Nyaine Lintelle
| Nyaine Lintelle | |
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| Nigh-AIN Lin-TELL | |
| First appearance | Fancy in Cairhien [1] |
| Created by | Daniel |
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| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Accepted |
| Affiliation | The Grey Tower |
| Family | House Lintelle |
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| Nationality | Cairhienin |
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| OP Strength | 6.2 |
| Affinities | Water, Air, Spirit, Earth, Fire |
Nyaine Lintelle is a Cairhienin Accepted of the Grey Tower.
Description
Nyaine is of short size even for a Cairhienin. She has a slender and straight shaped stature with a fair toned, somewhat freckled skin. Her moderately pretty, oval face is framed by chest-long light brown, naturally curly hair that she usually wears in a ponytail held back by a single ribbon. If the occasion demands it and a hairdresser is available, she can however also be seen with the hair piled on top in one or the other elaborate hairstyle used in Cairhien. She has a straight nose and almond shaped, evenly spaced eyes of a dark hazel colour. When not in novice white she wears a clear quartz kesiera on her forehead and the dark dresses in the styles that dominate amongst the Cairhienin nobility, sometimes with stripes of colour on the chest indicating her social status and often with lace on collar and cuffs.
Her face usually bears an earnest yet friendly expression, although irritation will swiftly cause her to frown or raise her eyebrows. Nyaine is quick-witted and revels in the solving of puzzles and theorising of complex matters, but will often be exasperated when others are slow to follow her train of thought. With the education and upbringing of a Cairhienin noble house comes arrogance and a feeling of superiority towards commoners in general and servants in particular, only enhanced by her being found to be able to channel. In addition to that, being the only daughter and favoured child of her father, she is used to getting her wish and whim fulfilled, has difficulty dealing with being denied, and can at times be found either throwing tantrums or sulking as a result.
Nyaine is driven by her desire to learn about new things, especially when she gets to puzzle them out for herself. This makes her open to innovative ideas and concepts and gives her a cosmopolitan outlook and worldview.
Biography
Nyaine is born as the first and only daughter of Elmanes and Reslaine Lintelle, a minor noble house of Cairhien. Her first years are spent on the family’s manor house outside Cairhien, where she gets to explore the surroundings and roam the grounds freely. As the family’s youngest child with two older brothers, she is not expected to inherit the house title or serve the nation’s military. Her education thus concentrates on the social skills expected of a lady, including a basic understanding of the old tongue, proper etiquette and behaviour, some amount of needlework, and the keeping of the household.
While initially perturbed by her curbed freedom of spending time outdoors and playing, she quickly accepts and appreciates her lessons and acquires a thirst for knowledge, quickly exhausting her tutors, such that more erudite teachers are needed. Being her father’s favourite, he indulges in his daughter's wishes and makes this possible. Thus, she gets to learn more about history, politics, philosophy, and the sciences. The one thing hindering her studies is an inability to keep the ink on her notes from smudging, making them hard to read, even though her handwriting is otherwise reasonable, if at times hasty.
With fifteen she is introduced to Cairhien’s social life, being allowed to attend the balls and parties of other noble houses. She usually attempts to avoid being roped into the great game and seeks out the company of other scholarly inclined peers. At one such ball, she makes the acquaintance of a boy from another house with similar interests. Before more than an infatuation can develop, however, she is discovered by an Aes Sedai to have the spark inborn and shortly before her seventeenth birthday bundled off to the Grey Tower.[1]
In the Grey Tower, she is introduced to channelling by Elia Sedai and, after staying on her own for a time, has Isla Arkema assigned to her as a roommate. While at first opposed to the concept of sharing her chambers, she quickly grows used to Isla, even keeping her silence when she becomes aware of the girl's unhealthy nightly activities, trying to offer alternative solutions instead. While doing chores on the Tower's grounds, she stumbles into the stables, causing a groom to be mortally wounded. This leads to her discovering a Talent for Healing, for which she soon after takes further instruction. During the battle against the White Tower, Nyaine witnesses the murder of Jesi Molari by the Amyrlin seat herself, being rudely awakened to the fact that not every channeller is good and that the Black Ajah is real. In her Three Arches test, she is confronted with the concept that just being Aes Sedai is not a specific enough life goal and the doubt of whether she wants or even can be a scholar.
Career History
- Novice (31 May 2017)
- Accepted (1 October 2017)
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