Wilhelmaena Osiellin

Wilhelmaena Osiellin
will-hell-MAY-nuh O-see-lin
Created by	Stasia
Information
Gender	Female
Occupation	Aes Sedai of the White Ajah
Affiliation	The Grey Tower The Shadow
Nationality	Cairhienin
Attributes
Talents	Warding ✦✦✦ Cloud Dancing ✦✦ Illusion ✦✦
Masteries	Daes Dae'mar Mastery Strong Will
OP Strength	6.0
Affinities	Air, Water, Spirit, Earth, Fire

Wilhelmaena Osiellin is a Cairhienin White Oathsworn Aes Sedai of the Grey Tower.

Description

Wilhelmaena Osiellin is an uncomfortable woman. She appears to lack empathy and therefore lacks friends and is fully aware of her short-comings as a social creature. Highly introverted, highly irritable, and filled with a temper that manifests in iciness and snarkiness, Wilhelmaena’s more agreeable, lukewarm side is revealed to a select two: her Warder, and occasionally, Lydarian Sedai of the Yellow Ajah. No one can say for sure how the friendship was cultured; it seemed to appear from thin air. But all know better than to question the motives and actions of Wilhelmaena Sedai; on the even the best of days, she can only feign kindness and understanding, though it is obviously under pretense and great duress, and nosiness, frivolity, foolishness, and superfluity is met with icy rage. Even amongst her figurative siblings in the White Ajah, she is considered to be cold and lofty, and to no one’s surprise, she is alienated – but she has learned to accept this as a fact of life, and she takes an awkward sense of detached happiness in the presence of her Warder and Lydarian.

Wilhelmaena is the stereotypical Cairhienin; petite and pale, she is considered to be classically beautiful by many. Large, dark eyes are often narrowed, either with concentration or criticism. Her thin, dark hair is no longer done up in the fashion of the nobility, but pinned back and away from her temples in an attempt to restrain flyaway strands, and then usually kept in a tight plait that travels from the crown of her head to the bottom of her shoulder blades. High cheekbones and a pretty jawline are her defining features, and full lips and a slim nose only add to her cold, ageless, and untouchable beauty.

Biography

Wilhelmaena was born and raised a Cairhien noblewoman. Her amethyst kesiera, along with her former life, was abandoned when she reached the Tower, and she dove full-heartedly into the life of a novice. Being averagely skilled in the One Power, it took her eight years to gain the colored hem and her golden serpent ring, and then another ten to gain the shawl. Upon her raising to Aes Sedai, she joined the White Ajah, as she secretly hoped to find a home among like-minded people, but only found that the logicians weren’t any more fond of her than anyone else.

After raising, most of her life was spent in the Tower Library, seeking puzzles to solve and knowledge to gain, and questions to answer. Somewhere along the way, much to the surprise of anyone that knew her, she bonded a Warder named Martyn, and he became her confidant and one of the few people that can stand to consistently spend time in her presence. He often assisted her with research and the mathematical puzzles that she was so fond of. By the time she had spent twenty years raised to the Shawl, she was invited into the Hall of Sitters to represent her Ajah, after the peculiar demise of the Third Sitter. Despite knowing full-well that she was chosen because she was the First Reasoner’s only option, she served her Ajah with poise, grace, and her iron-clad sense of black and white logic.

Not long after her appointment to the Hall, in the small hours of the morning and in the empty arithmetic section of the Library, while her Warder lay sleeping in the barracks, Wilhelmaena was met with a shadow: feminine in form and in voice, the masked woman revealed to her that she had become a Sitter by only the kindness and attention the apparition, and that if she wished to keep her role of power and perhaps gain more, she need only heed the instruction of her faceless instructor. Greedy and uncaring that her own advancement had been brought about by the death of another - [i]Daes Dae’mar[/i] ran through her veins thicker than blood, and Wilhelmaena had been raised to crave power like mother’s milk - the White continued on.

Eventually, she was unbound from the Three Oaths and sworn to the Dark One in the pits of Shayol Ghul and her dear Warder was kept unaware all the while by means of pale compulsion through the bond. Only after becoming full Black Ajah was the shadow’s identity revealed to her: Lydarian Sedai of the Yellow Ajah had nurtured and cultured the perfect weapon to do her bidding. Already seen as cold, unfeeling, and unliked, it would not be deemed an irregularity if Wilhelmaena supported morally questionable material in the Hall - a place where Lydarian could never hope to gain access to - and given Lydarian’s small Talent for Compulsion, she was then able to sow the seeds of agreement where she saw fit once the Sitters left the hallowed chamber and she happened to brush past them in their daily lives.

Though the women once worked in harmony that defied the chaos they have bred, bubbles of resentment have begun to boil beneath the surface; Wilhelmaena wishes to be her own agent, free to twist and tug at threads in the Pattern as she pleases.

Career History

• Novice
• Accepted
• Aes Sedai of the White Ajah
• Sitter of the White Ajah
• Aspirant of the Black Ajah