The Shadow Rising characters

Appears from the start

The Dragon Reborn, holding the conquered fortress of Tear and the crystal sword Callandor. Having killed the enemy who tormented his dreams, he has begun to accept his role and to plan boldly, though the dread of the Power's madness and the schemes of the Forsaken close in on every side.

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Rand's luck-blessed friend, freed of the tainted dagger and flush from his gambling, forever trying to slip away from Aes Sedai and prophecy. Reckless and shrewd, he keeps finding that fate drags him back into the Dragon's affairs no matter how he runs.

Appears from the start

Rand's steady friend, a wolfbrother with golden eyes who has grown into a reluctant leader. Deliberate and homesick, he begins to fear for the Two Rivers and the family and neighbors he left behind, and to weigh returning to protect them.

Appears from the start

The innkeeper's daughter of Emond's Field, now an Accepted of the White Tower with a rare talent for entering the world of dreams. Ambitious and determined, she is drawn to study that gift with teachers outside the Tower's rigid halls.

Appears from the start

The former Wisdom of Emond's Field, a channeler of great strength who can reach the Power only through her own anger. Proud, protective, and relentless, she remains fixed on hunting down the traitor sisters of the Black Ajah.

Appears from the start

The Daughter-Heir of Andor, an Accepted of the Tower and a strong channeler, working with Nynaeve to run down the Black Ajah. Poised and courageous, she is increasingly caught between duty to her throne and her feelings for the Dragon Reborn.

Appears from the start

The Aes Sedai who set the Dragon Reborn on his path, patient and secretive, now finding that Rand will no longer simply do as she counsels. She continues to guide and guard him while pursuing knowledge she shares with no one.

Appears from the start

Moiraine's Warder, a grim and unmatched swordsman and the uncrowned last king of a Borderland realm devoured by the Blight. Bound to Moiraine, he follows her purpose without question wherever it leads.

Appears from the start

A blunt young woman who reads the future in images only she can see. Having glimpsed her own fate tangled with Rand's, she moves through the intrigues of the Aes Sedai, watching and quietly aiding those she trusts.

Appears from the start

The white-haired gleeman, who survived his earlier stand against a Halfman and travels again with a limp and a carefully hidden past as a onetime royal bard and courtier. Worldly, wry, and shrewd, he lends his knowledge of the wider world to the young people he has come to look after.

Appears from the start

The proud, fierce young woman from a northern land who took the name Faile and devoted herself to Perrin. Courageous and jealous of his attention, she is determined to share whatever dangers he faces rather than be left behind.

First appears in chapter 5

An Aiel woman of the Waste, a warrior of the Maidens of the Spear, encountered as Rand's road turns toward the Aiel lands. Prickly, proud, and bound by the strict honor code of her people, she regards soft wetlanders with wary disdain and speaks her mind bluntly.