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.