Be'lal

What We Know of Be'lal

  • name: Duram Laddel Cham
  • occupation: advocate (lawyer)
  • aka: the Envious, the Netweaver

    Very little is known about the life of Duram Laddel Cham in the years before the war. A tall, athletic man, Duram was a patient, cunning, and capable fighter willing to do battle directly with the foe. He held several field commands for the Dark One, and was considered to be a master of manipulation.

    After his release from the Bore, he assumed the identity of High Lord Samon of Tear, but was killed by Moiraine Sedai in the Stone of Tear with Balefire.

    Clues from the Text

    [TDR: 55, What is Written in Prophecy, 354]

  • The tall man with close-cropped white hair who stepped from the shadows among the columns was familiar to him. Rand had no idea who he was, this fellow in red silk coat with black stripes down its puffy sleeves and black breeches tucked into elaborately silver-worked boots.

    [TDR: 50, the Hammer, 510-11]

    "Be'lal... I do not know what can be in the stories about him you do not already know. He is not much mentioned, except in the razing of the Hall of the Servants just before Lews Therin Kinslayer and the Hundred Companions sealed him up with the Dark One. Jalanda son of Aried son of Coiam wrote that he was called the Envious, that he forsook the Light because he envied Lews Therin, and that he envied Ishamael and Lanfear, too. In A Study of the War of the Shadow, Moilin daughter of Hamada daughter of Juendan called Be'lal the Netweaver, but I do not know why. She mentioned him playing a game of stones with Lews Therin and winning, and that he always boasted of it... Several writers say Be'lal and Sammael were both leaders in the fight against the Dark One before they forsook the Light, and both were masters of the sword."

    --Loial


    Updated 07/21/99