The Wheel of Time Companion

by Robert Jordan

  soetam. A great rat found in the Drowned Lands. A soetam could grow to as much as fifteen pounds. Living in small packs that generally numbered no more than eight or ten animals, they were normally scavengers but would attack anything perceived as injured or weakened.

  sofar. A vehicle from the Age of Legends that used steering planes. Semirhage referred to Sammael as a hot sofar with warped steering planes, which meant that his actions were difficult to predict.

  Soferra. An Ogier woman who was the mother of Ala and the grandmother of Damelle, the last of whom wrote about the Ways.

  Soffi Moraton. A woman with Perrin’s army who tore her tent during a stream crossing and had no trouble getting it repaired.

  Sohadra. A place in history where Sammael had caused great sorrow and escaped justice.

  Sohima. The seventh-largest city in Seanchan. It had a Great Fire, in which the doll that Tuon gave Karede was destroyed.

  Sokawa, Masuri. See Masuri Sokawa

  Sokorin, Tzigan. See Tzigan Sokorin

  Solain Morgeillin. A Kin in Ebou Dar. Her strength level was 40(28); she was not strong enough to make a gateway of any size whatsoever. Born in 818 NE, she went to the White Tower in 833 NE. During her eleven years a novice and eight years Accepted, while Parenia Demalle was Amyrlin and Sereille Bagand the Mistress of Novices, she was a kleptomaniac, never stealing anything valuable, but she was incorrigible; her habit wasn’t discovered until after she was raised Accepted, and she was put out of the Tower when she could not be broken of it. In subsequent years she was broken of her kleptomania mainly through the perseverance of the Kin. She retained her very light fingers, though, and could slip something out of somebody’s pocket without leaving a clue. She didn’t care for men at all.

  She was sent off to check on the cache of objects of the Power in the Rahad and was followed by Mat. Solain accompanied Elayne to Caemlyn and worked with a captured sul’dam there.

  Solanje. Ituralde reflected on his military victories in the past, and one of them was at Solanje.

  soldier. The lowest rank among the Asha’man. A soldier wore a black coat with no decoration.

  Solinda. An Aes Sedai during the Breaking who helped make the Eye of the World. Her hair was very long and sun-red.

  Solinde lace. A frothy lace seen in Ronde Macura’s dress shop in Mardecin, Amadicia.

  Solter, Robb. A Two Rivers man sent to fetch a pavilion for Perrin’s meeting with the Children of the Light.

  Somal, Lake. A site where Ituralde once triumphed in battle.

  Soman, Espara. See Espara Soman

  Somara. A woman of the Bent Peak sept of the Daryne Aiel and Far Dareis Mai. She had flaxen hair and was very tall, 6'2" or 6'3", and physically strong. With Enaila and Lamelle, she was among the worst at mothering Rand. After Lamelle died, Somara insisted on making the soup that Lamelle had made for Rand, and she was an even worse cook than Lamelle had been. Somara was one of three Maidens, along with Nandera and Nesair, who beat Rand when he returned to Cairhien after fighting the Seanchan because he had dishonored the Maidens by leaving them behind. Somara was killed when the renegade Asha’man attempted to assassinate Rand at the Sun Palace. Rand added her name to the list of women who had died for him.

  Somares, Marya. See Marya Somares

  Somarin. A Sea Folk clan. Malin din Toral Breaking Wave was its Sailmistress.

  Someinellin, Melavaire. See Melavaire Someinellin

  Someryn. A Wise One of the Shaido Aiel (not a Jumai) with the ability to channel and an impressive strength level of 4(+9)—she once prided herself that she had never met a woman as strong as herself. She was over 6'4" tall, with sun-dark smooth skin, dark yellow hair and blue eyes. She had a very large bosom, which she liked to show off; she took to wearing her blouse unlaced to show even more cleavage than Sevanna. One of Sevanna’s inner circle of plotters, she was among those who accompanied her to the Aes Sedai camp the day she saw Rand beaten and took part in or was present at the murder of Desaine. Someryn and Modarra were the most firmly in Sevanna’s grasp, in Sevanna’s opinion, but both sided with Therava in the end, and Someryn became fairly tight with Therava. Someryn was at the meeting with “Caddar” and “Maisia.” She was impressed by Graendal and said she was very strong, which was an unusual acknowledgment for her. That was the first time she had ever met a woman stronger than she in the Power.

  Someryn was with Sevanna at Dumai’s Wells and helped question the Seanchan prisoner in Amadicia, while the Jumai were settled at a captured estate approximately ten days after their arrival.

  Someshta. The last of the Nym. See Green Man, the

  Somma. A Maiden of the Spear who guarded Rand in the city of Tear.

  songs. “Always Choose the Right Horse,” which had the same tune as “The Marriage of Cinny Wade”; “Blue Sky Dawning”; “The Dancing Lass”; “Cock o’ the North”; “Coming Home from Tarwin’s Gap”; “Dance with Jak o’ the Shadows”; “Drawing Water from the Well”; “The Drunken Peddler,” also known as “Tinker in the Kitchen”; “First Rose of Summer”; “Ferry O’er the River,” sometimes called “Darling Sara”; “The Fool Who Thought He Was King”; “Fluff the Feathers”; “A Frog on the Ice”; “Give Me Your Trust Said the Aes Sedai”; “Glory of the Dragon,” by Meane sol Ahelle; “Goodman Priket’s Pipe”; “Heron on the Wing”; “I Have Loved a Thousand Sailor Men”; “I Will Steal Your Breath with Kisses”; “I’m Down at the Bottom of the Well,” which had the same tune as “The Last Stand at Mandenhar,” from Mat’s memories; “If You Go to Be a Soldier”; “Jaem’s Folly”; “Jolly Jaim,” also known as “Rhea’s Fling” and “Colors of the Sun”; “Lament for the Long Night”; “Last Stand at Mandenhar”; “Life Is a Dream”; “The Marriage of Cinny Wade,” which had the same tune as “Always Choose the Right Horse”; “Midean’s Ford”; “Mistress Aynora’s Rooster”; “My Love Is a Wild Rose”; “The Old Black Bear”; “Old Gray Goose”; “Old Jak’s Up a Tree”; “Old Two Rivers Leaf”; “Only One Boot”; “Only One Bucket of Water”; “A Pocket Full of Gold”; “The Road to Dun Aren”; “Rooster in the Gumtree”; “Rose of the Morning”; “She Dazzles My Eyes and Clouds My Mind,” which had the same tune as “Upside Down”; “She Has No Ankles That I Can See”; “She Wore a Mask That Hid Her Face”; “Song of the Three Fishes”; “Storm from the Mountains”; “Three Girls in the Meadow,” called “Pretty Maids Dancing” by the Tinkers; “The Tinker Has My Pots,” called “Toss the Feathers” by the Tinkers; “Tinker in the Kitchen,” also known as “The Drunken Peddler”; “Two Kings Came Hunting,” also known as “Two Horses Running” and other titles; “Two Maids at the Water’s Edge”; “Upside Down and ’Round and ’Round”; “We’re Over the Border Again”; “We Rode Down to River Iralell”; “What He Said to Me,” also known as “Will You Dance with Me”; “Wild Geese on the Wing”; “The Wind from the North,” which was called “Hard Rain Falling” in some lands, and “Berin’s Retreat” in others; “The Wind in the Barley”; and “The Wind That Shakes the Willow.”

  Songs of Growing. A Talent used by Ogier in past Ages to aid and enhance growing things.

  Songs of the Last Age, Do’in Toldara te. Quarto Nine: The Legend of the Dragon. Composed by Boanne, Songmistress at Taralan, the Fourth Age.

  Soong. An Ogier woman who was the mother of Ella mother of Covril; i.e., Loial’s great-grandmother.

  Sora Grady. Jur’s wife, who lived at the Black Tower. She was a plump, pale-haired woman; they had a son, Gadren, who was four years old. Jur bonded her with a version of the Warder’s bond.

  Soralle Step. Site of a famous battle in the history of the Borderlands, which Birgitte mentioned to Uno.

  Soran Milo. The author of The Killers of the Black Veil, which Rand read. Milo was a man who lived about six hundred years before the Last Battle. He wrote about the Aiel and described the Portal Stone on Chaendaer in the Waste; since he based most of his book on those who came to trade at the stedding in the Spine of the World where he was lo
cated, he got almost everything wrong. He did get the Portal Stone right; a peddler who had seen it described it to him.

  sorda. A fairly large rat found in the Waste which grew to as much as five pounds. Nocturnal, they were usually no threat to humans except for their uncanny ability to get into foodstores, defecating all over everything they didn’t eat. They were often found in packs or colonies, and surprising one of these would result in numerous painful bites. The flesh of the sorda was so rank that cats seldom ate them after killing them.

  Sorelana Alsahhan. A scholar in the time of the Trolloc Wars who wrote about Darkhounds.

  Sorelle. A Jenn Aiel woman who lived after the Breaking. The daughter of Adan and Siedre, she was a dreamer and died at twenty from a fever her dreams had told her was coming.

  Sorelle ay Marena. The Queen of Manetheren at the signing of the Compact of the Ten Nations.

  Soremaine. The site of a battle between Illian and the Whitecloaks during the Troubles, also known as the Whitecloak War. Lord Captain Pedron Niall set a trap there and captured King Stepaneos and would have destroyed his entire army if it were not for the valor of the Companions.

  Sorenthaine, Cemaile. See Cemaile Sorenthaine

  Sorevin, Carlinya. See Carlinya Sorevin

  sorfa. Tuon ordered a sul’dam to paint a damane’s welts from a caning with a tincture of this plant.

  Sorilea. A Wise One of the Jarra sept of the Chareen Aiel and of Shende Hold. Her strength level was about 57(35). A bony woman over two hundred years old, she had white hair, a leathery face and clear green eyes. Although she was weak in the One Power, her ji was great, giving her precedence over other Wise Ones. When Sorilea was angry, other Wise Ones sat quietly and clan chiefs made excuses to leave. On the way to Dumai’s Wells, Amys challenged Sorilea’s leadership and they worked out a compromise between them. Sorilea still had the leadership afterward, but she often consulted with Amys. She had a greatdaughter named Amaryn, whose youngest greatson was named Taric. Sorilea’s sister-son had a greatson named Feran. Sorilea’s apprentice was Surandha.

  When Rand was kidnapped, Sorilea broke tradition and said that the Wise Ones would fight to free him, and then went on to fight at Dumai’s Wells. After the battle, Sorilea and the Wise Ones made the rebel Aes Sedai apprentices and took custody of the loyalist Aes Sedai. Sorilea made common cause with Cadsuane to teach Rand laughter and tears, and taught Cadsuane the weave for Traveling.

  In the Last Battle, Sorilea fought at Shayol Ghul, and survived.

  Sormen, Fera. See Fera Sormen

  Soro. An Aiel with the ability to channel; he made algode grow when it should not and went to the Blight to spit in Sightblinder’s eye. He became a Samma N’Sei and was killed by Aviendha in the Last Battle.

  Sorrentin. A soldier in Ituralde’s army at Maradon. Ituralde sent him to tell the Asha’man that he wanted attacking Trollocs to go up in flames.

  Sotarin. An Aiel Wise One. When Rand and his party were returning to Cairhien from Dumai’s Wells, Sorilea sent Sotarin and Cosain to meet Feraighin, a Wise One who came from Cairhien.

  soul. Reincarnated souls, in the normal sense—not a Dark One–generated soul—maintain the same gender. So the Dragon Reborn, spun out at different turnings of the Wheel in different Ages, in order to rebalance the weaving of the Pattern, is always the same soul, and always male.

  Soulblinder. A Seanchan name for the Dark One.

  Soulless. See Gray Man

  Soulsbane. Another name for the Dark One.

  Souran Maravaile. Artur Hawkwing’s greatest general and husband to Ishara, the first to sit on the Lion Throne of Andor. He died by assassination, confronting four swordsmen, all of whom he killed, in the twenty-third year of the War of the Hundred Years.

  Source, True. See True Source

  South Bridge. A bridge town outside and south of Far Madding across the Goim Bridge.

  South Mettler. A village in Kandor. Bulen wanted Lan to go toward the village because the path was much easier and Bulen had a cousin who had a farm along the road.

  South Star, Nestelle din Sakura. See Nestelle din Sakura South Star

  South Wind, Tebreille din Gelyn. See Tebreille din Gelyn South Wind

  Southern Hoop, The. A scruffy, two-storied, white-plastered brick inn found in So Tehar, Altara. The group from Salidar, including Nynaeve, Elayne, Aviendha, Mat, Thom, Juilin and various other Aes Sedai, soldiers and Warders stayed there on their way to Ebou Dar.

  Southharbor. A southern port in Tar Valon on the River Erinin. Leane was captured there by Aes Sedai while making a cuendillar chain across the harbor entrance.

  Sovarra lace. Delicate aged-ivory lace that embellished Colavaere’s expensive silk gown.

  Sovin Nai. Old Tongue for “Knife Hands,” it was the name of an Aiel warrior society.

  span. A measure of distance equal to two paces; a thousand spans equaled a mile.

  Spar. A thug and Darkfriend who worked for Old Cully in Ebou Dar. A rat-faced man, he still had several teeth; his arms were all bone and sinew. Mat stabbed and killed Spar when attacked by him.

  spark. The natural ability of a person to channel; a man or woman born with the spark developed the ability to channel sooner or later even if they did not try to learn.

  Sparks. A wolf in Oak Dancer’s pack. Sparks helped Hopper to train Perrin in the wolf dream. Sparks, Oak Dancer and Boundless were trapped by the dreamspike, but Perrin and Hopper rescued them.

  Sparrow. The mare Toveine rode to the Black Tower.

  Speaker of Truth. See Soe’feia

  Speral. A worker for the Merchants’ Guild in So Habor. Mycal Crossin called for him to fetch grain samples three times, but he never showed.

  spiceapple tree. A tree found in the Age of Legends. In one of Rand’s flashbacks, Charn used to like to sit under spiceapple trees behind the inn and tell stories.

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

  Spine Ridge. A sept of the Miagoma Aiel.

  spinglass. A fragile material from the time of the Da’shain Aiel in the Age of Legends. Rushing to Collam Daan, Charn was knocked down by accident and the man apologized. Charn reflected that people thought the Aiel were made out of spinglass. Delicate sculptures were made from this material.

  spinning. An Age of Legends word that was the equivalent of weaving; spinning a web or spinning a net was the same as weaving a weave of the Power in the next Age.

  Spinning Earthfire. A Talent of unknown use, mentioned by Moghedien.

  Spirit. One of the Five Powers. See Five Powers

  Spiron Narettin den Sovar. An Illianer nobleman who was a member of the Council of Nine. He was sent eastward in the campaign against the Seanchan with as many Companions and men sworn to other members of the Nine as his own liegemen. He was sent to keep the peace in Illian.

  Splintered Hills. An area in Coremanda where Doreille, Queen of Aridhol, penned some of her finest poems.

  Spray. Bayle Domon’s river craft. It had two masts and was eighty feet long and broad in the beam. Yarin Maeldan was the second-in-command. Crew members included Aedwin Cole, Carn and Florin Gelb.

  sprigleaf. A plant that could be thrown on fires to cover up foul odors.

  Spring Pole. A stripped fir tree trunk upended in the ground, used as part of the festival of Bel Tine in Emond’s Field.

  Springhorn. The leader of a wolfpack that Perrin consulted, seeking information about Faile after she was abducted by the Shaido; Springhorn’s pack was unable to help.

  sprinklewort. As a parting gift before she and her companions left for Tar Valon, Mat gave Joline a bag of sweetbuns laced with sprinklewort so that her mouth would turn blue. Other uses for this plant are unknown.

  squadman. A noncommissioned officer, typically a cavalryman, who generally was in charge of approximately ten soldiers. In the infantry, the equivalent of a squadman was a file leader.

  staera. Slim, curved piece
s of bronze used by the Aiel in sweat tents to scrape sweat and dirt off their bodies.

  Stag, the. A constellation.

  Stag and Lion, The. A large four-storied inn in Baerlon, Andor. Master Fitch was the innkeeper, and Min worked there as a serving girl. Rand, Mat, Perrin, Moiraine, Lan, Nynaeve, Egwene and Thom all stayed there on the way to Tar Valon, fleeing Trollocs and Fades. While there, Rand had a dream of Ba’alzamon, and Padan Fain sent a Fade to attack them, forcing them to flee into the night. The inn was burned, but Moiraine had coin sent from Tar Valon to rebuild it; according to Min, Master Fitch was building it back twice as big.