Arella Diomon

• Full Name - Arella Maryn Diomon Aes Sedai
• Position - Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah.
• Character Summary - A well-respected Yellow sister, Arella Diomon is delighted to return to the land of her birth to serve at the Hall's direction in effecting the Concordat of Illian. Arella has taken it upon herself to attend to the hygiene and santitation of the Perfumed Quarter, espousing the belief that poor airs and rampant garbage foster illness. Arella is bonded to one gaidin, Michal Odenin. Arella has taken two protégés. Samanthe Beswell, a prudent and quiet Andoran lass, currently a novice and Asera Daine, a stunningly beautiful Mayener Accepted with a reputation for amorous dalliances.
• Affiliation - Yellow Ajah, White Tower
• Nationality - Illianer
• Character Description - A serene and attractive woman, Arella Diomon is a sister of the Yellow Ajah, born of Illian. Her skin is pale, but warmed by southern suns, and her hair is glossy black, so dark as to shine with blue highlights, although here and there, a sprinkle of white is apparent. Her eyes are limpid spheres of dark blue, alive with intelligence and her mouth is plump and well-made, tinted with just hint of cherry-paste. Arella is not tall, yet she is full-bodied and well-proportioned, and she carries herself with a high dignity indeed. Arella Sedai wears a dress from warm golden-brown satin, cut in the Illianer style, with a wide, open neckline and hems stopping short of her ankles, with detailed embroidery in thread-of-gold making out leaves and acorns around the neckline, down her sleeves and in a band around her skirts. A fine cloak of soft saffron-colored wool is pinned on her shoulders like a chlamys, held by a broach fashioned into an oak leaf, wrought from beaten gold. A sheer diaphanous scarf of white voile is worn about her dark head, wrapped about her neck and tucked into the neckline of her dress. Her hair is pinned neatly within the scarf, although an incorrigible curl has escaped and hangs over one eye. Her face is clearly that of an Aes Sedai, with a seeming youthful complexion that belies her true age, inexplicably accompanied by wise eyes no woman acquires young. Bright accents of gold gleam here and there about her person, especially her Great Serpent ring, prominent on her hand.
• Associates:
• Samanthe Beswell: A young milkmaid from Four Kings in Andor, Samanthe is a newly arrived novice whom Arella has taken a special interest in as she studies in the Tower.
• Asera Daine: A stunningly beautiful Mayener Accepted with a reputation for amorous dalliances, she has a great propensity for the Healing Talents, and such has caught the attention of the Yellow Ajah, who have set Arella toward cultivating her as a potential new sister.
• Naomi Meiyama: A young, refined Yellow Sister from Arafel, Naomi was reared in the Royal Palace in Shol Arbella, where her innate grace caught the eye of the royal shatayan who had her trained as a table-maid for the king and queen themselves. In time, she is beleived to have caught the eye of the king as well, and for that was sent off to Tar Valon at the directive of Queen Solanna. After arrival, Naomi was discovered her ability to learn to channel, and soon came under the tutelage of Arella Sedai as her protégè.
• Cersella Santanes: A Yellow Sister from Tear, Cersella Sedai is of an age with Arella, and they were virtually neck and neck during their studies and novices and during their time as Accepted, with Cersella being raised to a full sister only one day before Arella. Early on, they had a profound dislike for one another stemming from their inbred national rivalries, which often exploded into fisticuffs. Over the decades, though, they have become fast friends and confidantes.
• Michal Odenin: Arella's warder of twenty years, Michal Odenin was Ghealdanin-borne, and enrolled in the Warder Acedemy as a way of seeking his fortune in the world. Recruited and bonded by Arella upon the completion of his training, he has been her constant companion and right arm. He is an adherent of the Way of the Blade.