EWoT: Ingtar Shinowa

Ingtar Shinowa Biographical information Nationality Shienar Date of death 998 NE Current Status Dead Physical description Gender Male Height Stocky Hair color Dark Eye color Dark Chronological and political information First appeared TEOTW 46 Last appeared TGH 46 Last mentioned TGH 47 Affiliation Darkfriend Title Lord Ingtar of House Shinowa Rank Lord
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Lord Ingtar of House Shinowa was a Shienaran nobleman, who served under Lord Agelmar in Fal Dara. Ingtar was also a Darkfriend of considerable influence.

Appearance Edit

When introduced to Rand and his company when they arrived in Fal Dara he was described as a short, dark Shienaran warrior, head shaved except for the topknot, wearing armor and a yellow cloak. His clothes prominently displayed his personal sigil, the Gray Owl, and the stooping black hawk of Shienar.

Ingtar's helmet was described as having a crescent moon crest positioned so that the points of the crescent moon pointed upward. While searching for the Horn of Valere, before he is revealed as a Darkfriend, Perrin notes that this helmet crest reminds him of Trolloc horns.

Activities Edit

Like most Shienaran Lords, Ingtar was well educated in matters of history. He was rather pessimistic about mankind's chances. The endless war with the Blight and the vast stretches of land unclaimed by any nation made him change his allegiance to the Dark One. Later he regretted that choice and saw the pursuit of Padan Fain, who he had freed, and the Horn of Valere as a way to redeem himself. He asks Rand if any man who walks long in the Shadow can't walk in the Light again before holding the Seanchan by himself to allow Rand and crew to escape. Rand then commends him to "the last embrace of the Mother." He was presumably killed in Falme in 998 NE.

Horn of ValereEdit

Most of Ingtar's dialogue in the series has been identified as expressing a desire for the Horn of Valere. It can be speculated that at the Darkfriend Social, an meeting of influential Darkfriends which he is known to have attended, that he was given some sort of compulsion to obtain the Horn, similar to the yearning Padan Fain feels to find Rand, only of a much lesser strength. This would explain his passionate and at times desperate actions during the Great Hunt.