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Post by Calina Taborwin on Apr 4, 2019 1:37:55 GMT
Name: Calina Taborwin
Age: 64
Nationality: Cairhienin
Place of Birth: Cairhien, Cairhien
Place of Residence: The White Tower, Tar Valon
Affiliation: The White Tower
Rank/Title: Sitter of the Gray Ajah
One Power Strength: 9
Air: 8 | Earth: 11 | Fire: 8 | Spirit: 6 | Water: 12
Date Raised to Novice: 68 Fourth Age
Date Raised to Accepted: 74
Date Raised to Aes Sedai: 80
Talents: Listening to the Wind
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 96 lbs
Build/Complexion: Petite/Pale
Eye/Hair Color: Blue/Raven-black
Calina Taborwin is a small and slimly built woman with a breath-taking sort of beauty only enhanced by the agelessness common to Aes Sedai. Her raven black hair, generally worn loose to her waist, sharply contrasts with her dazzlingly pale skin. Her eyes are a searching pale blue with an intensity that clashes with her otherwise petite frame.
She prefers daring fashions, often with deep cuts, preferring the dazzling styles of Tarabon and Arad Doman to anything tamer. The only concession she makes to her Cairhienin heritage is a kesiera, a gift from long ago. She wears other jewelry as fits her ensemble at the time, usually accented with her Great Serpent ring in a position of prominence.
Extroverted, bold, and always willing to be the center of attention, Calina Taborwin spent her younger years honing her ability to entice people to her and those skills are still in active use. Whether with blade-sharp sarcasm or insightful gleanings, her wit was her weapon long before the Power came into her life. Her moods can be fragile things; she can be winter's ice or summer's heat easily, and often slips between them.
In truth, Calina is a calculating and ambitious woman who was born and raised on manipulation. Every word, every passing glance, is part of a plan to advance herself or the causes she holds dear. Her wits, her looks, and her Power are her only weapons, but they're more than sufficient. The only time the mask slips is among people she truly cares for; mischief and sarcasm are two of her few outlets, and she employs both among her small circle of friends.
Calina was born nearly a decade after King Lawcion Trakand assumed the Sun Throne, the second daughter of the High Seat of House Taborwin. It was a tumultuous time in Cairhien's history. It proved a good thing for everyone involved that King Lawcion was more than a match for the Cairhienin at Daes Dae'mar, because they tested him sorely in those first few years. More than one House thought they saw an opportunity to split from Andor and the Trakands entirely, all eyeing the Sun Throne greedily. House Taborwin, a close ally of the Dragon Reborn during the end of the last Age, saw a different path: tying themselves to the Sun Throne so tightly that none could supplant them. Calina's mother, Melavaire, was the High Seat at the time, and she brought all of her children to bear in her plots to protect the Trakand monarchy and House Taborwin's position.
Her second daughter was an asset from an impossibly early age; Calina had an impeccable grasp of Daes Dae'mar even as a young child, and House Taborwin used that to their advantage. Calina would 'give away' important, false, information to various eyes and ears, all the while the picture of innocence. It wasn't long before people became wary of the young girl from House Taborwin.
For her part, Calina loved the Great Game. It was a test of skill and wits far more exciting than any childish game she could have concocted. As she grew older she became an even more astute player, wrapping herself in pleasantly enticing layers. She attracted friends easily and allies in bulk. Later, as she bloomed from child to woman, she garnered lovers as well. She gathered followers from across Cairhien and used them to her benefit, never quite realizing what was wrong. It was just the Game, after all, and success at it garnered the approval of her mother, something Calina desperately craved. Melavaire was a tempestuous woman with an uneasy and uncertain temper; her children's skill at the Game was the only sure way to garner any sort of approval, and all of them sought it urgently.
Calina had a secret weapon, an edge on siblings and rivals alike, and House Taborwin's most closely kept secret: she was a wilder, a woman with the spark who had survived, untrained and untested, and emerged on the other side with power only channelers could comprehend. Calina's talents were more than modest; how she slipped under the White Tower's gaze was anyone's guess, but in later years Calina herself came to believe that Melavaire suspected and shielded her from Aes Sedai eyes. In any case, she emerged a powerful tool in House Taborwin's arsenal, no less for having a special skill with a near-sister weave of Compulsion. If she couldn't achieve her aims through subtle manipulation or whispered promises, she could force them onto others. Her block was also an asset to the House, though Calina didn't realize it as such at the time; she couldn't so much as touch the source without the approval of her mother.
Such things could not remain secret from the Tower forever, even in a city of secrets such as Cairhien. For years Calina was House Taborwin's hidden weapon; a beautiful girl with a sharp mind and the ability to control the situation far beyond what anyone would expect. Unfortunately, Melavaire became too ambitious and too blatant with her daughter's gifts. When Calina was 19, Aes Sedai from the Red Ajah took her from home without allowing an opportunity for protest. Melavaire swore to tear the White Tower down brick by brick, if necessary, but the words of a High Seat do not deter Aes Sedai. Calina was brought to the Tower with the clothes on her back and the kesiera she wore, a gift from her mother the year before. Her arrival at the Tower was controversial; more than one Aes Sedai thought to have her stilled. Her actions tread a dangerous line, and she'd been quite public about it. Yet, she was incredibly strong in the One Power, perhaps once in a generation or several, and could yet prove a useful asset to the Tower...if only she could be brought in line. The debate raged on for days while Calina was imprisoned within the Tower, shedding her tears and promising either great gifts or tremendous revenge against her captors.
Eventually, mercy prevailed and Calina was placed in Novice white. It was beyond galling. She'd gone from a high lady of Cairhien to a scullery girl, if that, unable to touch saidar without her mother's guidance. Calina raged against the Aes Sedai as often as she could get away with it, she attempted to turn the other Novices against their teachers, sought ways out of the city. Most of all, she expected her mother to, somehow, find a way to return her home. Her punishments became increasingly degrading, and Calina increasingly more desperate as she realized just how few of her tools would work in Tar Valon.
Eventually, one Aes Sedai saw through the girl's tantrums to the root of the problem, and took her back to Cairhien. The instructions were simple: one day in the city, then return to the Tower or not at all. Calina thought she'd won.
Unfortunately, Calina's grasp of the Game was both naive and shortsighted. Her disappearance had ignited brutal (yet truthful) rumors about the nature of her skills; there wasn't a Great House left in the city that doubted she'd been using the Power against them for years. Melavaire Taborwin was no fool and had realized that Calina was, likely, a lost cause. Even if she could be returned to Cairhien, she would undoubtedly be dulled by whatever the Aes Sedai wrought. Melavaire had wasted no time turning it to her advantage, painting Calina as a rogue and dangerous girl deluded by her own power, powers that she'd employed even against her own family. Calina's mother, her siblings, and House Taborwin had moved on. The guards to their estate had been ordered not to let her pass; there was no home for her in Cairhien. Calina spent hours outside the Taborwin estate, trying in vain to get a message to her mother or her siblings.
That night she returned to the Aes Sedai who'd taken her there and together they returned to the Tower. Rage steeled her heart. If Cairhien had cast her out then she would renounce it; the same was true of her House. Calina's block was utterly annihilated by the betrayal, and she was raised to Accepted with a speed that surprised everyone.
With her illusions shattered and Cairhien lost to her, Calina began to see the White Tower for what it was: a vast apparatus of power and influence. Calina could see the value in that, and she had nothing else. She set about making herself indispensable. That meant rebuilding her reputation from the ground up, particularly with the Aes Sedai teachers she'd alienated along the way. Luckily her vast potential made even a project like her worthwhile, and she remained quite adept at pulling strings even without channeling. Seduction was, of course, mostly useless (though, perhaps, not entirely...) but by becoming the dedicated student they wanted, she gained acceptance. Her skill with the One Power improved by leaps and bounds as well, offering the Aes Sedai a tantalizing glimpse of her full potential.
Her Accepted training was incredibly rapid nearly to the point of being rushed, but she learned what she could from each and every teacher the Tower set before her. This was made easier by the crisis sparked by the mad M'Hael, Rahlin. The Black Tower as a sudden enemy proved to have a wonderfully ameliorating effect on Calina's reputation and made it far easier for people to forget (or at least ignore) her first year as a Novice. Calina was raised to the shawl in the immediate aftermath of Rahlin's failure, choosing for herself the Gray Ajah. Becoming Aes Sedai had been her goal for years; suddenly achieved, she felt lost and unsure. For most of her life, her direction had been decided by someone else, and at that moment Calina realized she wasn't certain what to do with herself.
Traveling as an Aes Sedai in the aftermath of the crisis of the Towers helped to open her eyes. The world was in chaos, and the people suffered for it. There were places of the world where the mighty were never seen or years between visits; some got along well, but others? Places without healers, or teachers, or law. The machinations of the powerful were...useless? It made no sense to her, steeped in the Great Game as she'd been. It was the second most devastating realization of her life. She'd chosen the Gray Ajah expecting to use their role as mediators to manipulate people. Instead, Calina found herself falling into their role as law-keepers instead. It started small, with an investigation here, and judgement there, but it continued. Calina found it freeing, almost, to set aside her masks and manipulations.
She spent most of her first decade as an Aes Sedai traveling the Westlands and administering its laws, trying to accomplish something of meaning for the people. Calina spent a great deal of time in Arad Doman and Tarabon, developing a fondness for the peoples and cultures and, especially, fashions. She spent none in Cairhien; her kesiera remained her only tie to the city.
She spent her time as a detective, judge, investigator, mediator, and negotiator. She wasn't the only Aes Sedai wandering during that time, of course. More than once in the smaller corners of the world Calina stumbled upon Katreine din Ziago administering to the sick, teaching medicine, establishing schools or hospitals. The selflessness and ambition of the Yellow Sister took Calina off guard. She saw in Katreine a virtuous example of the values her mother had preached: change and influence exercised for the right reasons. She struck up a relationship with the Yellow Sister; Katreine was a hard woman who demanded a great deal from herself and others, but she also had a keen instinct for what to do and where to do it. And to Calina's unending surprise, being herself without airs or masks was enough to spark a genuine friendship with the older Aes Sedai. She was serious and focused, but not immune to jokes or pranks. Katriene's dream and unending ambition to achieve it helped guide Calina to a new understanding, and the Yellow's friendship helped Calina realize something essential that she'd lacked. Somewhere in the back of her mind an old instinct woke up and began to plot.
Katreine had ambitions. Powerful hopes and plans, but all of them would require political positioning, insight, and careful manipulations. That had never been the Sea Folk's way; she'd risen in prominence among the Yellow largely from a refusal to fail. Calina, on the other hand, had been a player of Daes Dae'mar her entire life. Katreine had a proposal: if Calina really wanted to find meaning, then she simply had to become the arrow to Katreine's archer.
Calina began making regular trips back to the White Tower from that point forward; establishing contacts, building influence, and finding allies. It had been years, decades without practice or contact, but Daes Dae'mar was in her blood as much as she would hate to admit it. In time, her masks were back, stronger than ever, as she looked for her opportunity. She would put the lessons of her youth to good use after all. Katreine would need all the allies Calina could provide, assuming the Gray had read the winds correctly.
When Silviana Brehon retired, Calina returned to the Tower on a more permanent basis and finally made her move. Calling in the many favors she'd acquired within and without her Ajah, she secured from one of the Gray Sitters a promise of leaving the Hall, and from others in the Ajah the promise that she would fill the next position that opened for the Gray. Her connections and strength in the Power made it unusual, at best, rather than completely unthinkable. The only condition was to allow the current Sister to finish the vote for the new Amyrlin.
That was, of course, her plan all along: she had little doubt who the Hall would choose to wear the stole. Calina could feel the change coming on the wind. The Hall chose Katreine din Ziago, supported by the Avyanna Sarat from the Green among others. Shortly afterward, Calina took her place as a Sitter for the Gray Ajah.
Books read: All of them!
Age: 64
Nationality: Cairhienin
Place of Birth: Cairhien, Cairhien
Place of Residence: The White Tower, Tar Valon
Affiliation: The White Tower
Rank/Title: Sitter of the Gray Ajah
One Power Strength: 9
Air: 8 | Earth: 11 | Fire: 8 | Spirit: 6 | Water: 12
Date Raised to Novice: 68 Fourth Age
Date Raised to Accepted: 74
Date Raised to Aes Sedai: 80
Talents: Listening to the Wind
APPEARANCE
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 96 lbs
Build/Complexion: Petite/Pale
Eye/Hair Color: Blue/Raven-black
Calina Taborwin is a small and slimly built woman with a breath-taking sort of beauty only enhanced by the agelessness common to Aes Sedai. Her raven black hair, generally worn loose to her waist, sharply contrasts with her dazzlingly pale skin. Her eyes are a searching pale blue with an intensity that clashes with her otherwise petite frame.
She prefers daring fashions, often with deep cuts, preferring the dazzling styles of Tarabon and Arad Doman to anything tamer. The only concession she makes to her Cairhienin heritage is a kesiera, a gift from long ago. She wears other jewelry as fits her ensemble at the time, usually accented with her Great Serpent ring in a position of prominence.
PERSONALITY
Extroverted, bold, and always willing to be the center of attention, Calina Taborwin spent her younger years honing her ability to entice people to her and those skills are still in active use. Whether with blade-sharp sarcasm or insightful gleanings, her wit was her weapon long before the Power came into her life. Her moods can be fragile things; she can be winter's ice or summer's heat easily, and often slips between them.
In truth, Calina is a calculating and ambitious woman who was born and raised on manipulation. Every word, every passing glance, is part of a plan to advance herself or the causes she holds dear. Her wits, her looks, and her Power are her only weapons, but they're more than sufficient. The only time the mask slips is among people she truly cares for; mischief and sarcasm are two of her few outlets, and she employs both among her small circle of friends.
HISTORY
Calina was born nearly a decade after King Lawcion Trakand assumed the Sun Throne, the second daughter of the High Seat of House Taborwin. It was a tumultuous time in Cairhien's history. It proved a good thing for everyone involved that King Lawcion was more than a match for the Cairhienin at Daes Dae'mar, because they tested him sorely in those first few years. More than one House thought they saw an opportunity to split from Andor and the Trakands entirely, all eyeing the Sun Throne greedily. House Taborwin, a close ally of the Dragon Reborn during the end of the last Age, saw a different path: tying themselves to the Sun Throne so tightly that none could supplant them. Calina's mother, Melavaire, was the High Seat at the time, and she brought all of her children to bear in her plots to protect the Trakand monarchy and House Taborwin's position.
Her second daughter was an asset from an impossibly early age; Calina had an impeccable grasp of Daes Dae'mar even as a young child, and House Taborwin used that to their advantage. Calina would 'give away' important, false, information to various eyes and ears, all the while the picture of innocence. It wasn't long before people became wary of the young girl from House Taborwin.
For her part, Calina loved the Great Game. It was a test of skill and wits far more exciting than any childish game she could have concocted. As she grew older she became an even more astute player, wrapping herself in pleasantly enticing layers. She attracted friends easily and allies in bulk. Later, as she bloomed from child to woman, she garnered lovers as well. She gathered followers from across Cairhien and used them to her benefit, never quite realizing what was wrong. It was just the Game, after all, and success at it garnered the approval of her mother, something Calina desperately craved. Melavaire was a tempestuous woman with an uneasy and uncertain temper; her children's skill at the Game was the only sure way to garner any sort of approval, and all of them sought it urgently.
Calina had a secret weapon, an edge on siblings and rivals alike, and House Taborwin's most closely kept secret: she was a wilder, a woman with the spark who had survived, untrained and untested, and emerged on the other side with power only channelers could comprehend. Calina's talents were more than modest; how she slipped under the White Tower's gaze was anyone's guess, but in later years Calina herself came to believe that Melavaire suspected and shielded her from Aes Sedai eyes. In any case, she emerged a powerful tool in House Taborwin's arsenal, no less for having a special skill with a near-sister weave of Compulsion. If she couldn't achieve her aims through subtle manipulation or whispered promises, she could force them onto others. Her block was also an asset to the House, though Calina didn't realize it as such at the time; she couldn't so much as touch the source without the approval of her mother.
Such things could not remain secret from the Tower forever, even in a city of secrets such as Cairhien. For years Calina was House Taborwin's hidden weapon; a beautiful girl with a sharp mind and the ability to control the situation far beyond what anyone would expect. Unfortunately, Melavaire became too ambitious and too blatant with her daughter's gifts. When Calina was 19, Aes Sedai from the Red Ajah took her from home without allowing an opportunity for protest. Melavaire swore to tear the White Tower down brick by brick, if necessary, but the words of a High Seat do not deter Aes Sedai. Calina was brought to the Tower with the clothes on her back and the kesiera she wore, a gift from her mother the year before. Her arrival at the Tower was controversial; more than one Aes Sedai thought to have her stilled. Her actions tread a dangerous line, and she'd been quite public about it. Yet, she was incredibly strong in the One Power, perhaps once in a generation or several, and could yet prove a useful asset to the Tower...if only she could be brought in line. The debate raged on for days while Calina was imprisoned within the Tower, shedding her tears and promising either great gifts or tremendous revenge against her captors.
Eventually, mercy prevailed and Calina was placed in Novice white. It was beyond galling. She'd gone from a high lady of Cairhien to a scullery girl, if that, unable to touch saidar without her mother's guidance. Calina raged against the Aes Sedai as often as she could get away with it, she attempted to turn the other Novices against their teachers, sought ways out of the city. Most of all, she expected her mother to, somehow, find a way to return her home. Her punishments became increasingly degrading, and Calina increasingly more desperate as she realized just how few of her tools would work in Tar Valon.
Eventually, one Aes Sedai saw through the girl's tantrums to the root of the problem, and took her back to Cairhien. The instructions were simple: one day in the city, then return to the Tower or not at all. Calina thought she'd won.
Unfortunately, Calina's grasp of the Game was both naive and shortsighted. Her disappearance had ignited brutal (yet truthful) rumors about the nature of her skills; there wasn't a Great House left in the city that doubted she'd been using the Power against them for years. Melavaire Taborwin was no fool and had realized that Calina was, likely, a lost cause. Even if she could be returned to Cairhien, she would undoubtedly be dulled by whatever the Aes Sedai wrought. Melavaire had wasted no time turning it to her advantage, painting Calina as a rogue and dangerous girl deluded by her own power, powers that she'd employed even against her own family. Calina's mother, her siblings, and House Taborwin had moved on. The guards to their estate had been ordered not to let her pass; there was no home for her in Cairhien. Calina spent hours outside the Taborwin estate, trying in vain to get a message to her mother or her siblings.
That night she returned to the Aes Sedai who'd taken her there and together they returned to the Tower. Rage steeled her heart. If Cairhien had cast her out then she would renounce it; the same was true of her House. Calina's block was utterly annihilated by the betrayal, and she was raised to Accepted with a speed that surprised everyone.
With her illusions shattered and Cairhien lost to her, Calina began to see the White Tower for what it was: a vast apparatus of power and influence. Calina could see the value in that, and she had nothing else. She set about making herself indispensable. That meant rebuilding her reputation from the ground up, particularly with the Aes Sedai teachers she'd alienated along the way. Luckily her vast potential made even a project like her worthwhile, and she remained quite adept at pulling strings even without channeling. Seduction was, of course, mostly useless (though, perhaps, not entirely...) but by becoming the dedicated student they wanted, she gained acceptance. Her skill with the One Power improved by leaps and bounds as well, offering the Aes Sedai a tantalizing glimpse of her full potential.
Her Accepted training was incredibly rapid nearly to the point of being rushed, but she learned what she could from each and every teacher the Tower set before her. This was made easier by the crisis sparked by the mad M'Hael, Rahlin. The Black Tower as a sudden enemy proved to have a wonderfully ameliorating effect on Calina's reputation and made it far easier for people to forget (or at least ignore) her first year as a Novice. Calina was raised to the shawl in the immediate aftermath of Rahlin's failure, choosing for herself the Gray Ajah. Becoming Aes Sedai had been her goal for years; suddenly achieved, she felt lost and unsure. For most of her life, her direction had been decided by someone else, and at that moment Calina realized she wasn't certain what to do with herself.
Traveling as an Aes Sedai in the aftermath of the crisis of the Towers helped to open her eyes. The world was in chaos, and the people suffered for it. There were places of the world where the mighty were never seen or years between visits; some got along well, but others? Places without healers, or teachers, or law. The machinations of the powerful were...useless? It made no sense to her, steeped in the Great Game as she'd been. It was the second most devastating realization of her life. She'd chosen the Gray Ajah expecting to use their role as mediators to manipulate people. Instead, Calina found herself falling into their role as law-keepers instead. It started small, with an investigation here, and judgement there, but it continued. Calina found it freeing, almost, to set aside her masks and manipulations.
She spent most of her first decade as an Aes Sedai traveling the Westlands and administering its laws, trying to accomplish something of meaning for the people. Calina spent a great deal of time in Arad Doman and Tarabon, developing a fondness for the peoples and cultures and, especially, fashions. She spent none in Cairhien; her kesiera remained her only tie to the city.
She spent her time as a detective, judge, investigator, mediator, and negotiator. She wasn't the only Aes Sedai wandering during that time, of course. More than once in the smaller corners of the world Calina stumbled upon Katreine din Ziago administering to the sick, teaching medicine, establishing schools or hospitals. The selflessness and ambition of the Yellow Sister took Calina off guard. She saw in Katreine a virtuous example of the values her mother had preached: change and influence exercised for the right reasons. She struck up a relationship with the Yellow Sister; Katreine was a hard woman who demanded a great deal from herself and others, but she also had a keen instinct for what to do and where to do it. And to Calina's unending surprise, being herself without airs or masks was enough to spark a genuine friendship with the older Aes Sedai. She was serious and focused, but not immune to jokes or pranks. Katriene's dream and unending ambition to achieve it helped guide Calina to a new understanding, and the Yellow's friendship helped Calina realize something essential that she'd lacked. Somewhere in the back of her mind an old instinct woke up and began to plot.
Katreine had ambitions. Powerful hopes and plans, but all of them would require political positioning, insight, and careful manipulations. That had never been the Sea Folk's way; she'd risen in prominence among the Yellow largely from a refusal to fail. Calina, on the other hand, had been a player of Daes Dae'mar her entire life. Katreine had a proposal: if Calina really wanted to find meaning, then she simply had to become the arrow to Katreine's archer.
Calina began making regular trips back to the White Tower from that point forward; establishing contacts, building influence, and finding allies. It had been years, decades without practice or contact, but Daes Dae'mar was in her blood as much as she would hate to admit it. In time, her masks were back, stronger than ever, as she looked for her opportunity. She would put the lessons of her youth to good use after all. Katreine would need all the allies Calina could provide, assuming the Gray had read the winds correctly.
When Silviana Brehon retired, Calina returned to the Tower on a more permanent basis and finally made her move. Calling in the many favors she'd acquired within and without her Ajah, she secured from one of the Gray Sitters a promise of leaving the Hall, and from others in the Ajah the promise that she would fill the next position that opened for the Gray. Her connections and strength in the Power made it unusual, at best, rather than completely unthinkable. The only condition was to allow the current Sister to finish the vote for the new Amyrlin.
That was, of course, her plan all along: she had little doubt who the Hall would choose to wear the stole. Calina could feel the change coming on the wind. The Hall chose Katreine din Ziago, supported by the Avyanna Sarat from the Green among others. Shortly afterward, Calina took her place as a Sitter for the Gray Ajah.
It was time to see if the Amyrlin's shot had been accurate.
TIMELINE
46FA - Melavaire Taborwin, High Seat of House Taborwin, weds Daerin Delovinde.
47FA - Vivaine Taborwin is born to Melavaire and Daerin.
49FA - Calina Taborwin is born to Melavaire and Daerin.
58FA - Janderin Taborwin is born to Melavaire and Daerin. All of the Taborwin children are schooled in Daes Dae'mar almost from birth, and expected to perform accordingly.
63FA - Calina begins to channel unconsciously, and eventually discovers an affinity for subtly twisting the emotions of those around her. She is only able to use this ability at her mother's direction.
68FA - Calina's channeling becomes known to the White Tower, and she is apprehended by the Red Ajah for Compelling people with the One Power. After deliberation, she is allowed to enter her name in the novice book and dons the white.
69FA - After a year of struggling, Calina is returned to Cairhien and given a choice. Return to the Tower by the end of the day, or not at all. This gambit paid off; Calina had been made out as the sole villain in her use of channeling and was not welcome in Cairhien, not even within the grounds of House Taborwin. This betrayal eliminates her block, and she returns to the White Tower determined to put Cairhien behind her.
74FA - Calina passes the test and is raised to Accepted.
75FA - The Tower War begins; despite her raw power, as an Accepted Calina is exposed to very little of the direct fighting that occurs in Tar Valon.
80FA - Calina is raised to Aes Sedai, choosing the Gray as her Ajah. She sets out of the Tower immediately and spends years wandering the Westlands, primiarly along the Tai'Seanchan border (and, occasionally, within Tai'Seanchan itself.) During this time she comes to know Katreine din Ziago and forms an enduring respect for the Yellow.
109FA - Calina employs a number of contacts, deals, and favors within the Gray Ajah, painstakingly gathered over the years, to ensure her selection as the next Sitter for the Gray Ajah. Katreine din Ziago becomes the Amyrlin Seat.
110FA - Calina becomes the a Sitter for the Gray Ajah.
111FA - A delegation from the Black Tower is received by the White, a product of the M'Hael Jadin al'Vyron's determination, Katreine din Ziago's implacability, and Calina's machinations.
113FA - Janderin Taborwin dies, drawing Calina back to Cairhien for the first time in decades.
