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Name: Lyla ay'Yam
Origin: Altara
Age: 125
Height: 5' 9"
Hair: straight dark brown
Eyes: green
Strength in Power:
Water - strong
Air - very strong
Spirit - strong
Fire - less then average
Earth - weak
Overly strength: strong
Talents: Dreamwalking, Illusion, folding lights
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Lyla was the daughter of a high noble of Altara. Her mother died when she was born, and her father, who didn't know how to take care of her, gave her to her aunt, a minor noble, to take care of. He visited them though. She liked his visits - he always gave her presents when he came. She grew up with her cousin Loretta, who was older and more mature. Lyla adored Loretta, and used to follow her around, till Loretta married a Tairan, of the lesser nobility.
Lyla knew she would have to marry a high noble, her father wouldn't let her marry less, but she also knew who she wanted to marry. He was a sergeant, one of her father's personal guards. He wanted to marry her too, as he said in one of their brief moments together alone.
And then her father found out.
She thought that her aunt might not mind, but all her father cared about was how people will see it and what people will say, and, as it seemed to her, he didn't care about his daughter's happiness at all. When she threatened running off and marrying him anyway, her father decided to do something, and he sent her to Tar Valon, to the White Tower, to stay there until he will find a fitting husband for her.
She tried to escape several times on her way to Tar Valon, but her father knew her, and made sure there will be many guards with her to make sure she'll get there, and safe. When they got to Tar Valon, the captain took her to the Keeper of Chronicles then, and gave her the letter her father wrote. The Keeper eyed her for a long time, and then said "we will take care of her, and we will train her to be an Aes Sedai. Tell her father that she can channel, and strongly. She will become Aes Sedai." The emphasis was clear - Lyla was to become an Aes Sedai whether she wanted to or not.
The first few minutes, Lyla was shocked to find she was able to channel. But soon after her only thought was the childish determination that she will be the best Aes Sedai ever. The Guards left, and the keeper sent for a woman dressed in white to take her to the Mistress of Novices, so she could become a Novice and begin her training. She thought the woman was a servant, and treated her that way. She tried talking to her about the Tower, but the woman didn't answer her. While walking, she looked for the other girls who are training, but all she could see where other girl-servants, all dressed in white. Some of them had colors on the ham and neckline of their dresses, but she couldn't figure out why there were so many servants and no girls in training.
When she got to the Mistress of Novices' study and had her name written in the Novice Book, Lyla was shocked to see the Mistress of Novices giving her a white dress. So the white dresses girls weren't servants, they were the girls in training! She thought. But she saw them doing servants work! Some of the girls were washing the floors, some of them racking the leaves, and some where carrying trays! Is this what expects her for the next years?
In time, she found out that yes, she was expected to do servants work. Being a noble, she wasn't used to doing things like that, and it took her time to get accustomed to the work. But she still kept her pride - she was going to be an Aes Sedai, and even being the Queen can't really outrank being Aes Sedai.
After treating her so bad the first day, Lyla looked for that Novice who showed her to the Mistress of Novices' study, to apologize. They talked, and they became very good friends. She helped Lyla get used to being a Novice, to the classes and to all the chores. But a year later she became an Accepted, and the distance in their rank made them separate. Still Lyla loved her and was very grateful to her for helping her in her first year in the Tower.
Lyla was kept a Novice for seven years, but, as the Mistress of Novices told her after she was raised, she could've been a Novice for less time if she had gotten used to her low rank the first few years. She just couldn't understand how come a noble's daughter and a farmer's daughter could be on the same level. It took her two years to get used to the idea, Years that the Mistress of Novice always talked about as 'wasted years'. They probably were. But she was an Accepted for a short time, compared to the time she spent as a Novice, so they might
not have been so wasted. She was 27 the day she was raised to the shawl and to the Blue Ajah, spending only three years as Accepted.
After being raised, Lyla spent her time out of the Tower doing things for the Blue Ajah, especially for the eyes and ears network, and so when she got to the Tower to stay there, she was set to help with the eyes and ears network in the Tower, and five years later took over it. She got into the Hall after twenty-eight years being in charge of the eyes and ears network, and used her skills in reading the messages from her eyes and ears to read the delicate currency within the Hall, and was good enough with that that she was appointed as a sitter a second time, a rare thing to happen, and that fact was what had made Sapphira Calren, the new Amyrlin, to name her as her Keeper, more then their friendship and mutual trust, that grew with their years of working so close together.
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