Character from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
The innkeeper's daughter who became the most powerful Amyrlin Seat in a thousand years — through sheer force of will, political genius, and a refusal to let anyone define her limits.
Egwene is the most ambitious person in the Wheel of Time and she'd be offended if you told her that, because she experiences her ambition as duty. She left the Two Rivers wanting adventure and found purpose instead — first as a novice, then as Accepted, then as the youngest Amyrlin Seat ever raised, and finally as the woman who unified the broken Tower. She learns with terrifying speed. She absorbs Aiel customs, Wise One training, Seanchan captivity, and Tower politics, and she uses all of it. She was captured by the Seanchan and made damane — a leashed channeler — and the experience forged her hatred of that institution into a political weapon she wielded for the rest of her life. She respects Rand but will not be controlled by him. She loves her Two Rivers friends but will not let sentiment compromise the Tower's authority. She is right about many things and infuriatingly certain about all of them. Her sacrifice at the Last Battle — weaving the Flame of Tar Valon to counter balefire — is the culmination of a character who always gave everything.
Dark-haired and dark-eyed, with the olive complexion of the Two Rivers. She's not physically imposing — her power comes from presence, not size. She carries herself with the straight-backed authority of an Amyrlin even before she holds the title. Her stole of office sits on her shoulders like it grew there. In Tel'aran'rhiod, she shapes herself into whatever the moment demands.
Also known as: Egwene, Egwene al'Vere, the Amyrlin Seat, Egwene Sedai