RJ’s notes Part 56 by Linda Taglieri
Alviarin took part in the pogrom against lucky men and senior Aes Sedai. She mistakenly believed that Mesaana only passed orders to Black sisters through her and that Mesaana did not know the identities of the twelve other sisters on the Supreme Council. Mesaana actually made contact with each member of the council and had learned the names of every Black sister
Chesmal Emry was almost sent away from the White Tower twice as a novice and once as Accepted because of serious discipline infractions involving attacking others.
Falion Bhoda: Despite her outward coolness, inside she is a furnace of angers and slights. She has little or no patience with anyone’s faults or quirks but her own, and is in fact contemptuous of others while never seeing her own faults or peculiarities. Doesn’t really think anyone else is good company except for other Whites, and even then, they do have their faults, particularly in certain questions of logic.
The vote for Galina to be chosen as the Head of Red Ajah was manipulated.
Galina was not involved in questioning Tamra Ospenya—that was a Supreme Council job, and she was not then a member—but she might have been involved in kidnapping her, or putting her body into her bed. Galina was also involved in putting to the question some of the sisters Tamra had gathered, as well as in killing those and others. Galina was involved in killing Sierin Vayu, which was purely a Red Ajah affair. Galina was involved in putting Siuan Sanche and Leane Sharif to the question, and maybe in stilling them as well.
The Black Ajah believes that the Three Oaths must be removed using the Oath Rod. They are not aware that stilling and burning out also break you free of them.
Regularly a sister will be ordered to watch another sister for a day or two, passing on a detailed report of everything she does, everyone she sees or speaks to. This is never anyone that you know is a member of the Black Ajah. In fact, you quickly realize that if all of those watched were Black, then the entire White Tower would be. Some might be, though, and you never know when you yourself are being watched and reported on.
Only the head of the Black Ajah knows the names of all the Black sisters; the other members of the ruling council know various names, with enough overlap that even the deaths of several of them would not result in a loss of all names. No heart contains two members of the ruling council. All sisters know how to reestablish contact, to report or receive orders, if the normal methods are disrupted in any way…
When a new head is chosen, she learns the full list from the others on the Supreme Council. Normally, the members of the Supreme Council all would know the name of the head of the Ajah, but Alviarin was put in charge by Ishamael, and only three members of the Council know her name.
As might be expected, occasionally men are born among the Amayar who can channel. The method of dealing with them is curiously gentle, in a way, while at the same time being efficient and brutal. The man is shielded, then put into a deep sleep where his dreams and bodily responses are manipulated. He has pleasant dreams—indeed, pleasant dreams of an entire life—and he feels no pain or discomfort, but he sleeps until he dies. NOTE: This manipulation of dreams is something beyond any Aes Sedai and probably beyond Aiel Wise Ones who are Dreamwalkers.
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