Zyriam Collandra-Canter, Sister of the Green Ajah, Wise One of the Codarra Aiel and Roofmistress of the Goshein Clan, was born with her twin sister Jasmydt among the Codarra Aiel, to the Clan Chief, Ranchet Collandra and his mate, Desmora. Zyriam had a very happy and free childhood among her people, the Aiel, traveling frequently with her father and sister escorting merchants across the Three-Fold-Land to the Cliffs of Dawn where trade was conducted with the merchants of Shara.
During this traveling time period of her life, Zyriam and her twin sister, met a young woman by the name of Bonaiv Arra, and her father Josif Arra, as they traveled with their wagons to conduct trade in silk. Josif Arra had been an Andorian silk merchant and had made friends with Ranchet who had just been made the Clan Chief of the Codarra when the Arra’s made their first trip across the Three-Fold-Land to Shara to trade in silk. Every year from the age of nine until she was 19, Bonaiv and her father Josif, had gone across the Three-Fold-Land with Ranchet, and his two daughters. Both Zyriam and Jasmydt were tough as any Aiel children were.
Zyriam chose to follow in her father’s footsteps and became a warrior at the tender age of 15, Far Dareis Mai, a Maiden of the Spear, but Jasmydt held her mother’s inclinations and became an apprentice to a weaver. The summer before their ninetieth naming day, both Zyriam and Jasmydt exhibited signs that they could channel. Zyriam left the Maiden’s, Jasmydt her weavers apprenticeship, and both began training with the Wise Ones.
That following winter during Bonaiv and her Father’s annual trip into the Three-Fold-Land, Zyriam, and Jasmydt adopted Bonaiv as their first-sister in a formal Aiel adoption ceremony.
The following summer, Zyriam’s second trip to Rhuidean proved to hold the keys to the coming of the Car’a’carn, and Zyriam was forced to make a decision that she lives with to this day. Thankfully, her sister Jasmydt, and their new husband Brant Canter, Clan Chief of the Goshien, have forgiven her the great toh she incurred for marrying Jasmydt’s fiancée, Reut. Reut was Brant’s brother, and Brant was Zyriam’s fiancée. This was done after a Foretelling came to Zyriam through the ter’angreal of Rhuidean that said that her husband’s death would signal the coming of the Car’a’carn, something the Aiel people looked forward to and feared all at the same time.
Thus, Zyriam married Reut instead of Brant causing great strife among the Codarra and Goshein, and their families. Saffrona, Reut and Brant’s younger sister and also a Wise One, was under the impression that Zyriam had toh to her for some reason. Zyriam knew she had insulted Brant when she did not pick up the bridal wreath that he had laid at her feet the day prior to Reut mistakenly laying his wreath at her feet thinking she was Jasmydt as Zyriam and Jasmydt were so similar as twin Wise Ones, not even he could tell them apart. Zyriam had often wondered if her life would have been different if she had chosen Brant rather than Reut. She had almost lost her sister Jasmydt’s love when the honorable Reut fulfilled his pledge and married Zyriam. It had seemed odd, Zyriam and Brant in love with each other, and Jasmydt and Reut also in love with each other. Then Zyriam and Jasmydt had gone through the arches at Rhuidean. Everything had changed for both of them. Reut and Brant were hard to choose from, but she had chosen. If she hadtoh to anyone it was Brant, not Saffrona.
Zyriam’s clan had chosen not to go over the Dragonwall to punish King Laman of Cairhien, of House Damodred, for his sin, only the Nakai, Reyn, Taardad, and Shaarad had. Zyriam had been visiting in the Wise Ones tents of the Taardad with her husband Reut who was a Stone Dog and whose first-sister had married a Stone Dog of the Taardad clan when the news came of the disgraceful action. Zyriam and Reut went with the Taardad over the Dragonwall at the request of her fellow Wise Ones due to her wonderful Healing ability, and it had changed Zyriam’s life forever. It had ended Reut’s though.
Zyriam's Trips Through The Threads of the Pattern
Arches of Rhuidean
Glass Columns of Rhuidean
The Arches of Acceptance of the White Tower
Test for Aes Sedai