Hello, my name here at TarValon.net is Elanda Tonil. At the left you see the full version of my avatar. It was my second choice, but the only one that would work.... I am the Head of the Gray Ajah at the Tower. I'll put it in chronological order to minimize the confusion, so without further ado, here is my story...

I found TarValon.net through another message board (that I haven't gone back to since joining the Tower) and after exploring the Tower, visiting the links around the site, and reading the Tower Law a couple times, I fell in love with the site and sent in my application. That was back on August 27th, of 2002.

Shortly after joining, I was assigned my mentor, Aliandra Sedai. She was a wonderful mentor, extremely patient with me & encouraging. I spent the majority of my novicehood in the Classrooms with the occasional excursion to the Scullery. When I wasn't reading the boards I was reading the different Ajah Headquarters. For the first couple weeks after I joined, the only thing I ever talked about with my family was which Ajah I should join. After a few weeks I decided on the Gray Ajah & I've never had a millisecond of doubt since that decision. Though I do have stripes, I am Gray.

On October 10, 2002 I was raised to the Ring and sent in my application to the Gray & was accepted shortly. I joined the ranks of the Gray Accepted & had a wonderful time with my newfound family! I continued work on my Accepted project of researching the White Tower Laws through all the books in the Wheel of Time. After a number of weeks, I was prompted to send in the research I had completed so far, which I did, and a couple weeks later, on December 10th, I was summoned and raised to the Shawl.

Around late February and early March, I was asked to serve as the Head of the Gray Ajah, and on March 5th I was announced as the next Head.

Well, that is pretty much it up to fairly recently... very mundane, but I enjoy rules, so when I was a novice, I didn't even think of going into the Garrison, nor did I even think of drinking in the Tavern or anything contrary to the rules for Novices. When Accepted I did everything I could think of to obey the rules and not get under anyone's feet. It leads to a boring story, but very little use for that hand cream.