Danalyn Sonasori


Danalyn Sonasori was born in Mayene of a minor Lord and his Lady, in the years of choas after the Second Breaking. Danalyn was trained from a young age in Daes Dae'mar, to be an emissary in her Houses' struggle for survival. Her life was turned upside down, however, when an Aes Sedai advisor to the First visited her father, and sensed the spark in Danalyn. Her father,terrified of losing his only daughter (and any chance of marrying her into more powerful House) forbade her to go, forcing Danalyn to flee with the Sedai under cover of darkness.

Upon arriving at the Tower, Danalyn found her home. A sharp sense of wit and humor made her many friends, but her pride and hot temper made enemies at well. She was always getting into trouble with pranks, only to talk her way out of harsh punishment with a smooth tongue. She was a novice for four years, and an Accepted for only two before being welcomed into the Gray Ajah at the age of twenty-one.

After a few years as a Gray Sister, Danalyn recieved news that her father had killed himself, leaving bills that bankrupted her House. Her aged and widowed mother came to live at the Tower with her daughter, before dying peacefully in her sleep at age sixty. Since then, House Sonasori has fallen into harmless obscurity.

Now a Sister for almost eighty years, Danalyn has seven peace treaties under her belt, as well as ten years as an advisor to the Queen of Saldaea, where her warder Jomas was assasinated for unknown reasons.

Danalyn is tall and slim, with long light-brown hair, grey eyes, and a queenly look about her, that has aided in negotiations with Rulers who seem determined to undermine her authority. However, any austerity and aloofness can vanish in an instant. Eighty years as a Sister has yet to rid her of her wicked sense of humor.