Cor dazar (Night Eagle), Gaidin of the White Tower, Warrior of the Jindo sept for the Far Aldazar Din.
I have little recollection of my early years, only
that I lived in the Aiel Waste for only a small part of my life and that
I was from the Taardad clan. Although I was too young to yet join one of
the warrior societies, I later decided that I would have most likely joined
the Shae’en M’taal, the stone dogs, for I never have run from a fight and
always saw it through to the end. Around my fifth year King Laman cut down
Avendoraldera and so the warriors of my clan crossed the Dragonwall to
exact their revenge. One of the Wise ones insisted that I too should go
all though I was entirely too young, but she would not be dissuaded. So
I soon found myself helping to move camps and whatever else my young, small
body would allow me to do, in a strange land filled with large lakes an
pools of water. I was a message runner for an important person during that
time but I can not recall who he was. After king Laman was killed
I ended up with a small group of Aiel who were part of the rear guard we
where pushed far north by those that followed. One night near the borderlands,
wetlander soldiers set upon my small camp. During the fighting I
took a serious injury to my entire right side, where a soldiers sword slashed
me from shoulder to hip. I killed him and was able to escape crawling my
to a small bush where I hid for the rest of the night. As I listened to
the sounds of fighting I slowly drifted into a fitful sleep full of darkness
and pain. When I awoke there was nothing left of the small group I had
come with, not a single tent, but the ground was littered with wetlander
bodies. I clawed my way out of the bushes where I had lay hidden
in hopes some of my people had stayed behind, but none had. To my surprise
I saw two women coming toward me, they didn't see me until they had almost
passed me taking me for one of the dead bodies. I looked up into their
faces or tried to any ways but failed. The last ounce of my strength drained
out of me and everything went black.
When I awoke I found myself in a soft bed covered
in blankets. A man sat next to the door as if to keep someone from getting
in or to keep me from getting out. As soon as I raised my head the man
stood and quickly left the room. I sat in the room for some time and when
no one came I decide to try and escape for I was clearly not in and Aiel
camp. As I tried to move though I found myself severely week and unable
move so I gave up and lay still. Eventually someone came and they brought
food with them. This was how the next week went. I would wake up with a
guard at my door, which would leave and someone else would come to feed
me for meals. I grew stronger and by some strange twist of luck was up
and back to my full strength within a week. By this time I decided that
these strange people had no intentions of hurting me so I decided to stay
until I was released. After about three week of being locked in my windowless
room I was aloud to go to a practice yard were I could exercise my unused
muscles, and several weeks after that I was granted access to the small
library.
In the Library I found an old parchment, forgotten
by all, even the Liberians themselves. This
Parchment had detailed instructions on the Aiel fighting style of using
hand and feet and also how they use their spears. From this I learned the
rest of the lessons I would have learned had I not been uprooted from my
home.
Over the months that passed I gained the trust of the people, who I discovered
were Shienarin, and eventually was given my own spears to fight with since
I would not allow them to teach me the sword. I soon discovered that I
was in the Fal Dara and was put under the command of Lord Agelmar who aloud
me to train and learn however and whatever I wanted. After several years
He also allowed me to fight with the Shienarin soldiers.
During the years I spent in the borderland I picked up
small bits of their culture and making it my own mixing it with parts of
ji'e'toh creating a way of life perfect for me, this often got me teased
by the other soldiers as being the first, last, and only person of my new
culture. When I reached my fifteenth naming day I had become an accomplished
warrior and so was allowed to take solo hunts into the blight. I created
quite a name for myself killing three myrddraal and bringing their heads
back on first night out. I continued my hunts always bringing back at least
two myrddraal heads with each hunt.
For this I was greatly praised by the soldiers
and became good friends with many of them. It was during this time that
I discovered I had been rescued by two Aes Sedai and left in Fal Dara with
the instruction that I was to eventually be allowed to go my own way. So
I decided to speak to Lord Agelmar and find out when this time of my leaving
would come.
We came up with a deal that suited both of us; I would be allowed
to go when had killed my twentieth myrddraal or when I reached my twentieth
naming day, which ever came first. I was about twelve myrddraal short of
this goal and had only two years left before my twentieth. Increased action
in the blight kept me busy so I was not allowed to go hunting for most
of those years. Not even those who had known me the whole time I had been
in Fal Dara thought I would get twenty myrddraal, but on the morning of
my twentieth naming day I walked into Lord Agelmar’s office with a giant
bag filled with my previous nights work. I reached into the bag pulling
out one of the eyeless heads and sat it on his desk and leaving the bag
on the floor turned and left Fal Dara and Shienar.
At first I thought of returning to the Aiel
waste but thought that I would never be accepted there so I decided to
learn everything I could of the wetlands and the different customs of its
people. I traveled to the great library in Cairhien. There I studied mathematics,
Philosophy, and art. My favorite things to study though were the things
that related little to the normal world. I spent a good amount of time
studying the world of tel’aran’rhiod and the art of dream walking, a skill
that had manifested itself in me at an early age and grew stronger in me
as I grew.
As I traveled I remembered that I still had toh
towards those two Aes Sedai who had saved my life many years ago. I decided
that it was time for me to meet my toh and began my trip to Tar Valon and
the White Tower. As I traveled to the Tower I learned about the new black
tower which was home to the male channelers of the world and began wondering
as I had years ago if I myself had the ability to channel, but I decided
that if I wanted I could probably be tested at the White Tower by some
one there.
On my twenty-fifth naming day I found myself
joining the White Towers elite and began my training as a warder. I never
would have adjusted to my new life had it not been for the Gaidin Aelric
Calrillian who taught me the ways of the tower and when to keep my mouth
shut and other such things. Yet I was not the greatest learner at some
things. During the time when I was a Dai Katana, I went to my friend Aelric
and asked him to test me for the one power. I passed this test and began
learning its ways from him and another good friend Sorhan al’Danielle.
As I learned I found I had a talent for making power wrought weapons, my
first and best attempt being a set of golden fighting daggers which I carry
with me at all times. I passed through the ranks quickly and in no
time at all had been bonded to Niniane Sedai, who also happened to be Aelric’s
Aes Sedai also.
After entering the tower, I completely stopped using my small ability
of walking the world of tel’aran’rhiod. Over time my Aes Sedai became extremely
busy so busy to the point that I never saw her. She decided to pass
my bond on so that I could use my talents to aid an Aes Sedai whom might
need it. Now Bonded to Jascha Esman I hope I will finally be able
to fully meet my toh.
Sometime after the death and rebirth of Aelric,
the memories of my years in the three-fold land began to return to me,
memories I had once thought completely erased from my mind. I have
an almost clear picture of my parents in my head, both were tall as I am,
my mothers hair the light brown as my own, my fathers a fiery red.
My father’s eyes a light gray almost as light as my own my mothers a brilliant
light green. At one point the re-emerging memories became to difficult
for me to handle so I traveled to the three-fold land, where I was reunited
with my mother, but my twin brother and twin sister, along with many memories.
As like most Aiel I grew tall at a very early
age finally stopping when I was 19 at 6’8”, towering over most wetlanders,
my light brown hair is cut short to Aiel fashion, and my light gray almost
clear eyes have a way of unnerving people. My wide shouldered, muscular,
athletic frame weighs in at 265 pounds. I have been told by some
that I am a hansom man but I do not take claim to such a title myself.
When I returned to the blight I had the eagle flying across a full moon
tattooed upon my right shoulder, much like my brothers with and eagle flying
in front of the sun. I always dressed in Aiel fashion although I
have on very rare occasions, and for only ver prestigious events, worn
the color shifting cloak that all Gaidin receive upon their bonding, and
dressed in wetlander fashion.