Aramala was a Jaghut woman. She was nearly as tall as Karsa Orlong and her hair was long, murky brown, and tied at the back.[1] Her eyes were pearlescent grey with vertical pupils.[2]
History[]
Aramala and Cynnigig had once helped the T'lan Imass defeat the Jaghut Tyrants, but afterwards the T'lan Imass turned on them and tried to kill them.[3] Aramala hid from the T'lan Imass in a tower within Omtose Phellack on the Jhag Odhan. Eventually she had been discovered by an advanced scouting party of seven T'lan Imass. She managed to kill seven of the eight scouts, but the last escaped and many years later returned with an army of T'lan Imass. Unable to kill her, they pinned her beneath a rock in her tower surrounded by a ring of stones invested with Tellann. Eventually the High Tellann Ritual would destroy her core of Omtose Phellack and destroy the Jhag Odhan.[4]
In House of Chains[]
Karsa Orlong travelled through the Tellann and Omtose Phellack Warrens while travelling from the Ugarat Odhan to the Jhag Odhan. In Omtose Phellack he discovered a number of Jhag pinned beneath heavy slabs. Remembering his disastrous encounter with the Forkrul Assail, Calm, he left the stones undisturbed. Later, he found Aramala naked and pinned under a large stone in her tower. The Jaghut greeted Karsa and explained her predicament. Determined to right the injustice, the Teblor moved to free her. Karsa was somehow able to breach the spell and lift the stone, much to Aramala's surprise.[5]
Aramala said she owed Karsa her life and offered to repay him for his kindness. The Teblor asked for her help in finding a Jhag horse, as well as any information she possessed regarding the seven T'lan Imass of the scouting party that had found her. Aramala also stated her intention to release the Jhag half-bloods Karsa had discovered earlier.[6]
Aramala contacted Cynnigig, who helped Karsa secure the Jhag horse the Teblor named Havok.[7]
Speculations[]
It was likely that the seven T'lan Imass scouts she opposed had been the Unbound and her attack on them that destroyed all but one of them, led to their "failure" in the eyes of the remaining T'lan Imass.
Notes and references[]
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.520
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.518
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.579
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.517-518
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.514-519
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.520
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.578-586