5.17 Large, wrinkled gray animals with big ears, tusks, and a long nose.

4.37 In the Old Tongue, 'I am lost in my own mind.'

2.4 Has the same use as an angreal, but is much more powerful.

4.42 A dance that Faile knows, which she claims is even racier than the tiganza.

7.25 Black flecks that appear in the eyes of those who use the True Power extensively.

3.31 A woman Thom knows at The Woman of Tanchico inn in Tar Valon.

6.42 An Aiel of the Red Water sept of the Goshien Aiel. He is missing his right hand. He has been teaching the students at Rand's farm the ways of Aiel fighting.

8.26 An Sitter for the Brown Ajah in the Tower. She is Altaran. She carries a knife behind her belt and has a scar on one cheek. She is infamous for her scowl. She has dark hair that is whitening at the temples, and has an olive complexion.

4.1 A novice in the White Tower. The Amyrlin plans to send the girl away for penance at a vegetable patch to keep her from spreading any rumors. According to Elaida her abilities are not strong and she does not apply herself.

4.17 While doing penance on a farm, she is killed by an Aes Sedai who had tried to get information out of her.

4.17 See Sahra.

1.12 The female half of the True Source.

1.0 The male half of the True Source, tainted by the Dark One's counterstroke.

4.19 The equivalent of captain on an Atha'an Miere ship.

5.40 One of the Shienarans who accompanied Uno. He was killed.

6.30 An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah. She is from Tear.

8.16 She is a Sitter for the Salidar Hall.

8.19 She is described as dark-faced.

5.11 A pseudonym used to spread the message to the Blue Ajah to meet in Salidar.

3.38 A sept of the Nakai Aiel.

8.5 An honorific title added after the family name of a Sea Folk woman when she reaches a certain age. Salt names are usually descriptive of nature and animals of the sea.

6.35 A Sitter of the Hall of the Tower in Salidar.

8.19 She is Green Ajah.

1.2 A man on the Emond's Field Village Council.

7.35 An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah. Arafellin. She is pretty, slim, has dark hair, and a commanding air. Warder: Roshan.

1.32 Innkeeper of The Dancing Cartman in Four Kings, tries to steal from Rand and Mat.

3.6 One of the Forsaken.

3.44 He becomes one of the Council of Nine in Illian, known as Lord Brend.

3.50 Loial says he and Be'lal are masters of the sword and were leaders against the Dark One before turning to the Shadow.

5.44 Rand knows his true name as Tel Janin.

3.32 A High Lord of Tear. He is charismatic and speaks of destroying Tar Valon.

3.50 In truth, he is the Forsaken Be'lal.

1.1 The foothills of the Mountains of Mist. Before the Breaking of the World, the Sand Hills were the shore of an ocean. Many Two Rivers folk believe it is bad luck to go to the Sand Hills.

6.18 A scarred Aiel that Sorilea thinks may have caught Egwene's interest.

3.32 A strongman on the Gray Gull.

9.5 One of Berelain's thief-catchers. He is non-descript.

5.40 One of the Shienarans who accompanied Uno. He jumped off a cliff.

5.0 Something mentioned by one of the Forsaken, presumably something from the Age of Legends.

1.15 Cook at Stag and Lion in Baerlon.

7.23 An Ebou Dari Wise Woman.

8.28 She is a member of the Kin.

4.25 In Rand's experience in Rhuidean, mother of Maigran and Lewin. When she discovers that Lewin did murder to save Maigran, she disowns him.

7.16 An Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah. She is from Tear.

9.7 Her warder is Ned Yarman

5.32 Someone Lady Morsa knows.

6.8 An Altaran noblewoman.

6.25 An Aes Sedai of the White Ajah who comes to Cairhien with Elaida's embassy.

6.25 She secretly enjoys writing poetry.

5.16 A young woman from the Two Rivers who pursued the man her widowed mother intended to marry.

3.34 An Aiel who accompanied Gaul in Remen and was killed by Hunters of the Horn.

7.12 Nisao Sedai's Warder.

7.18 An Aiel Wise One.

5.26 An Aes Sedai.

8.19 She is White Ajah.

9.13 An Aes Sedai who was stilled at Dumai's Wells when Rand broke through the shield that she and his other captors were holding on him.

6.14 A woman in Salidar.

1.2 He is the yellow cat of the Winespring Inn.

1.24 A seafaring people who live primarily in the islands of the Aryth Ocean and the Sea of Storms.

2.0 They can be distinguished by the tattoos on their hands

2.7 They are closemouthed about their travels, and refuse to cross the Aryth Ocean.

2.9 It's hinted that their songs are usually sad.

2.26 A man Thom performs for in Cairhien.

7.8 An Aes Sedai of the White Ajah who suggested Siuan be raised to the Amyrlin Seat.

8.26 She is a Sitter in the Tower.

4.25 The wife of Mandein in Rand's experience in Rhuidean. She is a Wise One and a dreamwalker, and says that the septs who do not come to Rhuidean and do as the Jenn ask will fade away.

3.39 An Aiel Wise One.

4.12 She is of the Black Cliff sept of the Nakai Aiel. She is a dreamwalker.

2.29 A mysterious people from across the Aryth Ocean, rumored to be descendants of the armies sent there by Artur Hawkwing. The Seanchan come to Toman Head and force villagers there to swear oaths to them, oaths they claim have been forsaken. They take women and girls from the villages and some never return. With them they bring grolm and other beasts, and the soldiers (among them both men and women) wear insect-like helmets.

2.34 It is law in Seanchan that none may kill one who is of Artur Hawkwing's blood. If the death of one such is ordered, they are not slain, but left to die of starvation. The High Lord Turak suggests that Artur Hawkwing's armies took the land of Seanchan from the Armies of the Night.

6.0 Pedron Niall's secretary.

6.8 He is secretly the spymaster of the Whitecloaks.

6.17 To the Aiel, the father of one's husband or wife is called second-father. To us, this is the equivalent of father-in-law.

6.17 the mother of one's husband or wife is called second-mother. To us, this is the equivalent of mother-in-law.

3.38 To the Aiel, women whose mothers are sisters are called second-sisters. To us, this is the equivalent of cousin.

8.25 A Sitter for the Yellow Ajah in the White Tower. She is round-faced. Her manner is cold elegance.

12.39 She is identified as Black Ajah in Verin's book.

5.17 The highrope walker in Valan Luca's traveling menagerie. After Cerandin's s'redit wreak havoc in Sienda, he drank too much and died falling from the highrope.

2.34 Similar to the Whitecloak Questioners, they use torture to glean truth for the Empress of Seanchan.

4.38 They carry with them a raven-inscribed plaque, and have ravens tattooed on their back to mark them the property of the Imperial family.

4.12 An Aiel Maiden of the Spear.

5.5 A leathery, leafless plant covered in spines, with white flowers.

8.17 A Murandian lady. She has full lips and dark eyes.

8.18 She always looks petulant and pouting. She is slender and has long dark hair.

8.6 A Seanchan raken.

4.57 An Aiel warrior society. It means 'Black Eyes'.

4.26 In Rand's experience in Rhuidean as Adan, his wife, who is killed in an attack.

5.44 An Aiel of the Shorara Tomanelle.

5.1 Gareth Bryne's bedchamber maid.

7.8 One of Egwene's maids, found by Lelaine.

5.51 One of many young women lined up for Rand by Lady Colavaere of Cairhien.

6.19 She takes up the sword along with other Cairhienin women who admire the Aiel Maidens.

9.6 She is one of Faile's followers. She is short and slender.

7.4 See Selande.

9.9 Presumably a very secluded town or village.

2.16 A woman Rand meets in his search for the Horn of Valere.

4.9 In truth, she is Lanfear.

4.38 Owner of the Garden of Silver Breezes wineshop in Tanchico.

6.5 A high-ranking Cairhienin soldier.

5.3 One of the Forsaken.

6.6 She was once an Aes Sedai, famed for her almost limitless power to Heal. The Hall of Servants gave her the choice to be bound for the suffering she intentionally put her patients through sometimes, or be severed and cast out of the Tower. She chose to go over to the Shadow.In the War of the Shadow, Semirhage turned many Counselors of the Hall to the Shadow.

12.22 Rand kills her with balefire.

4.1 Mentioned in reference to a pony-sized spotted cat illustrating one of the High Lady Suroth's screens.

5.3 In the Old Tongue, 'Luck is a horse to ride like any other.'

8.2 An Atha'an Miere Windfinder. She has three earrings in each ear, but it appears she once had more, and heavier. She has weathered cheeks and hair heavy with gray.

9.11 She serves on a small soarer. She is described as weathered, with a creased face and graying hair. Presently she wears six earings. She had been the Windfinder to the woman who was Mistress of the Ships previous to Nesta, and since the death of the former Mistress of the Ships, Senine has had to begin again at the lowest level.

6.41 An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah. She is from Cairhien.

2.4 An Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah.

5.23 A sept of the Tomanelle Aiel.

8.0 First Councilor to Queen Ethenielle of Kandor. She is round-faced, stout, dark-eyed, and plain as a farmwife. She has a sharp mind, and is unflappable.

7.32 An Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah.

6.49 An Ogier who wrote a theory about the Ways six hundred years ago.

7.32 An fierce Amyrlin Seat who had been Mistress of Novices.

8.15 She was one of the greatest Amyrlins, who raised the prestige of the Tower to untold heights, and controlled the Tower through sheer force of will.

6.31 Amyrlin Seat of the White Tower in 306 NE. She was killed and hung by the Whitecloaks.

5.1 A name in the Old Tongue meaning 'stubborn daughter'.

6.28 An Andoran Lady who opposed Gaebril.

5.32 A Seanchan damane.

1.42 A name for Aes Sedai.

2.45 A Seanchan sul'dam that Nynaeve, Elayne and Min capture in order to rescue Egwene.

6.47 Innkeeper of The Wandering Woman in Ebou Dar.

4.49 Wife of Suladric, who was chief of the Shaido Aiel.

5.49 One of Marigan's sons.

5.6 The name used in the Age of Legends for what is now known as stilling.

7.19 Presumably a notable woman in history.

6.6 A kind of empress among the Ayyad. Every seven years, the Sh'boan dies and is replaced, alternating with the Sh'botay.

6.6 A kind of emporer among the Ayyad. Every seven years, the Sh'botay dies and is replaced, alternating with the Sh'boan.

5.30 In the Old Tongue, Thunder Walkers, an Aiel warrior society.

8.0 An ancient game, a precursor to stones. It is played on a board thirteen squares by thirteen. At the center is the most important piece, the black and white Fisher. The outer squares of the board, the goal row, alternate green and red. Thirty-three green pieces and thirty-three red are arrayed on opposite sides of the board inside the goal row. When you capture the Fisher, your goal is to move it onto a square of your own color on the goal row on the enemy's side of the board. When the other side captures the Fisher, your goal is to give the enemy no choice but to move the Fisher onto your color.

3.34 An Aiel clan.

3.38 It has had a blood feud with the Goshien for over four hundred years.

1.1 Presumably a fairy tale that parents sometimes use to scare some discipline into their children.

3.39 The Aiel name for Darkfriends.

3.34 Means the same as Stone Dogs.

1.0 The true name of the Dark One. It is said to be dangerous to use this name, and as such, there are many euphemisms; most commonly, the Dark One.

6.0 An unusually tall Myrdraal who seems to have more humanity than most Shadowspawn. His name in the Old Tongue means 'Hand of the Dark'.

4.22 An Aiel clan.

99.1 The name Rand's mother took when she became a Maiden of the Spear. She came to the Waste after being told by Gitara Moroso that if she did not become a Maiden, her land and people would face disaster. She was pregnant with Rand by Janduin, then clan chief of the Tardaad Aiel, when she went across the Dragonwall to fight in what became known as the Aiel war. It was in that war that she died.

7.34 Windfinder to Clan Shodein. She is described as young and pretty. She has eight earrings in total.

9.23 Her husband's name is Mishael.

2.2 Male head housekeeper of Fal Dara keep. His female equal is the shatayan

6.40 An Aes Sedai of the White Ajah.

6.30 An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah.

6.6 A man from the lands across the Aiel Waste. Before Graendal made him into one of her servants, he was to be Sh'botay to Chiape.

3.0 Servant to Jaichim Carridin.

2.23 In Nynaeve's Accepted testing, an Aes Sedai Lan mentions.

9.10 A grandmother who has become a novice in the Salidar Tower.

6.0 A Domani refugee who comes to the Two Rivers.

4.26 In Rand's experience in Rhuidean, a white sphere that once floated above the Collam Daan. When it burst into black flame and fell to the earth, it bore a hole in the Dark One's prison.

2.2 Female head housekeeper of Fal Dara keep. Her male equal is the shambayan

1.1 The place beyond the Great Blight where the Dark One and the Forsaken are said to be bound.

4.38 A kind of entertainer in Seanchan who wears a veil and little more than that.

2.9 Allowing a sword to be sheathed within the body when no other option is available.

8.15 An Amyrlin who had squandered her power, alienated most sisters, and was secretly deposed and exiled 400 years ago. After four attempts to put her back on the Amyrlin Seat, the sisters guarding her were killed.

7.2 A sept of the Daryne Aiel.

4.47 An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah who sides with Elaida when Siuan is deposed.

5.51 See Band of the Red Hand.

1.44 An Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah.

2.12 Mistress of Novices in the White Tower.

2.18 She is slightly plump, has red hair, high cheekbones, and tilted green eyes.

3.11 It's hinted that she's from Saldaea.

12.25 In truth, she is Black Ajah.

12.45 Egwene has her stilled and executed.

6.36 See Sheriam.

8.25 A Sitter for the Brown Ajah in the White Tower. She is as tall as most men, very thin, with an angular face and long chin, her hair in a cap of curls.

7.15 Assumed name of Mili Skane.

9.10 She has adopted the Avarhin Heart and Hand as her sigil. Lord Willim was the father of the real Shiaine.

9.10 See Shiaine.

5.2 An Aiel clan.

6.22 A constellation Mat knows. Also known as Hawkwing's Shield.

9.11 Windfinder to Zaida, she is described as slender, coolly reserved, and almost as tall as Aviendha, much taller than Zaida.

6.14 An Accepted in Salidar.

2.4 Short for the Shining Walls of Tar Valon.

4.26 From Rand's experience in Rhuidean, a form of transportation used before the Breaking of the World.

4.26 From Rand's experience in Rhuidean, a weapon used before the Breaking of the World.

6.28 An Atha'an Miere Clan.

6.5 An Atha'an Miere clan.

5.44 A sept of the Tomanelle Aiel.

9.0 An Aiel Wise One, a fiery redhead.

7.38 An Ebou Dari Wise Woman. She is scrawny and yellow-haired.

5.15 The woman who became Amyrlin Seat shortly after Moiraine and Siuan Sanche began their search for Rand. Sierin was raised from the Gray Ajah, but had many attributes of a Red.

5.36 Leader of a rival menagerie in Samara.

5.0 The new Mistress of Novices in the White Tower under Elaida.

8.25 She is a Red sister, stocky and square-faced.

3.27 A hideous old woman Egwene sees in Tel'aran'rhiod, in the Heart of the Stone in Tear. Silvie claims to have served Egwene's family for years.

5.13 Innkeeper of The King's Lancer, in Sienda, which is destroyed by Valan Luca's giant boar-horses.

4.21 A High Lord of Tear.

3.8 Serving man at Harilin's Leap in Jarra, Ghealdan. Brother of Noam.

1.0 Something Lews Therin mentions, along with the Voice.

4.12 A familial relation among the Aiel. Presumably it denotes the sister of an Aiel's mother, or what we would call an aunt.

4.12 To the Aiel, two women who are married to the same man are sister-wives. To us, this is the equivalent of bigamy :)

5.46 In the Old Tongue, 'spear of the Dragon'. It more than implies propriety.

2.4 The Amyrlin Seat, raised from the Blue Ajah. She grew up in Tear. She became Amyrlin in 988 NE. She was born in 958 NE.

4.47 In 999 NE she is deposed and replaced by Elaida. She is stilled. Min frees her and Leane.

5.1 She swears service to Gareth Bryne, but escapes.

5.27 She reaches Salidar and begins to secretly manipulate the Aes Sedai into action.

6.30 She is Healed by Nynaeve so she can channel again, but her power is much weaker. She begins to have feelings for Gareth Bryne.

5.6 Using the Power to open a gateway into darkness, then drifting through that darkness on a platform to a destination.

8.6 A display similar to fireworks that Seanchan damane are trained to make.

4.28 The name the wolves give to a man Perrin sees in the wolf dream. Slayer has a cold, inhuman scent, and kills wolves in the dream. Hopper says he is in the dream in flesh. When Slayer sees Perrin, he flees to the Tower of Ghenjei.

4.42 He resembles Lan and wears the hadori.

2.14 A wolf Perrin meets in his search for the whereabouts of the Horn of Valere.

6.19 A sept of the Miagoma Aiel.

6.22 A constellation Mat knows. Known among Aiel as Dragon.

3.35 A ship owned by Jaim Adarra that Perrin, Loial, Moiraine, Lan and Zarine Bashere take to Illian.

4.1 Among the Seanchan, hereditary upper servants of the Blood. The left side of a so'jhin's head is shaved and the remaining hair is in a braid.

9.14 See Truthspeaker.

7.29 A woman from the Kin.

4.26 The Aes Sedai that Jonai serves, in Rand's experience in Rhuidean. She has Jonai lead the wagons of the Jenn Aiel.

5.46 An Aiel Maiden of the Spear.

8.27 She is flaxen-haired, and tall for an Aiel woman.

8.29 She is killed...Bent Peak Daryne

7.13 An Atha'an Miere clan.

7.0 A Shaido Wise One.

9.4 She is at least half a hand taller than Perrin but not bulky, and has sandy yellow hair. She has a strong face that some might call pretty, but seems soft compared to Therava.

1.42 Songs used by Ogier to make plants grow. Only some Ogier have this Talent.

6.3 Jur's wife.

4.22 Author of The Killers of the Black Veil.

5.4 A kind of rat found in the Aiel Waste that is considered sly, and has flesh so foul, even cats won't eat it.

4.26 In Rand's experience in Rhuidean, a Nym who ends up being the last of his kind. Before losing his memory to a scar in his head, he was friends with Jonai. He is summoned by the Aes Sedai in the Hall of the Tower for a special task. Someshta's scar names him the Green Man that Rand and his party met at the Eye of the World.

5.5 A Wise One of the Jarra sept of the Chareen Aiel, Wise One of Shende Hold.

7.3 An Aiel Wise One.

3.3 See Gray Man.

6.23 Something from the Age of Legends.

6.1 Artur Hawkwing's greatest general. Husband of Ishara.

6.20 A position of authority among Ogier.

9.14 See Truthspeaker.

6.33 A sept of the Miagoma Aiel.

8.21 An Illianer, one of the Council of Nine.

1.20 A ship owned by Bayle Domon.

1.1 In accordance with the custom of Bel Tine, the Spring Pole is the trunk of a fir tree cleared of its branches. It is raised on the Village Green by the older women of the village. In the morning, the men pretend to be surprised to see it, then at noon, the unmarried men sing while the unmarried women dance around it, twining it with ribbon.

9.2 A wolf.

5.5 A curved piece of bronze used to clean oneself in a sweat tent.

2.30 King Galldrian's seal.

6.22 A constellation Mat knows.

3.50 An inn in Tear where Perrin, Loial, Zarine, Moiraine and Lan stay.

5.13 The symbol of Amadicia.

6.22 An item from the Age of Legends which stores objects. Some stasis boxes survived the Breaking of the World.

1.27 A place in which Ogier dwell that the Dark One cannot touch and where Aes Sedai cannot channel.

6.46 Demira Eriff's Warder. He is from Cairhien.

2.4 The act of cutting a woman off from the True Source, preventing her from channeling. The male equivalent is called 'gentling'. Most who undergo this procedure lose their will to live and do not last long afterward. In the White Tower it is only done to women who have committed a most heinous crime.

4.5 When an Aes Sedai is stilled, it seems she loses the look of agelessness.

2.13 A remnant from an Age even before the Age of Legends which provides access to alternate worlds.

2.16 The alternate worlds reachable by the Stones reflect the infinite possibilities for the Pattern's weaving.

99.1 According to Verin Sedai, the symbols on the top half of a Stone represent the alternate worlds, while those on the bottom represent other Stones in this world.

1.13 A division of the Aiel.

1.0 A well-known game in the Two Rivers.

3.38 A sept of the Goshien Aiel.

4.26 From Rand's experience in Rhuidean, a material used to make clothing that reflects the wearer's emotional state.

1.32 One of Saml Hake's toughs at the Dancing Cartman, killed by lightning.

8.25 Sitter in the White Tower and head of her Ajah.

2.40 In the Old Tongue, 'Holder of the Leash', a woman who wears the bracelet of an a'dam. If a man wears the bracelet, most of the time it is as if nobody is wearing the bracelet at all, but with some men, wearing the bracelet kills himself and the damane both.

99.1 When a sul'dam is wearing her bracelet, she calls it being complete.

99.1 Sul'dam can channel as well, but they don't know it. They are the ones who are not born with the ability but are able to learn. A collar works on them the same as on a damane.

4.23 A Shaido clan chief who died, and who Muradin or Couladin hopes to replace.

5.7 An Aiel Maiden of the Spear.

5.20 She was chosen Roofmistress of the Maidens Roof in Rhuidean.

9.6 She is of the Goshien Aiel.

4.26 In Rand's experience in Rhuidean as Adan, a Jenn Aiel who no longer wishes to keep to the duty to the Aes Sedai, and takes a group of Aiel and wagons to seek the lost songs of the Aiel.

7.23 A member of the Kin.

7.31 She is one of the Elders of the Kin.

7.21 A character from stories who awakens Talia with a kiss.

4.8 A High Lord of Tear.

8.24 His house is Haellin.

1.1 A summer holiday celebrated in the Two Rivers.

7.40 The high council of the Black Ajah.

7.40 A Shaido Maiden of the Spear. Maeric's eldest daughter.

6.27 An Aiel woman apprenticed to Sorilea to become a Wise One.

8.0 Ancestor of Ethenielle, a near-legendary queen of Kandor who believed that she could control the weather because she held the Throne of the Clouds.

1.48 Old Tongue for 'Peace favor your sword'

4.1 A Seanchan woman who oversees sul'dam.

4.46 A sul'dam deserter who looks somewhat like Nynaeve, though taller. Egeanin is searching for her in Tanchico.

2.40 A Seanchan High Lady who knows Liandrin and is among Egwene and Min's captors.

4.51 Twin sticks customarily used in Arad Doman as eating utensils.

6.10 A young woman from the Two Rivers who can channel.

5.11 The entertainer in Duranda Tharne's inn.

3.49 The ship Mat and Thom take from Aringill to Tear.

8.0 The two-handed sword carried by the Swordbearer of Kandor. It is ancient, said to have been carried by the fabled warrior Queen of Aramaelle. It is also said it may be Power-wrought.

8.0 Commander of the Armies of Kandor, who holds the Sword of Kirukan.

6.5 An Atha'an Miere position of rank.

7.16 A festival after High Chasaline, in Ebou Dar.