Mesaana

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EWoT: Mesaana

During the Age of Legends, Saine Tarasind worked as a teacher at Collam Daan. She later organized schools teaching the glories of the Dark One, going by the name Mesaana.

[edit] Appearance

She is tall, just short of her middle years with big blue eyes.

[edit] History

Unlike many of the other Chosen, Saine Tarasind was not very distinguished in her profession. After being turned down for a research position at the exclusive Collam Daan university, she felt so scorned by having to settle for merely teaching other peoples discoveries that she eventually turned to The Shadow.

Though as adequate a battlefield general as a researcher, she proved an extraordinary administrator. Captured regions saw their children having to attend schools teaching praise for Leafblighter, the Dark One. Slow learning was punished by death, and she encouraged the children to spy and harass each other. She would also get the children to form large mobs and hunt down people from institutions of higher learning. Many of these children betrayed their parents and families because of her. During the second half of the war she also used them to carry out executions, at times forming "courts" entirely of children. Museums and reminders of old ways were destroyed; nothing would stand in the way of the Shadow's triumph.

Being one of the thirteen most powerful of the Chosen, she was summoned to attend a meeting with the Great Lord of the Dark in the Pit of Doom at Shayol Ghul. On this day Lews Therin Telamon and the Hundred Companions struck at the Bore, sealing the Chosen and the Great Lord for three thousand years. She was well over 300 years old at this time, appearing about middle age.

[edit] Recent events

Little is known of her plans after being released from the Bore in 998 NE. It is believed she has maneuvered herself into the White Tower, but her identity and purpose are unknown. She thinks that she will have her hands on Rand within a couple of months, when the White Tower delegation go to meet him.

She is present with Graendal and Semirhage during the meeting with Demandred, who tells them all of the Dark Ones plan for them and to let 'the Lord of Chaos Rule'.

She keeps a tag on Alviarin Freidhen often visiting her and finding out what information is going through the Amyrlin. She obviously eavesdropped on those meetings anyway as she knows when Alviarin leaves out bits of information. She is behind any order that the Amyrlin "gives". She teaches Alvaiarin how to weave a gateway.

When she appears she has a cloak of shadow around her so as not to be identified. A clue to who she is, is when she is in thought she taps a finger to her lips. Alviarin also noticed that she was wearing a bronze-silk dress with black scrollwork. Mesaana informs Alviarin about the Ajah Heads that are meeting each other secretly.

Mesaana is about to punish Alviarin when Shaidar Haran intercedes and marks Alviarin and charges her to find the Black Ajah hunters. Mesaana is then punished by Shaidar Haran for ignoring the call and not participating in the Battle near Shadar Logoth.

She attends the meeting with the other Chosen in Tel'aran'rhiod, which is made to look like the Ansaline Gardens. There she is told that Rand is not to be harmed and that Matrim Cauthon and Perrin Aybara are to be killed if found. She is very subdued since being punished.