Salinya Desolee




Salinya Desolee was born in Tanchio, Tarabon, in the Panarch's Palace. Her mother was a servant, only seventeen, and no one knew who her father was. After Salinya's birth, inquiries were made all over the palace, and throughout Tanchio as to who her father could be, but no one ever found out. Her mother refused to say anything about who the possible father was, and eventually, it all died down. The Panarch was disgusted that she had such a servant, but did not want to turn her out with a new child, so she kept Salinya's mother on, but refused to see her.

When Salinya was old enough, her mother had her sent to school with the other children. Salinya made many friends, but when the rumor came out that she did not know who her father was, at the age of six, she lost them all. Salinya was very bright, so she continued on at the school, going through every day without speaking to anyone except her teachers. For four more years, she continued on this way, until she received a message that she was to return home at once.

Fearing the worst, Salinya hurried home to the Palace. She burst in the side doors with tears flowing down her face. She was sure something had happened to her mother, and her fears proved to be correct.

Salinya was directed to her mother's room where she found her laying on a bed, still, and not breathing. Salinya was told that she had just passed out while she was working, and by the time she was brought to her room, she had stopped breathing.

For several days, ten-year-old Salinya stayed in her room, not eating, or speaking to anyone. When the news finally reached the Panarch, five days later, of Salinya's mother's death, and Salinya's solitude, she was outraged. Even though the Panarch had refused to see Salinya's mother, she had always felt badly for the girl.

Daring the rumors, the Panarch hurried to Salinya. She found the girl still crying. Though she could do nothing for Salinya's sadness, she could do something about her loss of family. The Panarch promptly adopted Salinya into her family.

It was several weeks before Salinya would leave her rooms, and several more before she would leave the Palace. When she finally decided that she could return to school, the Panarch told her that she had a new school picked out for her, where she would attend school with the Panarch's children.

There, Salinya met a few people that cared nothing for the circumstances of her birth, and she finally had people to call her friends.

When she was fifteen, five years after the death of her mother, there was an Aes Sedai visiting the Panarch, and the instant she was introduced to Salinya, she told the girl that she could channel. Of course, this was something that Salinya had known for many years, as she had been teaching herself since she was twelve.

Salinya returned to the Tower with the visiting Aes Sedai, and began her training directly as an Accepted . She felt that she had been betrayed by her life, and the Light, and everything she had been bred to believe in, but still, she continued her studies as an Accepted.