Character from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light and one of the Great Captains — a brilliant strategist tragically dedicated to fighting the wrong war.
Pedron Niall was a Great Captain — one of the five finest military minds alive — who spent his genius fighting channelers and Darkfriends instead of the actual Shadow. He was the Whitecloak Lord Captain Commander, politically astute and strategically brilliant, but committed to an institution whose fundamental premise (that all channeling was evil) made him an obstacle to the forces that needed to unite against the Dark One. He was assassinated by Abdel Omerna.
Old and white-haired but ramrod straight, with the bearing of a lifelong soldier. He wears the white cloak and golden sunburst of the Whitecloak Lord Captain Commander with the authority of decades of command.
Also known as: Pedron Niall, Lord Captain Commander Niall