Girls who come to the White Tower for training start out as novices. They are required to wear white dresses with bands of the colors of the seven Ajahs
 at the hem. Most girls spend several years as Accepted. They no longer do menial chores, but spend many hours in training and in teaching novices
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 (in the pre-split Tower
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 (deceased NS,Ch14
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 (raised to Aes Sedai in Salidar)
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 (raised to Aes Sedai in Salidar)
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 quarters have room for four hundred but now house under a hundred. Fewer than twenty of them will test for Accepted.