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Read about Nynaeve al'Meara. The first few paragraphs deal with Nynaeve's appearance, character and background; later paragraphs are a chronology of sorts and contain spoilers. Nynaeve’s braid was thrown over her shoulder, the end gripped in one fist; she kept giving it little tugs the way she did when she was being even more stubborn than usual with the Village Council.  Nynaeve was born in 973 NE. While travelling with Elayne and Egwene, she goes under the name of Maryim, and later, Nana. Her name is pronounced NIGH-neev al-MEER-ah. Nynaeve al’Meara is snappish, prickly, self assured, determined and known for her temper. She becomes easily angry or irritated, is not afraid to say what she thinks (especially when it involves telling off others!) and is no coward, showing courage sometimes to the point of fearlessness. Her main habits are crossing her arms, sniffing, and tugging on her plait. Despite this, she is compassionate, and her biggest desire is to heal others, being prepared to put aside personal dislike to do so. She isn't particularly skilled when it comes to cooking or sewing. She is not tall at 5'4" or 5'5", she is slender, has brown eyes and is described as being pretty. She wears her very long dark brown hair in a single plait down to her waist, and is known to pull on her plait when she is angry, frustrated, or attempting to draw attention to that she is a woman, rather than a child. She wears a signet ring of the Malkieri kings on a cord around her neck (and later a yellow shawl and a red ki'sain). She has a preference for white, blue or green dresses, and enjoys wearing silks. She is in her mid-twenties. Nynaeve grew up in Emond’s Field, a village in the Two Rivers, which was originally part of Manetheren (but now is considered part of Andor.) Her parents were both farmers, and Nynaeve was their only child. Her father treated her like she was a son, teaching her how to track and hunt exceptionally well. “I can track as well as any man in the Two Rivers, except perhaps Tam al’Thor… Until my father died, he took me hunting with him, and taught me what he would have taught the sons he never had.” (The Eye of the World) Nynaeve’s parents left her an orphan when she was fourteen, and she was apprenticed to the village’s Wisdom, a position similar to a village healer, of Doral Barran, and she had no other living relatives. She became the Wisdom when she was in her late teens, which gave her power equivalent to the village’s mayor. She was known for her miraculous cures and healing, and her very accurate ability to predict the weather. She was the youngest Wisdom the village has ever had, and was thought by many to be too young. Due to this, Nynaeve is quite sensitive about her age, and believes that people listen to you more readily once you have grey hairs. Nynaeve is what Aes Sedai call a wilder, since she learnt to have some control over her ability to channel saidar without any training or knowledge of what she was doing. However, this left her with a block, which means she is unable to channel unless she is angry. She is one of the strongest women able to channel known to the Aes Sedai, and the strongest healer. Women with the ability to channel begin to slow in terms of showing age around their early to mid twenties, but Nynaeve slowed earlier than most. She goes to the White Tower in Tar Valon after leaving Emond’s Field in search of several young people (Rand and his friends) who had left with the Aes Sedai, Moiraine Damodred. Rather than convincing them to return home, she becomes caught up in their quest. She only agrees to go to the White Tower because she desires to learn more about healing, and because she doesn't want to abandon the Emond's Fielders, to whom she feels a strong loyalty and responsibility. Due to Nynaeve’s immense potential, she spends practically no time as a novice at the White Tower and immediately becomes one of the Accepted. She also spends very little time at the Tower before being sent off on part of a quest for the Black Ajah. While travelling in the company of Moiraine, Nynaeve falls in love with Moiraine’s Warder, Lan Mandragoran. Nynaeve is originally rather anti-Aes Sedai, because Moiraine stands between Nynaeve and Lan, and Nynaeve blames Moiraine for encouraging Rand and his friends to leave Emond’s Field and involving them in her schemes. All these combined gives Nynaeve a disliking of Aes Sedai in general and Moiraine in particular. Nynaeve becomes rather preocupied on occasion with Lan, especially when she doesn't know where he is. While determined that she will marry Lan, she does not let him leave Moiraine to accompany her when he offers because she does not want either of them to have the memory of his broken bond to Moiraine between them. At one point her horse is a black stallion which she calls Gaidin, after Lan. Later she rides a plump brown mare named Loversknot. In searching for the Black Ajah, Nynaeve encounters and fights the Forsaken Moghedien, resulting in Moghedien’s personal enmity toward Nynaeve. After Lan rescues her when Moghedien blasts the ship she was on, she marries Lan in a Windfinder ceremony, and he acts as her Warder, despite that he is bonded to another. When Nynaeve becomes an Aes Sedai, she joins the Yellow Ajah, since the Yellows specialise in healing. Her healing abilities are immense, and she is the only Aes Sedai known to be able to healing stilling (when a woman is cut off from the One Power). She is raised by the Amyrlin of the ‘rebel’ Aes Sedai and does not swear the three oaths on the Oath Rod. In Knife of Dreams she gives her married name as Nynaeve ti al'Meara Mandragoran; however, since she is married to al'Lan Mandragoran, she has a right to put the Malkier honorific for Queen before her name, making her el'Nynaeve ti al'Meara Mandragoran. Nynaeve's point of view is found all of the Wheel of Time books, except for The Path of Daggers, Crossroads of Twilight and New Spring. “Whatever in the world made you think of trying to bully them?” “I can't abide women who poke their noses into other people's business.” “I do not have to make sense.” ~ Nynaeve al'Meara Nynaeve al'Meara: article on Wikipedia Nynaeve al'Meara: chronology and information on WoT Encyclopedia. © Lady Herenya view credit? hosted by freewebs |
