History Characters / TheWheelOfTimeTheAiel

* WhatTheHellHero: She and Birgitte give Elayne and Nynaeve an epic chewing out for being {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s to Mat after he risked his life to rescue them.

%%* SwornBrothers: With Elayne, eventually.

* [[BloodBrothers Blood Sisters]]: With Elayne, eventually.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Goes in both directions for her and Rand, who is also a redhead.

* TheStoic: Even more so than Lan, if you can believe it. It helps that unlike Lan, he gets no POV sections (that is, until [[spoiler:he was Compelled, at which point his thoughts were bit his own]]).

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Sort of. Aviendha spears straight through him in a fist-sized hole with a weave of Fire.]]

* TheStoic: Even more so than Lan, if you can believe it. It helps that unlike Lan, he gets no POV sections.

* BladeOnAStick: As an Aiel, this is his preferred weapon.

* BladeOnAStick: Wields a spear, like most Aiel.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Like all Aiel, is tanned by the sun of the Three-Fold Land.

* MagicKnight: A [[ActionGirl Maiden of the Spear]] who learns to use [[TheForce the One Power]] and trains to become a Wise One.

* ScrewDestiny: [[spoiler:Her attitude towards the visions Aviendha had in [[FanNickname the Way-Forward Ter'angreal]]. This is smarter than it sounds: she points out that they need to act as though the future can be changed, regardless of whether that's true. She then gives the advice that Aviendha change one of her children's names and never speak the old one aloud.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Graendal uses [[{{Brainwashing}} Compulsion]] to make him one of her personal bodyguard. Aviendha offs him later, to her horror.]]

%%* BladeOnAStick

* KilledOffForReal: By [[TheStrategist Mat....]] [[AccidentalMurder somehow]] in battle.

The Aiel (pronounced "eye-EEL") are a race that live in a ThirstyDesert, the "Aiel Waste," beyond the Spine of the World, separating the "Europe" of the main story from the "Asia" of Shara. Every single one of them is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy. Ever since [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Breaking of the World]] they have scratched out an existence in the Three-Fold Land (as they call it), waging constant wars amongst themselves for scarce resources which has forged them into a highly efficient fighting force, much a like a similar [[Franchise/{{Dune}} desert-dwelling people]]. They follow a complex set of rules and social mores, ''ji'e'toh'' ("Honor and Duty", or perhaps "Honor and Obligation"), that can be [[HonorBeforeReason confusing to outsiders]]. The history of their people is a [[EmpireWithADarkSecret dark and shameful secret]]. Those aspiring to be Clan Chiefs or Wise Ones must travel to their abandoned holy city of Rhuidean in order to learn this history. Only about one in three return, the rest suffer from GoMadFromTheRevelation.

* {{Adorkable}}: Surprisingly often, when she's not kicking ass. This happens a lot when Aiel get introduced to [[MundaneObjectAmazement the wetlands]] and [[CrossCulturalKerfluffle wetlander culture]], and since Aviendha is the Aiel who gets the most page space, she gets the most opportunity to show it.

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: She, Min, Elayne, Alivia, and Cadsuane are the only ones who know Rand survived The Last Battle.]]

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-->"In my day, girls jumped when a Wise One said jump, and continued jumping until they were told to stop. As I am still alive, it is still my day. Need I make myself clearer?"

* StrangledByTheRedString: Saw this happen when she saw her possible futures in Rhuidean, and [[{{In-Universe}} wasn't happy about it]] because she felt that he belonged to Elayne and had promised to make sure he didn't stray.

%%* AxCrazy

* HonorBeforeReason

** ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Sort of. Aviendha spears straight through him in a fist-sized hole with a weave of Fire.]]

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy

* AxCrazy
* BladeOnAStick

* EvilRedhead
* FieryRedhead

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Brother]]: Muradin, his brother, died of [[EyeScream tearing his eyes out]] in Rhuidean when he went along with Rand.

** DragonWithAnAgenda: It's clear that she's the real power in the Shaido, considering she is more focused on practicality than pleasure (except with Galina).
* EvilOldFolks
* EvilRedhead

* {{Badass}}: As a matter of course, being Aiel.

* {{Badass}}: As an Aiel, it's practically mandatory. [[spoiler:He even holds off a group of [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Turned]] Samma N'Sei Aiel by himself in Book 14, using [[TeleportSpam skills]] he only recently learned to use in ''[[DreamLand Tel'aran'rhiod]]''.]]

* RedHeadedHero

* RedHeadedHero: As an Aiel, since most of them are.

* BlondesAreEvil: Not a very nice person. So much so that her own people only follow her because of HonorBeforeReason.

* [[spoiler:PregnantBadass: Very likely. Min has a viewing of her having Rand's quadruplets and Rand has sex with her at least once right before the beginning of The Last Battle. Furthermore, in Aviendha's BadFuture viewing it was very public knowledge that the quadruplets are Rand's, meaning that she's probably already pregnant before his "death" (though the wonkiness with the timestream during the last battle might give them a little wiggle room with that). So, in all likelihood, the entire time that Aviendha was defending Rand and his group at Shayol Ghul she was already pregnant, albeit only recently.]]

* [[spoiler:SomeoneToRememberHimBy: It's heavily implied that the sex she and Rand have in Book 14 is what results in her having his quadruplets. Subverted in that Rand isn't actually dead.]]

* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: Late in the Last Battle, Graendal, then known as Hessalam, uses her Compulsion on him, making him into one of her personal bodyguards among Aiel.]]

* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: Graendal uses [[{{Brainwashing}} Compulsion]] to make him one of her personal bodyguard. Aviendha offs him later, to her horror.]]
** [[spoiler:ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Sort of. Aviendha spears straight through him in a fist-sized hole with a weave of Fire.]]

* [[spoiler:ScrewDestiny: her attitude towards the visions Aviendha had in [[FanNickname the Way-Forward Ter'angreal]]. This is smarter than it sounds: she points out that they need to act as though the future can be changed, regardless of whether that's true. She then gives the advice that Aviendha change one of her children's names and never speak the old one aloud.]]

* [[spoiler:PutOnABus: After her defeat at Malden, she is taken away by the Seanchan as a trophy.]]

* [[spoiler:ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Brings the Shaido back to the Three-Fold Land following the capture of Sevanna at Malden.]]

The Aiel (pronounced "eye-EEL") are a race that live in a ThirstyDesert, the "Aiel Waste," beyond the Spine of the World, separating the "Europe" of the main story from the "Asia" of Shara. Every single one of them is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy. Ever since [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Breaking of the World]] they have scratched out an existence in the Three-Fold Land (as they call it), waging constant wars amongst themselves for scarce resources which has forged them into a highly efficient fighting force, much a like a similar [[{{Dune}} desert-dwelling people]]. They follow a complex set of rules and social mores, ''ji'e'toh'' ("Honor and Duty", or perhaps "Honor and Obligation"), that can be [[HonorBeforeReason confusing to outsiders]]. The history of their people is a [[EmpireWithADarkSecret dark and shameful secret]]. Those aspiring to be Clan Chiefs or Wise Ones must travel to their abandoned holy city of Rhuidean in order to learn this history. Only about one in three return, the rest suffer from GoMadFromTheRevelation.

* [[spoiler:PregnantBadass: Very likely. Min has a viewing of her having Rand's quadruplets and Rand has sex with her at least once right before the beginning of The Last Battle. Furthermore, in Aviendha's BadFuture viewing it was very public knowledge that the quadruplets are Rand's, meaning that she's probably already pregnant before his "death" (though the wonkiness with the timestream during the last battle might give them a little wiggle room with that). So, in all likelihood, that the entire time that Aviendha was defending Rand and his group at Shayol Ghul she was already pregnant, albeit only recently.]]

* [[spoiler:PregnantBadass: Possibly; Heavily implied by Min's viewing of her as having Rand's quadruplets and the fact that Rand has sex with her at least once right before the beginning of The Last Battle, meaning that the entire time that Aviendha was defending Rand and his group at Shayol Ghul, she may well have been pregnant.]]

* [[spoiler:PregnantBadass: Heavily implied by Min's viewing of her as having Rand's quadruplets and the fact that Rand has sex with her not long before the Last Battle begins, meaning that the entire time that Aviendha was defending Rand and his group at Shayol Ghul, she was pregnant.]]

The Aiel are a race that live beyond the Spine of the World and every single one of them is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy. Ever since [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Breaking of the World]] they have scratched out an existence in the [[ThirstyDesert Three-Fold Land]] waging constant wars amongst themselves for scarce resources which has forged them into a highly efficient fighting force, much a like a similar [[{{Dune}} desert-dwelling people]]. They follow a complex set of rules and social mores, ''ji'e'toh'' ("Honor and Duty", or perhaps "Honor and Obligation"), that can be [[HonorBeforeReason confusing to outsiders]]. The history of their people is a [[EmpireWithADarkSecret dark and shameful secret]]. Those aspiring to be Clan Chiefs or Wise Ones must travel to their abandoned holy city of Rhuidean in order to learn this history. Only about one in three return, the rest suffer from GoMadFromTheRevelation.

* HotBlooded