Ferane Neheran

Ferane Neheran
Biographical Information
Nationality	Domani
Date of birth	727 NE
Current status	Alive
Physical description
Gender	Female
Height	Short
Build	Stout
Hair	Long, Black
Chronological and political information
First mentioned	TPOD 25
First appeared	COT 21
Last appeared	AMOL 31
Affiliation	White Tower
Occupation	Sitter
Title	First Reasoner
Rank	Aes Sedai
Ajah	White Ajah

Ferane Neheran is an Aes Sedai of the White Ajah. She is a former Sitter and is currently the White Ajah First Reasoner.

Appearance and Personality

Ferane is 5'2" or 158cm in height. She is plump and stout with a mild, round face and the coppery skin of a Domani She has steely black eyes . Her hair is long and black, at times looking like it is in urgent need of brushing.

Despite being a White, she has a fierce temper. She can appear vague as a Brown, and often as untidy, but she can catch the slightest crack in the logic of an argument.

Ferane never lost the skills taught to all Domani girls and has been known to captivate a man's attention whenever she wished. She also has a measure of vanity, evidenced by the relative luxury of her apartment furnishings.

Strength and Status

Ferane has a strength in the One Power of 21(9), average for an Aes Sedai. She would not be strong enough to Travel unless she has an above average skill in the Talent.

Although her strength alone is not enough to command respect over other sisters, the fact that she was a Sitter counts for a lot. Her position as Ajah Head also gives her additional status within her own Ajah.

History

Ferane is 273 years old and one of the oldest living Aes Sedai. She was born in the year 727 NE and went to the Tower in 742 NE. After spending nine years as novice and six as Accepted she was raised to the shawl in the year 757 NE.

She was elected Sitter in the year 981 NE and remained in that post until 992 NE. She likely left the hall because she was elected as First Reasoner of the White Ajah.

She resumed her seat in the Hall in 999 NE after the deposition of Siuan Sanche and Schism. It is considered unusual to return to the Hall so quickly.

She has a room on the third level of the White Tower. It has a beautiful view and a balcony shaped like a turret, covered by green vines.

Ferane has a sturdy, bowlegged Warder.

Activities

She has remained loyal to the White Tower during the schism. Together with the other Ajah heads, the simultaneous deposition of Siuan Sanche and election of Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan took her by surprise. Together they formulated a plan to rescue the situation by sending out Sitters to gather together sisters back to the Tower. Saroiya Farseen was the White Ajah sister chosen for this task.

She re-elected herself as Saroiya's replacement in the Hall, suggesting that the First Reasoner handpicks the White Sitters.

She had strong feelings about beginning negotiations with the Rebel Aes Sedai and is granted the request to make an attempt by Elaida, but with such strict conditions that they seemed impossible.

Ferane was noted to talk secretly with Jesse Bilal and Suana Dragand .

She was furious with Alviarin Freidhen for being stripped from the position of Keeper of the Chronicles and bringing disrepute to the White Ajah. She gave Alviarin a penance for shaming the White Ajah .

She is one of Egwene al'Vere's private tutors, and spanks her for being late to one of them. Egwene is serving Ferane when Ferane asks her on how she would have approached the Dragon Reborn. Egwene in turn tries to encourage Ferane to think logically and approach the other Ajahs to try and mend the White Tower cracks that have formed. Ferane respects Egwene. She also thinks Egwene would make a good White, and tells her as much.

She is at dinner with Elaida and most of the other Sitters when Elaida begins to taunt Egwene and demands her to stop telling lies about a Seanchan invasion on the White Tower. Egwene refuses and enrages Elaida to the point where she uses the One Power on Egwene, beating her severely. Egwene was also bleeding heavily at the time from a wound received from broken glass.

It is revealed that Ferane and the rest of the Ajah Heads are behind the Too Young Sitters conspiracy. Unfortunately their plan didn't work and they are forced to throw their support behind a new Amyrlin after Elaida is captured by the Seanchan. They all agree on Egwene.

As a Sitter in the Hall Ferane raises Egwene to the Amyrlin Seat some hours after the meeting with the others Ajah Heads.

She attends a meeting Romanda Cassin calls secretely. The Sitters try to hold a secret discussion without Egwene, to find some ways to temper the Amyrlin's power when a declaration of war is called. But Egwene is informed and comes to the reunion. Ferane slowly voted for a proposal that would allow only Egwene to deal with the monarchy of the world, which includes Rand al'Thor as he is King of Illian, while the Hall would take over prosecution of the war and deal with Gareth Bryne's army.

In that same meeting, Ferane voted in favour of the new rules and procedures in the Hall, which included temporarily replacing a Sitter when she is absent from the Hall and that no meeting of the Hall can commence without all Sitters and the Amyrlin Seat being present.

During the Last Battle Ferane is present in the Hall tent in Aes Sedai camp when Egwene realizes that Gareth Bryne is under Compulsion .