Ehlianon Matsuri

• Full Name - Ehlianon Katiri Matsuri Aes Sedai Aes Sedai
• Position - Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah, Member of the Brown Council.
• Character Summary - Ehlianon grew up poor in Chachin, her father having been killed in the Blight, her mother always sickly and unable to provide, so Ehlanion and her family lived at the sufferance of grandfather, who disliked his son's choice of a wife. When he died, Ehlianon and her two siblings were left penniless and living on the street. Soon, her mother died as well. A mere girl of twelve, Ehlianon tried to provide for her little brothers by pilfering breads and such from vendors. it was not enough, so she tried to be a cut-purse, but she was too slow and not very strong or fleet, and she was caught. A mere girl of twelve, she was branded with a large mark on her hand, a scar that is still livid and noticeable to this day.

  Further, the magistrate who sentenced her made her do service in the home of the man who she tried to rob to help pay for her crime, but he was a mean man and took to locking her in the closet after she had done her chores, because she was often tardy in completing them. After a year of this, she was released from her servitude, scarred and terrified of small places. Her two siblings were no where to be found, having been whisked away into the underbelly of the city. She tried to find them, but she never did. Destitute and despondent, she half-remembered tales of the Amyrlin's sanctuary, giving sanctuary to any woman who needs it.

  With no other options, and because of the scar on her hand no one would hire her, she was forced to sneak aboard merchant's wagons and freight barges to get to Tar Valon. She could not even ride a horse or a donkey, because she was so bad at it, even if she could afford one Upon arriving in Tar Valon, she presented herself at the White Tower, and she decided that she might decide to stay and try at being a novice. She wrote her name in the book, and went about her studies and her training. When she was taken into Acceptance, her crimes were absolved, although she still bears the scar. Her accepted tests all involved failing her little brothers, and being confined in small boxes. She almost didn't make it through the last one, so terrified was she. But she did, and she devoted herself to study, finding herself more and more horrified at the loss of knowledge over the ages. She vowed that she devote herself to the preservation of knowledge. As she was a poor rider, travel was difficult for her, so she has spent much of her time toiling in the Tower library, recopying tattered and decaying manuscripts, and trying to catalogue much of what has been forgotten. It seemed the Brown Ajah was a natural choice for her upon her raising to the shawl, especially since she did have an interest in herbs and healing, but with her poor Healing ability, she would have made a poor Yellow.

  She liked her life as a Brown, although on occasion, she was dispatched by the Brown Council to help procure books and sources in other places. She had grown very accustomed to her cloistered lifestyle, and still smarting from her horrible trip from Kandor, she hated to travel alone. Ehlianon went to the Warder Academy, and selected a warder, Bryone, because it seemed wise and prudent, and he was a bright sort, not put off by her scholarly habits. Alas, Bryone and she were in a rather foolish boating accident, and he died, which rocked Ehlianon to the very core of her being. She did not love him as a husband, but she became very fond of him, and to feel the mind-to-mind touch snap as he drowned, after experiencing his burning lungs as he suffocated, it left her a quivering shell of herself, and she rarely even ventures forth into Tar Valon these days, let alone leave the city.

  Ehlianon has taken two protégés. Carmeine Fenn, a Murandian girl with hidden potential, currently a novice and a former foot-pad and burglar from Carhien, Trise Noerien, in her third year of Acceptance.

• Affiliation - Brown Ajah, White Tower
• Nationality - Kandori
• Character Description - A tall, robustly figured woman, with a high graceful neck and long tapered features, Ehlianon Matsuri has the height and coloring of a Kandori, with dark, arched brows and inky hair spilling around her shoulders from beneath a controlling fillet of brown velvet. Her eyes are large and lucid, a warm honey-brown swimming with intelligence. With an elegance unusual in a Brown, Ehlianon is dressed in a shimmery russet silk gown, cut with a high hip and a scooped neck, revealing bare shoulders and generous cleavage, all trimmed in cream colored lace from Bevaire. The skirts are slit to reveal an under-chemise of cream colored satin, banded at the hem with the Kandori pattern of snowflakes. A small pendant of lustrous amber hangs between her breasts, setting off her tawny eyes. Her face is ageless and knowing, and she wears her shawl edged in long brown fringe about her frame. She wears her great serpent wring on her left hand, perhaps intentionally calling attention to the large, garish branded scar, still red and vivid after decades, a remnant of her criminal misdeeds as a girl.
• Associates:
• Carmeine Fenn: A simple-faced girl from Lugard, and currently a novice, Carmeine has been taken under Ehlianon's wing, for she has a facile mind and a bottomless thirst for knowledge. It also appears that Carmeine may manifest a Dreaming talent, which makes her a prize for the Brown Ajah.
• Trise Noerien: A quick-witted Accepted from Cairhien, Trise serves as Ehlianon Sedai's research assistant, and she a prodigious memory for names and facts. Rumor has it that she once served in a house of thieves, putting her skills to illegal uses before coming to Tar Valon.
• Tenazia Azinere: A wintry, refined Saldaean White, Tenazia speaks in a cool tone that is often at odds with her sudden, violent hand gestures. Tenazia is a longtime friend of Ehlianon from their time as novices together, although they have chosen separate paths. Tenazia is quite strong in the Power, but looses much prestige for being a wilder.
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