Al'Lan Mandragoran
Allegiance:
The Light, Moiraine.
Title(s):
Lord of the Seven Towers, Lord of the Lakes, uncrowned King of Malkier, Dai'Shan,
Diademed Battle Lord of Malkier, Aan'allein.
Favorite
Saying: Face it on your feet.
Long hair, graying at the temples held back from his face by a
narrow braided leather band - the hadori. Cold blue eyes in a face made of stony
plains and angles, weathered but unlined.
Born the heir to the throne of Malkier. When he was an infant
and Malkier was falling, his parents placed the sword of the Malkieri kings in
his hands, named him Dai'Shan, a Diademed Battle Lord of Malkier, and swore the
ancient oath of Malkieri kings and queens in his name.
His mother placed a locket around his neck for rememberence
and twenty of Malkier's best swordsmen then carried the baby to Fal Moran. Only
five reach the city, all wounded. The surviving men then began teaching the
child all they knew, learning weapons and the blight for a childhood.
When he was fifteen, Edeyn made herself his Carneia - first
love. At age sixteen he was given the hadori and became a man. He began his one
man war against the shadow that he could not win, with the oath graven on his
mind. He has nothing left to defend, only to avenge. He will not raise the
golden crane to lead other men to their deaths, but will court death himself
without a second thought.
Moiraine, searching for a newly born Dragon, met Lan in Kandor
soon after the Aiel War. He managed to throw her into a pond, and she threw a
pond onto him. After a battle with the Black Ajah and losing the last of the men
that carried him to Shienar, Bukara, he joined her quest and became her Warder.
He is the best warder there is. He has followed Moiraine everywhere, at any
cost. He once rode a horse to death and almost himself, carrying Moiraine to
Anaiya for Healing.
After a life of nothing but war and death, he has fallen in
love with Nynaeve. But does not believe in giving a bride the certainty of
widow's black.
He has helped Rand, where he could, to face the future and
whatever comes standing, not cringing. When the bond with Moiraine was broken,
he was compelled to seek out Myrelle, so he travelled to Salidar to see his new
Aes Sedai.
Egwene soon put him in charge of Nynaeve's safety in Ebou Dar.
When he arrived, they got married. But nothing can take away the certainty of
his death.
His father was al'Akir and his mother was el'Leanna. His uncle
was Lain and his aunt was Breyan. The only other living Malkieri aside from Lan,
although no-one knows of him, is Isam, Lan's cousin.
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