#myrelle

I hadn’t noticed the part about Myrelle before. This is early LoC. Moiraine has died, Myrelle knows Lan is on his way to Salidir. And she knows he’s supposed to wind up with Nynaeve.

If Nynaeve can break her block it’s pretty much the only thing keeping her from being raised Aes Sedai, so Myrelle wants this moved along asap. Myrelle has a history of working really hard to keep Warders alive when their Aes Sedai die, so I think we can accept at face value, here at least, that she has the best of intentions. It’s really annoying she just keeps all this information to herself—I’m sure Nynaeve would have very much liked to know Lan was coming!—but Aes Sedai don’t think very much of Accepted so it’s not terribly surprising.

[Image description: the upper halves of wine bottles, two white and one red. One white wine bottle has text overlaid that reads “Daigian Moseneillin”, the other white wine bottle says “Saroiya Farseen”. The red bottle says “Teslyn Baradon”.]

Teslyn Baradon - An Illianer Red. Strong and surprisingly balanced, she is open-minded and works quite well with Mat Cauthon, who we would normally recommend against pairing with any Aes Sedai. She also avoids the smoke taint of the Vileness and the spoilage of the Black Ajah. She is not quite as unknown as our other choices, but is still underrated compared to the more famous and popular reds such as Pevara or Silviana.

Daigian Moseneillin - A Cairhienian White from a lesser noble House. While objectively very weak, which is why she is often overlooked, she compensates with subtle flavor and impeccable logic. She bonded Eben Hopwil, a young Asha'man who was also perhaps unfairly underrated, per Jahar Narishma; this was definitely a pairing to keep an eye on, and Eben's death was a major loss. Still, this White is worth a second look.

Me at Berelain and Myrelle:

Aes Sedai: how can we save her warder???

Other Aes Sedai: smother his grief with meaningless sex?

Egwene: how bout we send him to the woman he loves? And who loves him back?

Myrelle Berengari.

R. Green Ajah.

[stuff in books]

Warders: [...]

Lan Mandragoran: His bond passed to her with Moiraine's disappearance/"death". This arrangement was made between Moiraine and Myrelle, in contravention of custom for the past 400 years, without Lan's prior knowledge. She had agreed to pass that bond on to Nynaeve "when Nynaeve achieved the shawl and was ready." She made a great effort to force Nynaeve to readiness when she felt the bond pass to her, and she objected to sending Lan on to Nynaeve because she didn't think Nynaeve was ready for any Warder, much less a man in Lan's fragile, volatile, and dangerous state.

[...]

Head the Green Ajah among the rebels. L40. This is largely because they recognize her organizational-managerial-command skills. Among Greens, these count in many ways as much as or more than strength or skill in the Power; at least to the extent that you can be not very strong at all, but if you have good leadership abilities, or good managerial or organizational skills, you will find yourself moving up the hierarchy in the Greens, and the Greens do have a very well defined hierarchy, organized much like military rank, though without titles. Every Green knows in her head the roughly pyramidal chart of who ranks where. You can be recommended for promotion up the chart, promoted or demoted, according to your performance as evaluated by those above you. You can be leaped over others already ahead of you, or dropped as far as the bottom tier from any height, though either is uncommon.

In truth, because of the scheme to control events being run by the Ajahs other than Red and Blue, Myrelle and the other sisters who accepted positions as "head" of their Ajah in exile are all in some trouble back in the Tower,

Pg 90

internal Ajah trouble that has nothing to do with the rebellion. The choices were made by the sisters as a whole, who did not know of the scheme by the upper ranks of the Ajahs.

[...]

Myrelle "knew" that Moiraine was dead as soon as she felt Lan's bond pass to her. If nothing else, this would be when she suddenly became "aware" of him.

She didn't know Lan's feelings for Nynaeve until they were revealed to her by Egwene, though she thought that explained a good deal. Both she and Nisao initially thought any such feelings must be on Nynaeve's part alone, that no one could captured [sic] Lan's heart because of his dedication to his one-man war.

She promised to pass his bond on to Nynaeve when N became Aes Sedai and was ready for a Warder. Nynaeve has been raised to Aes Sedai faster than any of them expected; now Nynaeve is not there, and in any case, Myrelle does not think Lan is any shape to be handed over to a young and inexperienced Aes Sedai who is not at all ready to handle something like him.

Myrelle took Lan to her bed; this was to last until she had begun making him think of life again, to however small a degree, it being her belief that fucking makes you center on life rather than death. She had to use the bond to compel him, sometimes, which she found both odd and somewhat insulting.

NOTE: Unlike the situation with Moiraine, where she and Myrelle prepared things so that the bond would pass at Moiraine's death, Myrelle and Nynaeve will have to be together for his bond to be passed between them. He does not have to be there, but I think Nynaeve insists on it, which Myrelle will approve of, though she will be the one who says he doesn't have to etc as a test.

The discovery by Egwene and Siuan of the situation with Lan led to Myrelle and Nisao being forced to swear fealty to Egwene personally.

Dear Myrelle, 

I must thank you for agreeing to take over the Warder bond and taking care of Lan when I was unable to. I remember fondly our years as Novices and Accepted. I knew that I would be right to trust such an important matter to you. Truly, you have all my gratitude. 

Best,