An Aes Sedai of the Yellow Ajah. She is from Ghealdan.
Possible Spoilers#
She is actually Black Ajah.Physical Description#
She is tall and handsome with dark hair and eyes. (TFoH,Ch18) She has a stern face. (WH,Ch10)
Chronology (Possible Spoilers)#
- Chesmal participates in the questioning and murder of Tamra. (WH,Ch10)
- Chesmal announces that Meilyn Sedai died in her sleep to a group of Aes Sedai including Siuan. This is a lie as Siuan was in Meilyn's room all night waiting for her. (NS,Ch18)
- Chesmal induces the Red Ajah into murdering Sierin Vayu before she can order Chesmal's arrest. (WH,Ch10)
- Amico Nagoyin, Asne Zeramene, Berylla Naron, Chesmal Emry, Eldrith Jhondar, Falion Bhoda, Ispan Shefar, Jeaine Caide, Joiya Byir, Marillin Gemalphin, Rianna Andomeran and Temaile Kinderode flee the White Tower with Liandrin exposing themselves as Black Ajah. They take several ter'angreal with them. (TDR,Ch13)
- Moghedien takes over Liandrin's group of the Black Ajah in Amador. She orders Liandrin, Chesmal, Temaile, Asne and Eldrith to hunt for Nynaeve. (TFoH,Ch18)
- Chesmal Heals Moghedien when she returns from Tel'aran'rhiod after being wounded by Birgitte. Moghedien tells her to procure fast horses and follow her to Ghealdan. (TFoH,Ch34)
- Asne, Chesmal, Eldrith and Temaile follow Moghedien to Samara. They wait there for Moghedien's return until Eldrith's Warder Kennit arrives. When they flee Samara they decide to go to Caemlyn on the hope that Nynaeve and Elayne will show up there. (WH,Ch10)
- Temaile reports to Asne, Chesmal and Eldrith that the Nynaeve and Elayne are, indeed, in the Royal Palace. (WH,Ch10)
- Elayne, Vandene, Careane and Sareitha capture Falion, Marillin and Lady Shiaine at the house on Full Moon Street. Asne, Chesmal, Eldrith and Temaile return unexpectedly and Asne stuns the captors with the bent black rod. After Vandene kills Careane, Chesmal kills Vandene and Sareitha. (KoD,Ch31)
- They bundle Elayne into a wagon and head east to the Sunrise Gate and the Erinin Road with Asne's four Warder. When the Windfinders and Birgitte's army cut them off, Asne uses the fluted black rod to balefire them. The Windfinders blast them with lightning. (KoD,Ch32)
- The lightning strike kills Asne and stuns the others who are all captured. The Guardswomen load them into the wagon to take them to the Royal Palace dungeon. (KoD,Ch33)
- Lady Shiaine and the Black Ajah sisters refuse to talk. (KoD,Ch35)
- Elayne disguises herself as a Forsaken and confronts Chesmal in the dungeons. Chesmal speaks of an assassination plan and an invasion. Jaq Lounalt frees the others and breaks in with Temaile and Eldrith. Doilin Mellar, Lady Shiaine, Marillin Gemalphin and Falion Bhoda are also freed. Chesmal, Eldrith, Temaile and Jaq Lounalt are killed. Mellar, Shiaine, Marillin and Falion escape. (ToM,Ch23, ToM,Ch24)
Other References (Possible Spoilers)#
- In The Dragon Reborn
- In The Shadow Rising
- TSR,Ch5 - Amico claims that Liandrin, Chesmal and Rianna were her only Black Ajah contacts in the White Tower. Amico, Chesmal and Rianna form a Black Ajah heart.
- TSR,Ch11 - Preparing to visit Tanchico in Tel'aran'rhiod, Egwene worries about running into a group of the Black Ajah such as Liandrin, Rianna, Chesmal Emry and Jeaine Caide all together.
- TSR,Ch38 - Chesmal has the ability to kill directly with the One Power.
- In The Fires of Heaven
- In Towers of Midnight
- ToM,Ch17 - Elayne defends her risky behavior in the raid on the Black Ajah saying there was no way to anticipate that Chesmal would show up.
- ToM,Ch45 - Dyelin thinks Chesmal's warning about an invasion meant Trollocs in the Borderlands.
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