Band of the Red Hand
Mat Cauthon's personal army, Shen an Calhar.
The Band of the Red Hand, Shen an Calhar, is the army founded by Mat Cauthon, who leads it as its Marshal General. In Knife of Dreams Talmanes brings a large part of the Band to Mat in Altara, where it fights off a Seanchan force sent to kill Tuon, using fireworks as artillery.
Lore & Background
In the prologue of A Memory of Light the Forsaken Demandred raids Caemlyn with Trollocs to capture the cannons developed by Mat, Queen Elayne Trakand and the Illuminator Aludra; Talmanes Delovinde and the Band counter-attack and get the cannons out of the city, although Caemlyn itself is lost.
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