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Uncrowned, the. One of the titles that Borderlanders used for Lan.
Underhill, Master. The name used by Karldin Manfor when traveling with Loial.
Uno Nomesta. A Shienaran soldier. His head was shaven except for a grizzled topknot, and he had slightly bowed legs and a long scar down the left side of his face. Uno had lost his left eye and covered the socket with an eyepatch painted with a permanently frowning fierce red eye. After Samara he acquired a near-matching scar on his right cheek. Hard-featured even for a Shienaran, he would stare anyone in the eye, and use his file-like tongue as well. Uno nearly strangled when he couldn’t curse. He was a born sergeant-major who did not think the Tinkers were cowards, but thought that most women were unreasonable and stubborn.
Uno was one of those following Ingtar when he and Perrin pursued the Horn of Valere to Falme. He wintered in the Mountains of Mist with Perrin and Rand; after Rand left and the Shienarans were abandoned to make their own way, he stayed with Masema in Ghealdan for a time, then accompanied Nynaeve and Elayne to Salidar. There he started working with the army under Gareth Bryne and was made an officer. He and the Shienarans with him trained heavy cavalry. He agreed to this arrangement, mostly as a ploy to stay close to Elayne and Nynaeve, to whom he felt he owed a debt of gratitude—among other things, Nynaeve Healed him of a serious wound he sustained in Samara. Uno didn’t think much of the rebel Aes Sedai chances against the White Tower and the sitting Amyrlin, although he knew of Bryne’s reputation; he thought the nations would fall in with the Tower no matter what tales Logain told, as most people tended to believe the stronger side told the truth. But he had no intention of running out on them.
Uno was promoted to captain during the Last Battle, having shown gallantry in the field and after Bryne was found to be under Compulsion. He was wounded in the arm by the Trollocs, but he was Healed and survived.
Unseen World. See Tel’aran’rhiod
Upriver Run, The. An inn located in Tar Valon. Narenwin Barda went there to get messages sent via carrier pigeon from Mistress Macura and Luci, who were spying for the Yellow Ajah in Amadicia, and were told to inform Barda if they saw Elayne, by order of the Amyrlin.
Uren din Jubai Soaring Gull. An ancient scholar of the Atha’an Miere who devised the Farede calendar, which he named after the Panarch Farede of Tarabon, his patron. The calendar remained in use from the end of the War of the Hundred Years at least until the end of the Third Age.
Urien. A man of the Two Spires sept of the Reyn Aiel and the Aethan Dor who was siswai’aman. Tall, with blue eyes and red hair cut short except for a tail in the back that hung to his shoulders, he met Ingtar and Verin while searching for He Who Comes With the Dawn. He went to Cairhien and Caemlyn with Rand, and to Shadar Logoth. At Dumai’s Wells, he led the five thousand siswai’aman. Urien bet a skin of oosquai that Mat’s forces would win the Last Battle.
Uso. A hired hand at Alysa’s apple orchard in Andor. Even though Bunt told him that there were apples on the trees, he had to go look for himself.
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V’saine. The city in which the Collam Daan was located during the Age of Legends.
vacuole. A bubble in the Pattern where time flowed differently. Research was conducted in vacuoles during the Age of Legends, but they were unstable and sometimes disappeared, with everything inside lost forever. Moghedien was imprisoned for a couple of days in a vacuole when she was first mindtrapped.
Vadere, Mikio. See Mikio Vadere
Vadere, Mistress. The innkeeper of The Golden Barge in So Habor, where Perrin and his group went to buy grain. Long-nosed and dirty, she served wine to Perrin and his companions while they negotiated.
Valan Luca. A circus owner and manager. Six feet tall, with broad shoulders, well-turned calves, dark hair and dark eyes, he liked sporting bright colors and was given to elaborate bows, flowery language and wild exaggerations. His show’s name was Valan Luca’s Grand Traveling Show and Magnificent Display of Marvels and Wonders. Nynaeve, Elayne, Thom, Juilin and Birgitte traveled with and performed in the show; Luca was very taken with Nynaeve, but he later married Latelle. Because he offered shelter to Cerandin and her s’redit, Luca received an exemption from the horse lottery the Seanchan carried out in Ebou Dar. Mat and his group escaped Ebou Dar and the Seanchan by traveling with Luca’s show.
Valda, Eamon. See Eamon Valda
Valene Sural. An Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah and the loyalist contingent, with a potential strength level of 21(9). Born in 972 NE, she went to the White Tower in 988 NE. After spending five years as a novice and six years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 999 NE. Since Valene had not yet acquired the ageless look, she was part of the expedition to kidnap Rand. She escaped Dumai’s Wells with Covarla Baldene and was sent to Dorlan.
Valera Gorovni. An Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah with a strength level of 14(2). Born in 748 NE, she went to the White Tower in 765 NE. After spending eight years as a novice and six years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 779 NE. Short, plump and always wearing a smile, she seemed to be bustling even while standing still. Valera was one of the sisters called in by Tamra Ospenya to carry out the secret search for the newborn Dragon Reborn. She was murdered by the Black Ajah in 979 NE.
Valinde Nathenos. An Illianer Aes Sedai of the White Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 33(21). She was stout and had no Warder. Valinde was a member of the rebel embassy to Rand in Caemlyn, and was one of the four sent on to Salidar with the Two Rivers girls. She tended to favor Romanda’s positions.
Vandalra lace. A cream-colored lace found on Elayne’s Ebou Dari dress.
Vandene Namelle. An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah and the rebel contingent, with a strength level of 22(10). Born in 737 NE, she went to the White Tower with her sister Adeleas in 752 NE. After spending five years as a novice and five years as Accepted, she was raised to the shawl in 762 NE. She progressed in near lockstep with her sister; they were raised within a month of each other in both instances. About 5'5" tall, and slender and graceful with a straight back—a mirror image of her sister—she wore her nearly white hair gathered at the back of her neck and had dark eyes. Vandene had a potential strength level of 20(8) but never achieved it because her older sister was weaker; some women who were close did not diverge greatly in strength even if their potentials did. Her lifespan was unaffected by this, being governed by her higher potential. She bonded Jaem as her Warder in 949 NE and retired in 970 NE to Tifan’s Well in Arafel with her sister Adeleas to write a history of the world since the Breaking, but events surrounding the Dragon Reborn caused them to become active again. They went to Salidar and then accompanied Elayne and Nynaeve to Ebou Dar. After the use of the Bowl of the Winds and the arrival of the Seanchan, they started to Caemlyn with Elayne. On the way, Adeleas was murdered and Vandene became grief-stricken. Vandene was forced to take two Kinswomen, Kirstian and Zarya, under her wing; they had run away from the Tower as novices, and were put back in novice white. She was obsessed with finding Adeleas’ murderer; she began wearing her sister’s perfume, wearing her sister’s clothes and using her sister’s silver-mounted Ebou Dari–style saddle. She went with Elayne to Full Moon Street to capture the Black Ajah members there, and she stabbed the treacherous Black Ajah sister, Careane, who had murdered Adeleas. Chesmal then killed Vandene; Jaem died while avenging her.