Keeper of the Chronicles

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The Keeper of the Chronicles is an Aes Sedai position and is second to the Amyrlin Seat. She is usually raised from the same Ajah as the Amyrlin and remains a member of it, whereas the Amyrlin does not.

[edit] Duties

The Keeper is responsible for maintaining the records of the White Tower library including secret files such as the Thirteenth Depository. In many ways she acts as an aide-de-camp to the Amyrlin. She parses through the thousands of files that come from below her and relays the important ones to the Amyrlin. The Keeper is also responsible for announcing the Amyrlin before the latter enters a meeting of the Hall of the Tower; in fact, by tradition the Amyrlin cannot enter without being announced, and the Keeper may not enter unless the Amyrlin does.

[edit] Recent Keepers

Keeper	Ajah	Amyrlin Seat	Notes
Gitara Moroso	Blue	Tamra Ospenya	Foretold the Dragon Reborn's rebirth.
Aeldra Najaf	Blue
Duhara Basaheen	Red	Sierin Vayu	Not from Sierin's former Ajah (Gray)
Leane Sharif	Blue	Siuan Sanche	Deposed and stilled with Siuan; was later Healed by Nynaeve and joined the Green
Sheriam Bayanar	Blue	Egwene al'Vere	Previously served as Siuan's Mistress of Novices; was the rebel Keeper
Alviarin Freidhen	White	Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan	Not from Elaida's former Ajah (Red); is also Black Ajah
Tarna Feir	Red		Not especially loyal to Elaida; left the Tower without notice to bond an Asha'man

Spoilers: Information ahead comes from The Gathering Storm; please be careful if you have not read that book yet!
Duhara and Sheriam were also Black Ajah, though it is not know whether Duhara was Black at the time she was Keeper. Upon being raised in the Tower, Egwene named Silviana Brehon, previously Mistress of Novices, as her Keeper.