Silvia O'Hara




Silvia was born 45 years ago to the O’Hara family. She always thought her family had always lived in Andor, but her tight red curls and emerald green eyes seemed a bit out of place. Silvia grew up in a large manor a mile north of Whitebridge on the Andor side. The manor had been in her family for over six hundred years, parts rebuilt every so often. The library, which was Silvia’s favorite spot in the house, was being rebuilt around her tenth birthday.

Silvia’s father had been helping with the rebuilding when the roof caved in. Silvia’s mother, Kathrine Sedai, had been in Tar Valon helping the Amyrlin take care of a Novice when it happened, so Silvia was left alone until her mother came back. Silvia had the servants to take care of her and when the library was finally finished she went into the area her mother had often gone to and was surprised by what she found.

Half of the library was filled with books from the Tar Valon library. Silvia spent three days reading everything she could before her mother came home. When she did, Silvia curtsied and greeted her mother as Aes Sedai. They talked for hours and Katherine Sedai instructed Silvia on embracing to see if she had Saidain. When she saw that she did, Silvia was sent to the White Tower for training.

Silvia spent years at the White Tower, first as a Novice, but then as an Accepted. It was when she was going to take the test when her mother pulled her aside to speak with her. Kathrine Sedai told her daughter that she was dying. She then told her about the Black Ajah and everything it held. Silvia was taken aback from hearing her mother talk of these things. Kathrine asked Silvia to take her place in the Black Ajah, she said she wanted to see her daughter become the best.

Silvia was allowed to go home for a week to take care of her mother until her aunt arrived. It was a week that lasted an eternity. After Silvia’s aunt arrived she left for the Black Ajah to do her final studies before becoming an Aes Sedai. She learned many things there that she was never able to learn at the tower.

Years passed, Silvia became an Aes Sedai. She had spent years in their service before she met an Asha’man of the Black Ajah who she later fell in love with. Not only were they bonded, but also they married. Silvia. Silvia Sedai went back to her mother’s manor when she became pregnant. She spent nine months and two years studying every book in the library after Gabrielle’s birth.

On Gabrielle’s second birthday, news came that two wilders had killed Silvia’s husband. But Silvia had already known about it. She instructed the messenger to send for her aunt to take care of Gabrielle while she was gone. When her aunt arrived she left for the Black Ajah to hire someone to track the two wilders down so she could get her revenge.

The hunt lasted for seven years. Silvia had joined the hunt a few years before the deaths, when she found out that her daughter was physically disabled and would die well before her tenth birthday. Silvia had found the two wilders at night, and gave them no mercy. The next morning she checked back at the campsite to make sure they were dead when she saw a child crying as she ran toward her.

Silvia talked with the child for a while and came up with a great idea. She took the child into her home in hopes that she’d eventually fall into Silvia’s steps and go into the Black Ajah. When Aurora arrived with Silvia, Gabrielle wasn’t pleased with her new playmate so she made sure that Aurora would get into trouble everyday. Silvia was overjoyed to find that Aurora was a troublemaker and allowed her into the library.

When Gabrielle died a year later, Silvia was crushed. It crushed her even more when she found out that Aurora wasn’t the troublemaker she thought she was. Silvia knew she couldn’t do anything then about Aurora. Silvia spent five years trying to figure out what to do with Aurora. She finally decided that she was going to kill her so she called up the man who had helped her with Aurora’s parents. When he arrived it was Aurora’s 13th birthday and when he heard what she wanted him to do he tried to talk her out of it.

Aurora had overheard Silvia’s conversation with the man and ran away that night. Silvia had thought her troubles were over until she thought about what would happen if Aurora figured out for herself what Silvia actually was. Silvia made plans with the man before he left for her to go to Al'Har Aman to play the part of an Aes Sedai of the Brown Ajah to find out if Aurora had figured it out or not.