Gray Men are men (and rarely women) who have given their souls to the [Dark One|ShaiTan]. As such, they are almost unnoticeable. They are used as assassins because they can sneak up on their victims without being detected.

! References (Possible Spoilers)

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# In [The Great Hunt]
## [TGH,Ch9] - A Gray Man, admitted to [Fal Dara] by [Ingtar Shinowa], attempts to assassinate [Rand]. He misses, wounding [Siuan Sanche] and killing another man.
## [TGH,Ch46] - [Ingtar Shinowa] acknowledges admitting the Gray Man that tried to kill [Rand].
# In [The Dragon Reborn]
## [TDR,Ch3] - Boys resembling [Rand] on [Almoth Plain] have been mysteriously murdered, probably by Gray Men.
## [TDR,Ch8] - As they enter the village of [Jarra (Sept)], [Perrin] smells a bad odor he later identifies as the scent of a Gray Man.
## [TDR,Ch15] - A Gray Man attempts to assassinate [Egwene] and/or [Nynaeve] near [Egwene]'s room in the [White Tower]. He is, in turn, murdered by [Slayer] before they can capture him.
## [TDR,Ch16] - [Nynaeve] tells [Elayne] about the Gray Man's attempt to kill her and [Egwene].
## [TDR,Ch17] - [Sheriam Bayanar] is angry that they told [Elayne]. She tells the girls to forget about the Gray Man.
## [TDR,Ch29] - [Siuan] tells [Nynaeve] that [Sheriam Bayanar] found another Gray Man, a woman this time, lying in her bed dead without a mark on her.
## [TDR,Ch30] - [Mat] is attacked by a Gray Man in [Tar Valon].
## [TDR,Ch33] - As they enter the village of [Remen], [Perrin] smells a bad odor he later identifies as the scent of a Gray Man.
## [TDR,Ch36] - [Lanfear] mentions that only [Myrddraal|Fade] and Grey Men are denied dreams.
## [TDR,Ch37] - [Egwene] dreams about a man who is not there chasing [Mat] and realizes it must mean a Gray Man is after [Mat].
## [TDR,Ch42] - At the [Easing the Badger] Inn, [Perrin] smells the same bad odor. Alerted, he sees six Gray Men approaching to kill him. [Perrin], [Moiraine], [Lan] and [Faile] kill them.
## [TDR,Ch43] - [Perrin] tells [Lan] he smelled the Gray Men. Their evil was not strong enough for [Moiraine] or [Lan] to sense.
## [TDR,Ch44] - [Moiraine] tells [Perrin] that someone other than [Sammael] sent the Grey Men after him.
# In [The Shadow Rising]
## [TSR,Ch9] - A Gray Man attacks [Rand] as he talks with [Lanfear].
## [TSR,Ch10] - Three more Gray Men who were part of the attack on [Rand] were killed by the [Aiel] guards.
## [TSR,Ch12] - [Moiraine] does not believe a Gray Man could have carried out the attack on [Amico|Amico Nagoyin] and [Joiya|Joiya Byir].
## [TSR,Ch13] - A Gray Man attacked [Mat] as well.
## [TSR,Ch31] - Two Gray Men attack [Ordeith|Padan Fain] but he sees them and kills them in front of fifty [Whitecloaks].
## [TSR,Ch50] - After the [Trolloc|Trollocs] and [Draghkar] attack, [Rhuarc] orders a guard for [Rand] because the Soulless may come next.
# In [Lord of Chaos]
## [LoC,Ch3] - [Rand] warns [Mazrim Taim] about [Shadowspawn] including Gray Men.
## [LoC,Ch20] - [Aviendha] tells [Rand] that [Melaine] and [Amys] dreamed of a man standing by his side with a dagger to his throat, but [Rand] did not see him. [Rand] thinks that this means a Gray Man.
## [LoC,Ch28] - A Gray Man attacks [Rand] in the [Royal Palace] but [Mazrim Taim] destroys it. Later, [Padan Fain] is furious when he hears about the attack. He wants [Rand] for himself.
## [LoC,Ch42] - [Rand] tells [Rand] that he has not been in [Caemlyn] since the day he saved [Rand] from the Gray Man.
# In [The Path of Daggers]
## [TPoD,Ch12] - [Graendal] forges a letter to [Rodel Ituralde] from King [Alsalam|Alsalam Saeed Almadar]. To increase its importance, she instructs the courier to bloody the letter and report that a Gray Man tried to intercept it.
# In [Winter's Heart|Winters Heart]
## [WH,Ch22] - [Isam Mandragoran] recalls killing a Gray Man in the [White Tower].
# In [Crossroads of Twilight]
## [CoT,Prologue] - [Rodel Ituralde] believes that a Gray Man tried to stop his last orders from King [Alsalam|Alsalam Saeed Almadar].
# In [The Gathering Storm]
## [TGS,Ch39] - After learning that she is [Black Ajah], [Egwene] wonders if [Sheriam Bayanar] was responsible for the Gray Man who attacked her in the [White Tower] so long ago.
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