The Wheel of Time Companion

by Robert Jordan

  Tremalking Splice, The. A waterfront inn located in Southharbor in Tar Valon. Mat went there to satisfy his gambling urge while trying to escape from the Aes Sedai and the city; he won a big purse.

  Tremonsien. A village in Cairhien, perched on top of a terraced hill. Tremonsien was a precisely laid-out village, with square stone houses on uniform lots and streets marked out in grid fashion. The short inhabitants, pale and thin-faced, were friendly, and wives talked with each other standing at the half doors of their houses. While Rand, Hurin, Loial and Selene were transporting the dagger and Horn of Valere back to Cairhien, they passed an excavation of a giant sphere held by an immense hand; it was a sa’angreal, one of the two Choedan Kal. They stayed at The Nine Rings in Tremonsien, and Selene slipped away in the night. Captain Caldevwin sent his soldiers to escort Rand’s group to Cairhien. Much later, when Rand and Nynaeve were cleansing saidin, a brandy merchant on his way to The Nine Rings saw the intense brightness from the sa’angreal in the pit and it struck him with terror.

  Triben. A Saldaean soldier who accompanied Nynaeve to the Gull’s Feast in Ebou Dar. A hawk-faced man with a short, trimmed mustache and a scar across his forehead, he kicked down the door to the chandler’s shop where Milisair’s prisoners were being kept and helped subdue the occupants.

  Trolloc Wars. An invasion of Trollocs from the Blight that began around 1000 AB and lasted about 350 years, destroying the Compact of the Ten Nations. The Trolloc defeat at the Battle of Maighande was the turning point in the wars.

  Trollocs. A variety of Shadowspawn, created before the War of the Shadow to serve as soldiers for the Dark One. Created from a very precise blending of human and animal genetic material in which both the One Power and the True Power were used, they were not simply vaguely human beasts. Male Trollocs stood eight to ten feet tall; the head and the face were human except for two features. Where a human’s mouth and nose should be, a Trolloc had either an animal’s snout or a bird of prey’s beak. The second is that they had the proper animal’s ears and horns, if applicable, or, in the case of those with beaks, a crest of feathers instead of hair. Those of completely mammalian origin had considerable hair, very coarse and dark, but in a human pattern; they would have this hair on the backs of the hands and fingers, for example, and were not covered with fur. They did not have claws on their hands, which were human except in size, but some did have hooves. There were births with a bird’s claws instead of feet, or animal’s paws instead of hands, but such offspring were killed. Some Trollocs had mixed characteristics, exhibiting, say, the horns and muzzle of one sort of creature and the feet of another. Even more rare was to have the horns or ears or feathers of one sort and the muzzle of another. Most of these mixed Trollocs were considered unviable by the Trollocs themselves and were exposed to the elements at birth. A few managed to survive, and were generally more intelligent than most Trollocs, though this was not necessarily saying a great deal. Trollocs were intelligent enough to know where they came from, and they loathed pure humans. There were female Trollocs, but they simply existed as breeders, birthing and protecting their young.

  Typically male Trollocs wore dark leather and long shirts of black mail with spikes at elbows and shoulders. They did not wear helmets. Their primary weapons were oddly spiked axes, spears with peculiar razor-sharp hooks and swords that curved the wrong way, like scythe blades. They occasionally used bows with barbed arrows the size of small spears. Normally of fairly low intelligence, they were bloodthirsty, enjoyed inflicting pain and would kill anything for the fun of it. Where Trollocs struck, they left nothing alive that they could catch. They also ate anything, including people, and they did not always kill their prey before beginning the butchering.

  Trollocs were fierce, treacherous and afraid of almost nothing, but they could not be trusted if they were not afraid of whoever was leading them. One creature that Trollocs feared was the Myrddraal. Sometimes the result of a Trolloc birth was not another Trolloc but a throwback almost to the original human stock, yet tainted by the evil of the Dark One. Before the discovery of the Myrddraal, Trollocs could not be controlled; the Myrddraal, however, could make them obey. It was also able to link with groups of Trollocs, each Trolloc so controlled becoming like extensions of the Myrddraal’s hands. The only weakness then was the Myrddraal; if it was killed, all the Trollocs to which it was linked died as well.

  Trollocs were terrified of deep water and were unable to swim. A Trolloc would not wade even waist-deep in water if he could find any way to avoid it.

  There were twelve named tribe-like bands of Trollocs: Ahf’frait, Al’ghol, Bhan’sheen, Dha’vol, Dhai’mon, Dhjin’nen, Ghar’ghael, Ghob’hlin, Gho’hlem, Ghraem’lan, Ko’bal and the Kno’mon. Another band, of those with added-in genetic material of digging/burrowing animals, were used as miners in siege operations. There was considerable animosity between the bands; they were bound together largely by fear of the Dark One and overwhelming hatred of humans.

  Trom. An officer in the Children of the Light. Stocky, with a square face and black hair, he was in Samara with Galad. Trom led the Whitecloaks who captured Paitr Conel and Torwyn Barshaw. After the Whitecloaks were defeated by the Seanchan at Jeramel, he was promoted to Lord Captain. He supported Galad in his duel against Valda and acted as Arbiter. When Galad defeated Valda, Trom pointed out that Galad had become Lord Captain Commander of the Children. Trom became Galad’s second-in-command; he died in the Last Battle.

  Trost. A young man from the Two Rivers who went to the Black Tower. He was worried about Logain’s prolonged absence, and talked to Androl about it.

  Troubles. The name given the Whitecloak War by the Children of the Light. See Whitecloak War

  True Bloods. An Aiel warrior society also known as Tain Shari.

  True Defender of the Light. See Dragon, the

  True Power. The power drawn directly from the Dark One. Only the Dark One could tell if the True Power was being used; it was undetectable by other channelers, even those who could wield the True Power. Only the Dark One could grant access to it; it was highly addictive, and had the side effect of saa, dark flecks that passed across the user’s eyeballs. If the True Power was employed long enough, it would produce the “caverns of flame” effect in a person’s eyes and mouth. Summoning the True Power at Shayol Ghul would have normally resulted in annihilation of the individual.

  Even some of the Forsaken were reluctant to call on the True Power; it was thought that only twenty-nine people were ever accorded the right to tap into it. Traveling with the True Power caused one to seem to fade in and out of existence; when fading, the Traveler could see the place being Traveled to before going there. If the Traveler disappeared suddenly, it meant that the Traveler appeared immediately in the new place without any opportunity to see what was there, a riskier mode of Travel. Moridin tried to channel the True Power through Callandor against Rand at Shayol Ghul during the Last Battle, but because of Callandor’s flaws, Rand, Moiraine and Nynaeve were able to wrest control of the True Power from Moridin, wrapping it in the One Power, and turning it against the Dark One.

  True Source. The driving force of the universe, which turned the Wheel of Time. It was divided into a male half (saidin) and a female half (saidar), which worked at the same time with and against each other. Only a man could draw on saidin, only a woman on saidar, unless linked in a circle. From the beginning of the Time of Madness, saidin was tainted by the Dark One’s touch; Rand, linked with Nynaeve and using the Choedan Kal, cleansed the taint from it.

  true-name day. A celebratory Seanchan custom. There was six years’ difference between the naming day, usually one’s day of birth, and the true-name day. So, when Tuon celebrated her fourteenth true-name day, she also had her twentieth birthday.

  trueheart. A yellow-blossomed plant. Erith gave a trueheart flower to Loial.

  Truthspeaker. See Soe’feia

  tsag. An obscenity in the Old Tongue uttered by Sammael.

  Tsao, Chowin. An Aes Sed
ai of the Green Ajah who served as advisor to Artur Hawkwing before he initiated the siege of the White Tower.

  Tsingu ma choba. Old Tongue for “You honor this unworthy one.”

  Tsingu ma Choshih, T’ingshen. Old Tongue for “You honor me, Treebrother.”

  Tsochan, Stedding. A stedding located in the forests north of the River Ivo.

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

  Tsofu, Stedding. A stedding located in Cairhien. Alar was the Eldest of the Elders there, and it was Erith’s home. Rand, Mat, Perrin, Verin and Shienaran soldiers visited there before attempting to use the nearby Waygate to go to Toman Head.

  Tsomo Nasalle. A city in the Age of Legends.

  Tsorov’ande Doon. Old Tongue for “Black-Souled Tempests,” it was the name used by Seanchan for men who could channel.

  Tsorovan’m’hael. A rank assigned Charl Gedwyn by Taim; it indicated that he was second to Taim. It was Old Tongue for “Storm Leader.”

  Tsutama Rath. A Kandori Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah and the loyalist contingent, with a strength level of 21(9). Born in 827 NE, she went to the White Tower in 841 NE. After spending seven years as a novice and six years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 854 NE. About 5'5" tall, with a full bosom, large dark eyes and luxuriant black hair, Tsutama would have been pretty, even beautiful, except that she wore a permanently angry expression that almost overwhelmed her agelessness. She often wore all crimson, so bright that it might have given the most ardent Red pause, and cut tightly, molding her breasts or exposing them, as if daring anyone to comment. She was raised a Sitter for the Red in 964 NE and was forced to resign in 985 NE following the discovery of the male channeler pogrom. Although the true circumstances were kept secret for the good of the White Tower, she suffered a penance in the Tower just short of being publicly birched (it was done privately), and then was exiled, a supposedly voluntary retreat that lasted until she was recalled after Elaida took the stole. Elaida considered her broken by her experiences, and, like Lirene, she was broken in many ways. She was afraid of being caught out in any further wrongdoing; she was more angry than ashamed about her penances, including the birching.

  Tsutama stopped hating men, though she had come to that earlier; her one consolation during her painful exile was an affair that she began with a man, almost in desperation to find some solace. Unlike either Toveine or Lirene, she thought about the possibility of taking some sort of vengeance on the entire Red Ajah, indeed the entire White Tower. The Tower shamed her and exiled her, her own Ajah did nothing to support or help her, and she wanted them all to pay.

  After Galina was reported killed at Dumai’s Wells, Tsutama was named Highest of the Red Ajah. She ordered Pevara and Tarna to take a group to the Black Tower and bond Asha’man.

  Tuandha. A Maiden of the Spear who was with Sulin and Perrin at Malden. About 5'8" tall, and younger than Sulin, she had lost her right eye and had a thick scar that ran from her chin up under her shoufa; it pulled up a corner of her mouth in a half-smile. Tuandha and Sulin were with Perrin when he first looked at Malden.

  Tuatha’an. A wandering folk, also known as the Tinkers and as the Traveling People, who lived in brightly painted wagons and followed a pacifistic philosophy called the Way of the Leaf. A Tuatha’an would not do violence to another human being even to save his or her own life or the lives of loved ones. Things mended by Tinkers were often better than new, but the Tuatha’an were shunned by many villages because of stories that they stole children and tried to convert young people to their beliefs. They were among the few peoples who could cross the Aiel Waste unmolested, for the Aiel strictly avoided all contact with them.

  The Tuatha’an were a group that had split off from the Da’shain Aiel, the first division of the Da’shain, when they became fed up with violence against them by people who saw them as easy marks. They abandoned their covenant to serve the Aes Sedai, and began traveling to find a safe place to live and to find the song that their legend held was lost during the Breaking, the finding of which they thought would return conditions to the paradise of the Age of Legends. After the second division of the Da’shain caused by some rejecting the Way of the Leaf and beginning to use weapons for defense, those willing to use weapons eventually became the only surviving Aiel. In fact, the Tuatha’an were the only descendants of the original Da’shain Aiel who maintained the Way of the Leaf and were called the Lost Ones by the Aiel, who held them in disdain. As banditry and lawlessness increased, the danger to them grew; many fled to Seanchan-controlled areas for safety.

  The Tinkers continued to search in vain for the song they would never find, because the song they were looking for did not exist. See also Aiel, Da’shain Aiel and Jenn Aiel

  Tuck Padwhin. A carpenter in Emond’s Field. Egwene thought that Siuan looked at her and Nynaeve the way Master Padwhin looked at his tools. When Trollocs attacked Emond’s Field, Tuck participated in the defense.

  Tuel. A region of Seanchan that Sarek had designs on, as learned by Rand and Aviendha when they Traveled to Seanchan.

  Tuli. The damane name that Renna forced on Egwene as punishment.

  Tumad Ahzkan. A Saldaean man who was one of Bashere’s young officers, a lieutenant destined for higher command. About 6'2" tall, and heavy-shouldered, with a hatchet nose and a luxuriant black beard as well as thick mustaches, he walked like a man more accustomed to a saddle under him than his own feet, using a slightly rolling gait, but he handled the sword at his hip smoothly when he bowed. He was killed when the Trollocs attacked Algarin’s manor in Tear.

  Tunaighan Hills. An area somewhere to the south of Caemlyn. The region produced a wine which bore its name; Rand served it to Andoran nobles, and Berelain gave Gendar and Santes a cask to take to Masema’s camp when they were spying on him.

  Tuon Athaem Kore Paendrag. Daughter of the Nine Moons and second daughter of Radhanan, the Empress of Seanchan. She had a number of siblings, among them sisters Ravashi, Chimal and Aurana. At the time of the Corenne she was favored by the Empress to succeed and named to lead the Return. The Empress liked her heirs to contend, so that the strongest and most cunning would rule Seanchan. Tuon’s personal banner was two golden lions harnessed to an ancient war cart, and the symbol of the Daughter of the Nine Moons was the Raven-and-Roses. Born in 981 NE, she was 4'11" tall and almost boyishly slim. Her face was heart-shaped and quite beautiful, with large, liquid eyes of a chocolate brown; her hair was silky black and straight. She had full lips and a very dark complexion. Her personality was quiet, reserved and thoughtful; she could grow angry, of course, but seldom let it show as heat. Highly intelligent, and very capable in the shifting and dangerous world of the Seanchan court, she also was quite skilled in personal self-defense. She was not only respected and obeyed by those who served her, she was loved by them. Tuon was an excellent rider and knew a good bit about horses, including training them. She rode in what in later Ages would be called steeplechase events and also dressage.

  Tuon had, like every other woman in Seanchan, been tested to see whether she was marath’damane, and she was not. She passed the test for sul’dam, but because she was who she was, she was not expected to train as a sul’dam. She did so, however, though she never served as one; she had a keenness for it, though, rather in the manner of someone keen to train dogs for field trials or horses for steeplechase or dressage. She did own a number of damane, though she employed sul’dam for handling them. When she learned about sul’dam being able to learn to channel, it did not worry her; they did not channel, and that was the key. So long as they refused to learn, they were all right in her book.

  Tuon, with her Voice Selucia and her Truthspeaker Anath, sailed with the Corenne to Ebou Dar aboard the Victory of Kidron; just before they arrived, Lidya, a damane, gave her a Foretelling: “Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly, for he will marry you and carry you away. Beware the man who remembers Hawkwing’s face, for he will marry you and set you free. Beware the man of the red hand, fo
r him you will marry and none other.”

  In Ebou Dar, she met Mat, saw his ring with a running fox and two ravens in flight, surrounded by nine crescent moons, and offered to buy him. She caught Mat as he was getting ready to escape Ebou Dar; he and Noal took her into custody.

  When Egeanin revealed that Tuon was the Daughter of the Nine Moons, Mat announced three times that Tuon was his wife. He took Tuon and Selucia with his group to Valan Luca’s show. While they traveled, Mat tried to court Tuon; some of his efforts met with more success than others. A necklace was spurned, but a Domani razor was greatly appreciated. When Renna tried to go to Seanchan troops, Tuon wrote a document putting Luca’s show under her protection in case Renna reached the Seanchan, but excluded Mat. In Maderin, Tuon asked Mat to take her to a hell; at Thom’s suggestion he took her to a slightly higher-class establishment, The White Ring. Thom learned that Seanchan soldiers had been told that a Daughter of the Nine Moons imposter was on the loose, meaning Tuon’s life was in danger. On leaving The White Ring, the party was attacked; Mat killed all the men attacking him, and Tuon killed the women. Selucia and Thom killed others. They decided to leave Luca’s show, and Mat tried to find a way to return Tuon to Ebou Dar safely. The group met up with the Band of the Red Hand. Furyk Karede, who had been trying to find Tuon to get her to safety, found Mat’s people; when Tuon said that she trusted Karede, Mat said that Karede could take her back to Ebou Dar, and that he, the Band and some Deathwatch Guards would attempt to ambush those thinking to kill her.

  As all of Lidya’s Foretelling had transpired, Tuon announced three times that Mat was her husband, completing the marriage. She returned safely to Ebou Dar and learned that her mother and family were dead; when Musenge brought her the head of Elbar, Suroth’s man, Tuon made Suroth da’covale and turned her over to the Deathwatch Guard until her hair was long enough for her to be sold.

  At Rand’s request, Tuon met with him at Falme, but the meeting did not go well. The darkness that she sensed in him made her able to resist his ta’veren effect. She ordered a strike on the White Tower, proclaimed herself Empress and took the name Fortuona Athaem Devi Paendrag.