Egwene al'Vere

Amyrlin Seat

Basic Info

Gender

Female

Class

Channeler

Nationality

Andor

Channeler Info

Type
Aes Sedai - Unknown

Description

Amyrlin Seat to the Salidar Aes Sedai Was raised from Accepted directly to Amyrlin. She never did choose an Ajah. Second strongest Aes Sedai, next to Nynaeve Has dark hair and eyes Has the talent for dreaming, and was trained by the Aiel Wise Ones to be a Dreamwalker. Was once held prisoner by Seanchan and forced to be Damane. In love with Gawyn Trakand. Aes Sedai who have sworn Fealty to her: Faolain Orande; (Accepted) Myrelle; (Green Ajah) Nisao Dachen; (Yellow Ajah) Sheriam Bayanar; (Blue Ajah) Theodrin Dabei; (Accepted).  As of The Gathering Storm, Elayne has retaken control of The White Tower and is the lawfully abiding Amyrlin Seat.  She has also finally held the Oath Rod.

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Points of View (86 Total)

Book Chapter Chapter Name
The Great Hunt 8 The Dragon Reborn
The Great Hunt 12 Woven in the Pattern
The Great Hunt 18 To the White Tower
The Great Hunt 24 New Friends and Old Enemies
The Great Hunt 37 What Might Be
The Great Hunt 38 Practice
The Great Hunt 39 Flight from the White Tower
The Great Hunt 41 Disagreements
The Dragon Reborn 9 Wolf Dreams
The Dragon Reborn 10 Secrets
The Dragon Reborn 12 The Amyrlin Seat
The Dragon Reborn 13 Punishments
The Dragon Reborn 14 The Bite of the Thorns
The Dragon Reborn 15 The Gray Man
The Dragon Reborn 16 Hunters Three
The Dragon Reborn 17 The Red Sister
The Dragon Reborn 20 Visitations
The Dragon Reborn 21 A World of Dreams
The Dragon Reborn 22 The Price of the Ring
The Dragon Reborn 24 Scouting and Discoveries
The Dragon Reborn 25 Questions
The Dragon Reborn 35 The Falcon
The Dragon Reborn 36 Daughter of the Night
The Dragon Reborn 37 Fires in Cairhien
The Dragon Reborn 45 Caemlyn
The Dragon Reborn 46 A Message out of the Shadow
The Dragon Reborn 51 Bait for the Net
The Dragon Reborn 52 In Search of a Remedy
The Shadow Rising 2 Whirlpools in the Pattern
The Shadow Rising 4 Strings
The Shadow Rising 5 Questioners
The Shadow Rising 6 Doorways
The Shadow Rising 8 Hard Heads
The Shadow Rising 20 Winds Rising
The Shadow Rising 32 Questions to be Asked
The Fires of Heaven 2 Rhuidean
The Fires of Heaven 10 Figs and Mice
The Fires of Heaven 18 A Hound of Darkness
The Fires of Heaven 19 Memories
The Fires of Heaven 20 Jangai Pass
The Fires of Heaven 46 Other Battles, Other Weapons
The Fires of Heaven 58 The Traps of Rhuidean
Lord of Chaos 8 The Storm Gathers
Lord of Chaos 9 Plans
Lord of Chaos 12 Questions and Answers
Lord of Chaos 18 A Taste of Solitude
Lord of Chaos 19 Matters of Toh
Lord of Chaos 21 To Shadar Logoth
Lord of Chaos 26 Connecting Lines
Lord of Chaos 27 Gifts
Lord of Chaos 28 Letters
Lord of Chaos 29 Fire and Spirit
Lord of Chaos 30 To Heal Again
Lord of Chaos 31 Red Wax
Lord of Chaos 33 Courage to Strengthen
Lord of Chaos 38 A Sudden Chill
Lord of Chaos 46 Beyond the Gate
A Crown of Swords 1 High Chasaline
A Crown of Swords 2 The Butcher's Yard
A Crown of Swords 3 Hill of the Golden Dawn
A Crown of Swords 4 Into Cairhien
A Crown of Swords 55 Dumai's Wells
The Path of Daggers 5 The Breaking Storm
The Path of Daggers 6 Threads
The Path of Daggers 7 A Goatpen
The Path of Daggers 8 A Simple Country Woman
The Path of Daggers 9 Tangles
The Path of Daggers 20 Into Andor
Crossroads of Twilight 4 The Tale of a Doll
Crossroads of Twilight 5 The Forging of a Hammer
Crossroads of Twilight 6 The Scent of a Dream
Crossroads of Twilight 7 Blacksmith's Puzzle
Crossroads of Twilight 8 Whirlpools of Color
Crossroads of Twilight 18 A Chat with Siuan
Knife of Dreams 10 A Village in Shiota
The Gathering Storm 2 The Nature of Pain
The Gathering Storm 11 The Death of Adrin
The Gathering Storm 22 Honey in the Tea
The Gathering Storm 24 A New Commitment
The Gathering Storm 25 In Darkness
The Gathering Storm 26 A Crack in the Stone
The Gathering Storm 26 In Malden
The Gathering Storm 28 Night in Hinderstap
The Gathering Storm 30 Old Advice
The Gathering Storm 31 A Promise to Lews Therin
The Gathering Storm 32 A Cup of Kaf

Interview Questions (13 total)

Question Action
At the end of Crossroads of Twilight, did the Aes Sedai know immediately who Egwene was? Or did they find the Amyrlin’s stole, and thus conclude that she was important?
They recognized her face. Remember, she did spend some time in the White Tower despite all of her jaunts outside. 		View More Details
Have the visions and other such prophecies about Egwene and the Seanchan (such as the running one and the one with the sword) have they been fulfilled yet?
No, none of those have been fulfilled other than the attack on the White Tower. She still has more to go. 		View More Details
Is Mesaana still in the Tower?
Egwene makes some deductions about this at the end of the book. Egwene is not incorrect. 		View More Details
Which characters did you find the easiest to write and which ones did you find were the hardest to write?
Easy and hard? I would say the most natural ones for me to write were Rand and Egwene. I’m not sure why. Perrin was very natural for me as well. The Two Rivers folk, the kids from Two Rivers that I’ve grown up with as my friends from high school that just feel like my buddies and think kind of…well Rand doesn’t think like I do anymore but you know what I mean. The hardest single person to write was Aviendha because Aiel are so odd and they think so strangely and getting her right I actually had to throw away two chapters. I wrote one from her perspective threw it away. Wrote another one, it wasn’t right, sent it to Charleston and said what am I doing wrong and they are like you are doing it wrong and I said I know, what am I doing wrong and Harriet gave me some pointers I tossed that one and wrote a third one and that is when it started to work. Tuon was not terribly easy either, but I had a little more practice by the time I wrote Tuon and so I got her on the first try but it was after a lot of research. So, there you go, Aviendha, hard to write, she’s crazy. She would say that she isn’t because she would say she acts the most normal of everyone. 		View More Details
So, [Fain's] influence, how long for example…wasn’t Egwene exposed to Padan Fain? Are there still effects that Egwene has on people because of him?
Remember the idea that people have, generally, a choice. There are ways to turn people to the Shadow against their will, but when that happens the person is no longer the person. What is happening with Padan Fain is, naturally tendencies can be exacerbated or they can be fought off... 		View More Details
Some commenters (AMW) have noted a seeming discrepancy regarding Egwene's accounting for captured, missing, dead, and present sisters. Is this true, and can it be explained?
RAFO 		View More Details
Heights of main characters?
Rand 6'6", Perrin 6'2", Mat 5'11.5", Aviendha 5'8"-5'9", Elayne 5'6", Nynaeve 5'4", Egwene 5'2", Moiraine 5'0"-5'2" 		View More Details
Did Egwene as Amyrlin happen to be watching people's dreams while Rand was shielded? (Tries again) Since Rand was shielded and couldn't form any Wards on his dreams could Egwene have spied out that he was in trouble while in Tel'aran'rhiod?
Ah. Yes, she could have. The problem is, when you've learned that something is impossible, you have a tendency to stop trying it. She just didn't try to spy during the period in question. 		View More Details
Just how can an Aes Sedai be a damane? Aren't they bound by the Third Oath: to not use the One Power as a weapon except to defend their lives, their Warder's life, or another sister's life? Wouldn't they be useless as damane to the Seanchan?
The Aes Sedai captured by the Seanchan are indeed useless as weapons, except against Shadowspawn or Darkfriends, because they are bound by the Three Oaths, and that limits their value considerably since being weapons is a major use for damane. Damane are used for other tasks, however, including finding ores for mining (Egwene was tested for this, remember; it's a very valuable, and fairly rare, ability), for some mining operations where it would be too dangerous or uneconomical to use human miners (bringing ores out of the ground and refining them using the Power), and in some construction projects, especially where something very large or with a need for added strength is envisioned. The first two both require a high ability in Earth, which has faded considerably on "this" side of the Aryth Ocean and to a smaller degree of the other side, but construction projects and others things, such as producing Sky Lights, are well within the abilities of collared Aes Sedai. The Three Oaths don't inhibit them there at all. 		View More Details
Which characters did you find the easiest to write and which ones did you find were the hardest to write?
Easy and hard? I would say the most natural ones for me to write were Rand and Egwene. I’m not sure why. Perrin was very natural for me as well. The Two Rivers folk, the kids from Two Rivers that I’ve grown up with as my friends from high school that just feel like my buddies and think kind of…well Rand doesn’t think like I do anymore but you know what I mean. The hardest single person to write was Aviendha because Aiel are so odd and they think so strangely and getting her right I actually had to throw away two chapters. I wrote one from her perspective threw it away. Wrote another one, it wasn’t right, sent it to Charleston and said what am I doing wrong and they are like you are doing it wrong and I said I know, what am I doing wrong and Harriet gave me some pointers I tossed that one and wrote a third one and that is when it started to work. Tuon was not terribly easy either, but I had a little more practice by the time I wrote Tuon and so I got her on the first try but it was after a lot of research. So, there you go, Aviendha, hard to write, she’s crazy. She would say that she isn’t because she would say she acts the most normal of everyone. 		View More Details
What went on with Egwene, Mat and Fain in the dungeon of The Great Hunt?
Most of it is fairly obvious, I would think. For the rest, you'll have to read and find out. 		View More Details
There seem to be some time discrepancies surrounding the incident where Elayne and company Traveled to the Kin Farm. Did the gateway Aviendha opened to the countryside near the Kin Farm at the beginning of The Path of Daggers allow Elayne's party to Travel forward or backward in time?
RAFO 		View More Details
Why doesn't Egwene just Travel her troops to Tar Valon?
She needs the time to be in control. Otherwise she'd just be a puppet to others needs. 		View More Details
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