Verin Mathwin

Verin Mathwin is a hero in The Wheel of Time. She is an Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah, and ends up being one of the Aes Sedai sworn to Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn. Verin later reveals that she is part of the Black Ajah, a sect of the White Tower devoted to serving the Dark One -- but that she has spent her life gathering information on the Black Ajah in order to betray it in her final moments. She ends up serving the forces of the Light by being able to expose almost all of the Sisters secretly devoted to the Dark.
==Character and Appearance==
Like all members of the Brown Ajah, she devotes herself to knowledge and the pursuit of it; as a result, she has a tendency to go on fruitless tangents in dire conversations, and appear lost in thought at inopportune moments. She was driven to learn as much as possible.
Unlike other Brown sisters however, she seems only to appear to be in these reveries to disguise her intentions, as she is at times very sharp and insightful.
==Biography==
Verin was born in Far Madding in 849 NE. She was betrothed to a man named Eadwin and hoped to marry him, until she was exiled from her homeland for being able to channel the One Power, and was forced to come to Tar Valon and enrol herself as a novice at the White Tower. After eleven years of training, she became an Aes Sedai, and chose the Brown Ajah, dedicated to research and knowledge.
After 55 years as an Aes Sedai, Verin started researching the existence of the Black Ajah, a secret sect in the Tower devoted to serving the Dark One. While she was able to confirm its existence, she was caught in the process. She was given the choice between serving the Dark One and being murdered. Verin was made to take a vow that she could not betray the Dark One until the hour of her death.
She spent a decades-long project finding all sisters of the Black Ajah and recording them in her notebook, because Black sisters meet hiding their faces to conceal their identities. Her project was a success, and she managed to record nearly all the sisters through the use of a special ter'angreal that made her book invisible. She also started carrying poison for herself, in case there was ever a time she was either caught or needed to betray the Dark One. During this time, Verin also recruited a Warder named Tomas, a Darkfriend who wanted a way out of the organization. Verin provided him with a greater good to work against without having to kill himself in order to betray the Dark One.
Publicly, Verin adopted the face of a kind Aes Sedai. She was pleasant to Lady Morgase Trakand during her training despite the fact that she could barely channel, and had the kitchens often make sweets for Moiraine Damodred and Siuan Sanche during their time at the Tower, and is present during Moiraine's testing as an Aes Sedai.
Verin accompanied Siuan to Fal Dara, and during this time met Rand al'Thor and accompanied him through a Portal Stone to Falme. At this time, Moiraine began to grow suspicious of Verin because she believed that Verin had been able to tell a lie, something that only the Black Ajah are physically capable of. After seeing Rand fight the Seanchan at Falme, she returns to the White Tower, and later gives a dreamer ter'angreal to Egwene, and goes to the Two Rivers to see Perrin Aybara fight against Shadowspawn.
During the White Tower schism, Verin publicly sides with the rebels. During the battle of Dumai's Wells, she kneels and swears her allegiance to Rand due to his ta'veren pull. She uses Compulsion on some loyalists to make them serve Rand. She is also willing to go so far as to try to poison Cadsuane Melaidhrin, but stops herself when it is clear that she wants Rand to live until the Last Battle. 
Verin disappears from Rand after some time, and appears in Tear to give a letter to Mat Cauthon. She then appears in the White Tower, and tells Egwene an obvious lie to get attention. She reveals she is Black Ajah, and that she has just consumed a tea that will start to kill her in a few minutes. Before she dies, Verin tells Egwene about her life's work to infiltrate the Black Ajah, and gives her the notebook, hoping that she can use the information to her advantage. After Verin passes away, Egwene is raised to Amyrlin and uses the information to execute almost all of the Black Ajah members within the White Tower.
Category:Fantasy Heroes
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