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Lendai Saitsu
Profile: From a distance, Lendai looks quite unremarkable. She has the appearance of the typical Andoran with pale skin, and darker hair. Close up, it is quite apparent that there are some different qualities that set her apart from most Andorans. Despite growing up on a farm, she has a look of deep thought. She shows a strong wisdom with anything academic, and loves to read. Her eyes are blue, and give off a watery appearance. She is always judging, and appraising anybody she looks at, as if gauging their level of threat, unless she knows the person very well. She’s hard to get close to, but when that goal is achieved, she is a very friendly, loyal, and selfless friend. She feels a deep contempt for her enemies, though she won’t openly display this with anything more than a look of disapproving appraisal. Lendai has an aptitude for civil disobedience, and a problem with listening to any authority figure. She has a fiery temper that could be set off with very little provocation, she is constantly apologizing to her friends for her outbursts. Due to her explosive nature, she has only a few close friends. Biography: The tower loomed on the horizon. The sun rose to her left, the rose tint reflecting itself off of the morning clouds. A cold breeze rushed across the road, blowing leaves everywhere. Lendai was tired. How long had she been sitting on this bloody horse? She was relieved to finally have reached the end of the journey. Her companions were starting to get a bit unbearable. They were all so naďve, she didn’t see them lasting more than a few months in the tower. After what she’d been told about the tower, she’d be surprised if she wasn’t put on trial before anything substantial happened. She synchronized her horses movements, and timed the bumps, just right. The pencil stroked across the paper to create the landscape that she saw before her. It was a nice sight, and she would be hard pressed to find such a nice picture while she was confined to the tower. She hadn’t spoken to anybody in a few days now, besides the Aes Sedai guide. All the others were a bunch of babbling idiots, over their heads at the promise of becoming members of the grey tower. Personally, she was just surprised that the Aes Sedai even considered her for the training. How long had she been channeling for? Honestly, Lendai couldn’t remember a single instance of her channeling at all in her life. She remembered the day the Aes Sedai had come to her home town very well. Tessa Sedai she called herself. It had been on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, and Lendai had been in Baerlon enjoying a nice get together at The Stag and Lion, a few drinks and some laughs over Jessip getting drunk again. He was unconscious in one of the rooms upstairs. One of the things about him was that no matter how hard he tried, he could never hold his liquor. Lendai and her friends were enjoying a nice conversation, when a woman took a seat next to Lendai. Unsure of what to make of the new arrival, Lendai asked her what she wanted, she introduced herself as Tessa Sedai. “I noticed something special about you child. Did you ever feel like you needed to harness your abilities?” she asked. Lendai laughed out loud. “Abilities? I think you’ve got the wrong girl here. I’m no good for anything but messing things up. I don’t think you want any of my abilities.” From that moment on, things began to get a little strange, the woman asked her questions about any time something unusual happened that she couldn’t explain. Lendai couldn’t think of anything, and said so. Tessa Sedai got it in her head, however, that something special surrounded her, and she asked to be able to keep watch on her for some time. Lendai didn’t object, but who could object to an Aes Sedai? Tessa followed her home, and observed her for some time. Tessa liked to make conversation with Lendai, and Lendai soon took very well to the strange woman. One day, Tessa gave Lendai a strange revelation. “You are what we, in the tower, call a ‘wilder’. You’ve been channeling for some time now, and you were lucky enough to survive. You have considerable potential with the one power, and I would like you to come with me to the grey tower so that you may learn to safely channel your abilities.” Lendai wasn’t sure what to make of the situation. Disbelief wiped over her, and she could do little more than mutter unintelligibly for some time. Finally, after some effort, she managed to get some words out of her mouth. “What… how have I been doing… channeling… thing?” “When you work the fields, you have a talent for earth weaves that make your crops grow more efficiently.” “But… how?” she stammered. “It’s quite simple. You channel weaves into the ground as you work the plow, and when you water the crops, and every day when you check on them. It’s a strange weave, I’ve never seen it done so, but you definitely have a talent for earth weaves.” Lendai had realized that since she was a little girl, she’d had a talent for growing plants. First she had been adept with the potted plants that she liked to have next to her house, and later, her father told her that the crop production had doubled since she started working the fields. She would allow herself to focus on the rhythm of the plow, and synchronized her breathing, and she did her job. She had to do her job, ever since her mother died of an illness that nobody really understood. Lendai hadn’t forgotten that either… her mother had died screaming in an agony that still made Lendai’s blood curdle. Although her father had seen to it that Lendai left the home to stay with other family members while her mother died… Lendai would never forget the pain that she saw her mother suffer. She didn’t like to speak of it. After thinking for some time, Lendai asked, “Does that mean that I can channel?” The woman thought for a moment, as though doubtful, but in the end she told Lendai, “You may try, for a moment. I’d like to see if you have the control to embrace the source.” She did what she did on the field, controlled her breathing, and felt herself lift from the world. Detached her consciousness from her corporeal self, and felt herself floating. Somehow, she knew that she wasn’t channeling. Tessa smiled at Lendai, and nodded as though she had expected nothing more. “You have what we call a block,” she said. “Most wilders have a sort of block that prevents them from channeling at will. With training, you just might overcome the block. Now child, get yourself ready. We will leave at dawn tomorrow.” That was how Lendai had found herself surrounded by this bunch of hopefuls that seemed to have a bunch of heads full of cotton. Her friends were upset that she would be leaving, but also thought that it was great fun that Lendai was to become Aes Sedai. She hoped that it would be interesting, but the journey had been uneventful, and the most interesting things were her talks with Tessa Sedai. Lendai thought about all the upcoming events in the world, and after all the things that Tessa had told her, Lendai asked her a question that she wanted clarification of. “Which ajah was it that was preparing for Tarmon Gaidon?” “I already told you child. I’m in the Green Ajah, which is also called ‘The Battle Ajah’. It is our job to prepare for the final battle, and I’ll be proud to do my service when that time comes.” Lendai nodded. The green ajah, it had a nice ring to it.
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