Alviarin Freidhen

Alviarin Freidhen is an Aes Sedai of the White Ajah, as well as the secret head of the Black Ajah and Supreme Council.
== Appearance and Personality ==
Alviarin has a swan neck and is tall and slim. She has smooth, unblemished skin. Alviarin is quite beautiful; even seductive by some standards. However, she cares little for relationships or the feelings of others. She frequently appears aloof, and often interacts with her peers in a coldly logical manner. Secretly Alviarin has had a history of heinous remorseless acts. Her ability to dehumanize others and behave in a manner that lacks basic empathy demonstrates someone with a sociopathic mind.
==Strength and Abilities==
By Aes Sedai standards Alviarin possesses respectable strength in the Power. Her ability as rated on the Power Strength Scale is equivalent to 17(5). This level of strength places her in a position to exercise political influence in the White Tower. Alviarin is a skilled administrator and records keeper which served her well during her tenure as the Keeper of the Chronicles under Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan.
==History==
Alviarin was born in Amadicia, near the border with Tarabon, in 943 NE. Given the geography of the area, this would be not far from Mardecin. As a teenager she was approached by darkfriends who learned she had killed a village girl. These vile people helped Alviarin cover up the crime and initiated her into their ranks in 958 NE. The next year she was ordered to murder a young man. She seduced him and then, like a sociopath, stabbed him to death in bed without losing composure or feeling remorse. Soon afterwards she began to notice her ability to channel and so traveled to Tar Valon.
Alviarin was watched closely by the Black Ajah from the first day that she arrived in the White Tower. She spent 5 years as a novice and another 5 an Accepted. In 968 NE as she was preparing to be tested for the shawl, she was approached by a Black Ajah agent for recruitment. As a test she was ordered to murder a fellow accepted; a young woman with whom she had formed her only friendship over the preceding nine years. Alviarin coldly strangled her without hesitation. She was later informed that the only purpose of the murder had been to measure her obedience. In 969 NE Alviarin passed her test for the shawl, chose the White Ajah, and swore the Three Oaths. Soon afterwards she forswore her oaths in a secret Black Ajah ceremony and swore new oaths to the cabal.
She was raised to the Head of the Black Ajah by Ishamael upon his punishment of Jarna Malari and interrogation of the Council of Thirteen. This was in the year . Alviarin says she was plucked from the "hidden mass of the Black Ajah," indicating that Ishamael chose her for his own reasons. She was a member of the Council of Thirteen prior to this time; she mentioned at one point the "other twelve members of the Council."
==Activities==
===Before the coup===
She is one of two sisters of the White that accompany Siuan Sanche as her entourage to Fal Dara.
She gives Egwene al'Vere and Nynaeve al'Meara lessons in channeling as the party returns to Tar Valon. Egwene thinks she is cool and businesslike, sharp in her criticisms, but always ready to start again.
Alviarin is present at the end of Egwene's Accepted test.
She is one of the first close confidants to Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan, when Elaida begins to plot the downfall of Siuan Sanche as Amyrlin.
She was contacted by various Forsaken shortly after their release: Lanfear, Be'lal, Graendal, and Mesaana.
===Keeper of the Chronicles===
Alviarin is made Keeper of the Chronicles when Elaida is raised to the Amyrlin Seat. This move was intended to win over the support of the Whites, who are traditionally (though not always) supporters of the Blue Ajah.
She has more influence over the Hall of the Tower than any Keeper in history. Elaida thinks she has as many as six Sitters under her thumb.
Alviarin uses her position to keep Elaida in the dark about what the Ajah networks pass on to her and what the Keeper's own networks have gathered. In this way, she influences how Elaida makes decisions, even in the early days. Her main motives are to destabilize the Tower even further. 
She later reports only to Mesaana, although she schemes even against her. Mesaana thinks that Alviarin would have preferred to be Amyrlin Seat herself.
Alviarin blackmails Elaida with her disasters at Dumai's Wells and the Attack on the Black Tower. She forces Elaida to swear to obey her and to remain out of sight, only speaking what Alviarin wishes her to speak. She forces Elaida to repeat a catechism to this effect when she believes Elaida is trying to go her own way.
One of her first orders to Elaida is to sign a declaration that anyone who approaches the Dragon Reborn save through the White Tower is an enemy of Tar Valon.
===After removal as Keeper===
Alviarin is removed as Keeper by a vote in the Hall similar to the one used by Elaida previously to depose Siuan. The justification for this was the unexplained absence of Alviarin when the rebel Aes Sedai turn up and start the Siege of Tar Valon. It is felt that Alviarin had abandoned the cause and that the Amyrlin needs a Keeper in such times. She is replaced by Tarna Feir.
Elaida also no longer fears Alviarin's threats and blackmail, as the blame for the disasters had been neatly passed onto Galina Casban and Toveine Gazal.
Alviarin is marked by Shaidar Haran, who is there to reprimand Mesaana for her failure to appear at the Battle near Shadar Logoth, as his property and under his protection. What effect this will have on Mesaana's authority over Alviarin remains to be seen, though Mesaana was already poised to kill her and Alviarin believes that she may do so regardless of her orders. Alviarin also believes that Shaidar Haran is the Great Lord made flesh.
Alviarin receives 'private penance' from Silviana Brehon daily, including before breakfast each morning. Norine Dovarna mentions that it is obvious that it is no such thing, but a punishment handed down by the Amyrlin. The entire White Ajah looks down on her because of her failure and fall from grace as Keeper.
Alviarin later approaches Egwene al'Vere while Egwene is held captive in the Tower and offers to aid her, but Egwene refuses Alviarin's assistance.
Alviarin is rightly suspicious about why Talene Minly did not accept her summons to the Council of Thirteen and says that she will have to be killed. She also thinks that Doesine Alwain and Yukiri may be involved and is having them watched by Black sisters in their Ajah. It will be a race of whether the Black Ajah Hunters catch Alviarin before she catches them.
=== Fleeing the Tower ===
Alviarin's allegiance is revealed to Egwene by Verin Mathwin's book on the Black Ajah. However, Alviarin manages to escape the White Tower before being taken into custody.
She begins prowling the White Tower at night in Tel'aran'rhiod using one of the stolen dream ter'angreal. She attacks Egwene from behind but Egwene appears behind her before her weave of Fire connects, instead hitting Talva. Alviarin disappears before Egwene can capture her.
She returns to Tel'aran'rhiod and is part of the Black sisters' attack on Egwene and the White Tower Aes Sedai. Mesaana is captured during the battle but Alviarin manages to escape.
=== The Last Battle ===
Alviarin shows up again at the Field of Merrilor as one of the Dreadlords in charge. By this time, she has teamed up with at least one Black sister from Liandrin's group of Black sisters, Rianna Andomeran, and several of Mazrim Taim's lackeys, such as Atal Mishraile and Varil Nensen, who was Turned at the Black Tower. She has bonded the latter.
While seemingly chasing after Rand al'Thor - Androl Genhald in disguise - through a gateway, Alviarin and her group are unknowingly led into an Ogier stedding, Stedding Sholoon. Lindsar, Eldest of Stedding Sholoon, thinks a few decades in the stedding might make the Friends of the Dark reconsider their path.
Alviarin is presumed to be alive and a captive in Stedding Sholoon.
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