Windfinder

From A Wheel of Time Wiki

Windfinders are Sea Folk women who direct Shipmistresses, Wavemistresses , and the Mistress of Ships in plotting a course based on the wind and currents. Many Windfinders can channel, and most Windfinders channel flows (particularly of Air and Water) much thicker than most Aes Sedai dare to attempt. Windfinders use their abilities to change the weather to avert storms and speed their ship along to his destination. This contributes to the Sea Folk's already well-deserved reputation of speed on the water.

[edit] Secrecy and revelation

For years, no Sea Folk ship would allow passage of an Aes Sedai on their ship for fear the Aes Sedai would discover their Windfinders could channel, and take them to the Tower to be trained. This long lived tradition ended when Elayne Trakand and Nynaeve al'Meara requested passage on a Sea Folk raker on business for the Dragon Reborn.