EWoT: Aviendha

Aviendha Biographical information Nationality Aiel Current Status Alive Physical description Gender Female Hair color Reddish Eye color Blue-green Chronological and political information First appeared TDR 38 Last appeared TOM 49 Occupation Wise One Apprentice Clan Taardad Sept Nine Valleys
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Aviendha was a Maiden of the Spear of the Nine Valleys sept of the Taardad Aiel until she became an apprentice with the Wise Ones.

Contents 1 Appearance 2 Activities 2.1 Background 2.2 First Encounter 2.3 To Rhuidean 2.4 With Rand al'Thor 2.5 Learning to love 2.6 What Rhuidean revealed 3 Restoring order to Arad Doman 4 Return to Rhuidean 5 The future 6 Notes

AppearanceEdit

Aviendha is tall and strong, though with ample curves. Her eyes are blue-green and she has reddish hair, once short and now held back with a scarf as it is growing out.

ActivitiesEdit

BackgroundEdit

Aviendha was born in 980 NE.^[1] She is from the Nine Valleys sept of the Taardad clan (though an early authorial error has her listed as being of the Bitter Water sept). She has a first-sister (born of the same mother) six or seven years older than her^[2] named Niella.^[3] Her sister-mother (aunt) is Lian. Aviendha has wanted to be Far Dareis Mai since childhood.^[4]

First EncounterEdit

Aviendha enters the story as an Aiel Maiden of the Spear, a warrior woman who is married to her weapon, having fulfilled her childhood dream. She was one of the Aiel who ventured out of the Aiel Waste, across the Spine of the World and into the so-called "wetlands" in search of the Car'a'carn, the Aiel chief of chiefs, He Who Comes With The Dawn. They aided Egwene al'Vere, Elayne Trakand and Nynaeve al'Meara on their travels and eventually ended up at the Stone of Tear when Rand al'Thor took Callandor, the crystal sword sa'angreal. There Aviendha befriended the three women further, especially Egwene and Elayne, who she began to call her near-sisters according to Aiel custom.

To RhuideanEdit

While she would have gladly accompanied Elayne and Nynaeve to Tanchico to hunt Darkfriends, Aviendha was summoned back to Rhuidean in the Aiel Waste for unknown reasons. Making the best of it, she promised Elayne to keep Rand unattached and departed, arriving in the company of Rand, Egwene, Moiraine Sedai and Lan Mandragoran. There the truth came out; Aviendha had been summoned because she could learn to channel, and would be trained to join the ranks of the Wise Ones. She is about as strong in the One Power as Elayne and Egwene, making her one of the strongest female channelers alive.

With Rand al'ThorEdit

She remained with the Aiel that accompanied Rand's campaign against the rogue Shaido clan in Cairhien, and assisted in his strike against Rahvin in Caemlyn.

At Rhuidean, Aviendha saw that she was fated to fall in love with Rand, and feared retribution from Elayne: she'd promised to keep anyone from stealing Rand out from under Elayne's nose, only to discover she would do just that herself. Blaming Rand for her predicament, Aviendha became suddenly hostile, behaviour that baffled him. The situation was exacerbated when the Aiel Wise Ones instructed Aviendha to teach Rand about the Aiel people and eventually even sleep in his tent.The situation finally came to a head when one day Rand happened to come upon Aviendha while she was naked. Panicking, she made a gateway (incidentally a feat she is not able to reproduce until much later in the series) to the opposite side of the world and fled through it into a blizzard. Rand, realizing that she would not survive long without clothes in a freezing, foreign land, grabbed blankets and pursued her. After Rand fished her out of a river that she fell into, Aviendha declared that she would run from her fate no longer and revealed her love to Rand in the form of sudden and unexpected sexual intercourse.

Rand kept her close (albeit awkwardly at times) through the battles with the Shaido and the attack on Rahvin, though Aviendha decided to forgo anything physical again until she could talk with Elayne. Fortunately, their liaison does not seem to have damaged Rand's love for Elayne, nor Aviendha's and Elayne's friendship.

Learning to loveEdit

After Rahvin's demise, Rand foisted Aviendha off on Mat Cauthon--not to break their mutual attraction (at the time he too was having trouble getting used to the idea of loving three women) but rather because any woman near him would be in danger, and he couldn't stand to see her hurt. After they arrived at Salidar, Aviendha agreed to accompany Elayne and Nynaeve to Ebou Dar; she assisted in the use of the Bowl of the Winds once it was found. She has also been given a woman shaped angreal by Elayne to use. Now safely in Caemlyn, she has finally had a chance to meet Min Farshaw, the third member of Rand's women, and they seem to be getting along. She and Elayne have also formally become first-sisters, an Aiel ceremony that invokes a Power-wrought connection not unlike a Warder bond. Also, Aviendha, along with both Elayne and Min, have Bonded Rand as their 'Warder' in a private ceremony. She remains in Caemlyn, safeguarding Elayne and, according to Min, Rand's newly conceived twins. Min has seen in her visions that Aviendha will have four of Rand's babies at once, but that there is something odd about it. The children will be born healthy, but there is something odd about that, too.

What Rhuidean revealedEdit

When Rand and Nynaeve are trying to cleanse saidin, both Elayne and Aviendha sense huge amounts of channeling without knowing what is going on. Elayne suggests going to help Rand but Aviendha reveals that this event is one of the visions she saw while in Rhuidean. If they Travel there something bad will happen to them or Rand so they must ignore the event.

Aviendha recently discovered a Talent for identifying the function of ter'angreal; shortly after that, she is taken away from Caemlyn by the Wise Ones to resume her apprenticeship, to Arad Doman with the rest of her clan.

Restoring order to Arad Doman Edit

When she arrives in Arad Doman she begins to scout with Rhuarc. She is at the meeting with Rand and the Aiel Clan Chiefs when Rand gives the order for the Aiel to capture the Council of Merchants. She is also given increasingly more meaningless tasks designed to shame her for "not learning quickly enough". While carrying out one of her meaningless tasks, she witnesses a Bubble of evil combust the Saldaean soldier Adrin. His remains then catch fire to the nearby manor. She weaves a massive column of Air and Water from a nearby river and transports water onto the fire, with help from Naeff and manages to put the fire out.

She is present when Davram Bashere and Damer Flinn arrive at the Traveling grounds after being sent to the Daughter of the Nine Moons to request her to meet with Rand. Aviendha feels the pain when Semirhage captures Rand and raises the alarm. The next day Min seeks her out and although the two are awkward round each other, they both respect each other. Min points out the pointlessness of her tasks which finally make Aviendha snap and confront the Wise One's over the fruitlessness of her punishments. In the end, what she was not learning quickly enough was to stand up for herself and see herself as their equal, which was the last step in her training as a Wise One. Upon finally doing so, she departs for Rhuidean to walk through the pillars there.

Return to RhuideanEdit

In order to contemplate her future and prepare for her journey to Rhuidean itself, Aviendha Travelled to Cold Rocks Hold and proceeded on foot towards Rhuidean. One night during her travels, she met a mysterious stranger calling herself Nakomi, who engaged Aviendha in conversation regarding the future of the Aiel. This causes Aviendha to seriously contemplate where the future lay for the Aiel as a people, since their reason for being in the Three Fold Land seems to have come to its conclusion.

Upon reaching Rhuidean, Aviendha walked through the Glass Pillars, but felt little different afterwards, as Rand had already revealed what the Pillars held. Sitting beneath Avendesora, Aviendha decided to study the Glass Pillar "ter'angreal", but backed off after realizing it was beyond her Talents and is incomprehensible to a single person. Deciding to leave Rhuidean, her first step led to a disturbing vision from the Glass Pillars of the Aiel's future, showing the destruction of the Aiel people. Shocked and afraid of what she would find, Aviendha nevertheless decided to walk through the Pillars again and discovered, through the eyes of her daughter Padra and her subsequent descendants, the descent of the Aiel to a people without honor; and that the reason was the decision to break the Dragon's Peace and to go to war with the Seanchan Empire after the Last Battle. Resolving to do all she can to prevent this future from coming to pass, Aviendha left Rhuidean to rejoin with her people.

The futureEdit

In Winter's Heart, Min had a vision indicating that Aviendha would have four children by Rand all at once at some point in the future, but there would be something strange about them.

In Towers of Midnight, Aviendha accidentally alters the pillars in Rhuidean to show the future instead of the past, and experiences a future where she does indeed have quadruplets by Rand, named Padra, Alarch, Janduin and Marinna. The strange thing about them is that they could channel since childhood and perpetually embrace the True Source.

NotesEdit

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