Toram din Alta Wild Winds. A Sea Folk man who was Coine’s husband and Cargomaster of Wavedancer. Heavy-shouldered, with gray hair, he had four gold rings in each ear, three heavy gold chains around his neck, including one with a perfume box, and two curved knives tucked in his sash. He wore a peculiar wire framework that fastened over his ears to hold clear lenses in front of his eyes. When the Seanchan tried to take Wavedancer, Toram fought and cleared them off the deck, earning a long puckered scar down his cheek in the process. Toram was not happy when Coine changed her ship’s destination to Tanchico to accommodate Elayne and Nynaeve.
Toram Riatin. A Cairhienin nobleman who was High Seat of House Riatin and wore stripes of color to his knees. About six feet tall, which was very tall for a Cairhienin, he was good-looking, with broad shoulders, slender hips, well-turned calves and dark, intelligent eyes. A bully with a cruel streak and often violent, Toram was also greedy; too much was never enough for him. He rebelled against the Dragon Reborn; after he was joined by Padan Fain as Jeraal Mordeth, he came to hate Rand with a passion.
Toram wanted to marry Caraline Damodred and fully expected that he would; he saw it as a done deal, and thought that she was just being coy. He planned to combine her claim to the throne with his and expected to take the throne, relegating her to some subordinate role; in fact, if she died after the wedding, it was all to the good. The marriage could have also resulted in his descendants carrying not only the House Riatin claim to the Sun Throne, but that of House Damodred as well.
Toram was very jealous of Caraline, and madly possessive in general. When he and Caraline were children, he pushed a mutual friend down the stairs and broke his back for riding Toram’s pony without permission.
A blademaster, Toram dueled Rand in the rebel camp in Cairhien, not knowing whom he was fighting, thinking Rand was just a boy. It was an even match until Rand was distracted by the deadly fog, at which point, Toram nearly killed him; he held back only because he also finally realized that something strange was happening. At first he fled through the fog with Rand, Min, Caraline, Darlin, Cadsuane and Cadsuane’s compatriots. When he discovered who Rand was, he fled into the fog alone. He then went to Far Madding with Padan Fain; there he was killed by Lan.
Toranes, Salita. See Salita Toranes
Torean Nelondara Andiama. A High Lord of Tear, and the father of Estean. Lumpy-faced, with thin eyebrows and big ears that made his potato nose seem smaller, he looked more like a farmer than most farmers. White streaked his dark, pointed beard, and he moved languidly. He looked at women rather openly, and plainly wanted Berelain. He was a bit of a boor and a drunkard. Gold concerned Torean more than anything else, except possibly the privileges Rand had taken away from the nobles in Tear.
Torean was one of the seven most active plotters against Rand in the Stone. Armies sent to Cairhien were to be generously financed by Torean, who accompanied them; with Meilan and Aracome, he was one of the three foremost High Lords there. He was worried because he was involved in plots with Tedosian, Hearne and Simaan and feared that Rand might punish him for that association after the three rebelled. He was with the army gathering to invade Illian and took part in the invasion.
Against the Seanchan, Torean was kept close by Rand at first, then later fought under Semaradrid. He was dismayed that there were no serving girls in the war camp, and no compliant farmgirls nearby.
Torelvin. A Cairhienin House. See Alhandrin and Nerion Torelvin
Torfinn family. A Two Rivers family. See Jaim, Jancy, Leof, Nat and Thad Torfinn
Torghin, Doreille. A queen of Aridhol who signed the Compact of the Ten Nations. She was also a poet.
Torhs Margin. A man also known as Torhs the Broken. He made the mistake of underestimating Graendal in the Age of Legends, and paid the price.
Torkumen, Lady. A Saldaean woman who was the wife of Vram, whom Tenobia had put in charge of the city in her absence; like him, she was a Darkfriend. Yoeli imprisoned the two so that he could let Ituralde and his troops into Maradon. When Rand appeared and defeated the Shadowspawn, Lady Torkumen jumped out of the window to her death.
Torkumen, Vram. See Vram Torkumen
torm. Seanchan exotic animals brought from a parallel world. They were bronze-scaled, like lizards, though they bore live young and nursed them. Torm looked much like horse-sized cats, with three eyes and six-toed clawed feet that could grip the stones of the road. The torm was primarily a carnivore; it would subsist on a plant diet for as much as three or four days if required, but a torm deprived of meat longer became increasingly hard to control as it sought to hunt. Their intelligence was higher than that of a bright dog, enough to make their eyes disturbing to some people, quite apart from the number of eyes. These creatures were not tool-users, nor did they have any sort of community, civilization or language, but if there were some way to give them an intelligence test, they would test out as well-below-normal human on average, and in some areas of problem solving, such as maze tests, equal to humans. Attempts were made to use torm as trackers and hunters, but a torm hunted what it chose and could not be put to hunt anything by a morat. Since this at times seemed like a deliberate refusal, some took it as one indication of the animal’s intelligence. Torm had single births always. They were not available in large numbers, at least partly because of high mortality before reaching a useful size; they would also fight for dominance before they were trained, and such fights often resulted in a fatality because of their fierceness. They were much faster than horses, with more endurance.
Not everyone could ride a torm; in fact, it was harder to find someone suitable to be a morat’torm than to find morat for any of the other exotics. From the beginning of its training, a torm would not accept all riders. For no perceptible reason it would turn on one potential rider after another before accepting one, and it bonded with one rider, not allowing another to mount. If that rider died, it took some time to get a torm to accept another. They were ridden by scout units primarily. They were ferocious fighters, and might seem much better battle mounts than horses, with their natural weapons and scales, which were as effective as light armor, but a number of factors precluded their use in this role. There were relatively few of them compared to horses, and they were harder to replace, both because of the low survival rate to adulthood and a longer training time than that for horses. Perhaps more important, even the best-trained torm could be overcome with the heat of fighting if it went on very long, as in a battle as opposed to a skirmish; when this happened the rider, or morat, could only hang on, because the torm would become uncontrollable, moving and killing as it chose, sometimes pausing to savage corpses or feed, until it calmed down, which might be hours after the battle was done. Strangely, the torm rarely turned on its rider during one of these uncontrollable rages, but for the duration of the rage it was no longer an effective battle mount. In fact, it was a liability, as it would strike at anyone or anything within reach.