Name: Vree

Rank: Ayende Vera, Indigo SianSepta

Septa: Indigo

Date of entrance into the Tower: The Founding

Warder: Justus Gaidin

Place of Birth: New Manetheren

Brief Description (physical appearance & personality):
Stands 5'1", lithe and slender. Short cut black hair, usually attains a dishevel appearance. Green-gold eyes. Eyes are the gauge of her current sanity or humanity. Introvert, loner. Sinuous movements as those of a wolf stalking prey. Holds herself with an air of mystery. Doesn't generally let people close enough to touch her. Sometimes known as the "Ice Maiden" Almost never seen without her katana.

Special Abilities & Channeling Strengths:
In channeling, her powers are strongest in Fire, Spirit, and Air. She channels Water with less strength and Earth with little finesse. Being a Wolfkin, she is naturally a Dreamwalker. Her childhood with the wolves gave her early control over Tel'aran'rhiod. Vree is an Empath, this added to her Wolfkin blood has made her a limited telepath. Due to this unique combination of talents, she has been prodded to develop shields so strong as to block just about anything and everything mentally and block or deflect anything short of balefire physically.

History:
Vireyda is the daughter of crime lord Tae Drakhan, one of the major crime lords of the south. His headquarters once was located in New Manetheranelle underground. She never knew her mother, but she had once heard she had been a powerful Aes Sedai before she left the Tower. She died in child birth. Vireyda was raised by her father's people. She was especially fond of a man named Rache, who came to replace Tae as a father figure. Tae drew further and further away from his daughter as she grew older until a time came where he could no longer bear the sight of her because she bore her mother's eyes. As a result of her father's people, she was raised as a child-assassin, rather than having the normal, healthy childhood of her peers.

Once, when she was five (they start training early) she was left in the woods that still surround New Manetheranelle to survive on her own for three days. That was her first contact with wolves. They called her Greeneyes and taught her how to live in the wilds. When she returned to the city, she retained mental contact with the wolves.

Her skills grew; martial arts, sword work, dagger, firearms.... When she started to hunt with her father's people and her eyes went gold, she began to lose her sanity. The wolves now called her the Huntress.

When her father discovered her golden eyes... and the wolves... he ordered her death. She left, storming from her father's rooms, fleeing to the woods. Her eyes were not her mother's. She was ten.

She lived with the wolves, growing more savage by the day. Then there came Shadow. He was a strange wolf cub. The most strange ever born to the pack. Most wolf cubs are born with blue eyes, most were young. Shadow was not young. Blazing green eyes declared a difference not to be found in the pack. His eyes were old. Vireyda and Shadow struck a bond almost immediately. Shadow ground her in a way that seemed impossible and sanity began to return. As her control grew, her eyes changed again. Possibly a strange side effect of the bond. *Today, the gold in her eyes is a good measure of her instability. The pack judged the that Huntress's attachment to the cub might be unsafe. Twin bonds are strong within a pack, and this bond had all the indications of being stronger than that.

Vireyda returned to civilization after two years among the wolves. She refused her father's name and used the shortened form of her own name from that time on to throw her trail from her father's men. Vree... it sounded so much like "free." It fit.

She lived for a time on the edges of civilization. She found herself near a small town called Four Kings, still not far enough from New Manetheren for her comfort. That was where she met a strange boy named Justus. His skill with a sword was rather impressive for a youth and she grew to like the boy. It was to her advantage to use the youth as her personal battering dummy for awhile. She spent four years living as a ghost on the edges of Four Kings, hunting her food and stealing the little she needed to survive in the wild.

When she was sixteen, she spotted a woman dressed in an elegant blue dress guarded by several men as she travelled through the woods. There was a strange air about the woman that drew her to follow her. At a point where they had travelled deep into the woods the woman turned to her and coaxed her from her hiding place. The woman told her she was an Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah and that it was her duty to take her to the White Tower. Vree was shocked. She did not wish to leave the freedom of the forests. After much assurances that her freedom would be protected by the White Tower instead of the opposite, she went with the woman. Vree entered the White Tower at age sixteen.

She sped through education in the White Tower, using assassin mind tricks and wolfish determination to her own gain. She was raised to the Blue Ajah a year before the Purple Ajah broke from the Tower, declaring their independence in their own right. Vree was one of the first to flock to their banner. Always one to champion causes, freedom of mind as well as body was the greatest cause one could champion.

Vree did what little she could to help organize the Purple Tower at its Founding, becoming the SianSepta of the Indigo Septa in the Tower's early days. It was not until the Purple Tower was forced to flee from their first home, the Purple Annex located at Moiraine Damodred High School, that Vree and Shadow were reunited.

After their flight from the White Tower and settlement into their new home, the Imperial hotel under the guise of an art school, Vree was forced into a confrontation with her father. Tae had long held his daughter in contempt and retaliated to her return by kidnapping various Studè and Nila from the Tower, seeking to hurt his daughter by removing her friends. During a confrontation in the place between Gates, Lia sent Tae hurtling into nothingness.

Summary:
Ayende Vree is the SianSepta of the Indigo Ajah. She disappears days at a time, sometimes weeks... working on her... projects. She has a fierce sense of loyalty and a fiery temper. She is extremely strong in the Power but rarely chooses to use it. Consequently, she's a bit rusty. Her strength is in Fire, Spirit, and Air. She can wield Water, but not with any finesse, and can touch Earth only in the most direst of emergencies and she can never figure out what she does with Earth when that happens ::shrugs::

Vree carries a silver angreal arm band and a dragon skull ring, remnants of her mother's family. She also carries a strange sword, its origins unknown, but again, she believes it is from her mother's family. The arm bad enhances Power of any kind, and has a very limited shielding effect. Not very reliable. The ring's properties are unknown, and the sword... feels special. It's powers are also unknown. Heck, maybe it doesn't even have powers!

If Vree ever offers to train you in any kind of weapons work, you might think twice before accepting. Her motto is: "Pain is good for you. If you can feel it, you're not dead... yet."

Email address: [email protected]

Home Page: Vorondi's Palace

Gender: Female

Birthdate: December 12th

Hobbies & Interests:
Reads Sci-Fi/Fantasy (Lackey, Huff, Jordan, MZB, Reichert, Brooks, Rawn, McCaffrey, Wrede, Pini) Movies (Sci-Fi/Adventure/etc..) Avidly watches and collects japANIME! Loves camping, hiking, rafting. Admitted X-files addict and Internet Junkie.

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