Sedai

Aes Sedai In the Age of Legends (approximately three thousand years before the first book takes place), both male and female channelers were collectively known as Aes Sedai and used the One Power together to great effect.

Foreign lands outside the Aes Sedai's purview often handle channeling and channelers quite differently from Aes Sedai custom and tend to distrust their assumed authority.

Additionally, most of these traditions trace their origins back to offshoots of the original Aes Sedai split off after the Breaking of the World.

Aes Sedai search the world for females with the inherent ability to channel, or the ability to be taught to channel, and bring any they find to the Tower.

Divided into several factions identified by color, known as Ajahs, the Aes Sedai present a unified face to the world but often experience great internal conflict.

Humans who can use this power are called 'channelers'; the principal organization thereof in the books are the Aes Sedai or 'Servants of All'.

Over the course of the game, a lone Aes Sedai must track down a robber following an assault on the White Tower, and prevent the Dark One from being released prematurely.

Rand is then taken before Queen Morgase and her Aes Sedai advisor, Elaida ; and released without charge, in spite of Elaida's grave pronouncements regarding Rand.

The Aes Sedai also become divided on how to deal with the Dragon Reborn.

The Aes Sedai, however, can trace their history well back within the Age of Legends.

The Creator having imprisoned its antithesis, Shai'tan (often called 'the Dark One'), an Aes Sedai experiment mistakenly allowed Shai'tan's influence into the world.

The greatest form of White Tower punishment, Aes Sedai avoid even looking at the stilled as the mere idea of being separated from the One Power (the source of their elite status, as well as the experience of channeling) is so distasteful.

The modern Aes Sedai operate as self-appointed guardians of the One Power and are often viewed as above local and national politics.

The original symbol of the Aes Sedai—a circle separated into black and white halves by a sinuous line symbolizing both halves of the One Power—has been replaced by the Flame of Tar Valon, consisting only of the white half of the original symbol.

The term Aes Sedai used as a name, title and honorific refers almost exclusively to female channelers, most often specifically referring to members of an exclusive society headquartered in the White Tower in Tar Valon.