Name: Tae Drakhan

............Major Southern Crime Lord

Connection to the Tower: Father of Vree

Place of Birth: Unknown

Brief Description:
A tall man of 6'2", Tae has long black hair that touches his shoulders. His eyes are a deep blue that soaks in the colors around him. By nature, Tae is quick tempered and hot headed, but over time ruling his empire of criminal scum has taught him patience. The only time this patience seems to fail him is in matters dealing with his daughter.

Special Abilities and/or Channelling Strengths:
Tae is a channeler. His strengths are Water, Earth, and Fire. He channels Wind weakly and Spirit almost not at all. Being the overlord of criminals, Tae uses his powers sparingly and instead uses his training in various weapons and his wits to keep his underlings in line.

History:
In his youth, Tae trained as the Black Tower to be an Asha'man. When the Black Tower merged with the White Tower, Tae remained with the White Tower for a time. There he met a woman who was to be his future wife--Vireyda al'Barria, who was a Novice at the White Tower. It wasn't long after he left the White Tower.

He journeyed to New Manetheren, determined to make a life for himself so that he might return one day to Tar Valon and claim the heart of Vireyda. He fell on hard times. A group of thieves got him drunk one night, robbed him of all his money, and nearly beat him to death. When Tae came to and realized what had happened to him, he was determined to get his revenge. That was the start of his very long climb to the top of the underworld.

He trained himself in every form of combat conceivable and eventually became one of the most powerful crime lords in the south at the age of 23.

By this time, Vireyda had been Raised to an Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah. She had been traveling the country side canvasing for potential Novices when he found her. She remembered Tae from his youth, and became enchanted by his strange occupation. She left the Tower and a year later died in child bed. Her last breath was murmured to name her child: Vireyda Drakhan.

Tae was distraught by her death and placed the raising of his child in the hands of his men, primarily a man named Rache. He mourned deeply for his dead wife, his only consolation of his death were her daughter's eyes. A deep forest green so like her mother's...

When the girl turned 10, Tae learned that she'd become Wolfkin. In a fit of madness he sought to kill her, but the girl fled. He sent his men after her, but they never caught Vireyda. He didn't see her again for 8 years. At that point she showed up almost right under his nose in the building built directly above his underground offices.

Seeking to hurt her, he began kidnapping members of the "Purple Tower," he had learned she was a part of. The girls were eventually rescued but not before he and his daughter had a verbal show down. As Purple Tower members poured in, reinforcing his daughter Tae fled through a skimming weave. Vireyda followed, and when Lia Blayde followed his daughter, Tae was cast into nothingness.

Through experimentation in the nothingness, Tae learned to control aspects of it and managed to pull his daughter into his dimension. The girl proved stronger than he had anticipated though, and managed to escape on her own power.

Now that his daughter was aware of him, Tae lost the power to pull her into the nothingness with him. Instead, all he could do was wait for an escape to show itself. That escape came when a madman named Bryan lashed out in his anger with the death of Jhereg.

Bryan and Tae struck an agreement, and now, together they work against the Purple Tower.

Real name: Vree

Email address: [email protected]

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