Aiel - Rhuidean

Rhuidean

After the Breaking of the World, the Aiel, like all people, wandered the land looking for safe refuge from the depredations of the insane male channelers; this brought the Aiel to the Three-fold Land in the first place, and the Aes Sedai who accompanied them. These Aes Sedai, who were the remainders of those left in the world not strong enough to challenge male wielders of the power, were entrusted with a great store of artifacts, containing all three types of angreal. These artifacts could not be allowed to fall into the hands of the mad male Aes Sedai, and were sent away against a foreseen need in the future. With the Aiel split in two, the warlike Aiel found habitation in the Waste, utilizing caves, natural and man-made, shadowed bluffs and areas where water, in small amounts, was known to be available. The Jenn Aiel, meanwhile, built the only city there, which they named Rhuidean. The entire purpose of their travel, as it would seem, was to find a place of safety, as after the male Aes Sedai went mad with the taint, it was foreseen that they would need to flee lest they be wiped out as a people. The Aes Sedai responsible for this foretelling saw that, in time, the Da'shain Aiel would only be associated with serving the Dragon, Lews Therin Telamon, and no other Aes Sedai at all. Rhuidean was never definitively inhabited, and was abandoned when the Jenn Aiel died out; however, it is still used for raising clan chiefs and Wise Ones, a practice instigated by the Jenn to ensure that the Aiel, as the last remainders of the Da'shain legacy, were aware of their origins.

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