History Characters / TheWheelOfTimeRoyalLineOfAndor

** However, Rand and Elayne do share a mutual half-brother, Galad, who is Rand's maternal and Elayne's paternal half-brother. Rand knows this by Book 5, but it's unclear if Elayne ever learns it during the series proper.

** It gets to the point that it's very close to a [[spoiler: deconstruction of ContractualImmortality. Elayne is safe from death... but not imprisonment, severe injury, mind control, or any number of other nasty things that very resourceful, very evil antagonists have done in the story. And once her pregnancy has advanced far enough that the twins can survive outside her womb, there's nothing to say that she won't suffer a fatal injury necessitating a C-section. Furthermore, she seems to forget that those around her are not under said contract]].
** Actually, Elayne is very conscious of the limitations of her guarantee, noting in her stream of consciousness that nothing protects her children after they are born, or herself as soon as that happens, or other people. [[spoiler:When Aviendha activates a mysterious device they don't quite understand, Elayne tells her it could be dangerous, and Aviendha apologizes for endangering her and her unborn children. Elayne reminds her that Elayne herself was safe, because of the viewing, but Aviendha was not.]] Meanwhile, in her head, Elayne is noting that the viewing doesn't even protect Elayne herself from things like losing her powers. For most of the series, she is not far enough along in her pregnancy for it to be possible that the children might survive something that kills her. Elayne uses the viewing as a defense against her entourage and loved ones trying to smother her with unnecessary care or to keep her from taking necessary risks, when she is the most powerful channeler with combat experience in the city, during a time of war, when she is trying to prove her right to a throne, where personal demonstrations of courage are expected, and even the appearance of cowardice might cost her support.

* WhatTheHellHero: Aviendha and Birgitte call her and Nynaeve out for being Ungrateful Bastards to Mat.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When not brainwashed, she's a good monarch, genuinely concerned for her people, and a very fair judge. She shuts down her very forceful Aes Sedai advisor, Elaida, refusing to let her use ExactWords to try and influence her judgement of a young Rand who she treats both fairly and kindly, she makes a point of educating all her children about the duties of royalty as well as the rights (which is largely why Elayne is SpoiledSweet), and when judging Perrin for the deaths of the two Whitecloaks, [[spoiler: she finds him technically guilty within the bounds of the law... but finagles some LoopholeAbuse to extract a mutually acceptable compromise]]. She also doesn't hesitate to [[spoiler: abdicate in her daughter's favour when it becomes clear that her position is untenable, to protect both her daughter]].

%%* BadassNormal
* DeadlyUpgrade: [[spoiler:In Book 14, he puts on a [[SuperSoldier Blood]][[YourDaysAreNumbered knife]] ring, gaining limited {{invisibility}} and SuperSpeed, but shortening his lifespan to days. He puts on two more later, augmenting the effect... [[SubvertedTrope but dies of battle rather than the artifacts themselves]].]]

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: A great believer in this, as are all Whitecloaks. Morgase muses if she should have attempted to teach him that [[GreyAndGreyMorality morality is not even shades of grey]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality but full of colors that didn’t sometimes fit into any spectrum of morality]] more forcefully. In the end, he does prove to have enough humanity to avoid BlackAndWhiteInsanity, though.

* MasterSwordsman: Extremely skilled with a sword, but gains this title officially (as well as the trademark Heron-mark sword of a Blademaster) when he duels and kills [[spoiler:Eamon Valda]]. Also makes a hell of a showing against [[spoiler:Demandred]]. According to [[WordOfGod Robert Jordan's listing]] using characters known at the time he DiedDuringProduction, he is the third-best swordsman in the series, behind Lan and Rand. [[spoiler: His failure to defeat Demandred presumably establishes him as "merely" the 4 the best swordsman overall.]]

* HappilyAdopted: By Morgase, whom he always calls "Mother".

* NiceGuy: For all his rigidity, he's genuinely one of the nicest and most honourable characters in the series. Even his worst actions, like starting a riot by moving against a cult leader to get the lead female characters out of a city, are somewhat justified as NecessarilyEvil at worst (as he notes himself, the city was on the verge of a riot anyway and the cult leader had to be dealt with sooner or later). He is ''definitely'' the nicest member of The Whitecloaks as well, and proves to be a positive influence on them.

* {{Determinator}}: Abandoning her old life, she enters the Aiel Waste in search of the Maidens of the Spear, pressing on after her horse dies and after she runs out of water, she is found near death but refuses to be deterred from joining them. [[spoiler:Later she goes into battle despite being pregnant and dies on a battlefield after giving birth (to Rand)]].

* ImperiledInPregnancy: Elayne gets pregnant in the ninth book. Thanks to a prophetic viewing, she is convinced her children can't be harmed and gets into trouble several times, finally coming to her senses after a particular wound runs dangerously close to her womb. Then things get brutal: during the climax of the last book, she runs afoul of Daved Hanlon (a.k.a. Doilin Mellar), who intends to [[spoiler: cut out her unborn twins and use magic to keep them alive until they can be offered to the BigBad. He promises to rape her afterward. A timely plot device saves the day, however.]]

* ImperiledInPregnancy: Elayne gets pregnant in the ninth book. Thanks to a prophetic viewing, she is convinced her children can't be harmed and gets into trouble several times, finally coming to her senses after a particular wound runs dangerously close to her womb. Then things get brutal: during the climax of the last book, she runs afoul of a minor villain from previous books who intends to [[spoiler: cut out her unborn twins and use magic to keep them alive until they can be offered to the BigBad. He promises to rape her afterward. A timely plot device saves the day, however.]]

* GoodStepmother: To Galad, whom she considers her son as well as her biological children, and the feeling is mutual.

Andor is the largest and most populous country in the West. The oldest tradition of Andor is that [[LadyLand only a queen]] may sit on the Lion Throne and wear the Rose Crown. The eldest daughter is known as the Daughter-Heir, and is always sent to Tar Valon to study, regardless of whether she can channel a lick. The eldest brother of the Daughter-Heir is sworn to protect her with his life, and is prepared from an early age to take control of Andor's army. He is given the title First Prince of the Sword.

Elaida Sedai had a Foretelling that the royal line of Andor would be critical to the Last Battle, and thereafter stuck with them to keep an eye on things. This prophecy was ''actually'' supposed to refer to the ''former'' Daughter-Heir, Tigraine Mantear, who received a Foretelling from ''another'' Aes Sedai, Gitara Moroso, that she (Tigraine) had better abdicate and go east if she (Tigraine) didn't want to [[SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld lose the Last Battle]]. She followed orders, leaving behind her husband Taringail Damodred (nephew of the king of Cairhien) and their son Galad, and sparking off a SuccessionCrisis that ended with Morgase Trakand on the Lion Throne and married to her predecessor's husband. Foretelling being an imprecise discipline, Elaida never quite figured out that she had ended up with the wrong "royal line of Andor," but the Trakands ended up being major figures for the Light anyhow, so it all worked out in the end.

At the start of the series, Morgase is the current Queen of Andor; she has two children, Gawyn and Elayne, by her late husband Taringail, and has adopted Galad as well.

* BladeOnAStick: The weapon of choice for all Aiel and specifically the Maidens of the Spear.

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:With Egwene as of ''Towers of Midnight'' after the Battle in Tel'aran'rhiod. They marry in Book 14.]]

* BadassInCharge: Of the Youngling forces.

* BadassInCharge: [[spoiler:Of the Children of the Light as of the prologue for Book 11. More concretely in Book 13.]]

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: A great believer in this, as are all Whitecloaks. Morgase muses if she should have attempted to teach him that [[GreyAndGreyMorality morality is not even shades of grey]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality but full of colors that didn’t sometimes fit into any spectrum of morality]] more forcefully.

* ArrangedMarriage: Perrin tries this on her because he is tired of the way she and Tallanvor keep moping over each other. She chews him out for it [[spoiler: then later asks Perrin to marry them anyway on her own terms.]]

* LightIsNotGood: Following Dumai's Wells, he tells Rand [[IllKillYou he will kill him]] for [[spoiler:[[HeroWithBadPublicity killing Morgase]]]]. He also serves [[spoiler:Elaida]] as Amyrlin Seat for quite some time. However, he is still against the Dark One and his forces. The only issue is that he's more of a hindrance than a benefit to the forces of the Light in the process [[spoiler:until his HeelFaceTurn]].

* HappilyAdopted: By Morgase.

* TemptingFate: Because Min has had a viewing that her twins will be born healthy, Elayne thinks she has PlotArmor until their birth. Other characters, Min included, are GenreSavvy enough to note that Elayne [[WrongGenreSavvy might be outsmarting herself here]]. [[spoiler:And, surprise surprise, it happened. In Towers of Midnight, Elayne is stabbed in the stomach whilst interrogating the Black Ajah. She survives, but appears to have learned her lesson.]]

* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler:Of a sort. With his LastWords, Gawyn reveals Rand's blood ties to Galad.]]

* {{Determinator}}: Abandoning her old life, she enters the Aiel Waste in search of the Maidens of the Spear, pressing on after her horse dies and after she runs out of water, she is found near death but refuses to be deterred from joining them. [[spoiler: Later she goes into battle despite being pregnant and dies on a battlefield after giving birth (to Rand).]]

* PregnantBadass: Was taking part in the Battle of the Shining Walls in the Aiel War while pregnant [[spoiler:with Rand]]. However, she ended up having what is very possibly DeathByChildbirth.

* SecondLove: With Janduin, clan chief of the Tardaad Aiel. Rand physically takes after him more than her.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: He certainly seems to believe this as he cannot understand how someone as beautiful as Berelain could follow a man who is so obviously a Shadowspawn. Wrong on two levels.