Full name: Edeyn ti Gemallen Arrel
A noblewoman, expatriate of Malkier. She now lives in Chachin. Daughter Iselle. She is a widow. Her sigil is a crouching lioness.
Physical Description#
She is beautiful with large, dark eyes and long black hair with touches of white. She is in her early forties. (NS,Ch22)
Chronology (Possible Spoilers)#
- In Fal Moran, Edeyn takes Lan as her lover when he is fifteen. (NS,Ch16)
- She leaves Fal Moran and begins a campaign across the Borderlands to raise an army to reclaim Malkier from the Blight. (NS,Ch16)
- In the Aesdaishar Palace, Edeyn swears loyalty to Lan as King of Malkier. Later she tells him that she plans to marry him to her daughter Iselle. She takes him to bed. (NS,Ch22)
- Edeyn intends to give Lan's daori to Iselle then force her and Lan to marry. (NS,Ch26)
- Edeyn falls apart and cuts her hair short when her daughter is murdered. (NS,Epilogue)
Other References (Possible Spoilers)#
- In New Spring
- NS,Ch16 - She was Lan's first lover.
- NS,Ch16 - Bukama suspects that she hired the assassins who tried to kill Lan.
- NS,Ch20 - At first, Lan thought Moiraine might be a spy sent by Edeyn.
- NS,Ch22 - Her sigil is a crouching lioness.
- NS,Ch22 - Edeyn still wears a white ki'sain indicating that she is a widow.
- In The Eye of the World
- TEotW,Ch47 - She has the same married name as the late Cowin Gemallan "Fairheart" Gemallan (with a slight spelling difference), a well loved Malkier hero who was, in fact, a Darkfriend who betrayed Malkier to the Blight.
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