[[Category:Seanchan]]
Tuon Athaem Kore Paendrag, is the Daughter of the Nine Moons, the second and favorite daughter of the Empress of the Seanchan empire. She is 19 years old and described as being dark skinned, petite, with a heart-shaped face and having large brown eyes, and full lips. Her personal banner is two gold lions harnessed to an ancient war-cart.
Tuon was first mentioned in The Great Hunt, when High Lord Turak identified her as standing highest of the Empress' children in terms of favor, and has become more central to the plot since one of the series' main characters, Mat, has proclaimed that she is to be his wife. Seanchan custom holds that proclaiming the statement aloud three times before witnesses completes the wedding ritual for that person. The person addressed as one's spouse has a full year to say the other person is their spouse three times. If both people have proclaimed the other as their spouse, they are considered married.
She is the known as the Daughter of the Nine Moons, the title taken by the heir to the Seanchan empire, and makes her first appearance in the series in Book 9 (Winter's Heart), where she docks in Ebou Dar. It is here among the city's royal palace that Tuon first meets Mat when he barges in on a meeting between her and Tylin. Throughout the rest of the novel it seems that she takes great care to be wherever Mat is and based upon an earlier conversation between Tuon and Anath, her Truthspeaker, about a damane 's telling of her future, many speculate that that foretelling has to do with Mat, one begins to see why. When Mat is about to escape with Amathera and the Aes Sedai made prisoners by the Seanchan, Tuon intercedes and they struggle, but Noal Charin holds her. She is named Daughter of the Nine Moons by Egeanin causing Mat to speak aloud (three times) that she is his wife, which in turn cause Tuon to smile. Left with no options, Mat kidnaps her and her servant Selucia.
Valan Luca's circus is where Tuon is hidden for most of the next book (Crossroads of Twilight ) and it is also where Mat tries to woo his wife-to-be. Learning that she is being characterized as a disloyal servant, Tuon grows angry and nicknames Mat 'Toy'. After returning from a trip with him and her servant from a town, they learn that a former sul'dam Renna stabbed Egeanin and has run off. Mat pursues and has Renna killed to protect Tuon and the others, but upon his return to the circus Tuon makes it known that it and everyone is under her protection for the time being. Everyone that is but Mat.
Knife of Dreams finds Tuon still traveling along with Mat as he discovers that Moiraine is still alive. The Band of the Red Hand is no longer in Salidar while Aes Sedai and the Seanchan are looking for Tuon everywhere. It is also written that what was told to her about her future from the damane concerning Mat (whom she marries) and that she is now the Empress of the Seanchan because her mother the former Empress was killed.
