Line #126 Characters/TheWheelOfTimeRoyalLineOfAndor


1	[[center: [-[[Characters/TheWheelOfTime Main Character Index]] \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTaveren Ta'veren]] \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeOthersFromTheTwoRivers Others from the Two Rivers]] \| '''Royal Line of Andor''' \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTheWhiteTower The White Tower]] \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTheBlackTower The Black Tower]] \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeIndependentCharacters Independent Characters]] \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTheAiel The Aiel]] \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTheWhitecloaks The Whitecloaks]] \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeSeanchan Seanchan]] \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeHeroesOfTheHorn The Heroes of the Horn]] \| [[Characters/TheWheelOfTimeTheShadowAndDarkfriends The Shadow & Darkfriends]] ]]-]
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4	Andor is the largest and most populous country in the West. The oldest tradition of Andor is that [[LadyLand only a queen]] may sit on the Lion Throne and wear the Rose Crown (though the heads of Andoran noble houses can be either gender). The queen's eldest daughter is known as the Daughter-Heir, and is always sent to Tar Valon to study, regardless of whether she can channel a lick. The eldest brother of the Daughter-Heir is sworn to protect her with his life, and is prepared from an early age to take control of Andor's army. He is given the title First Prince of the Sword.
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6	Elaida Sedai had a Foretelling that the royal line of Andor would be critical to the Last Battle, and thereafter stuck with them to keep an eye on things. This prophecy was ''actually'' supposed to refer to the ''former'' Daughter-Heir, Tigraine Mantear, who received a Foretelling from ''another'' Aes Sedai, Gitara Moroso, that she (Tigraine) had better abdicate and go east if she (Tigraine) didn't want to [[SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld lose the Last Battle]]. She followed orders, leaving behind her husband Taringail Damodred (nephew of the King of Cairhien) and their son Galad, and sparking off a SuccessionCrisis that ended with Morgase Trakand on the Lion Throne and married to her predecessor's husband. Foretelling being an imprecise discipline, Elaida never quite figured out that she had ended up with the wrong "royal line of Andor," but the Trakands ended up being major figures for the Light anyhow, so it all worked out in the end.
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8	At the start of the series, Morgase is the current Queen of Andor; she has two children, Gawyn and Elayne, by her late husband Taringail, and has adopted Galad as well. Unlike most previous Daughter-Heirs, Elayne is actually a strong channeler and expected to become an Aes Sedai as well as Queen.
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12	[[folder:Elayne Trakand]]
13	!!Elayne Trakand
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16	->''"Does she always expect everybody to do what she tells them?"''
17	->''"Most of the time she does. And most of the time they do."''
18	->''"Most of the time they do exactly what she says."''
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20	The current Daughter-Heir of Andor. Unlike most daughters of House Trakand, visiting the White Tower is not merely a formality in Elayne's case: she can actually channel, and she will be the first Aes Sedai on the Lion Throne in some years. In the meanwhile, she gets swept up into the grand scheme of things, partially because she becomes friends with Egwene and partially because she's got a thing for Rand.
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22	* ActionGirl: Eventually becomes ''such'' an Action Girl that she [[spoiler: becomes an Aes Sedai of the ''Green'' Ajah, the battle-oriented Ajah]]. You can't get there without being a bad bitch.
23	* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:She is now the Queen of Andor and Cairhien.]]
24	* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: About six months pregnant with Rand's twins at the end of the series]]
25	* DistressedDamsel: Especially since she spends a lot of time teamed up with Nynaeve.
26	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Has several female friends you might think are this. She's bonded Birgitte as her Warder, has undergone an Aiel ceremony to become "first sister" with Aviendha and feels much the same way towards Min, and she and Egwene were best friends when they were novices. But the character she spends the most actual time with is Nynaeve.
27	* ImperiledInPregnancy: Elayne gets pregnant in the ninth book. Thanks to a prophetic viewing, she is convinced her children can't be harmed and gets into trouble several times, finally coming to her senses after a particular wound runs dangerously close to her womb. Then things get brutal: during the climax of the last book, she runs afoul of Daved Hanlon (a.k.a. Doilin Mellar), who intends to [[spoiler: cut out her unborn twins and use magic to keep them alive until they can be offered to the BigBad. He promises to rape her afterward. Birgitte arrives to save the day, however.]]
28	* InnocentBlueEyes: When Rand first sees her, he thinks of her eyes as "bluer than he could believe". However, she grows out of the "innocent" part.
29	* KissingCousins: As both Rand and Elayne are descended from Andoran BlueBlood, they are very distant cousins. If they ''weren't'' BlueBlood the relation wouldn't be enough to occasion comment.
30	** However, Rand and Elayne do share a mutual half-brother, Galad, who is Rand's maternal and Elayne's paternal half-brother. Rand knows this by Book 5, but it's unclear if Elayne ever learns it during the series proper - though since Galad learned from a dying Gawyn in the Last Battle, and Galad being who he is, it would be unsurprising in the extreme if he told her very shortly afterwards.
31	* LadySwearsALot: She becomes increasingly foul-mouthed after a lot of time with Birgitte and Mat. By Book 14, she ''out-swears Uno'', who swears every other sentence at least once.
32	* LawOfInverseFertility: When she finally manages to get Rand alone long enough to lose her virginity in book 9, Elayne immediately gets pregnant with twins. A mild example, as she is not at all displeased.
33	* LoveAtFirstSight: To Rand, when he falls into the castle garden. This is later LampShaded by Elayne herself in Book 4.
34	* MeetCute: The falling-into-the-garden bit.
35	* MindlinkMates: With Rand, eventually, via Warder bond.
36	* NeverMyFault: She constantly blames Rand for the problems she has to deal with after getting pregnant. Despite chiding herself for not going on birth control beforehand, she still blames Rand.
37	* NotStayingForBreakfast: Rand, after he and Elayne finally find a room with a bed. (He ''does'' have a world to save.)
38	* OneDegreeOfSeparation: The Foretelling that drove Tigraine to [[PutOnABus Put Herself On A Bus]] was that, if she didn't go east and join the Aiel AmazonBrigade, the world was doomed. This is because she, under the pseudonym Shaiel, was destined to become Rand's mother. Elayne loves Rand, despite her father Taringail being Rand's mother's ex-husband.
39	** And yes, that means Rand and Elayne are both half-siblings with Galad. But they're related to different halves of him, averting any (meaningful) accusations of incest. The two of them lampshade it in Book 14.
40	* PoliticallyActivePrincess: Especially once she becomes pregnant, and through her [[spoiler:ascending to the throne]].
41	* PowerLevels: Explicitly mentioned as being of similar strength to Egwene.
42	* PregnancyMakesYouCrazy: Combined with her mood swings and how the pregnancy negatively affects her ability to channel, there are very few POV segments wherein Elayne doesn't complain about her pregnancy driving her batty in some way, especially after becoming Queen and the mood swings cause her to act in ways a Queen should not.
43	* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler:In Book 14, she spends the better part of a day aiding her forces by way of channeling to hold back Shadowspawn forces while heavily pregnant, to the point of being so exhausted that she doesn't think that she'll be able to channel again if her life depended on it for a time. Davram Bashere admits that she was pretty much the only reason they kept up an entire flank of their forces in that battle. In the same battle, while completely unable to channel due to exhaustion, she also tries to take on a Trolloc with a sword in order to rally her troops despite having admitted to having no idea how to use one.]]
44	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Definitely in Book 14 if not earlier.
45	* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: She, Aviendha, Min, Alivia, and Cadsuane are the only ones who know Rand survived The Last Battle. As a result, the rest of the world thinks that her twins are...]]
46	* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Becomes pregnant with Rand's twins. Became public knowledge in Book 14.]]
47	* SpoiledSweet: Raised in a palace as the heir to one of the richest and most powerful thrones on the continent, her [=BFFs=] and boyfriend are farmers from the ass-end of nowhere (and technically her own subjects); she adopts as her sister a "savage" Aiel using their customs (making her the honorary daughter of the Wise One who performed the ceremony); she started making ''ter'angreal'' because she always wanted to work with her hands after seeing the pride of a carpenter delivering his chairs to the Palace.
48	** She also is totally unbothered when she has to go without the luxuries of royalty. It's mentioned that she has no trouble adjusting to the spartan lifestyle of a Tower novice, and she seems to quite enjoy her time undercover as a tightrope-walker in a traveling circus.
49	* StrangledByTheRedString: InUniverse. Prophesied from before they even met, which Elayne isn't happy about. They go from canoodling in alcoves (Book 4) straight to [[TheirFirstTime doing it]] (Book 9), despite not seeing each other for ''nine months'' in between. (Of course, it was eight years for readers, so they were a bit more forgiving.)
50	* TemptingFate: Because Min has had a viewing that her twins will be born healthy and Min's viewings are always accurate, Elayne thinks she has PlotArmor until their birth. Other characters, Min included, are GenreSavvy enough to note that Elayne [[WrongGenreSavvy might be outsmarting herself here]]. [[spoiler:And, surprise surprise, it happened. In Towers of Midnight, Elayne is stabbed in the stomach whilst interrogating the Black Ajah. She survives, but appears to have learned her lesson.]]
51	** ContractualImmortality is mostly averted, as Elayne is very conscious of the limitations of her guarantee, noting in her stream of consciousness that nothing protects her children after they are born, or herself as soon as that happens, or other people. [[spoiler:When Aviendha activates a mysterious device they don't quite understand, Elayne tells her it could be dangerous, and Aviendha apologizes for endangering her and her unborn children. Elayne reminds her that Elayne herself was safe, because of the viewing, but Aviendha was not.]] Meanwhile, in her head, Elayne is noting that the viewing doesn't even protect Elayne herself from things like losing her powers. For most of the series, she is not far enough along in her pregnancy for it to be possible that the children might survive something that kills her. Elayne uses the viewing as a defense against her entourage and loved ones trying to smother her with unnecessary care or to keep her from taking necessary risks, when she is the most powerful channeler with combat experience in the city, during a time of war, when she is trying to prove her right to a throne, where personal demonstrations of courage are expected, and even the appearance of cowardice might cost her support. However, she's still more than a tad reckless until the above-mentioned realisation.
52	* UngratefulBastard: To Mat in Book 3. She has since made up for it.
53	* WhatTheHellHero: Aviendha and Birgitte call her and Nynaeve out for being Ungrateful Bastards to Mat. Notably, Elayne is much more willing to take this onboard than Nynaeve is, and immediately sets out to make things right, consulting with Aviendha on what would be deemed appropriate.
54	* WrongGenreSavvy: Elayne assumed that because [[spoiler: Min had foretold that her children would be born, Elayne herself would be safe from anything that might happen]]. She never [[spoiler: realized that this didn't mean that nothing ''bad'' could happen to her]] and she never [[spoiler: considered the possibility that just because Min's visions had never been wrong in the past]] there was no guarantee that [[spoiler: all of them would be correct in the future]].
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58	[[folder:Morgase Trakand / Maighdin]]
59	!!Morgase Trakand / Maighdin
60	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wot_morgase_trakand_by_reddera_d4vmjmr.jpg]]
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62	->''"Suspicion is smothering Caemlyn, perhaps all of Andor. Fear and black suspicion. I will not become part of it. When I took the throne I swore to uphold justice for the high and the low, and I will uphold it even if I am the last in Andor to remember justice."''
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64	Morgase Trakand, by the Grace of the Light, Queen of Andor, Defender of the Realm, Protector of the People and High Seat of House Trakand. The mother of Elayne and Gawyn, and step-mother of Galad.
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66	* ArrangedMarriage: Perrin tries this on her because he is tired of the way she and Tallanvor keep moping over each other. She chews him out for it, [[spoiler:then later asks Perrin to marry them anyway on her own terms]].
67	* {{Brainwashed}}: Gaebril [[spoiler:better known as Rahvin]] uses Compulsion on her in order to take over Andor essentially reducing her to little more than a puppet and SexSlave.
68	* BrainwashResidue: Escapes from her brainwasher without realising she is brainwashed but continually feels a desire to return to him and sees Gareth Bryne as a traitor.
69	* BreakTheHaughty: Particularly unhaughty for a queen but she sure does get broken a lot. Could be considered TheWoobie or possibly ButtMonkey.
70	* DrivenToSuicide: But luckily is talked out of it until rescue arrives moments later.
71	* GoodStepmother: To Galad, whom she considers her son as much as her biological children, and the feeling is mutual.
72	* PowerLevels: About as weak in the Power as a person can get, barely enough to make a scarf move in a breeze. [[spoiler: Yet moving a scarf does save her life at one point.]]
73	* {{Pride}}: While she's not especially haughty and she's certainly willing to muck in and do the hard work (even if she is a fairly terrible lady's maid in some respects), she does have some issues adjusting that Faile notices - and assumes were a product of a different working environment. Moreover, she's much more defensively prideful after her experiences with Gaebril [[spoiler: (Rahvin)]], possibly in response to how thoroughly she was humiliated. Eventually, she gets a bit less stiff-necked again.
74	* [[KingIncognito Queen Incognito]]: When Perrin rescues her from Dragonsworn bandits, she claims to be a lady's maid and joins his party to spy on him. She’s not very good at making tea to begin with.
75	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When not brainwashed, she's a good monarch, genuinely concerned for her people, and a very fair judge. She shuts down her very forceful Aes Sedai advisor, Elaida, refusing to let her use ExactWords to try and influence her judgement of a young Rand who she treats both fairly and kindly, she makes a point of educating all her children about the duties of royalty as well as the rights (which is largely why Elayne is SpoiledSweet), and when judging Perrin for the deaths of the two Whitecloaks, [[spoiler: she finds him technically guilty within the bounds of the law... but finagles some LoopholeAbuse to extract a mutually acceptable compromise]]. She also doesn't hesitate to abdicate in her daughter's favour when it becomes clear that her position is untenable, to protect both her daughter and Andor.
76	* TraumaCongaLine: From the infiltration of Gaebril onward, she never really gets a break until she comes across Perrin. Her trials include choosing to AbdicateTheThrone at the [[ColdBloodedTorture tor]][[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil tures]] of the Children of the Light, being {{brainwashed}} as mentioned above, and being attacked by roaming Dragonsworn bandits. To say nothing of the fact that she was captured by the Shaido along with Faile.
77	* UnexpectedSuccessor: After Tigraine Mantear, Daughter-Heir of Andor, went missing, the throne went to Morgase, a distant cousin.
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80	[[folder:Gawyn Trakand]]
81	!!Gawyn Trakand
82	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wot_card_teasers_gawyn_by_reddera_d489bc1.jpg]]
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84	Lord Gawyn of House Trakand is a young man, son of Taringail Damodred and Queen Morgase, as well as the brother of Elayne and half-brother to Galad Damodred. As the eldest son of an Andoran queen, ideally his future role in the government is to be the First Prince of the Sword to his sister Elayne when she ascends the Lion Throne.
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86	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He laments that he's never been quite good enough [[spoiler: as he dies in Galad's arms.]]
87	* BadassNormal: While he never deems himself quite good enough, as a swordsman, for the Third Age, he's behind only Lan, Galad, and Rand for pure skill.
88	* DeadlyUpgrade: [[spoiler:In Book 14, he puts on a [[SuperSoldier Blood]][[YourDaysAreNumbered knife]] ring, gaining limited {{invisibility}} and SuperSpeed, but shortening his lifespan to days. He puts on two more later, augmenting the effect... [[SubvertedTrope but dies of his wounds in battle rather than the artifacts themselves]].]]
89	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:In Galad's.]]
90	* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Bonded to Egwene as a Warder in ''Towers of Midnight''. Even moreso after he starts using the ''ter'angreal'' rings he obtained from the Bloodknives' assault on The White Tower in the Last Battle in ''A Memory of Light''.]]
91	* FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler:When equipped with the Bloodknives rings in The Last Battle, he's much faster and stealthier. It doesn't help him much against [[LightningBruiser Demandred]], considering that his enhanced speed is only barely able to keep up with the Forsaken.]]
92	* GlorySeeker: [[spoiler:Recognizes himself as this in Book 13, and so works to change.]]
93	* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Elayne forces him to realize that this is the real reason he hates Rand. While Rand is able to rise to be a ruler in spite of being "a sheepherder", Gawyn, a prince, is forced to travel the world with a small band, akin to the very thing that Rand once was. He finally gets over it soon after realizing this.]]
94	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He finally decides to serve Egwene's Amyrlin Seat and let go of his {{pride}} in Books 12 and 13.]]
95	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Impaled by Demandred.]]
96	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:By Demandred in Book 14. Given the events of Book 13, this might also qualify as {{Retirony}}.]]
97	* LightIsNotGood: Following Dumai's Wells, he tells Rand [[IllKillYou he will kill him]] for [[spoiler:[[HeroWithBadPublicity supposedly killing Morgase]]]]. He also serves [[spoiler:Elaida]] as Amyrlin Seat for quite some time. However, he is still against the Dark One and his forces. The only issue is that he's more of a hindrance than a benefit to the forces of the Light in the process [[spoiler:until his HeelFaceTurn]].
98	* MasterSwordsman: Became a blademaster when he killed Hammar (his own trainer) during the Tower schism. Also, according to WordOfGod before Robert Jordan DiedDuringProduction, he is the fourth-best swordsman, behind Lan, Rand, and Galad. [[spoiler:Fifth-best, as it turns out, with Demandred among those better than he.]]
99	* MindlinkMates: [[spoiler:Becomes engaged to and bonded to Egwene in ''Towers of Midnight''.]]
100	* NiceGuy: He's a genuinely nice bloke when we first meet him. However, the Tower Schism, where he was forced to kill several of his trainers, his mother's apparent death at the hands of Rand (not so much, but he didn't know that), Egwene's uncertain fate, and trying to keep his ragged troops alive when Elaida is clearly planning to arrange for their deaths as soon as is convenient, along with a lot of wounded pride, all negatively affect his personality. He gets over it.
101	* {{Pride}}: Realizes that [[spoiler:this is why he could not be a Warder; he wanted to write his [[FamedInStory own story]]. However, by getting over this some time after getting over his envy, he allows himself to be Egwene's Warder]].
102	* RedOniBlueOni: Of Elayne's brothers, he is the Red to Galad's Blue.
103	* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler:With Egwene as of ''Towers of Midnight'' after the Battle in Tel'aran'rhiod. They marry in Book 14.]]
104	* SuperSoldier: [[spoiler:Uses Seanchan Bloodknife rings in and around the Last Battle in Book 14, which gives SuperSpeed and limited {{Invisibility}} at the cost of a severely limited lifespan.]]
105	* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he and Egwene don't have long to enjoy their marriage before both die during the Last Battle]].
106	* TookALevelInJerkass: The Tower Schism and his uncertainty over what has happened to his sister, plus an unfortunate assumption or two about Rand (plus [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]]), all contribute to his personality taking a turn for the worse. Once he gets over his {{Pride}} and lets go of his past, he becomes much more pleasant.
107	* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Once he activates the rings infused with the Night's Shade weave in Book 14, he is living on borrowed time.]]
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110	[[folder:Galadedrid Damodred]]
111	!!Galadedrid Damodred
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114	->''"She should have realized that he'd be attracted to [[ChurchMilitant the Whitecloaks]] for their vision of a world that was [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white]]. Could she have prepared him better? Shown him that the world was not black and white -- it wasn't even [[GrayAndGrayMorality gray]]. It was [[MoralityKitchenSink full of colors]] that sometimes [[BlueAndOrangeMorality didn't fit into any spectrum of morality.]]"''
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116	Son of the disappeared former Daughter-Heir Tigraine, adopted by Morgase when she gained the throne and married Taringail. He is half-brother to Elayne and Gawyn through his father, and Rand through his mother, though he doesn't find this out for a ''very'' long time.
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118	* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Type 3. He loses an arm in battle with Demandred in Book 14.]]
119	* BadassNormal: [[spoiler:Was able, without any augmentations, to keep up with and even wound Demandred in a swordfight.]]
120	* TheBeautifulElite: “Like a statue carved from marble, a relic from the age of legends. A perfect thing left behind. For us to worship.” according to [[TheVamp Berelain]] who is no slouch herself.
121	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: He certainly seems to believe this as he cannot understand how someone as beautiful as Berelain could follow a man who is so obviously a Shadowspawn. Wrong on two levels. Played straight with himself however.
122	* BlackAndWhiteMorality: A great believer in this, as are all Whitecloaks. Morgase muses if she should have attempted to teach him that [[GreyAndGreyMorality morality is not even shades of grey]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality but full of colors that didn’t sometimes fit into any spectrum of morality]] more forcefully. In the end, he does prove to have enough humanity to avoid BlackAndWhiteInsanity, though - a conversation with Morgase, who impresses the complications upon him, helps.
123	* ChurchMilitant: Joins the Whitecloaks. [[spoiler:Eventually becoming their Lord Captain Commander.]]
124	* TheComicallySerious: According to his family.
125	-->'''Galad:''' "I do have a sense of humor, Gawyn. You only think I do not because I do not care to mock people".
126	* CoolSword: As of the prologue to Book 11, [[spoiler:Valda's]] heron-marked blade.
127	* HappilyAdopted: By Morgase, whom he always calls "Mother". [[spoiler: When he believes that Valda has raped and murdered her - the first part being entirely correct - he challenges him to a [[TrialByCombat Trial Under the Light]] and promptly kills him]].
128	* InformedFlaw: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. His rigid sense of morality certainly is a flaw; even so, some characters- specifically his sister Elayne (who goes so far as to repeatedly [[IHaveNoSon deny that he is her brother]])- treat it as the [[ThisIsUnforgivable Worst Thing Ever]]; particularly petty with Elayne, where implicitly it's rooted in Galad having a tendency to [[CantGetAwayWithNothing tattle on her and Gawyn]] when they were kids. Basically she gives him a lot more vitriol than she does even (other) Whitecloaks or the Red Ajah, or any other character who has far more serious KnightTemplar qualities than Galad. And whatever else you say about his limited ethical judgement, he at least can be said to be one of the more un-hypocritical characters in a series arguably filled with hypocrites (even as a kid, on the rare occasion he did something wrong he tattled on himself). His outlook starts to become a great deal more informed and a lot less rigid during Book 13, and by the time of Book 14, he essentially just becomes a really good person, if he wasn't already.
129	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: It's not exactly widely known, but it's only during the Last Battle that he discovers - courtesy of a dying [[spoiler: Gawyn]] that Rand is his half-brother.
130	* LoveAtFirstSight: Technically applies to nearly all women that see him, but occurs mutually with [[spoiler:Berelain]].
131	* MasterSwordsman: Extremely skilled with a sword, but gains this title officially (as well as the trademark Heron-mark sword of a Blademaster) when he duels and kills [[spoiler:Eamon Valda]]. Also makes a hell of a showing against [[spoiler:Demandred]]. According to [[WordOfGod Robert Jordan's listing]] using characters known at the time he DiedDuringProduction, he is the third-best swordsman in the series, behind Lan and Rand. [[spoiler: His failure to defeat Demandred presumably establishes him as "merely" the 4th best swordsman overall.]]
132	* NiceGuy: For all his rigidity, which begins to flex over time, he's genuinely one of the nicest and most honourable characters in the series. Even his worst actions, like starting a riot by moving against a cult leader to get the lead female characters out of a city, are somewhat justified as NecessarilyEvil at worst (as he notes himself, the city was on the verge of a riot anyway and the cult leader had to be dealt with sooner or later). He is ''definitely'' the nicest member of The Whitecloaks as well, and proves to be a positive influence on them.
133	* PrettyBoy: He's deliberately called "the most beautiful man in the world", and several women develop crushes on him on sight.
134	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: At least by Whitecloak standards.
135	* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to Gawyn's Red out of Elayne's brothers.
136	* ShelteredAristocrat: A mixture of "arrogant" and "reserved" types, but he's been growing slowly from his origins as a KnightTemplar to TheWisePrince.
137	* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler:Of a sort. With his LastWords, Gawyn reveals Rand's blood ties to Galad, letting him know he has another half-brother]].
138	* TokenGoodTeammate:: To the Whitecloaks. While the rest of them ''think'' that they are morally upright fighters for justice, Galad actually ''is'' such a person and is capable of understanding and mercy, and when he starts to see the flaws in the other Whitecloaks and the leadership he has no problem standing up to them.
139	* UnintentionalBackupPlan: [[spoiler: In The Last Battle, Mat gives Galad a copy of the [[AntiMagic foxhead medallion]] and orders him to kill as many enemy channelers as he can. Galad eventually encounters Demandred, but is nearly killed. As he's recovering, he has the presence of mind to try to give the medallion back to Mat. However, Berelain passes it on to Lan, who goes to challenge Demandred as well. Combining his swordsmanship and Galad's medallion, Lan is able to finally kill Demandred and turn the tide of the war.]]
140	* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:Becomes the Lord Captain Commander of the Children of Light by killing Valda in a Trial Beneath The Light.]]
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143	[[folder:Tigraine Mantear / Shaiel]]
144	!!Tigraine Mantear / Shaiel
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146	Former Daughter-Heir, mother of Galad (by Taringail) [[spoiler:and Rand (by Janduin of the Chumai sept of the Tardaad Aiel).]]
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148	* DeathByChildbirth: Entirely possible, though given she gave birth [[PregnantBadass in a battle]], a wound could have also been a factor.
149	* {{Determinator}}: Abandoning her old life, she enters the Aiel Waste in search of the Maidens of the Spear, pressing on after her horse dies and after she runs out of water, she is found near death but refuses to be deterred from joining them. Heck, her new name, Shaiel, even meant 'Woman Who Is Dedicated'. [[spoiler:Later she goes into battle despite being pregnant and dies on a battlefield after giving birth (to Rand)]].
150	* MeaningfulRename: Took up the name "Shaiel" upon joining the Aiel, which means "one who is dedicated".
151	* MissingMom: To both Galad and [[spoiler: Rand]]; the first, she had to abandon as a child because of Gitara Moroso's prophecy, the second, she died giving birth to .
152	* PosthumousCharacter: Died twenty years before the series begins.
153	* PregnantBadass: Was taking part in the Battle of the Shining Walls in the Aiel War while pregnant [[spoiler:with Rand]], which she begged Janduin to allow despite fighting while pregnant being against custom. However, she ended up having what is very possibly DeathByChildbirth.
154	* ResignedToTheCall: Abandoned her old life and entered the Aiel Waste upon hearing a prophecy that if she does not do this then the world would suffer. She went through with it but was somewhat bitter about having had to do it (especially abandoning her son).
155	* SecondLove: With Janduin, clan chief of the Tardaad Aiel. Rand physically takes after him more than her. First love, really, since her marriage with Taringail Damodred was as obligatory and lacking in genuine warmth as his later marriage to her cousin Morgase would be. She only regretted leaving Galad.
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