Ogier

Customs/Beliefs:

• "The Builders"
• The longing began during the Exile after the Breaking.
• Stedding were found again in the years of the Covenant of the 10 Nations.
• Can not be out of a Stedding too long or the Longing takes them.
• Protector of The Great Trees; that is what they treasure the most.
• "Putting a long handle on your axe" means being hasty or angry.
• Helped male channelers grow the Ways and tended them. Ways outside Stedding and in Groves. They were created from studying the "Worlds of If". No one allowed to travel the ways in 100 years.
• The Wheel of Time gave the Breaking of the world, the Exile, and Stone, the Longing before giving the Stedding.
• Aes Sedai can not touch or even sense the True Source in a Stedding; several male Aes Sedai sought sanctuary in the Steddings, but eventually could not handle not touching the Source; before the Males Aes Sedai left they gave the Ways to the Ogier and left a talisman that could grow more.
• There have been five who stayed out 10 years, 3 died w/in a year of returning to the Stedding, 1 is now an invalid, and the last (Dalar) walks w/a stick.
• No fighting; no hand is raised against another in a Stedding.
• When a girl sees a boy that she likes she tells her mother who then talks to his mother and a marriage is arranged with out the boys say - women say that it would never get done if it was left ot the men.
• Play dice games with four dice.
• Usually do not carry weapons saying the price is too high.
• At Stedding Tsofu: young men are clean shaven; old men have long mustaches and narrow beards under chin; embroidered flowers on cloaks of young women, dresses of older women; gray-haired women have flowers and vines from neck to hem
• Great Trees: Never cut down unless one dies; few survived the Breaking; some of the larges were seedlings in the Age of Legends; Ogier in charge of caring for them.

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