Woman of Tanchico, The. A waterfront inn at Southharbor in Tar Valon. On the night he was trying to escape from the Aes Sedai and the city, Mat went to the inn, needing shelter after a run-in with an assassin with a dagger. He met Thom Merrilin there, working as a gleeman.
Women’s Circle. In Andor, a group of women elected by the women of a village, responsible for deciding matters which were considered solely women’s responsibility (for example, when to plant crops and when to harvest). They were equal in authority to the Village Council, with clearly delineated lines and areas of responsibility. They were often at odds with the Village Council; this conflict was often at the heart of humorous stories. In lands other than Andor, the Women’s Circle was often known by another name, such as the Ring or the Gathering, but in one form or another, it existed everywhere.
Women’s Room. A chamber found in the inns of Far Madding, reserved strictly for women.
woolhead, wool-headed. Pejorative term used by or about Two Rivers folk, connoting one who stubbornly denies the obvious or the truth.
World of Dreams. See Tel’aran’rhiod
World’s End. The great cliffs running down the entire coast of Saldaea on the Aryth Ocean, north of Arad Doman and extending up into the Blight. This geographical feature prohibited seaports and allowed only a few of the tiniest, most isolated fishing villages.
World Sea. One of the Seanchan names for the Aryth Ocean.
Worms. Constructs created from the Age of Legends, when they were known as jumara. They were huge, vicious creatures created by Aginor. Living in the Blight and traveling in packs, they were powerful enough to kill Fades. To be killed, they needed to be cut into pieces. Under certain conditions, they transformed in some unspecified way.
Wormpack. A group of Worms. They typically traveled the Blight looking for prey.
wormwood. A plant. Its translation into the Old Tongue, Ordeith, was one of the aliases used by Padan Fain.
worrynot root. A substance used to treat fever.
Wreath of Megairil. Spoken of by Birgitte, referring to an earlier Age; it was an important prize given to the winner of a horse race.
Wuan, Child. A soldier of the Children of the Light. Young, handsome, left-handed and yellow-haired, he served under Geofram Bornhald until he was passed to the Questioners’ command. He and Earwin and the Questioners attacked a village on Almoth Plain and hanged thirty people, some of them children.
Wyndera Ovan. An Aes Sedai of the White Ajah and the loyalist contingent. She was part of the expedition to kidnap Rand. She escaped Dumai’s Wells with Covarla Baldene, and went to Dorlan.
Wynn. A Murandian family. See Cyril, Jac and Susa Wynn
Wynter, Teryl. See Teryl Wynter
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Yabeth, Lady. A Kandori woman who lost four of her five sons to the Blight. Her fifth, Tian, was at Heeth Tower when things went awry, and Keemlin Rai had Tian take his place as a messenger to the capital, hoping to keep Tian out of harm’s way.
Yakobin the Undaunted. An ancient Arafellin king who held the Silverwall Keeps when Trollocs attacked.
Yalu kazath d’Zamon patra Daeseia asa darshi. An Old Tongue phrase meaning “Say the name of Darkness and his eye is upon you.”
Yamada, Efraim. See Efraim Yamada
Yamwick. A Whitecloak soldier whom, along with Child Lathin, Perrin killed in the abandoned stedding where Hawkwing’s capital was planned to be. Perrin was tried for their murders in a court presided over by Morgase.
Yandar, Stedding. A stedding located in the Mountains of Mist.
Yang. A person who worked for the merchant Barriga. He was killed by Trollocs at Heeth Tower on the Blightborder.
Yanet. A person whom Graendal murdered in the Age of Legends, which caused Lews Therin to hate Graendal even more.
Yarin Maeldan. Bayle Domon’s first mate on the Spray. Brooding and stork-like, Yarin, not an Illianer, told Domon that Carn had been murdered while they were moored in Illian, Yarin’s own rooms at the Silver Dolphin had been broken into and men had tried to board the Spray. They sailed west, although Yarin didn’t think it was the best idea, and were captured by the Seanchan near Falme. While they were waiting for Nynaeve, Elayne, Min and Egwene before making an escape, Yarin worried that the Seanchan would show up instead of the women. Once the battle started, he tried to get Domon to leave without them.
Yarman, Ned. See Ned Yarman
Yasicca Cellaech. An ancient scholar and Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah who held that “Incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.”
Yearly Brawl, The. An inn found in Ebou Dar; its innkeeper was Kathana. Mat visited the inn and learned that there were assassins after Tuon.
Years of Silent Rage. A period in Artur Hawkwing’s life, also known as “The Black Years,” FY 961–965, in which his sorrow and his search for the murderers of his wife and daughters led to harsh and brutal treatment of resisting nations in the final years of the Consolidation.
Yellow Ajah. The main thrust of the Yellow Ajah was the study of Healing, though what they knew, prior to the revelations of Nynaeve, was actually just a form of rough-and-ready battlefield first aid from the War of the Shadow. There were a number of ways to apply the weaves for different results, but in the main, they really were variations on one set of weaves. The First Weaver, the head of the Yellow Ajah, had, in many ways, powers as autocratic as those of the Green or Red. There were approximately 120 members just prior to the Last Battle.
yellowbell. A plant bearing a yellow flower. At the Eye of the World, the Green Man picked many flowers, some of them yellowbells, and put them in Nynaeve’s and Egwene’s hair.
yelloweye fever. A fever causing the whites of a person’s eyes to turn yellow and making it impossible for the sufferer to stand.
yellowfly. A small dangerous insect found in the Aiel Waste that laid eggs in a person’s skin. If the eggs were not removed, an arm or a leg could be lost before they hatched or even death could occur.
Yeteri. A novice in the White Tower. Small and yellow-haired, she was one of the stronger novices Egwene gathered when the Seanchan attacked the Tower. She was the first to pick up linking.
Yoeli. A Saldaean officer in Maradon. Lean-faced and hook-nosed, he had bushy black eyebrows and a short beard. His sister was Sigril. Yoeli staged a revolt against the Darkfriend Lord Torkumen, whom Tenobia had left in charge of Maradon, killing some of his fellow soldiers who resisted what he was doing, and took command of the city. He considered himself a traitor, and wore the Traitor’s Banner, but he believed that it was wrong to let Ituralde and his men die outside the city at the hands of Trollocs, and opened Maradon’s gates to Ituralde. When the city wall was breached, Ituralde planned to retreat through gateways, but Yoeli persuaded him to stay. They worked together to kill as many Trollocs as possible. When Rand and Bashere arrived to defeat the enemy, they found a small band defending Yoeli’s body.