Tar Valon
City-state of the White Tower, seat of the Aes Sedai.
Tar Valon is one of the four major city-states of the Westlands and home of the White Tower, from which the Amyrlin Seat rules the Aes Sedai. Egwene al'Vere and Nynaeve al'Meara come there as novices in The Great Hunt, where they meet Elayne Trakand and Min Farshaw, and Galad and Gawyn train as Warders.
Lore & Background
New Spring opens in Tar Valon with the Foretelling that the Dragon has been reborn and the death of the Amyrlin Tamra Ospenya. After the Tower splits under Elaida, Egwene leads the rebel Aes Sedai to besiege the city in The Path of Daggers and Crossroads of Twilight, blocks its river port and is kidnapped by the Tower's agents; the Tower is reunified from her perspective in The Gathering Storm.
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