Encyclopaedia WoT: Couladin

Pronunciation: COO-lah-dihn

An Aiel of the Domai sept of the Shaido clan. First-brother of Muradin. He is Black Eyes.

Physical Description#

He is tall and broad-shouldered with flame colored hair. He is short of his middle years. (TSR,Ch23)

Chronology (Possible Spoilers)#

Couladin, Muradin and the Shaido come to Chaendaer after the death of Suladric. The Wise Ones give permission for Muradin to enter Rhuidean. (TSR,Ch23)
Couladin tries to attack Rand. The Wise Ones stop him and send him back to the Shaido tents. (TSR,Ch23)
When Rand and Mat return from Rhuidean, Couladin accuses them of killing Muradin and attacks again. When he sees Rand's dragon marks, he leaves in a rage. (TSR,Ch34)
Couladin breaks camp and has the Shaido leave Chaendaer with the Jindo even though ten days have not passed for his brother in Rhuidean. (TSR,Ch36)
At the camp near Imre Stand, Couladin and Kadere have a long talk. (TSR,Ch37)
Asmodean gives Couladin a pair of dragon marks like Rand's. (TSR,Ch57)
Lian spurns Couladin, addressing him as a friendless beggar, when he asks admittance to Cold Rocks Hold. He leaves in a rage. (TSR,Ch49)
Couladin and the Shaido break camp at nightfall and head north from Cold Rocks Hold. (TSR,Ch50)
Couladin shows his dragon marks to the gathered clan chiefs at Alcair Dal, but a very bad lie about what he supposedly saw in Rhuidean causes them to side with Rand. (TSR,Ch57)
Sevanna and Couladin lead the Shaido away from Alcair Dal before Rand returns. (TSR,Ch58)
Couladin mobilizes the Shaido and they head for Jangai Pass. (TFoH,Ch6)
Couladin and the Shaido enter Jangai Pass and decimate the town of Taien. They take wetlanders as gai'shain which disturbs the other clan chiefs more than the slaughter. (TFoH,Ch20)
Couladin and the Shaido enter Cairhien and wipe out the town of Selean. (TFoH,Ch23)
Couladin and the Shaido pass by the town of Eianrod, but it is already abandoned. (TFoH,Ch31)
Couladin and the Shaido reach Cairhien and lay siege. (TFoH,Ch30)
Couladin and some of his Shaido occupy a hill a mile from Cairhien. (TFoH,Ch41)
Couladin has 160,000 spears around Cairhien. (TFoH,Ch42)
Mat's army encounters a band of Shaido led by Couladin himself. (TFoH,Ch44)
After Mat is knocked from his horse, Couladin attacks him and Mat kills Couladin. (TFoH,Ch45)

Other References (Possible Spoilers)#

In The Shadow Rising
1. TSR,Ch23 - Couladin and Muradin are first-brothers.
2. TSR,Ch57 - Couladin is a member of the Black Eyes Society.

The Shadow Rising,Glossary - Couladin is a member of the Domai sept.

In The Fires of Heaven
1. TFoH,Ch2 - The clan chiefs agree that Couladin and the Shaido will never submit to Rand.
2. TFoH,Ch14 - Egwene tells Nynaeve that Rand is following Couladin and the Shaido across Jangai Pass.
3. TFoH,Ch23 - Couladin was a member of the Black Eyes society. The Black Eyes of the other clans have vowed to kill him.
4. TFoH,Ch24 - Egwene tells Elayne that they are now in Cairhien. Couladin and the Shaido decimated the town of Selean.
5. TFoH,Ch43 - Rand starts wearing his sword again. He admits to Lan that it is to kill Couladin.
6. TFoH,Ch45 - Melindhra is proud that Mat brought great honor to himself by killing Couladin.
7. TFoH,Ch45 - Rand is astounded when he learns that Mat killed Couladin.
8. TFoH,Ch49 - Elayne and Nynaeve can hardly believe that Mat killed Couladin.
In A Crown of Swords
1. ACoS,Prologue - After the deaths of Suladric and Muradin, Sevanna wanted Couladin strictly for power.
In Winters Heart
1. WH,Ch4 - After seeing Sevanna, Faile recognizes that she was really the power behind Couladin. All the destruction in Cairhien as well as Dumai's Wells was really her doing.
In Knife of Dreams
1. KoD,Ch5 - Therava believes that Couladin was the true Car'a'carn and that Rand was a puppet of the Aes Sedai.
In Towers of Midnight
1. ToM,Ch19 - Charlz Guybon is quite impressed that Mat killed Couladin.

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