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The
Childless Aes Sedai
by
Ryu Hayabusa
In my research in the tower library I found some
interesting
information I can't
confirm most of it,
but its from
centuries old
documents, so its
not likely that i'll
ever be able to.
First
of all, I'd like to
recap that Elisane
Tishar was the first
Amyrlin, and the
person who intiated
the building of Tar
Valon. Of what can
be determined, she
was a forceful, yet
compasionate woman.
What is not known is
that she was to be
married to a Bravand
Camaroo, but he was
killed in an
investigation into
some wilders
claiming to be Aes
Sedai. I couldn't
find anything more
on Bravand Camaroo,
or the wilders, or
of even what
happened to them,
but I can't imagine
that their deaths
were pretty. It also
seems that in that
time, alot of Aes
Sedai were married,
or had men of which
they claimed love,
and that it was
widely excepted.
Shortly after
Bravand Camaroo's
death Elisane had a
son, who she named
Bravand, after his
father.
Bravand
Tishar had a normal
childhood, as far as
I can tell, and when
he entered his
teen-age years he
started training to
become a soldier for
the tower's army. It
was at about this
time that Bravand
started having very
painful head-aches
that the Aes Sedai
couldn't figure out
how to sooth. One
night, when he and
his mother were
alone, he had one of
the worse head-aches
ever and began to
scream from the
pain, at about that
moment, objects in
the room started
flying against the
walls of their own
accord. It was then
that Elisane
realized that his
son could channel.
Being
that Elisane didn't
want her son to go
through the horrors
of being Gentled,
she hid the fact
from the Aes Sedai,
and sent her son to
a far off stedding,
supposedly Chantin
Stedding, but I
can't confirm it.
Years past, and
eventually, when
Bravand was about
24, he left the
stedding without
permission, and with
not knowing what he
could do. About 2
weeks later, he
found his way into a
small village, whose
name isn't in the
records anywhere. In
this village he made
a life, he found a
wife, and became a
farmer, as well as a
writer of sorts.
One
day, the taint
finally got to him,
the story goes that
he accidentally
killed his wife
while he was
sleeping, and
snapped when he
found out what he
had done. He burned
the village to the
ground, and killed
as many of its
people as he could
find. He continued
this rampage on a
path headed straight
to the White
Tower(as it stood
unfinished in
128AB). Not much is
known of what he did
in the year it took
him to get there, I
would guess his
destruction of the
towns he came across
would make it
difficult to keep
records.
When
he finally did get
there, he made his
way into the bound
of Tar Valon(it is
not known how) and
into the court yard
before the
unfinished White
Tower itself. There,
he incinerated
several Aes Sedai,
villagers, and even
a few Ogier it
seems. It seems he
was even more
powerful his mother,
but not powerful
enough to stop her
and an angreal.
In
the end Elisane had
to destroy her own
son, and from that
point on, having a
husband or
"lover"
was discouraged
among the Aes Sedai,
for a sister could
very well give birth
to a male channeler,
and no woman wants
to see her own son
gentled, or even
killed. Eventually,
it seems the reason
was lost, and just
the attitude
remained, and even
the Green Ajah, know
for their
"interest"
in men, have used
careful "birth
control"
methods. This may
even account towards
the reasoning that
Aes Sedai use in
current days as to
why they don't
marry. Saying that
men can't seem to
handle having a wife
with that much
power.
It
seems that they're
just afraid of
having a son who
could channel,
because its well
known that
channeler's children
are more likely to
be able to channel
then
non-channeler's.
As
I said, none of this
is confirmable, I
just thought that
it'd prove an
interesting article
to the Tower's
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