True Source. The driving force of the universe, which turned the Wheel of Time. It was divided into a male half (saidin) and a female half (saidar), which worked at the same time with and against each other. Only a man could draw on saidin, only a woman on saidar, unless linked in a circle. From the beginning of the Time of Madness, saidin was tainted by the Dark One’s touch; Rand, linked with Nynaeve and using the Choedan Kal, cleansed the taint from it.
true-name day. A celebratory Seanchan custom. There was six years’ difference between the naming day, usually one’s day of birth, and the true-name day. So, when Tuon celebrated her fourteenth true-name day, she also had her twentieth birthday.
trueheart. A yellow-blossomed plant. Erith gave a trueheart flower to Loial.
Truthspeaker. See Soe’feia
tsag. An obscenity in the Old Tongue uttered by Sammael.
Tsao, Chowin. An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah who served as advisor to Artur Hawkwing before he initiated the siege of the White Tower.
Tsingu ma choba. Old Tongue for “You honor this unworthy one.”
Tsingu ma Choshih, T’ingshen. Old Tongue for “You honor me, Treebrother.”
Tsochan, Stedding. A stedding located in the forests north of the River Ivo.
Tsofan, Stedding. A stedding located in the Mountains of Mist.
Tsofu, Stedding. A stedding located in Cairhien. Alar was the Eldest of the Elders there, and it was Erith’s home. Rand, Mat, Perrin, Verin and Shienaran soldiers visited there before attempting to use the nearby Waygate to go to Toman Head.
Tsomo Nasalle. A city in the Age of Legends.
Tsorov’ande Doon. Old Tongue for “Black-Souled Tempests,” it was the name used by Seanchan for men who could channel.
Tsorovan’m’hael. A rank assigned Charl Gedwyn by Taim; it indicated that he was second to Taim. It was Old Tongue for “Storm Leader.”
Tsutama Rath. A Kandori Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah and the loyalist contingent, with a strength level of 21(9). Born in 827 NE, she went to the White Tower in 841 NE. After spending seven years as a novice and six years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 854 NE. About 5'5" tall, with a full bosom, large dark eyes and luxuriant black hair, Tsutama would have been pretty, even beautiful, except that she wore a permanently angry expression that almost overwhelmed her agelessness. She often wore all crimson, so bright that it might have given the most ardent Red pause, and cut tightly, molding her breasts or exposing them, as if daring anyone to comment. She was raised a Sitter for the Red in 964 NE and was forced to resign in 985 NE following the discovery of the male channeler pogrom. Although the true circumstances were kept secret for the good of the White Tower, she suffered a penance in the Tower just short of being publicly birched (it was done privately), and then was exiled, a supposedly voluntary retreat that lasted until she was recalled after Elaida took the stole. Elaida considered her broken by her experiences, and, like Lirene, she was broken in many ways. She was afraid of being caught out in any further wrongdoing; she was more angry than ashamed about her penances, including the birching.
Tsutama stopped hating men, though she had come to that earlier; her one consolation during her painful exile was an affair that she began with a man, almost in desperation to find some solace. Unlike either Toveine or Lirene, she thought about the possibility of taking some sort of vengeance on the entire Red Ajah, indeed the entire White Tower. The Tower shamed her and exiled her, her own Ajah did nothing to support or help her, and she wanted them all to pay.
After Galina was reported killed at Dumai’s Wells, Tsutama was named Highest of the Red Ajah. She ordered Pevara and Tarna to take a group to the Black Tower and bond Asha’man.
Tuandha. A Maiden of the Spear who was with Sulin and Perrin at Malden. About 5'8" tall, and younger than Sulin, she had lost her right eye and had a thick scar that ran from her chin up under her shoufa; it pulled up a corner of her mouth in a half-smile. Tuandha and Sulin were with Perrin when he first looked at Malden.
Tuatha’an. A wandering folk, also known as the Tinkers and as the Traveling People, who lived in brightly painted wagons and followed a pacifistic philosophy called the Way of the Leaf. A Tuatha’an would not do violence to another human being even to save his or her own life or the lives of loved ones. Things mended by Tinkers were often better than new, but the Tuatha’an were shunned by many villages because of stories that they stole children and tried to convert young people to their beliefs. They were among the few peoples who could cross the Aiel Waste unmolested, for the Aiel strictly avoided all contact with them.
The Tuatha’an were a group that had split off from the Da’shain Aiel, the first division of the Da’shain, when they became fed up with violence against them by people who saw them as easy marks. They abandoned their covenant to serve the Aes Sedai, and began traveling to find a safe place to live and to find the song that their legend held was lost during the Breaking, the finding of which they thought would return conditions to the paradise of the Age of Legends. After the second division of the Da’shain caused by some rejecting the Way of the Leaf and beginning to use weapons for defense, those willing to use weapons eventually became the only surviving Aiel. In fact, the Tuatha’an were the only descendants of the original Da’shain Aiel who maintained the Way of the Leaf and were called the Lost Ones by the Aiel, who held them in disdain. As banditry and lawlessness increased, the danger to them grew; many fled to Seanchan-controlled areas for safety.
The Tinkers continued to search in vain for the song they would never find, because the song they were looking for did not exist. See also Aiel, Da’shain Aiel and Jenn Aiel
Tuck Padwhin. A carpenter in Emond’s Field. Egwene thought that Siuan looked at her and Nynaeve the way Master Padwhin looked at his tools. When Trollocs attacked Emond’s Field, Tuck participated in the defense.
Tuel. A region of Seanchan that Sarek had designs on, as learned by Rand and Aviendha when they Traveled to Seanchan.
Tuli. The damane name that Renna forced on Egwene as punishment.
Tumad Ahzkan. A Saldaean man who was one of Bashere’s young officers, a lieutenant destined for higher command. About 6'2" tall, and heavy-shouldered, with a hatchet nose and a luxuriant black beard as well as thick mustaches, he walked like a man more accustomed to a saddle under him than his own feet, using a slightly rolling gait, but he handled the sword at his hip smoothly when he bowed. He was killed when the Trollocs attacked Algarin’s manor in Tear.
Tunaighan Hills. An area somewhere to the south of Caemlyn. The region produced a wine which bore its name; Rand served it to Andoran nobles, and Berelain gave Gendar and Santes a cask to take to Masema’s camp when they were spying on him.
Tuon Athaem Kore Paendrag. Daughter of the Nine Moons and second daughter of Radhanan, the Empress of Seanchan. She had a number of siblings, among them sisters Ravashi, Chimal and Aurana. At the time of the Corenne she was favored by the Empress to succeed and named to lead the Return. The Empress liked her heirs to contend, so that the strongest and most cunning would rule Seanchan. Tuon’s personal banner was two golden lions harnessed to an ancient war cart, and the symbol of the Daughter of the Nine Moons was the Raven-and-Roses. Born in 981 NE, she was 4'11" tall and almost boyishly slim. Her face was heart-shaped and quite beautiful, with large, liquid eyes of a chocolate brown; her hair was silky black and straight. She had full lips and a very dark complexion. Her personality was quiet, reserved and thoughtful; she could grow angry, of course, but seldom let it show as heat. Highly intelligent, and very capable in the shifting and dangerous world of the Seanchan court, she also was quite skilled in personal self-defense. She was not only respected and obeyed by those who served her, she was loved by them. Tuon was an excellent rider and knew a good bit about horses, including training them. She rode in what in later Ages would be called steeplechase events and also dressage.