Blue Ajah

The Aes Sedai are a society in the fictional universe of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time book series. The Blue Ajah is a sub-society dedicated to causes in the world and the implementation of justice. They figure prominently in the series as representatives of this sect are seen aiding the three main characters to the point of sacrificing their lives for them. The Blue Ajah is additionally seen as one of the more sympathetic groups of Aes Sedai as main characters are members of this group.

Organization

The Blue Sisters involve themselves with causes and justice. One of the most prominent causes currently undertaken is that of Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche: the discovery, assistance, and protection of the Dragon Reborn Rand al'Thor. The Blue Ajah is the second smallest one, but it has the most extensive network of eyes-and-ears. The Blue Ajah has great influence, due to their involvement in world events as well as the large number of Amyrlins raised from the Blue. The head of the Blue Ajah is called the First Selector.

Relations with other Ajahs

The Blue Ajah has a long friendship with the Green Ajah, and, though they disagree on certain points, have a decent relationship with the Brown. However, since the revolt against Siuan Sanche, the Blue Ajah has been ejected from within the White Tower. The Blue Ajah has a longstanding, mutual animosity with the Red Ajah. Since the split of the Tower, Elaida has been taken by the Seanchan and Egwene raised in her stead, as a legal Amyrlin Seat.

Traditions

All Ajahs have certain traditions, and a number of the Blue’s have been established. These traditions include never wearing red inside the Tower and wearing all blue on the first of each month. It is assumed that each Ajah has weaves known only to its members; two such weaves of the Blue Ajah’s are a weave that causes insects to gather and bite as one and one to cause fear in the viewer.^[1]

Members

Moiraine Damodred

Moiraine is the first Aes Sedai revealed in the Wheel of Time series. She was on a mission with her Warder al'Lan Mandragoran for twenty years, searching for the boy who would become the Dragon Reborn. Accompanying, guiding, and protecting the three potential boys — Rand al'Thor, Mat Cauthon and Perrin Aybara — she took along a few others (Thom Merrilin, Nynaeve al'Meara and Egwene al'Vere) to the safety of the White Tower. On the road to the White Tower, developments detailed in the Wheel of Time series led to tragedy when the group was confronted by the Forsaken Lanfear. As Rand could not bring himself to harm a woman, Moiraine took matters into her own hands and Moiraine shoved Lanfear through a ter'angreal that led to the land of the Aelfinn and Eelfinn, ending her assault but also apparently ending both their lives. It is revealed that Moiraine did not die, however, and she is rescued by Mat and Thom in "Towers of Midnight". Mat accomplishes this by exchanging an eye for her release. After her escape however, we learn that Moiraine is greatly weakened and requires the use of an Angreal to channel the One Power. We further learn that Moiraine and Thom are in love.

Siuan Sanche

The sharp-tongued daughter of a fisherman from Tear, Siuan Sanche joined the White Tower at the same time as Moiraine Damodred. Both ended up choosing the Blue as their Ajah and they plotted a scheme to ensure that the Dragon Reborn will win the Final Battle by allowing him to roam the world unleashed with an Aes Sedai guide by his side. At the beginning of the saga, Siuan is the Amyrlin Seat, secretly supporting Moiraine's machinations of Rand al'Thor.

All that came to a halt when Elaida discovered Siuan and Moiraine's scheme and overthrew her. As punishment for "endangering the White Tower", Siuan and her Keeper, Leane Sharif, were "stilled" (cut off from touching or using the Source) and slated for execution. They managed to escape and join the rebel Aes Sedai in Salidar. Siuan's stilling is later healed by Nynaeve al'Maera and she becomes a trusted advisor to the rebel Amyrlin, Egwene al'Vere.

Lelaine Akashi

Lelaine is pretty, but is actually the oldest Salidar Sitter after Romanda. She has been a Sitter since at least as long as Moiraine and Siuan have been Aes Sedai. She heads one of the factions in the Salidar Hall and bitterly opposes Romanda Cassin, sitter of the Yellow Ajah. Both stalemated each other when the Salidar Aes Sedai were choosing a new Amyrlin. She has since unsuccessfully tried to control Egwene. After Egwene was captured by the Tower Aes Sedai, Lelaine began to plan how to become Amyrlin should something happen to Egwene.

Other notable members

• Adine Canford was a friend of Moiraine's. She has currently been mentioned as being with the Salidar Aes Sedai, teaching the novice classes.
• Aeldene Stonebridge is from Andor. She is the head of the Eyes and Ears of the Blue Ajah, and is allied with the Salidar Aes Sedai led by Egwene al'Vere.
• Aeldra Najaf was Keeper of the Chronicles for Tamra Ospenya. She was raised to replace Gitara Moroso. She is described as being lean with coppery skin and short white hair.
• Anaiya, described as plain, but with a gentle smile that made her beautiful, was strong in the Power. She was close friends with Kairen Stang and Cabriana Mecandes. She believed that Egwene had potential to be a Dreamer. She was one of the Salidar Six, the group that held the Salidar Aes Sedai together before Egwene became Amyrlin. She and her Warder were later murdered by Aran'gar, who had pretended to have been Delana Sedai's secretary, to prevent them from exposing her.
• Anlee was a Sitter at the time Moiraine and Siuan were raised about 20 years ago. She was already very old, with gray hair.
• Cabriana Mecandes was close friends with Anaiya and Kairen Stang. She was fairly weak in the Power. After Elaida's coup, she fled the Tower, only to be captured by the Shadow. Semirhage tortured her and her Warder, and though Cabriana resisted, she eventually revealed the existence of the Salidar faction. She was presumably killed after.
• Cetalia Delarme is from Tarabon. She was head of the eyes-and-ears of the Blue Ajah under both Tamra Ospenya and Sierin Vayu. She is described as being tall and square-faced, with long steel grey hair in braids.
• Eadyth was an old Aes Sedai who was First Selector and a Sitter in the Hall when Moiraine and Siuan became Aes Sedai. She was respected as one of the most capable Blues in memory.
• Faolain Orande was an Accepted when Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne first came to the Tower. She was bad-tempered, strict, prejudiced against wilders and more than a bit self-righteous, and many thought she would choose the Red. She joined the Salidar faction after the split, disgusted by Elaida's methods. By then she had progressed enough in her training that she would have been tested for Aes Sedai if the appropriate equipment had been there. Egwene promoted her to Aes Sedai soon after, and Faolain joined the Blue. Convinced by Egwene's cause, she swore fealty and has since been spying on Lelaine Akashi's faction for Egwene.
• Lyrelle used to be a dancer. She is a newly raised Salidar Sitter and supports Lelaine.
• Moria Karentanis is from Illian. She has joined the Salidar Aes Sedai and is a Sitter in the Salidar Hall. She is an independent thinker and was one of the Sitters who proposed allying with the Black Tower. Moria is one of the Aes Sedai revealed by Verin Mathwin to belong to the Black Ajah.
• Kairen Stang was from Andor. After returning with an Embassy sent for the Dragon Reborn she was brutually murdered in the Aes Sedai camps by Aran'gar. Her warder Llyw, inconsolable since her death, has had his bond passed over to Myrelle.
• Maigan is a fairly strong Aes Sedai who accompanied Siuan to Fal Dara to meet Moiraine. She later became the Blue's advisor to Egwene in Salidar.
• Rafela Cindal is from Tear and has a warder named Mahiro Shukosa. She is allied with the Salidar Aes Sedai led by Egwene, and has since sworn fealty to Rand. She worked with Merana Ambrey and others to convince the Tairen rebels to surrender to Rand.
• Sheriam Bayanar is Saldean and described as slightly plump with high cheekbones, tilted green eyes, and has fiery red hair. Mistress of Novices under Siuan Sanche, she later becomes Keeper of the Chronicles in the rebel Hall of the Sitters. Min Farshaw has a viewing of Sheriam: rays of silver and blue flashed about her and a soft golden light. Min could not say what it meant. She was executed by Egwene's order after being exposed as Black.

Historical members

Tamra Ospenya

Tamra was the Amrylin Seat, raised from the Blue Ajah, from 973 to 979 NE. She was Amrylin when Gitara Moroso (her Keeper of Chronicles) Foretold the birth of the Dragon Reborn. She initiated a covert search for the Dragon Reborn by sending Accepted out to take a census of women who gave birth close to the time of the Foretelling. She was captured and tortured by Black Ajah, in particular Galina Casban, Chesmal Emry and Jarna Malari, for information on the Dragon Reborn. The story is put about that she "died in her sleep". She is tall, with gray-streaked hair and was considered to be kind, fair, and just.

Gitara Moroso

Keeper of the Chronicles to Tamra Ospenya, Amyrlin Seat of the White Tower (973-979NE), she was well known to have the Foretelling among the Aes Sedai. It is now known she played a large role in the disappearance of Tigraine Mantear, the Daughter Heir of Andor, telling her that the fate of Andor rested on her going into the Aiel Waste. She was killed by the sheer force of Foretelling the rebirth of The Dragon. This occurred in the presence of Siuan Sanche and Moiraine Damodred in the novel New Spring, thus beginning a 20-year search for the Dragon Reborn.

References

External links

• Official website
• Robert Jordan's blog
• Wheel of Time FAQ
• Encyclopaedia WoT
• Wheel of Time Concordance v3.1 (PHP version) (Text version)
• Chronology of The Wheel of Time