In one Age, called the Fourth Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Land of the Crystal Throne. It sped across the great Aryth Ocean to the Tai’Seanchan coast. It continued over the Mountains of Mist, picking up the scent of Two Rivers fine tabac and singing along to a tune made by a Tinker’s tea kettle. It swirled around the vast prairie known as the Caralain Grass, with it’s Black Tower fortress, and the island city of Tar Valon, home of the fabled Ogier-made White Tower...The wind swept through the valleys, skimming along the lake that once was Shadar Logoth, lifting the raven in flight. It howled through the Blight past the snorts and bellows of Trollocs, carrying on it the stench of their cookpots and rot as it whipped by a Myrddraal without creating so much as a ripple in its dark cloak. If you listen closely to the wind you can hear the sound of “friends” whispering in the dark as it whistles by you. The shadows beckon you to their warm embrace; where will the wind take you? For you must know, the wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was A beginning.
Current Events
The Fourth Age has been a time of upheaval for the world and the White Tower in particular, though it has not fundamentally altered the nature of the Brown Ajah. As in the Third, they are researchers, historians, and discoverers of all sorts of lore, The Fourth has brought some new additions to those responsibilities: they have become teachers, instructors, professors, and educators at all levels throughout the Westlands.
The Brown Ajah research the possibilities of the One Power, Talents, and ter'angreal. While the White handles the question of 'why', the Brown seeks to learn the 'how' of these mysteries, especially for the rare and unusual. Other Sisters spend more time as teachers; some wander the less developed Westlands training entire generations of instructors, others spend time as professors at the Academies in Andor, Mantheren, and Tear, allowing the broader public access to the collected knowledge of the White Tower.
The Brown Ajah research the possibilities of the One Power, Talents, and ter'angreal. While the White handles the question of 'why', the Brown seeks to learn the 'how' of these mysteries, especially for the rare and unusual. Other Sisters spend more time as teachers; some wander the less developed Westlands training entire generations of instructors, others spend time as professors at the Academies in Andor, Mantheren, and Tear, allowing the broader public access to the collected knowledge of the White Tower.
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Connections
They work collaboratively (if, at times, contentiously) with the White Ajah, as both seek answers to deeper mysteries.
The Blue and the Yellow work with the Brown as well, particularly those instructors likely to travel to less developed areas.
They also have ties to the Spirit Legion of the Black Tower, one of the few remaining unofficial channels between the two Towers after Rahlin's War.
The Blue and the Yellow work with the Brown as well, particularly those instructors likely to travel to less developed areas.
They also have ties to the Spirit Legion of the Black Tower, one of the few remaining unofficial channels between the two Towers after Rahlin's War.
Hall Politics
- Is allied with the White, though more loosely than the Blue/Yellow or Green/Red alliances
- Relatively tense with the Greens
- Supports the Blue/Yellow against the Greens, but with the White against the Yellow, though this has been changing since the raising of one of their own to Keeper under a Yellow Amyrlin
- May occasionally support the Blue over the White if Yellow is against White as well
- Supports the White over the Red/Green, but will support the Red over the Green
- Supports the White over the Grey, but the Grey over the Red/Green
- May support the Yellow against the Grey, but the Grey against the Blue
- If the White sides with the Red, then the Brown will side with wherever the Yellow sides
- If the Grey sides with both Green and Red, then the Brown will support the Blue/Yellow over the Green/Red
- Relatively tense with the Greens
- Supports the Blue/Yellow against the Greens, but with the White against the Yellow, though this has been changing since the raising of one of their own to Keeper under a Yellow Amyrlin
- May occasionally support the Blue over the White if Yellow is against White as well
- Supports the White over the Red/Green, but will support the Red over the Green
- Supports the White over the Grey, but the Grey over the Red/Green
- May support the Yellow against the Grey, but the Grey against the Blue
- If the White sides with the Red, then the Brown will side with wherever the Yellow sides
- If the Grey sides with both Green and Red, then the Brown will support the Blue/Yellow over the Green/Red
