Gerise Duffrey

• Full Name - Gerise Thelme Duffrey Aes Sedai
• Position - Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah.
• Affiliation - Green Ajah, White Tower
• Character Summary - A thick-waisted, matronly Ghealdanin, Gerise Duffrey looks to be nothing more than an open-faced farmwife. However, she is renowned in the Tower as a woman of iron will and formidable suasion. The young widow of a Ghealdan shepherd, she found herself in the Tower in her grief. Enrolling as a novice, she impressed her instructors with her keen insight and facile mind. Gerise once led an embassy to Tear designed to impress upon the High Lords the notion of selecting one of their number as King, the candidate being backed by the Tower. Gerise's mission failed when she channeled to save the life of a Tairen High Lady's daughter, who had broken her back in a fall from a horse. The recalcitrant High Lords ordered her arrest for channeling illegally, and held her warders hostage as guaranties of her compliance. Only the High Lady's intervention saved Gerise from being run out of the country at spear-point. Her "Tairen Sojourn," as she calls it, was her greatest failure, but she is replete with triumphs, including her single-handed capture of two Lord Captains of the Children of the Light, who were attempting to hang a local woman for channeling. She has served two terms as a Sitter for the Green, but she is currently not involved in politics, for all that she is seen in the company of the Amyrlin Seat. Gerise has one warder.
• Nationality - Ghealdanin
• Character Description -
• Associates:
• Tavram Benzadi: Tavram is a stolid, capable Saldaean, well versed in herbal lore and botany. Tavram and Gerise have an amorous relationship, for Gerise has come to seem him as a lover despite the gulf between their ages. Tavram serves as an instructor in the Tower, offering lectures for both Accepted and warders in training.