Splintered Hills. An area in Coremanda where Doreille, Queen of Aridhol, penned some of her finest poems.
Spray. Bayle Domon’s river craft. It had two masts and was eighty feet long and broad in the beam. Yarin Maeldan was the second-in-command. Crew members included Aedwin Cole, Carn and Florin Gelb.
sprigleaf. A plant that could be thrown on fires to cover up foul odors.
Spring Pole. A stripped fir tree trunk upended in the ground, used as part of the festival of Bel Tine in Emond’s Field.
Springhorn. The leader of a wolfpack that Perrin consulted, seeking information about Faile after she was abducted by the Shaido; Springhorn’s pack was unable to help.
sprinklewort. As a parting gift before she and her companions left for Tar Valon, Mat gave Joline a bag of sweetbuns laced with sprinklewort so that her mouth would turn blue. Other uses for this plant are unknown.
squadman. A noncommissioned officer, typically a cavalryman, who generally was in charge of approximately ten soldiers. In the infantry, the equivalent of a squadman was a file leader.
staera. Slim, curved pieces of bronze used by the Aiel in sweat tents to scrape sweat and dirt off their bodies.
Stag, the. A constellation.
Stag and Lion, The. A large four-storied inn in Baerlon, Andor. Master Fitch was the innkeeper, and Min worked there as a serving girl. Rand, Mat, Perrin, Moiraine, Lan, Nynaeve, Egwene and Thom all stayed there on the way to Tar Valon, fleeing Trollocs and Fades. While there, Rand had a dream of Ba’alzamon, and Padan Fain sent a Fade to attack them, forcing them to flee into the night. The inn was burned, but Moiraine had coin sent from Tar Valon to rebuild it; according to Min, Master Fitch was building it back twice as big.
Stag’s Stand. The highest hill in Canluum, Kandor, where Lord Marcasiev’s palace stood.
Stair of Jehaan. A place where the Borderland armies successfully checked the advance of the Shadowspawn following the destruction of Malkier.
Standardbearer. A Seanchan rank equivalent to Bannerman. A Standardbearer’s helmet had a small crest like a bronze arrowhead on its front.
standing flows. A technology from the Age of Legends that maintained the continual flow of the One Power in relation to specific objects, allowing many ter’angreal to be used by those unable to channel.
Stang, Kairen. See Kairen Stang
Star, The. A large wooden four-storied inn located in Tear next to Ajala’s smithy. The innkeeper was Jurah Haret. Moiraine, Lan, Perrin, Loial and Faile lodged there while looking for Rand. There they found out that Be’lal had made himself a High Lord of Tear and that he intended to take Callandor from Rand after Rand removed it from the Heart of the Stone. Master Haret allowed the Black Ajah to leave the hedgehog ter’angreal in Moiraine’s private dining room; Faile triggered it, and Perrin had to rescue her in the wolf dream.
starblaze. A plant that had deep red, wavy-petaled flowers. It was found in the gardens of the Royal Palace in Caemlyn. Cadsuane used an image of this flower on a piece of embroidery.
stasis-box. High-tech device from the Age of Legends that preserved artifacts or extreme perishables by suspending time within the box.
Staven. A soldier who died defending Ituralde at Maradon in Saldaea.
Stayer. Perrin’s horse from Cairhien. A well-shod bay stallion from the Sun Palace stables, he was reddish with a black mane and tail and white forefeet. His training as a warhorse was not specifically established, but the horse was Cairhienin, where cavalry were important, and there were indications that he was well trained; he responded to leg pressure, and he backed away on command.
Steady. A roan gelding belonging to Rodel Ituralde.
steamwagon. A wagon that moved without horses; it was the invention of Mervin Poel, who was a member of the Academy of Cairhien. Steamwagons were used in the Last Battle to deliver supplies to the battlefronts.
stedding. The habitat of Ogier, governed by a Council of Elders. There were forty-one inhabited stedding between the Aryth Ocean and the Aiel Waste, each with an average population of twelve thousand, although that varied considerably. Young stedding, such as Tsofu, had much smaller populations than old ones. There were more than fifty abandoned stedding. Stedding had special properties, including the inability of a channeler to use the One Power within their boundaries or from without.
Trollocs would not enter a stedding unless driven by Myrddraal, and the Myrddraal rarely had the incentive to do so. Even Darkfriends, if truly dedicated, felt uncomfortable there.
Aes Sedai also hated entering a stedding—not only could they not channel there, but they could not even feel the True Source.
Ogier sickened and died if they remained Outside stedding too long.
Steler. A bannerman in the Tower Guard. Tall and grizzled, with a deep gravelly voice, he led the group that escorted Moiraine and Siuan to collect the names of babies outside Tar Valon.
Stepashin, Ester. See Ester Stepashin
Stepin. One of Kerene’s Warders. He had narrow shoulders and sad brown eyes that made him look more like a clerk than a Warder. He could play the twelve-string bittern as skillfully as a hired musician.
Stepper. Perrin’s dun stallion. As tall as any Tairen bloodstock, but heavier in shoulder and haunch, he had a yellowish hide and a black mane and tail. He was a trained warhorse, as demonstrated during the fighting in the Two Rivers.
Steps. A young black-furred wolf that Perrin met in the wolf dream while searching for Slayer during the Last Battle.
Stevan Gedarien. Demira Eriff’s Cairhienin Warder. He was 5'6" tall, and slender, with gray at his temples. Though he was twenty years younger than Demira, sometimes he tried to act like her father.
Stick. A creature in the Blight. It looked like a stick and hid in leaves. If it was touched, it would bite and immediately begin digesting whatever was bitten. The only thing that could save one after that was amputating the arm or leg that was bitten.
sticklesharp. A clinging vine with three-pronged leaves; Ferane grew them on her balcony, and their tendrils covered the inside of the stonework.
stilling. The process of removing the ability of a woman to channel. It was thought to be permanent until Nynaeve Healed Siuan and Leane; Flinn Healed the three women stilled at Dumai’s Wells.
Stinger. Silviana’s gelding that she rode during the Last Battle. She had trained Stinger not to be skittish around channeling.
stingweed. A water plant that got tangled in fishing nets. It was mentioned by Mother Guenna in Tear.
stinkadder. A snake that wriggled away from its own shadow.
stinkweed. A plant, found in the Two Rivers and elsewhere, that left a rank smell on any boot that crushed it.
Stone Anchor, Amel din Monaga. See Amel din Monaga Stone Anchor
Stone Dogs. See Shae’en M’taal