An Aes Sedai of the Gray Ajah.
Possible Spoilers#
She is actually Black Ajah.Physical Description#
She is a fragile woman from Cairhien with very big blue eyes. (TSR,Ch39) She is short and slight with shoulder-length dark hair. Her face has a fox-like shape and she has large blue eyes. (TSR,Ch52) She is frail-looking. (TSR,Ch54) She has delicate, fox-like features. (TFoH,Ch34) She is diminutive and fox-faced with large dark eyes. (WH,Ch10)
Chronology (Possible Spoilers)#
- Accepted Brendas and Temaile have a shift attending Tamra and Gitara Moroso right before Moiraine and Siuan. (NS,Ch2)
- Tamra summons all Accepted including Temaile to the Oval Lecture Hall where she announces a bounty for women who recently gave birth. (NS,Ch3)
- The Accepted including Temaile scramble back to their rooms and prepare to leave the White Tower to take the census. (NS,Ch4)
- Amico, Asne, Berylla Naron, Chesmal, Eldrith, Falion, Ispan, Jeaine, Joiya, Marillin, 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)
- In Tel'aran'rhiod using Need, Nynaeve finds herself in Amathera's quarters in the Panarch's Palace and sees Temaile tormenting her. (TSR,Ch52)
- Elayne and Egeanin make their way to Amathera's quarters in the Panarch's Palace. Elayne knocks out Temaile who is still tormenting Amathera and they leave her there unconscious. (TSR,Ch54)
- Temaile tortures Jorin Arene into submission when the Black Ajah takes over his manor house. (TFoH,Ch18)
- 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)
- After Liandrin fails in an attack on Moghedien, Moghedien gives her to Temaile to soften up. (TFoH,Ch34)
- On Moghedien's orders, Asne, Chesmal, Eldrith and Temaile follow her 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)
- Using the glass bracelet, Temaile spies on Elayne and Nynaeve in Tel'aran'rhiod. She reports to Asne, Chesmal and Eldrith that the girls 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 Warders. 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 and Falion 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 Shadow Rising
- In A Crown of Swords
- In Winters Heart
- WH,Ch10 - After seeing what Temaile did to Liandrin, the other Black Ajah sisters are a little afraid of her.
- In Crossroads of Twilight
- CoT,Prologue - Talene reveals to the Sitters that Temaile is Black Ajah. Temaile's heart includes Talene and Galina.
- In Knife of Dreams