Amarys Tirandael

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Amarys Tirandael
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Created by	Elizabeth Halvorsen
Information
Gender	Female
Occupation	Aes Sedai of the White Ajah
Affiliation	The Grey Tower
Nationality	Taraboner
Attributes
OP Strength	6.5
Affinities	Air, Spirit, Water, Earth, Fire

Amarys Tirandael is a Taraboner White Oathsworn Aes Sedai of the Grey Tower.

Description

Once beautiful, Amarys is still a strikingly handsome woman. Her face, doll-perfect like many Taraboners, is still smooth like all those who swear the Oaths, but her once honey-coloured hair is now bright silver, and dark brows have gone salt-and-pepper. Her piercing black eyes are still clear and sharp, despite her age, and give away nothing of her thoughts. Though she usually wears her hair in the style of her homeland, a multitude of tiny braids decorated with silver and clear glass beads, she has been known to wear it up, secured by moonstone pins, or in a single fat braid woven with a silver ribbon. She always wears the White of her Ajah, and once tried to insist her Warder do so as well, but the man resisted on the grounds that he did not wish to be mistaken for a Whitecloak. She also always wears an age-dark ivory bracelet carved in roses and swirling, thorny vines. It is a ter'angreal that allows the wearer to know spoken words for truth or lie when a trickle of Spirit is channelled into it.

Biography

Amarys Tirandael was once an Aes Sedai of the White Tower. When the Tower was divided between Elaida's faction and Egwene's, she chose to join neither group, but instead retired to a cottage a few miles outside a village deep in the Caralain Grass. There, she spent time reflecting on the rumoured coming of the Dragon, the philosophies regarding that event that rent the Tower, and the advantages of living in the Tower rather than doing her own laundry. Her reflections were all rather bitter, her Warder having been killed in the fighting, and so she lived entirely alone at that time, visiting the village only rarely.

A message came, then, from a friend who had found a new home. The Grey Tower, she said, was a wondrous new place that would teach women to be Aes Sedai alongside men who could channel. Would she not come, and lend her knowledge to this new venture, teaching girls--and boys, too--what she knew of the Light and the One Power? Amarys sent no reply with the messenger, but thought for days, weighing, judging, wondering. Finally, she packed up the few belongings she had brought from the White Tower, shut up her little cottage, and set out for the Two Rivers, where a new Tower arose, built of grey stone and new philosophies.

After coming to the Grey Tower, Amarys unintentionally began a tradition, though she quickly saw how it could be of advantage. Every afternoon, she invited an Aes Sedai or two to take tea and refreshments with her, sometimes Sisters of her own Ajah, sometimes from others, now and again even favouring an Asha'man with an invitation. She would hear many things surely not intended in the idle chatter that flows around a tea cup, and the ter'angreal she wore helped her sort out technical truth twisted around the First Oath from true and intended truth. The tradition carried on when she became First Reasoner, though she invites those of her own Ajah more often now than those of other Ajahs, and Niadra Samedar more than most. Niadra was once a favourite student of Amarys', and the two can be found sharing tea one day in three, at least.

Career History

• Novice
• Accepted
• Aes Sedai of the White Ajah