A natural nonhuman sentient race. They do not have a country, but instead live in stedding. They are humanoid, standing about ten feet tall. They have long tufted ears and broad, vaguely snout-like noses. The life span of an Ogier is at least three or four times that of a human.
See also: the Ways
Interesting aside - There is an Ogier Street in Charleston, South Carolina, Robert Jordan's home!
Stedding#
Stedding cannot be entered from Tel'aran'rhiod. (ACoS,Ch10) The estimated population of each stedding is about 6,000.- Stedding Cantoine - above the River Iralell north of Haddon Mirk
- Stedding Chandar - now in the Blight, abandoned
- Stedding Chiantal (in Kandor)
- Stedding Chanti (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Chinden (in the Mountains of Mist)
- Stedding Chosium (in Saldaea)
- Stedding Daiting (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Feindu (in the Black Hills)
- Stedding Handu (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Jenshin (in Haddon Mirk)
- Stedding Jentoine (in the Black Hills)
- Stedding Jinsiun (in the Mountains of Mist)
- Stedding Jongai (in Saldaea)
- Stedding Kolomon (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Lantoine (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Leitiang (north of the River Ivo)
- Stedding Madan (in the Mountains of Mist)
- Stedding Mardoon (along the Shadow Coast)
- Stedding Mashong (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Mintai (north of the River Dhagon)
- Stedding Nurshang (between Kinslayer's Dagger and Shienar)
- Stedding Qichen (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Saishen (in Saldaea)
- Stedding Sanshen (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Shadoon (along the Shadow Coast)
- Stedding Shajin (in the Black Hills)
- Stedding Shamendar (north of the River Ivo)
- Stedding Shangloon (in the Mountains of Mist)
- Stedding Shangtai (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Shanjing (in Arafel)
- Stedding Sherandu - now in the Blight, abandoned
- Stedding Sholoon (in Shienar)
- Stedding Sintiang (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Taijing (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Taishin (north of the River Ivo)
- Stedding Tanhal (in Arafel)
- Stedding Tsochan (north of the River Ivo)
- Stedding Tsofan (in the Mountains of Mist)
- Stedding Tsofu (in Cairhien)
- Stedding Wenchen (north of the River Dhagon)
- Stedding Yandar (in the Mountains of Mist)
- Stedding Yongen (in the Spine of the World)
- Stedding Yontiang (in Kinslayer's Dagger)
References(Possible Spoilers)#
- Glimmers Q&A - Ogier cannot become linked to wolves as Wolfbrothers.
- Tor Website Q&A - There are many more stedding in Seanchan than there are in the Westlands. Thus the Gardeners do not suffer from the Longing.
- NS,Ch4
- Much of Tar Valon is Ogier built.
- TEotW,Ch4 - Thom offers to tell stories of Ogier. The Emond's Field folk do not believe they are real.
- TEotW,Ch9 - Moiraine refers to Ogier as stonemasons.
- TEotW,Ch29 - Perrin, Egwene and Elyas camp in an abandoned stedding.
- TEotW,Ch35 - Ogier built the Caemlyn Royal Palace and much of the Inner City
.
- TEotW,Ch36 - Ogier rarely leave their stedding any more since the Ways began to go bad.
- TEotW,Ch42 - Tinkers are very interested in Ogier Treesongs. Loial tried to teach them to Tinkers but the trees would not listen to men.
- TEotW,Ch45 - The Ogier language is highly inflected sounding almost like very low bird song.
- TEotW,Ch48 - Male Ogier have a strip of hair up the middle of their chest as thick as fur.
- TGH,Ch25 - There were other Ogier in Cairhien when Loial was there before.
- TGH,Ch26 - Loial is reluctant to venture out in Cairhien because there are other Ogier in the city.
- TGH,Ch33 - Loial finds out that the Ogier he was worried about all left Cairhien because Galldrian stopped paying them.
- TGH,Ch35 - In the Age of Legends
Ogier could travel freely, but after the Breaking the stedding were lost. Ogier who could not find a stedding developed the Longing. They eventually grew ill and died. Ogier are still bound to the stedding.
- TGH,Ch38 - The Ogier grove in Tar Valon is one of the few that still exists.
- TDR,Prologue
- The Ogier have called meetings between the stedding.
- TDR,Ch6 - Min never has viewings
of Ogier, only of humans.
- TDR,Ch11 - The Ogier stonemasons consider Tar Valon their finest work.
- TDR,Ch42 - The Ogier masons left Illian during the winter even though their work was not done.
- TDR,Ch50 - Moiraine asks Loial about Be'lal
because the Ogier have long memories and are scholars.
- TSR,Ch14 - An Ogier's oath is absolutely unbreakable.
- TSR,Ch16 - Faile tricks Loial into swearing an oath to take her through the Ways, forcing him to lead her, rather than Perrin, to the Manetheren Waygate.
- TSR,Ch18 - The Ogier grove near Tear is now just pastureland.
- TSR,Ch23 - Ogier stedding cannot be entered in Tel'aran'rhiod.
- TSR,Ch25 - Comran was the first Aiel to discover Ogier stedding in the Dragonwall
and begin trading with them.
- TSR,Ch25 - Garam tells Rhodric and Jeordam that he has heard the Aes Sedai hired Ogier stonemasons to build them a great city. His father plans to build a great city as well.
- TSR,Ch26 - Jonai and Adan meet a band of Ogier. They are suffering from the Longing because they cannot find a stedding.
- TSR,Ch26 - In the Age of Legends
, Ogier and Aiel sang while Nym
danced to promote growth and health in the fields.
- TFoH,Ch7 - Rand arranges to have Ogier masons from a nearby stedding assist in rebuilding Rhuidean.
- TFoH,Ch52 - There are Ogier from Stedding Tsofu
in Cairhien offering stonemason work.
- LoC,Ch9 - Balwer
reports to Pedron Niall that there are meetings going on between the Ogier stedding.
- LoC,Ch20 - The Ogier know of several stedding such as the one by Artur Hawkwing's monument that have never been repopulated. They are too near the lands of men.
- LoC,Ch45 - Loial grows tired on the journey from the Two Rivers to Caemlyn so he takes a side trip to an abandoned stedding that Perrin recommends to rest up.
- LoC,Ch49 - In Ogier culture it is considered very rude for a man not to do what his wife says.
- LoC,Ch54 - Mentioning someone's ears is considered coarse among the Ogier.
- WH,Ch14 - In Seanchan, Ogier serve as soldiers and are called Gardeners.
- WH,Ch18 - The Ogier Gardeners in Ebou Dar are so fearsome that no one even thinks of questioning them.
- WH,Ch23 - The guardian
in Far Madding completely cuts off channelers
from the True Source
much like an Ogier stedding.
- CoT,Ch24 - Loial is pleased that Lord Algarin has six Ogier rooms in his manor house.
- CoT,Ch24 - Loial reports to Rand that he and Karldin visited all the stedding except Stedding Shangtai
. All except the ones in the Borderlands and the Shadow Coast
agreed to post guards at the Waygates.
- KoD,Ch19 - Ogier cannot see the human ghosts that have appeared. There are no Ogier ghosts walking.
- KoD,Ch19 - The Ogier are holding a Great Stump at Stedding Shangtai
discussing whether or not to open the Book of Translation
.
- TGS,Ch10 - Rodel Ituralde shelters his army in an abandoned stedding to neutralize the Seanchan damane
.
- TGS,Ch19 - Six Ogier Gardeners as well as two dozen Deathwatch Guard
stand ready when Tuon holds audience in the Tarasin Palace
after her return.
- ToM,Prologue
- Ogier dead begin to appear around the stedding
.
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