Tihera, Rodrivar. See Rodrivar Tihera
Tijds. A young soldier in Bryne’s army for the rebel Aes Sedai who alerted Bryne to the Seanchan attack on the White Tower.
Tim. A young Two Rivers man who joined Perrin’s band and was killed by a Trolloc ambush south of the Waterwood.
Time of Change. A term referring to the end of an Age.
Time of Illusions. The Amayar, who practiced the Water Way on Tremalking, believed that their daily reality was an illusion, and they believed a prophecy indicating that the destruction of the female Choedan Kal found on Tremalking would be tied to the end of the Time of Illusions. See Illusion, 2nd entry
Time of Madness. Another name used for the Breaking of the World and the years after the Dark One’s counterstroke tainted the male half of the True Source, when male Aes Sedai went mad and Broke the World. The exact duration of this period was unknown, but it is believed to have lasted nearly one hundred years. It ended completely only with the death of the last male Aes Sedai.
time units. Days were broken into segments; when a certain time was reached, chimes rang. In the White Tower, First Rise was very early morning, before dawn, followed by Second and Third Rise. High was around midmorning, and Midmorning chimes were also rung. Prime and Trine were in the afternoon. After supper came Full, and Last meant that all novices were supposed to be quiet and in bed. Second Low occurred in the small hours of the morning.
In Cairhien, Second Even was a time when supper could be eaten.
Time, The Wheel of. A book by Sulamein so Bhagad, Chief Historian at the Court of the Sun, the Fourth Age.
Timna. An Amayar woman who was one of the Guides of the Sea Folk, on Tremalking. She saw the glow of the Choedan Kal, and smiled to think that she would see the fulfillment of prophecy and the end of Illusion.
Timolan. The clan chief of the Miagoma Aiel. He was a widower, although the Wise Ones were working to find him a new wife. Timolan was 6'3" tall and weighed 225 pounds. When he was young, he tried to unite the Aiel clans. Timolan was part of the Aiel forces with Rand in Cairhien; he was suspicious that Rhuarc had not accompanied him to fight against the Shaido intrusion into Cairhien, not aware that Rand had been kidnapped by the Aes Sedai. When learning that Rand had been taken, Timolan thought that Rand had betrayed the Aiel. After the battle at Dumai’s Wells, Rand sent him to help deal with the Shaido at Kinslayer’s Dagger and later sent him and others to Arad Doman to bring order.
Timora, Lady. A Shienaran woman who was an attendant to Lady Amalisa in Fal Dara. She found Perrin alone in a courtyard and reported it to Liandrin, who had been looking for Perrin, Mat and Rand.
timsin. A root used in tea to relieve a headache.
Tinkers. The Traveling People. See Tuatha’an
Tinna. A woman who was turned out of the Tower for complicated reasons she was unwilling to share. She joined the Dragonsworn, and became their leader in the Last Battle. She had the bearing of a lady, the build of an Aiel and the coloring of a Saldaean.
Tion. A Wise One of the Shaido Aiel (not a Jumai) with the ability to channel. About 5'10" tall, and stout, with broad hips, a round face and gray eyes, she often appeared placid. She was a no-nonsense kind of woman, but she was ambitious or she wouldn’t have been with Sevanna. Tion often spoke out of turn, at least in Sevanna’s estimation. One of Sevanna’s inner circle of plotters, she accompanied Sevanna to the Aes Sedai camp the day she saw Rand beaten and took part in or at least was present at the murder of Desaine. She was with Sevanna at Dumai’s Wells and at the meeting with “Caddar” and “Maisia.” While the Jumai were settled at a captured estate approximately ten days after their arrival in Amadicia, she helped question the Seanchan prisoner.
Tipsy Gelding, The. A small inn in Hinderstap. It was three streets out from the center of town, in the back west corner of the village, and was more of a tavern than an inn. It had a wooden board carved with what looked like a drunken horse sitting inside one of the windows; none of those windows had glass. Mat chose to go there to gamble for supplies; he lost a lot, and then bet everything on one last toss; Mayor Barlden insisted on making the toss. Mat won, but the sun set and everything went crazy.
Tirado, Yseidre. One of the founders of Tear.
Tiras. A Seanchan soldier who was Bakuun’s First Lieutenant. A bony man a head taller than Bakuun, he had an unfortunate scrap of beard. He was a good soldier, if a touch overconfident. He brought Bakuun the scouting report of an enemy force not ten miles east, in the Venir Mountains of Altara.
tirewoman. Another term for “maid.”
Tirish Adar. A feast celebrated from the rise of the first full moon in Adar until the rise of the next moon. In most places, no one slept during that period.
Tirraso, Tellindal. A clerk who worked in Lews Therin’s headquarters in the War of Power. He was killed in an attack by Demandred.
Tishar, Elisane. An Aes Sedai at the formation of the White Tower.
Tius, Varkel. A man with Perrin’s army who had trouble getting canvas to repair torn tents.
To Sail Beyond the Sunset. A book read by Loial.
to’raken. A large Seanchan flying animal brought from a parallel world. In general appearance it was similar to the raken, except that it was much larger and was mottled brown in color rather than gray. Its wingspan was more than 120 feet. Like the raken, it crouched when on the ground, rather than standing erect, raising only its head to look around, but even so its back could be nine feet or more above the ground. An herbivore and an egg layer, it laid one egg at a time. It did not perch in trees, however large, preferring the tops of cliffs or hills.
Unlike the raken, which could simply throw itself into the air, a to’raken taking off from level ground ran as much as a hundred paces while flapping its wings before launching itself. Its intelligence was roughly equal to that of a horse. As awkward as the raken, or more so on the ground, the to’raken was neither as agile in the air nor as fast as the raken, with a maximum speed of a little more than twice that of a horse. It did not perch on vertical surfaces, nor on surfaces nearly as precipitous as those a raken would risk, but on surfaces that were steep, it used the same spread-wing clutching.
The to’raken would not fly at all in significant snowfall or heavy rain. Cold weather did not bother it greatly, however, nor did heat.
The to’raken could fly much farther than a raken without rest, as much as a thousand miles at moderate speed and with only one morat in the saddle. It could also carry a much larger load. With one morat mounted, a to’raken could carry an additional one thousand pounds or more of cargo as far as two hundred miles. It was primarily used for transporting people who needed to be moved quickly, or for other cargo that was considered urgent. While it occasionally was used in battle, with archers or crossbowmen behind a single morat, bringing the bowmen low enough and slow enough to be effective also brought the to’raken within range of arrows and crossbow bolts from the ground, and an injured to’raken did not fly well; in fact, it often refused to fly farther than a safe landing point—safe from the point of view of the to’raken, not necessarily of the morat’to’raken. Its effectiveness in this role was too low for the risk to an extremely valuable animal. Like the raken, the to’raken was controlled by reins, attached to rings fixed permanently in the animal’s horny nostrils, and knee pressure.