The Wheel of Time Companion

by Robert Jordan

  Talmanes was a major figure in the Last Battle, evacuating Caemlyn and rescuing the dragons after the city was overrun by Trollocs, despite taking severe wounds. He worked with Aludra and the dragons and was indispensable in actions at Braem Wood, in the defense of Cairhien and at Merrilor.

  Talmour. A nation that arose after the Trolloc Wars.

  Talmouri. One from the nation of Talmour; an ancient adjective used by Birgitte. She said that Elayne was as proper as a Talmouri maiden except when she was putting her head on the chopping block.

  Talric. Adelorna’s Warder. He was wounded in the Seanchan attack on the White Tower.

  Talva. An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah publicly and of the Black Ajah in truth. Thin, with a bun of golden hair, she was killed accidentally in Tel’aran’rhiod by Alviarin, who threw a weave of Fire at Egwene; Egwene dodged it, and it burned Talva.

  Talvaen, Aleshin. See Aleshin Talvaen

  Tam al’Thor. Rand’s adoptive father. His full first name was Tamlin. He was a blocky, bluff man, about 5'10" tall, with brown eyes and hair that was mostly gray with a little black in 998 NE, but which turned completely gray by the time of the Last Battle. Tam was born in 940 NE to a farming and sheepherding family near Emond’s Field and ran away from home in 956 NE to see the world. He enlisted in the army of Illian in 957 NE. Service in the Whitecloak War from the summer of 957 NE through the autumn of 959 NE gained him an appointment to the elite Companions. He married Kari, a merchant’s daughter, in 965 NE; he and Kari had two children, a girl who died of a fever in infancy and a boy who was stillborn, after which Kari could no longer have children. He became a blademaster in 966 NE. He served in two wars with Tear, from 962 to 965 NE, gaining commission as an officer, and from 970 to 976 NE, rising to be Second Captain of the Companions. It was generally known that he would have received this honor sooner, and likely have risen to First Captain, had he been Illianer.

  He served in the Aiel War, 976–978 NE. After the Battle of the Shining Walls, Tam found an infant on the slopes of Dragonmount and took him to Kari. He, Kari and baby Rand returned to the Two Rivers. Life was calm and pastoral, except for Kari’s passing, until the Trolloc raid on Tam’s farm, where Tam was severely wounded, but he was Healed by Moiraine. After Rand left with Moiraine and Lan to fulfill his destiny as the Dragon Reborn, Tam and Abell Cauthon traveled to Tar Valon to try to find out what had happened to their sons; they didn’t learn much. Tam returned to Emond’s Field and after Perrin’s arrival helped organize the defense of Two Rivers against the Trollocs. Following Faile’s capture by the Shaido, Tam became Perrin’s First Captain in the battle at Malden, leading a large contingent of archers from the Two Rivers.

  Under Cadsuane’s influence, Tam tried to counsel Rand on approaching his position as the Dragon Reborn with humanity, but Rand nearly killed him when he realized he was being manipulated. The near disaster led to Rand’s epiphany on Dragonmount, and he reconciled with Tam.

  Before the Last Battle, Tam recruited more men from the Two Rivers, and when he went into battle again, it was with Perrin’s army, which he commanded after Perrin left to help Rand. (Perrin had also made him a lord and Steward of the Two Rivers.) As commander of this large force, Tam joined the rest of Mat’s forces at the Field of Merrilor, where he distinguished himself in battle.

  Tamaav. An elderly Aiel man, seen in Aviendha’s visions of the future in Rhuidean.

  Tamagowa, Samitsu. See Samitsu Tamagowa

  Tamala. A hawk-nosed novice in the White Tower whom Egwene recruited to help fight the Seanchan.

  Tamarath, Egeanin. See Egeanin Sarna

  Tamarla. An Altaran Kin who was a member of the Knitting Circle in Ebou Dar. Her strength level was 47(35); she would not have been allowed to test for Aes Sedai and was not strong enough to make a gateway of any size whatsoever. Born in 681 NE, she went to the White Tower in 696 NE. After spending two years as a novice she was put out because she had reached her potential and was not strong enough to test for Accepted. Tamarla was bone-lean, with olive skin, dark eyes and more white than black in her long hair. At the time that Elayne and Nynaeve encountered her, she was wearing the red belt of a Wise Woman. She was present at the meeting with the Windfinders in the Tarasin Palace, and part of manipulating them, on orders from Elayne and Nynaeve. She accompanied Elayne to the Royal Palace in Caemlyn.

  Tamela. A Wise One of the Goshien Aiel. She was as strong in the One Power as any Aes Sedai that Elayne had met except Nynaeve and was the equal of Cadsuane, with a strength level of 5(+8). Standing 5'9" tall, and bony, she had an angular, unlovely face; strong was the best anyone would say of it. Tamela did not look more than a half-dozen years older than Elayne or Aviendha. Elayne felt that Tamela sneered and looked down her nose when she saw her. She stood in for Aviendha’s mother at the first-sister ceremony.

  Tamika. Artur Hawkwing’s second wife. She met Hawkwing in FY 964 when he returned from the Aiel Waste; they married a year later. In FY 967 she gave birth to Luthair Paendrag Mondwin; she later had three or four more children, at least two of whom were daughters. Tamika was credited with bringing Hawkwing out of the Black Years. It was rumored that she was a renegade Aes Sedai. Tamika died in FY 987 of unknown causes.

  Tamlin al’Thor. See Tam al’Thor

  Tammaz. The eighth month of the year.

  Tammaz, Great Square of. In Illian; surrounded by huge white columns fifteen spans tall and two spans thick, topped with marble wreaths of olive branches. At the two ends of the square were nearly identical purple-roofed palaces, the King’s Palace and the slightly smaller Great Hall of the Council.

  Tammuz. An Illuminator. He worked with Aludra to create the display intended for Galldrian that was ignited by Rand, Lanfear and Loial when they hid out in the chapter house to escape Trollocs. The resulting fire damaged the chapter house. Tammuz and four other Illuminators followed Aludra and tried to kill her. They were thwarted by Mat, who came to her rescue.

  Tamore Alkohima. A Domani seamstress in Tar Valon. Fair-skinned for a Domani, she made Gitara look boyish. Moiraine and Siuan ordered dresses from her after being raised to Aes Sedai; Siuan did not behave properly toward her, and she made them pay for it by choosing what she wanted instead of what they wanted.

  Tamra Ospenya. An Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah with a strength level of 19(7). She was 5'4" tall, with a square face and hair streaked with gray. Tamra was raised to the Amyrlin Seat in 973 NE. She had a habit of not telling anyone more than she believed they needed to know. Too much information, she felt, clogged people’s thoughts and slowed necessary actions.

  She set Moiraine and Siuan looking for the babe her Keeper Gitara Moroso had proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn—what she actually set them doing, along with all of the other Accepted, was finding all women who had or were reported to have had babies in the vicinity of Tar Valon during the crucial time. Although she knew that the only child of interest would be one born on the west bank, preferably one who could be proved to have been born on Dragonmount, she felt it was necessary to hide the true object of the search; the openly given reason was to offer aid to the mothers in the form of a bounty of one hundred gold crowns. Tamra set them to this task claiming it was temporary and mainly to keep them quiet until she could bring in sisters she knew she could trust.

  She was found dead in her bed soon after High Chasaline in 979 NE and it was assumed that she had died in her sleep; she had actually been kidnapped and put to the question by the Black Ajah when they gained hints of what she was about. Largely because the Black sisters believed that she would be working only with experienced Aes Sedai, not a pair so newly raised, and because she herself thought them no longer involved—and also partly because the Black bungled matters in their haste—she did not reveal Moiraine’s and Siuan’s names. Most of the sisters she had taken into her confidence died within the next year, including those who were out of the Tower searching, and eventually all were disposed of by the Black Ajah or, in a very few cases, by true accidents and
natural deaths. So were a number of other senior sisters who the Black Ajah simply suspected might have been chosen by Tamra. The result was something of a pogrom among the most senior sisters of the Tower.

  Tamrin. A Taraboner who was head of the military in Tanchico.

  Tamsin Ituralde. Rodel Ituralde’s wife. She told him that if he died in battle, she would go after him and would be the first living person to haunt the dead.

  Tamyrlin, Ring of. See Ring of Tamyrlin

  Tanchico. The capital of Tarabon. It lay on the Aryth Ocean at the mouth of the River Andahar. Tanchico was built on three hilly peninsulas extending south into Tanchico Bay. From east to west the peninsulas were named Verana, Maseta and Calpene. A dozen fortresses surrounded the harbor. The Great Circle on the Calpene was a huge gathering place for horse races or fireworks. The King’s Circle was on the Maseta, and the Panarch’s Circle and Panarch’s Palace were on the Verana. The Civil Watch kept order in the city.

  Tanchico Bay. The body of water formed by the River Andahar meeting the Aryth Ocean on the west coast of Tarabon.

  Tandar. A feast celebrated on the ninth day of Maigdhal. No one was supposed to let Tandar end while still holding a grudge or having a disagreement with anyone. Although the intent was that such things should be made up, it was not unknown for festivities to be marred by an attempt to fulfill the requirement in quite another way.

  Tando. An Andoran Youngling who was guarding the mayor’s house in Dorlan when Gawyn saw Katerine leave.

  Tanera. A short, dark sul’dam killed during Semirhage’s attempted capture of Rand. Her damane, Miri, also died during the action.

  Tanhal, Stedding. A stedding located in Arafel.

  Tanisloe, Serafelle. See Serafelle Tanisloe

  Tanreall, Artur Paendrag. See Artur Hawkwing

  Tar Valon. An independent city-state, and a walled island on the River Erinin; location of the White Tower. The government was administered by a council of Aes Sedai chosen by the Hall of the Tower. It included a Great Library and an Ogier Grove. It suffered a great fire in FY 642. Some slight damage was done to the White Tower itself, and to the Tower library. Its population reached 500,000 to 700,000 people before the Last Battle.

  Tar Valon, Battle of. See Battle of the Shining Walls, the

  Tar Valon Gate. One of the city gates in Caemlyn; it opened onto the Tar Valon Road.

  Tar Valon Road. A thoroughfare leading out of Caemlyn toward Tar Valon.

  Tarabon. A nation south of the Almoth Plain on the Aryth Ocean; its capital was Tanchico. Tarabon’s sigil was a golden tree with a thick bole and spreading branches balanced by spreading roots below: the Tree, or the Golden Tree. Its banner was the Golden Tree on a field vertically striped red and white: four red and three white.

  Tarabon was founded in approximately FY 1006. In that year, Lord Haren Maseed, Lady Tazenia Nerenhald and Lord Boral Amadia, three powerful nobles who had held high positions in Hawkwing’s regional government, took Tanchico and proclaimed the coastal region around the city, a region then called Tarabon, an independent nation. They adopted the form of government that had been used in Balasun, with a ruler (King or Queen) balanced by a Panarch (who could be male or female as well, although always the opposite gender from the ruler), with an Assembly consisting of nobles, wealthy merchants and guild representatives to balance both ruler and Panarch. Lord Boral was considered the leader of the three, a former provincial governor and general under Hawkwing, but he was murdered and Lady Tazenia became Queen Tazenia, and Lord Haren became the Panarch Haren. Tarabon, consisting of little more than the city of Tanchico, was immediately attacked by forces wanting to reestablish Balasun, but Tarabon survived, although it took to the very end of the War of the Hundred Years to grow to a stable size. The dual-ruler form of government remained unchanged for several hundred years after the war, but by approximately 500 NE, the ruler was always a king, the Panarch was always female, and the Assembly consisted solely of nobles and had lost almost all of its power. The right to name the new Panarch was one of the few remaining real powers the Assembly had, and it was guarded jealously. The Panarch of Tanchico was the equal of the King in authority. She was responsible for collecting taxes, customs and duties; he for spending them properly. She controlled the Civil Watch and the courts, except for the High Court, which was the King’s. The army was his, except for the Panarch’s Legion, which was hers.

  At the time of the Seanchan invasion, as far as most of the rest of the world knew, anarchy and civil war were ripping Tarabon apart. There seemed to be no order anywhere in the country. Claimants for the throne fought against the King, each other, the Dragonsworn and brigands. The Whitecloaks withdrew after events in Tanchico, for which they got most of the blame from Taraboners who knew anything at all about them. Into that boiling pot, the Seanchan under the High Lady Suroth took the city of Tanchico, then took all of Tarabon. Tanchico fell shortly after Elayne and Nynaeve left. Rumors spread of Artur Hawkwing’s armies coming back and of Aes Sedai fighting in battles, taken by many only as evidence of confusion in that country. Various warring noble Houses tried to go it alone or to play for position, making alliances they intended to break. Most of them simply did not realize what or who the Seanchan were. Most were forced into submission to the Seanchan, as were many of the Dragonsworn. The Seanchan raised large numbers of troops among the Taraboners. The King’s Life Guard numbered about three thousand men, when it existed. It was dispersed by the Seanchan, though many of the surviving men were incorporated into the Seanchan forces. The Panarch’s Legion consisted of about three thousand men on land and about a thousand to fifteen hundred on ships, when it existed. Like the Life Guard, it was dispersed by the Seanchan, though many of the survivors were incorporated into levies raised by the Seanchan. Unlike most other nations, Tarabon did have a permanent naval force, but it was part of the Panarch’s Legion, not a separate force. Its primary function was quelling pirate activities. It was dispersed with the rest of the Panarch’s Legion.

  Taraboners called themselves the Tree of Man and claimed to be descended from rulers in the Age of Legends; their sign was the Tree of Life, although they did not have any belief that they ever possessed a sapling of Avendesora.

  With the civil unrest, Tarabon’s trade died, but the Seanchan conquest led to a revival. They established trade with Amadicia, and resumed trade with Ebou Dar shortly after the city fell to the Seanchan. Men and women who swore the oaths were free to trade.

  Tarabon produced dyes, rugs and carpets that were considered some of the best, and lace, also considered among the finest. Tarabon was the third-largest supplier of olives and olive oil after Tear and Illian. Wine, hides and leather and nuts were also produced in Tarabon. The nation had a number of silver mines, but few gold mines, and intricate silverwork and goldwork of distinctive patterns and styles were produced, as well as swords and daggers, many highly decorated.

  Taralan. A place in the Fourth Age where Boanne, the composer of Do’in Toldara te, Songs of the Last Age, Quarto Nine: The Legend of the Dragon, was Songmistress.

  Taramasu, Kwamesa. See Kwamesa Taramasu

  Tarasin Palace. In Ebou Dar, the royal palace of Queen Tylin, and then her son Beslan. Situated on Mol Hara Square, the palace took up one entire side of the square. Made of marble and white-plastered stone, it had shining domes, slender spires and colonnades three and four stories high.

  Tarasind, Saine. Mesaana’s name before becoming Forsaken.

  Taravin, House. A major noble House in Andor. Its High Seat was Dyelin; its sign the Owl and Oak. See Dyelin Taravin

  tarchrot. The bad-tasting leaf of this plant was used to poison Milisair Chadmar in Ebou Dar; Nynaeve was able to Heal her, as the poison was slow-acting.

  Taren Ferry. An Andoran village, north of Emond’s Field and Watch Hill on the North Road, where the only crossing of the River Taren was found. Its people had a reputation for slyness and trickery. The stone houses in the village were tall; high redstone foundations
were necessary when the spring melt in the Mountains of Mist made the river overflow its banks. Moiraine and Lan, leading Rand and the others out of Emond’s Field after the Trolloc attacks on Winternight, went there to take a ferry across the Taren; after they crossed, Moiraine destroyed the ferry to delay the Shadowspawn chasing them. Later, Whitecloaks under Dain Bornhald entered the village and laid down the law to the villagers; across the river at a Tinker camp, three Tinkers disappeared after questioning by Padan Fain. The Whitecloaks guarded Taren Ferry and points south against Shadowspawn, controlling crossings of the river; nonetheless Trollocs were able to destroy the village. After the Trolloc raid, nearly half the house foundations supported only piles of ash and charred beams.

  Taren Ferry was repopulated after the Trolloc raid, and Perrin was angry when Faile tried to interfere in the village’s politics. Sometime after Perrin left the Two Rivers, Taren Ferry was destroyed again.

  Verin was amazed at the potential in the Power of girls from the Two Rivers, but the same potential was not found in Taren Ferry, which had mixed more with outsiders.

  Taren River. The upper river of the Two Rivers in Andor, flowing southeast from the Mountains of Mist to the River Manetherendrelle.

  Tarendrelle. Name of the River Taren during the Trolloc Wars. In Moiraine’s story of Aemon and the fall of Manetheren, she said that if he could hold at the Tarendrelle for three days, aid was promised; that aid did not come.