Eamon Valda

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Eamon Valda is a fictional character in Robert Jordan's fantasy book series The Wheel of Time. He is the Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light and is of average height with a hard, dark face.

Eamon Valda was sent by Pedron Niall to create dissent in Caemlyn but stopped to follow Elayne when she began her journey to the White Tower. He later encounters Galad, whom he gives a copy of the book The Way of the Light and then proceeds to accept among the Whitecloak ranks. Niall has word sent to him that he is to go to Amador but Valda returns to the Fortress of the Light and begins to plot with the High Inquisitor of the Children of the Light Rhadam Asunawa to kill Pedron Niall. After Abdel Omerna kills Niall, Valda walks in and then kills Omerna, it's this set up that allows him to become the Lord Captain Commander and to further protect himself Eamon brings all Whitecloaks loyal only to him. He then forces Morgase to submit to him both physically and on paper before leaving to go north to deal with the Prophet.

It is shortly after that Valda is confronted by Galad about the abuse and supposed death of Morgase. Galad slays Valda in a duel, making Galad the new Lord Captain Commander of the Children. Valda was a ruthless but efficient leader and a prominent millitary man, in that way he was quite similar with Niall although probably more ruthless and stern. His name is similar to that of the famous Irish revolutionary, Éamon de Valera.