In the [Old Tongue], Brotherless. The name for [Aiel] warriors who could not accept [Rand|Rand alThor] as the %%ot [Car'a'carn|Rand]%% and left their own clans to join the [Shaido].

After [Rand|Rand alThor]'s revelation, many [Aiel] could not accept their history. Some experienced the bleakness, a sense of melancholy and loss. Many of these threw away their spears, some moving to the wetlands and some even joining the [Tinkers]. Others simply refused to believe and many of these left with the [Shaido].

! Members

* [Jhoradin]
* [Kinhuin]
* [Niagen]
* [Rolan] 

! References

# In [The Fires of Heaven]
## [TFoH,Ch2] - Many of the [Aiel] who succumb to the bleakness join with the [Shaido].
## [TFoH,Ch5] - Some [Aiel] who experience the bleakness are joining the [Tinkers].
# In [The Path of Daggers]
## [TPoD,Ch11] - Two-thirds of the %%ot [algai'd'siswai|AlgaiDSiswai]%% with [Sevanna] in [Ghealdan] are %%ot Mera'din%%.
# In [Winters Heart]
## [WH,Ch2] - The [Aiel] who capture [Faile|Zarine Bashere] and [Alliandre|Alliandre Maritha Kigarin] are Brotherless.
# In [Knife of Dreams]
## [KoD,Ch5] - Many of the %%ot Mera'din%% plan to leave the [Shaido] and return to the [Three-fold Land|Aiel Waste].
# In [A Crown of Swords]
## [ACoS,Ch40] - With the guise of his "traveling boxes" [Sammael] scatters the Shaido from [Illian|Illian (Country)] to [Ghealdan]. Many of the Brotherless go with them.
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