Roan is a young Ebou Dari man who's merchant family suggested he go to the tower to enter the Warder Training program. Once arriving at Tar Valon he gave the tower a horse as a gift from his father (a stallion named Graymane�s Pride, descended from the first horse Roan rode as a jockey for his father - named Graymane) and Gaidin Darek sponsored him into the program.