danced more often for an audience of one than for more.

  saa. Dark flecks that passed across the eyeballs of one who used the True Power from the Dark One. The flecks increased over time the more the True Power was used. Moridin’s eyes were filled with saa.

  Saal. A serving woman at The Woman of Tanchico in Tar Valon. She was pretty, with brown eyes. She and Mada—who Mat thought was Saal’s older 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. Saal gave Mat a silver mark in thanks and told him he had pretty eyes.

  Saban. The third month of the year.

  Sabeine Ocalin. A Kinswoman who spent twenty years as a peddler. She was at the farm when the Seanchan attacked, and accompanied Elayne to Caemlyn. She had the requisite strength to Travel, and Birgitte put her to work as a scout, sending her with Julanya Fote to villages in northern Andor and having them keep a lookout for the six noble Houses that were uncommitted.

  Sabinel. A town in which Mat tried to get Talmanes to help him win over a pair of barmaids.

  sad bracelets. Ter’angreal consisting of a finely jointed collar and two bracelets of dull black metal; Moghedien said that the material was a form of cuendillar. The device was similar to the later-developed a’dam, but was meant to control male Aes Sedai gone mad after the sealing of the Bore during the Time of Madness. When the collar was placed on a man who could channel, a woman wearing both bracelets could make him do as she wished. The bracelets could not stop the man from going mad, and there was a flow from the man to the woman; eventually the man would be able to control the woman somewhat. Having different women wear the bracelets at different times limited the exposure, and having two women each wearing one bracelet slowed the seepage considerably; the latter also lessened the women’s control of the man. The devices were considered a failure because of these issues. Semirhage called them Domination Bands.

  Saddler. A dirty man in Caemlyn who smelled of a tannery and tried to cheat Mat at a game of Koronko’s Spit.

  Saeldain, Coiren. See Coiren Saeldain

  Saems, Wilbin. A deceased merchant for whom the cutpurse Samwil Ha
rk claimed to have once worked as a clerk.

  Saera Deosin. A Murandian woman who was on Moiraine’s list as a possible mother of the Dragon Reborn. Her husband was Eadwin.

  Saeric. A man of the Red Water sept of the Goshien Aiel. Gray-haired and missing his right hand, he taught the Asha’man how to fight while unarmed. He was willing to remain as long as the Goshien were in the vicinity of Caemlyn, but he moved on when his clan did.

  Saerin Asnobar. An Altaran Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah and the loyalist contingent, with a strength level of 14(2), who was born in 781 NE in a village not far from Ebou Dar. Her mother owned an inn and her father a livery stable. She was recruited by the Daughters of Silence in 796 NE; when that group was disbanded in 798 NE, Saerin was taken to the White Tower, where she spent twelve years as a novice and ten years as Accepted. She could have moved faster, but she was watched very closely because of her association with the Daughters. She was raised to the shawl in 820 NE, the only woman associated with the Daughters to be raised. She became a Sitter in the Hall in 960 NE, and held her chair longer than any other Sitter. About 5'6" tall, she had an olive complexion, straight black hair and dark eyes. While not a beauty in any way, she was attractive; a knife scar running along the line of her jaw on the left side was thin and had faded with years to near invisibility. She retained a good bit of the Ebou Dari sense of honor, and while she didn’t wear a marriage knife, she often carried a curved Ebou Dari knife behind her belt, which she sometimes fingered when angry. She could scowl as well as any Warder, aided by her scar, and many sisters, including Seaine, considered her quite fierce. She stood to depose Siuan.

  Saerin was one of the half dozen Sitters to whom Elaida gave penances, despite her being the most senior Sitter in age and time holding a chair, or perhaps because of that very fact. In her case, it was Labor, a matter of working in the kitchens with the scullions. Saerin was disconcerted to learn that Laras considered an Aes Sedai working a penance as a scullion to be, in fact, a scullion. That is to say, one was to be worked as hard and called up just as short for slacking. Despite her feelings about the penance, Saerin rather liked Laras for that; it was, she thought, the proper attitude. There was no point, she felt, in serving a penance if it was made easier by others. Her suspicions of Pevara and Seaine’s clandestine meetings led to her becoming a member of the hunt for the Black Ajah.