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Galadedrid Damodred

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“I do have a sense of humor, Gawyn, You only think I do not because I do not care to mock people.”
   —Galadedrid Damodred

EWoT: Galadedrid Damodred

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Galadedrid Damodred
Biographical information
Nationality

Andoran

Current Status

Alive

Physical description
Gender

Male

Height

Tall

Build

Slender

Hair color

Dark

Eye color

Dark

Chronological and political information
First appeared

TEOTW 40

Affiliation

Children of the Light

Occupation

Soldier

Title

Prince

Rank

Lord Captain Commander

  [Source]

Lord Galadedrid of House Damodred is the only son of Tigraine Mantear and Taringail Damodred and the half brother of Rand al'Thor through his mother, and Elayne and Gawyn Trakand through his father. His sign is a winged silver sword, point-down. He is the current Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light.

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[edit] Appearance

He is described as extremely handsome. He is tall and slender with dark eyes and hair.

[edit] History

As a young boy, he is trained by Gareth Bryne and Henre Haslin with the sword. He also saves Gawyn's life a number of times.

[edit] Training in Tar Valon

He meets Rand al'Thor in the Royal Gardens of Caemlyn talking to Elayne and Gawyn. He reports Rand's intrusion to the guards.

Galad then goes with Gawyn and Elayne to Tar Valon where he trains to become a Warder. He is an extremely good swordsman (besting Hammar repeatedly) and "always does the right thing, with no regard for who it hurts."

He meets Egwene al'Vere for the first time in the White Tower and develops an attraction to her. He is concerned when the girls go missing and tries to question the girls on where they disappeared to. He and Gawyn both fight Matrim Cauthon who is armed with a quarterstaff and beats the both of them. Morgase comes to the White Tower and when she finds that her daughter is missing, she becomes furious. Galad and Gawyn manage to talk their way out of being taken out of the White Tower by her.

[edit] Joining the Children

While training to become a Warder, he begins to have a few drinks with the Whitecloaks and Eamon Valda gives him a book on the foundation of the Children of the Light. He later joins the Whitecloaks due to the split in the Tower and was quickly promoted due to his skill with a sword and zeal for righteousness. The Whitecloaks believe in the destruction of Darkfriends and they believe that all Aes Sedai are Darkfriends.

He meets up with Nynaeve al'Meara and Elayne in Samara and tries to convince them to go straight back to Caemlyn. He secures a riverboat for them, which was also wanted by The Prophet. This causes friction and then all out riots between the Whitecloaks and Children of the Prophet. Galad feels no remorse at this as he swore an oath to Nynaeve that he would secure a boat, which he does no matter the outcome. He cuts down a number of the Prophet's men as he escorts the girls to the boat where they part company there.

Sometime after the Seanchan took Amadicia, Galad was made a Lord Captain because three of the high officers were killed at Jeramel.

[edit] Becoming Lord Captain Commander

Upon hearing that Eamon Valda, the Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light, sexually assaulted and supposedly killed his stepmother Morgase, he rode with Trom, Dain Bornhald, and Jaret Byar to the Whitecloaks' new headquarters to kill him.

Galad challenged Valda to "Trial Beneath the Light", a duel to the death between two of the Children. After a fierce battle, Galad kills Valda and is acclaimed the new Lord Captain Commander. He believes that the Children need to be at Tarmon Gai'don even if that means fighting beside Aes Sedai to do that.

[edit] Viewing

It is speculated that Galad will be the future romantic interest of Berelain sur Paendrag Tanreal, based on a Viewing by Min Farshaw[1]. The actual outcome of the Viewing remains to be seen.

[edit] The spark?

During Galad's fight with Eamon Valda, he describes a heightened sense of awareness: "Every creak of saddle leather was clear and distinct, every ringing stamp of hoof on paving stone. He could hear the flies buzzing ten feet away as though they were at his ear. He almost thought he could see the movements of their wings."[2] These sensory experiences aren't described in the same way by others who use the Oneness (Lan Mandragoran, Tam al'Thor), only channelers. So there is a small chance, given Galad's parentage (relatives on both his mother's side and his father's side can channel), that he has spark and has begun to unconsciously channel. Whether this will become a plot point is unknown.

[edit] Notes

  1. ↑ LOC 50
  2. ↑ KOD Prologue
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