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The Aiel

The Aiel are a warrior people who inhabit the Aiel Waste, the harsh desert east of the Spine of the World. Organised into twelve clans, each subdivided into septs and warrior societies, they are the most feared fighters in the known world - tall, grey-eyed, and capable of crossing terrain that would kill soldiers from the Westlands. Their culture is built around ji'e'toh, a complex system of honour and obligation that governs every aspect of life. Women who can channel become Wise Ones, honoured advisors outside the normal clan structure. The Aiel's true history - revealed to Rand in Rhuidean - is one of the series' central revelations and fundamentally changes how they understand themselves. Several Aiel warrior societies, including the Maidens of the Spear, play major roles throughout the story.

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Aviendha A Maiden of the Spear - one of the Aiel warrior societies composed entirely of women - who becomes a Wise One in training when her ability to channel is discovered. Aviendha is assigned by the Wise Ones to watch over Rand and teach him Aiel ways, a task she resents and he finds baffling, in a dynamic that gradually becomes one of the series' most interesting relationships. She is fiercely proud, quick to anger, and bound by ji'e'toh in ways that repeatedly create conflict - she feels she has shamed herself by her feelings for Rand, which under Aiel custom creates obligations she takes absolutely seriously. She eventually becomes first-sisters with Elayne through an Aiel bonding ritual.

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Aviendha

A Maiden of the Spear - one of the Aiel warrior societies composed entirely of women - who becomes a Wise One in training when her ability to channel is discovered. Aviendha is assigned by the Wise Ones to watch over Rand and teach him Aiel ways, a task she resents and he finds baffling, in a dynamic that gradually becomes one of the series' most interesting relationships. She is fiercely proud, quick to anger, and bound by ji'e'toh in ways that repeatedly create conflict - she feels she has shamed herself by her feelings for Rand, which under Aiel custom creates obligations she takes absolutely seriously. She eventually becomes first-sisters with Elayne through an Aiel bonding ritual.

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The Aiel

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