Character from The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
The youngest Amyrlin Seat in history — deposed, stilled, and Healed, she rebuilt herself from nothing and proved that losing the One Power didn't mean losing the power that mattered.
Siuan was the most politically gifted Amyrlin in living memory — she played the Tower's factions against each other, manipulated monarchs, and orchestrated the search for the Dragon Reborn from the Amyrlin's study. Then Elaida deposed her, and she was stilled — severed from the One Power — which should have destroyed her. Instead, she rebuilt. Reduced to a fraction of her former strength after Healing, stripped of title and authority, she became the engine behind the rebel Aes Sedai camp. She mentored Egwene, managed logistics, ran intelligence operations, and held the rebellion together through sheer force of personality. She couldn't channel strongly enough to light a candle, and she was still the most dangerous political mind in the room. She swears like the fisherman's daughter she is, uses fish metaphors that make Tower-raised Aes Sedai wince, and never lost the street-fighter's instinct that got her to the Amyrlin Seat in the first place.
Originally ageless with the Aes Sedai look; after being stilled and Healed, she appears as a handsome middle-aged woman with blue eyes and a fisherman's directness in her gaze. She lost most of her channeling ability and all of her agelessness, which she treats as a personal insult. She still carries herself like an Amyrlin even when no one recognizes her.
Also known as: Siuan, Siuan Sanche, the Amyrlin