Salita Toranes is an Aes Sedai and for a while a rebel Sitter of the Yellow Ajah.
Appearance[]
Salita is a dark-skinned Tairen,[1] with skin "as dark as charcoal".[2] She is plump, with a round face[2] and cool eyes. She is about 5'4 tall.
She is known for her love of clothes, allegedly emptying her trunk every morning to find the perfect outfit, such as a yellow-slashed green dress embroidered with yellow scroll work on the bosom.[3]
Strength and Abilities[]
Salita is of low average strength for an Aes Sedai, with a One Power level of 27(15). She would be unable to Travel without linking with another channeler.
She appears to be a very fast learner with an eidetic memory. She doesn’t need to see a weave formed more than a couple of times to be able to reproduce it perfectly. She quickly mastered the new Healing weaves introduced by Nynaeve.
History[]
She is from a lesser noble house of Tear and still receives money from her estate.
She was born in 933 NE and went to the Tower in 950 NE.
She remained Novice nine years and seven as Accepted and she was raised to the shawl in 966 NE. Due to her quick learning Talent she might well have been allowed to move through Novice and Accepted even faster had she had also a stronger potential in the Power.
Salita is one of the Yellows who believes the other Ajahs are merely adjuncts to their own, as they believe Healing is the only useful application of the One Power.
Activities[]
Following the White Tower split in 999 NE, Salita has allied herself with the Salidar Aes Sedai.
Later that year, she was elected a Sitter for the Yellow Ajah. Romanda Cassin, her fellow Yellow Sitter and First Weaver, considered her intelligent, but a bad and inexperienced choice for a Sitter, and would much rather have had Dagdara Finchey raised. Unbeknownst to Romanda, Dagdara was Black Ajah.
She was jointly responsible for electing Egwene al'Vere as Amyrlin.[4]
Salita sometimes supported Egwene in the Hall and sometimes not.
At the War Vote, Salita stands voting positively.[1] Later, when the report on events at Shadar Logoth is delivered to the Sitters, she and Romanda arrive early to hear it. Salita again votes positively on an alliance with the Black Tower.[5]
She is one of the two Aes Sedai spectators who watch Kairen Stang and Ashmanaille turn ordinary iron into Cuendillar.[2] She complains because she thought that Aes Sedai should not be making things for sale. Being a noblewoman with income from her estate she is casual about money and contemptuous of trade.
At Lelaine Akashi's emergency meeting of the Hall, she stands to accept the offer from the Dragon Reborn of bonding forty-seven Asha'man.[3]
After the reunification of the Aes Sedai factions, she resigned her place as Sitter.