Encyclopaedia WoT: Steddings

Ogier do not have a country, but instead live in steddings. A stedding cuts off channelers from the True Source.

Pronunciation: STEHD-ding

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)

In the Guide
1. 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.
In The Eye of the World
1. TEotW,Ch29 - Perrin, Egwene and Elyas camp in an abandoned stedding.
2. TEotW,Ch36 - Ogier rarely leave their stedding any more since the Ways began to go bad.
In The Great Hunt
1. 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.
In The Dragon Reborn
1. TDR,Prologue - The Ogier have called meetings between the stedding.
In The Shadow Rising
1. TSR,Ch23 - Ogier stedding cannot be entered in Tel'aran'rhiod.
2. TSR,Ch25 - Comran was the first Aiel to discover Ogier stedding in the Dragonwall and begin trading with them.
3. TSR,Ch26 - Jonai and Adan meet a band of Ogier. They are suffering from the Longing because they cannot find a stedding.
In The Fires of Heaven
1. TFoH,Ch7 - Rand arranges to have Ogier masons from a nearby stedding assist in rebuilding Rhuidean.
In Lord of Chaos
1. LoC,Ch9 - Balwer reports to Pedron Niall that there are meetings going on between the Ogier stedding.
2. 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.
3. 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.
In Winter's Heart
1. WH,Ch23 - The guardian in Far Madding completely cuts off channelers from the True Source much like an Ogier stedding.
In Crossroads of Twilight
1. 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.
In The Gathering Storm
1. TGS,Ch10 - Rodel Ituralde shelters his army in an abandoned stedding to neutralize the Seanchan damane.
In Towers of Midnight
1. ToM,Prologue - Ogier dead begin to appear around the stedding.

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