*sighs wistfully* My oldest char from WoT RPs, of course, Amalia Sedai of the Green (yes, I borrowed her name for the nick, it`s one I can remember
). She is a little bit like Cadsuane, insofar as she doesn`t spend much time in the White Tower - she`s usually somewhere at the Blightborder, fighting the Blight - and often goes her own way. But she never bludgeones others into doing what she wants them to do unless it`s a really dangerous situation.
Except Moiraine and Siuan all older Aes Sedai have been fools in one way or the other, so focused on the White Tower and Daes Dae`mar and blinded by the power they have that they don`t really realize what happens in the world. Amalia was my attempt to write an Aes Sedai who is somwhat different from the stereotypical Aes Sedai, but still has a lot of Aes Sedai traits. She`s Shienaran - hence her fixation on fighting the Blight, a certain dislike of Daes Dae`mar and the deep conviction she`s not invincible - but she does keep a lot of things back, plays Daes Dae`mar after a fashion without realizing it, cares a lot for Aes Sedai dignity in general but is prepared to ignore all dignity when necessary and has some other contradicting character traits which make her quite a complex character even though she seems simple at first glance. That she became a living legend in the Borderlands was an unintended side effect of my having had too many threads at the Blightborder with rather spectacular fights and her having worn the shawl for more than a century...
Ah yeah, it would be really awesome to have her just mentioned in AMOL *gets starry-eyed*
