7.2 The title adopted by Taim, it means 'leader' in the Old Tongue.

5.3 The woman who supposedly founded the Compact of the Ten Nations after the Breaking. She was ta'veren.

5.27 A Warder.

6.28 An Andoran Lord who opposed Gaebril.

1.43 In the Old Tongue, 'Black Wind'. Refers to the creature that lives inside the Ways, a formless wind that whispers gruesome things in the voice of madmen, causing madness in those it touches.

8.6 A Seanchan killed by Aviendha at the farm of the Kin.

3.31 A woman Thom knows at The Woman of Tanchico inn in Tar Valon.

7.38 Founder of Altara.

7.38 A festival celebrating the founder of Altara.

4.29 Perrin's aunt, wife of Eward. She is killed by Trollocs.

7.16 A serving man in Tarasin Palace.

8.2 He is a Darkfriend serving Moridin. In a fit of rage, Moridin kills Madic.

5.22 King of Eharon, one of the Ten Nations, four or five hundred years before the Trolloc Wars.

4.41 Faile's brother, two years younger than she.

7.0 A Shaido Aiel. A Seia Doon.

7.40 Married to Dyrele.

2.4 Old Tongue for 'Little Uncle', the nickname by which Lady Amalisa calls King Easar of Shienar.

4.29 Perrin's aunt, who was married to Perrin's father's brother, Eward. She was killed by Trollocs along with the rest of Perrin's family.

6.30 An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah.

8.19 She is a Sitter for the Salidar Hall.

2.21 Innkeeper of the Nine Rings in Tremonsien, in Cairhien.

6.49 A Warder that Min is friends with.

3.30 A dice game.

2.28 See Far Dareis Mai.

4.2 A game among Aiel Maidens of the Spear in which a group of Maidens surrounds a man with their spears and takes turns kissing him. If it is a good kiss, they pull back on their spears; if it is a bad kiss, they push harder with them.

2.4 An Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah.

5.1 Presumably Admer's wife.

4.25 In Rand's experience in Rhuidean, sister to Lewin, daughter of Saralin. She is a Jenn Aiel who is captured by townspeople and rescued by her brother and his friends. Her brother Lewin is disowned for having done murder.

5.23 A Maiden of the Spear of the Serai sept of the Tomanelle Aiel.

7.5 An attendant to Colavaere who told Faile that Colavaere planned to break her oath of fealty to Rand, among other things. She disappeared shortly after telling Faile, and is presumed dead.

5.38 A woman who brings her traveling menagerie to Samara.

7.20 The name Sammael gives for Graendal when he brings her with him to deal with the Shaido Wise Ones. Given her reaction to his use of the name, it is probably her real name.

4.2 The woman in charge of the servants in the Stone of Tear.

2.23 In Nynaeve's Accepted testing, she is a cruel woman from Watch Hill who replaced her as Wisdom of Emond's Field.

8.20 A plaintive noblewoman. She is slim, has a thin scar on one cheek, and a stern face.

7.13 Sailmistress of Windrunner and Wavemistress of Clan Somarin.

6.35 A Sitter of the Hall of the Tower in Salidar.

8.19 She is of the Green Ajah, described as having a round face and fierce eyes.

8.19 She is stocky, Domani with the usual copper skin, and square-faced. She is not easily startled.

7.33 An Aiel Maiden of the Spear. She is rounder than most Maidens, and has very dark hair for an Aiel.

6.32 An Aiel Wise One.

6.54 Ferryman in Cairhien.

1.13 Means 'Blade' in the Old Tongue. The name of Lan's horse.

4.25 The first man to enter Rhuidean to become a clan chief. Rand experiences a brief part of the man's life in his own experiences in Rhuidean. In Rand's experience, Mandein is husband to Sealdre. He is forty, a young sept chief.

5.2 An Aiel clan chief.

4.57 A Goshien Aiel.

8.21 See Rochaid.

1.9 The mountain city that once existed in the Two Rivers.

4.7 An Aiel that Gaul knows.

5.30 He is of the Jindo Tardaad.

6.38 A scout for the Band of the Red Hand.

4.47 A childhood friend of Siuan Sanche.

8.13 A member of the Council of Nine of Illian. He is wide with a stolid manner, with more the carriage of a craftsman.

4.12 A High Lord of Tear.

6.26 A Queen of Andor during the War of the Hundred Years.

9.19 Setalle Anan's daughter, who works as a serving maid at The Wandering Woman. She is plump with big hazel eyes.

6.9 An Amadician noblewoman who is one of Morgase's attendants in the Fortress of the Light. She is the sister of the High Seat of House Algoran.

6.9 See Marande.

2.40 In the Old Tongue, 'Those Who Must Be Leashed'. In other words, women who can channel.

6.10 A young woman from the Two Rivers who can channel.

6.8 Twin sister of Charel.

6.9 An Amadician noblewoman who is one of Morgase's attendants in the Fortress of the Light.

2.23 In Nynaeve's Accepted testing, her and Lan's son.

6.27 An Aielman.

5.49 A widowed refugee from Samara who was forced to flee from those made suspicious by her cures with herbs. She has two sons, Jaril and Seve.

6.0 In truth, she is Moghedien.

9.8 A Seanchan damane held by the Kin.

3.25 One of the thirteen Black Ajah that left the White Tower with Liandrin. She likes cats and always tries to help injured animals.

4.38 Before becoming Black Ajah, she was a Brown.

1.9 See Mistress al'Vere.

4.26 In Rand's experience in Rhuidean, a child of Adan's who dies.

5.45 A Cairhienin Lord.

6.53 He is killed by poison.

6.10 A young woman from the Two Rivers who can channel.

2.36 A girl in Emond's Field that Mat says thinks he's handsome, and who Rand describes as being almost as pretty as Egwene.

2.45 Someone in the White Tower that Elayne threw a cup at.

7.1 One of the Aes Sedai who was behind Rand's capture.

9.8 A Seanchan sul'dam held by the Kin.

8.9 An Aiel Wise One. She has dark purplish eyes, and nearly black hair.

6.47 In Ebou Dar, a man gives a woman a knife when they marry. If the man displeases the woman, she may use the knife to kill him, with no threat of punishment.

3.13 An Aes Sedai in the White Tower that Leane sends Faolain to for punishment.

8.2 The last sister to study ter'angreal, over twenty-five years ago. She had been studying them for over forty years before she burned herself out. Her Warder died from the shock.

3.46 Guardsman-lieutenant in the Royal Palace of Caemlyn.

9.0 An inventor at Rand's school in Cairhien who has made large kites she calls gliders that allow a person to float on the wind.

4.13 A name Mat hears in a tavern in Tear.

2.3 A Shienaran soldier.

2.10 He served three years in the Eastern Marches against the Aiel at Ankor Dail. As a result, he hates Aiel.

4.11 A peninsula of Tarabon that lies between the Verana, to the east, and the Calpene, to the west.

7.6 A woman who bore seven children for a man she despised. Faile mentions her to prove her point that Aes Sedai will do or tolerate anything for the Tower.

2.8 A word in the Old Tongue meaning beloved of heart and soul, but a love lost beyond regaining.

6.52 A man killed in a duel by Baris, in Ebou Dar.

5.19 An Andoran Lord who was against Morgase during the Succession. His house is Caeren, whose sign is a star and sword.

1.30 Cabinet maker in Emond's Field.

7.23 Someone mentioned by Berowin.

6.10 Innkeeper of Culain's Hound in Caemlyn.

1.11 Ferryman of Taren Ferry.

6.0 A man in the Two Rivers who tiles roofs.

8.6 A caretaker at a manor owned by Morgase.

8.20 He is stout, and gray-haired. His wife is Mistress Hornwell.

1.33 Innkeeper of the Queen's Man, on the Caemlyn Road.

4.47 The mason in charge of building an addition to the library in the White Tower.

6.5 The only position of rank among Atha'an Miere higher than Swordmaster.

2.12 Carpenter in Emond's Field.

1.1 The miller of Emond's Field. His mill is between Emond's Field and the Waterwood.

6.41 An Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah. She is from Arafel.

3.2 A Shienaran.

5.47 A straitlaced woman Birgitte knows of who had a man executed for seeing her naked. When a man called Zheres stole a kiss from her, she became so besotted that he had to live on a mountain to escape her.

7.16 A serving woman in Tarasin Palace.

1.1 Closest friend of Rand al'Thor. He is an infamous mischief-maker of Emond's Field who never seems to grow up.

5.41 King of Illian.

6.9 His sign is the Three Leopards.

99.1 The port district of Tear.

1.16 Woman from Deven Ride who temporarily replaces Nynaeve as Wisdom when she leaves Emond's Field.

6.25 An Aes Sedai who will be joining Elaida's embassy in Cairhien.

7.39 Serving girl at The Old Sheep. She is remarkably pretty, but not very bright.

2.22 A false Dragon from Saldaea. He can channel.

5.54 An Aiel who is a Cor Darei, or Night Spear.

4.2 Someone known to the young lords of Tear.

9.6 She is one of Faile's followers, one of the women who took up the fighting and ji'e'toh in imitation of the Aiel. She is tall, has bright blue eyes, a dark face, and is close to beautiful. Daughter of Astoril.

9.6 See Medore.

7.3 An Aiel Wise One.

4.8 A High Lord of Tear.

6.53 He is killed by a footpad's knife.

7.0 A Shaido Wise One.

3.39 An Aiel Wise One.

4.12 She is of the Jhirad sept fo the Goshien Aiel. She is a dreamwalker.

5.43 A Tairen Lord. He is killed in an attack by the Shaido.

2.13 Hurin's wife.

5.3 A Shaido Maiden of the Spear, of the Jumai sept. She expresses interest in Mat.

5.24 A heroine in the stories Egwene reads in The Flame, the Blade and the Heart.

7.37 An Ebou Dari Wise Woman from Arad Doman. She is plump. A member of the Knitting Circle of the Kin.

5.0 An Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah who is chosen to go to Saldaea and counsel Queen Tenobia.

8.0 An Aielman assigned to Verin to be a guide in the Aiel camp outside Cairhien. He is algai'd'siswai. He has stunning blue eyes.

5.40 One of the Shienarans who accompanies Uno. He is killed in a duel.

6.4 A Cairhienin soldier.

8.0 Wife of King Paitar of Arafel.

6.27 An Aiel woman.

7.40 "Brotherless" in the Old Tongue. It is the term used to describe the algai'd'siswai that fled their clans and joined the Shaido because they don't believe Rand is the Car'a'carn.

8.8 A Cha Faile. She is Tairen, dark and stocky, Faile's height.

6.41 An Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah. She is from Caemlyn.

5.30 A Cairhienin lord. His con bears wavy vertical lines of red and white.

7.8 One of Egwene's maids, found by Romanda.

6.15 An Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah who was sent by the sisters in Salidar to Ebou Dar to convince the queen to support them.

8.20 She is Cairhienin, pale-skinned and short.

6.18 An inventor at Rand's school in Cairhien.

9.0 An inventor at Rand's school in Cairhien. He has invented a 'steamwagon', which he claims can pull a hundred wagons, though it has not worked yet.

8.10 A Saldaean woman Elyas Machera spent a year with.

6.0 One of the Forsaken.

8.2 An Atha'an Miere woman apprenticed to become a Windfinder. She has big eyes. She has no nose ring or chain, but has three thin earrings in the right ear and one in the left.

7.38 A Redarm of the Band of the Red Hand.

9.0 A Dedicated of the Black Tower. He is Domani, gray at his temples, and may be a noble.

3.18 A phrase in the Old Tongue shouted by Mat. According to the Amyrlin it means 'I am a free man' (I think)

4.57 A phrase in the Old Tongue that Mat mutters to himself.

7.25 In the Old Tongue, 'One Who Owns Me' or 'My Owner'. Shaidar Haran forces Moghedien to use this title to address him when he holds her mindtrap.

4.57 A sept of the Tardaad Aiel.

5.2 An Aiel clan.

7.40 A Shaido Wise One.

4.26 In Rand's experience in Rhuidean, the Aes Sedai that Charn serves. She has told Charn that she has discovered a new source for the One Power that can be used by both men and women.

4.58 Rand realizes Mierin was the woman who discovered the Dark One's prison and bored into it. She is now known as Lanfear, one of the Forsaken.

6.30 Serving woman to Delana.

6.0 A peddler who tells Gawyn Morgase is dead.

6.46 Second Librarian of the Royal Palace of Caemlyn, and Demira Eriff's longtime agent.

7.15 A Darkfriend who tried to kill Rand and Mat near Caemlyn. She is from a village near Whitebridge. She went to the Tower at fifteen and became a Darkfriend when she was turned away, unable to channel. Now, seven years later, she has earned a reputation of a skilled assassin and hunter, able to find anyone and anything. See Shiaine.

9.10 She is a saddler's daughter.

6.0 The Wisdom of Taren Ferry, in the Two Rivers.

4.44 A woman from the Two Rivers.

1.14 A girl Moiraine knows in Baerlon.

1.15 She is around Nynaeve's age, dresses like a boy, and has a strange ability to see auras, images around people that indicate something of their future. Much of the time she doesn't understand what the images mean, but when she understands what will happen, it always does.

3.2 For most people her viewings happen at random, but there are always images around Aes Sedai and Warders, and a few others, and for them the images are harder to understand. If she knows what an image means, there is nothing anyone can do to change what she sees will happen.

7.23 A cage of gold wire and crystal. When a person's saliva and blood is placed in it, and it is thrown into the Bore, the person's very essence becomes linked to it. The person experiences pain if he or she tries to channel near their mindtrap. If a person's mindtrap is broken, he or she would become a mindless automaton, obedient to whoever holds the mindtrap.

6.41 Min's Aunt.

2.16 The book from which Selene claims to have learned about the infinite possibilities of the Pattern that exist in alternate worlds, which are reflections of the real world.

9.23 Shalon's husband.

9.0 A man of the Black Tower reportedly getting private lessons from Mazrim Taim.

8.28 One of the three innkeepers of Harlon Bridge. She is a large woman.

4.43 Kenley Ahan's mother. A handsome woman with white-streaked black hair.

1.1 A woman from Emond's Field.

4.43 Dael al'Taron's mother.

1.1 Bran al'Vere's wife; Egwene's mother.

1.2 She is slender and has a long, graying braid. She is heralded as the best cook in Emond's Field.

5.13 Innkeeper of Bellon Ford Inn.

1.3 A woman from Emond's Field.

1.21 The woman who taught Nynaeve to be Wisdom of Emond's Field after her.

3.40 First name Doral. She was Wisdom when Mat was ten.

1.7 Resident of Emond's Field whose house is intact after the attack on Winternight.

6.43 A serving woman at The Crown of Roses in Caemlyn.

6.5 The innkeeper of The Golden Stag in Maerone.

8.20 Wife of Master Hornwell. Resembles her husband quite a bit despite being less round and less gray.

5.13 Innkeeper of The Light of Truth, in Sienda.

6.5 The only position of rank among Atha'an Miere higher than Wavemistress.

7.0 A Shaido Wise One.

3.16 Queen of Andor seven-hundred years ago, who carried the banner unarmed into the middle of a battle and survived, her army victorious.

5.19 Once the Queen of Andor, mother of Tigraine. With Tigraine missing, Modrellein's death sparked the Succession that eventually brought Morgase to the throne.

4.9 One of the Forsaken.

4.50 She is also known as the Spider.

3.50 An Ogier woman who wrote A Study of the War of the Shadow, in which she calls Be'lal the Netweaver.

1.2 A stranger who visits the Two Rivers asking questions. She is accompanied by Lan. She is probably barely 5 feet tall, but she has a commanding presence. She has dark blue eyes, and dark hair hanging in ringlets. She wears a fine gold chain in her hair that supports a blue stone on her forehead.

1.7 She is an Aes Sedai. Lan is her Warder.

1.43 She is Blue Ajah.

2.4 She grew up in the Royal Palace of Cairhien. Siuan Sanche is her longtime friend.

3.3 She is a strong Healer.

4.1 Her full name is Moiraine Damodred.

4.17 According to Thom Merrilin, she is half-sister to Taringail Damodred, and King Laman's niece.

5.52 She disappears through a doorframe ter'angreal in Cairhien with Lanfear, and is presumed dead.

4.1 See Moiraine.

9.0 An Aiel Wise One, somewhat short, blonde with hints of red, very weak in the Power.

6.15 Once the Wise One of Colrada Hold who was said to have lived almost to three hundred and was very strong in the Power, and supposedly moved a mountain.

8.6 A Seanchan raken flier.

8.23 A Seanchan torm handler.

4.25 An aged Aes Sedai who, with Dermon and Narisse, announce to the Aiel the nature of Rhuidean, and why those who would lead among them must go there.

1.49 A warcry in the Old Tongue shouted by Mat.

1.9 During the Trolloc Wars, Mordeth bred suspicion in Shadar Logoth until it destroyed itself. His evil became a living thing, Mashadar, which roams the city still. Mordeth is now part of Shadar Logoth, passing suspicion and hatred to those he touches. Mordeth can escape if anyone ever accompanies him to the outside.

1.26 The Queen of Andor.

1.34 She has a daughter, Elayne and a son, Gawyn, both fathered by Taringail Damodred. Her advisor is Elaida.

1.40 She has a stepson, Galad, son of Taringail and Tigraine

8.18 An Aes Sedai of Salidar.

8.19 She of the Blue Ajah and a Sitter for the Salidar Hall.

4.17 The woman who overlooked Sahra Covenry's penance on a farm. She is presumed dead at the hands of the Aes Sedai who killed Sahra Covenry.

7.25 A young man who is tall and broad-shouldered, with blue eyes. He doesn't look much older than twenty. His name means death. He has Moghedien's mindtrap. He has been allowed to channel the True Power, and the black flecks that sometimes float across his eyes is indication that he has channeled the True Power extensively.

9.35 In truth, he is a reincarnation of Ishamael.

4.25 A Jenn woman who becomes one of the first, if not the first, women to pick up the spear and become Aiel. Rand teaches her the spear in his experience as Jeordam in Rhuidean.

6.54 A wolf.

3.5 A wolf who helps fight Trollocs in the Mountains of Mist.

5.32 A Seanchan noblewoman who is put to the question by Jalindin.

5.27 An Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah.

6.17 A sept of the Goshien Aiel.

7.40 A sept of the Shaido Aiel.

4.41 A Tuatha'an who lives among Raen's wagons.

6.52 A kind of grub found in the Aiel Waste.

1.33 Only thing close to a Wisdom Mat can find in the town where they stay in the stable of the Queen's Man inn.

2.21 A woman in Tremonsien that Maglin Madwen offers to find to care for Selene.

1.39 A woman in Caemlyn who tends to the sick, among other things.

3.33 The woman in Remen who is the equivalent of a Wisdom.

3.8 In Jarra, Ghealdan, the woman who acts as Wisdom.

6.26 A division of the Aiel. In the Old Tongue, Hama N'dore.

1.1 The mountains that border the Two Rivers on the west. They are so named because their peaks are always covered by clouds.

6.1 The Marshal-General of Saldaea when Davram Bashere first became a soldier. Muad was insane, but he was undefeated in battle.

3.18 A phrase Mat says. According to the Amyrlin, Mat was shouting orders to soldiers in the Old Tongue.

2.29 A Child of the Light under Geofram Bornhald whose face was scarred by Darkfriends.

5.40 A contortionist who joins Valan Luca's menagerie.

2.42 A Seanchan woman in charge of the damane quarters in Falme.

6.14 A serving woman in Salidar.

4.23 A Shaido Aiel who goes to Rhuidean in an attempt to replace the deceased Suladric as clan chief. First-brother to Couladin.

9.10 A man in service to Shiaine.

6.1 One of Davram Bashere's men. Mazrim Taim made it so Musar would want to serve and obey for the rest of his life.

6.26 A sept of the Reyn Aiel.

1.13 Stableman at Stag and Lion in Baerlon.

2.22 An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah that Lan will be compelled to bond with after Moiraine's death.

8.15 One of the only Amyrlins to go from weakness to strength.