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- Sea Folk can be touchy until they feel they
know you. (IV: 308)
- the Sea Folk are seen as secretive, and keep
to themselves, they are almost as mysterious as the Aiel. (IV: 309)
- Sea Folk keep unreadable expressions among
strangers? (IV: 312)
- Sea Folk are said to care only about sailing
and searching for the Coramoor, the Chosen One. (I: 356)
- Sea Folk refer to ships as masculine. (IV:
311)
- Sea Folk rarely go on land - men weep when
they must serve ashore. (IV: 316)
- touching the heart is the salute of a Sea Folk
deckboy. (IV: 318)
- it takes 7-10 days for an Sea Folk raker to
sail to Tanchico from Tear, an unbelievable speed for any other type of
ship. The next fastest ship would take 15 days, and a coasting craft
could take up to 100. (IV: 335)
- Sea Folk never take a ship further from open
sea than nearest port. (VI: 123)
- kissing one's fingertips and touching them to
another's lips is a gesture of honor between lovers and family members.
(IV: 641)
- desc of formal greeting (IV: 311)
- desc of tea ritual (IV: 314)
- The Light be merciful to all who sail. (IV:
312)
- If it pleases the Light. (IV: 313)
- The Light see us safe to docking. (IV: 316)
- desc of why Sea Folk refer to their ships as
"he" (IV: 335)
- shorebound (non-sailors) (IV: 314)
- Father of Storms (Dark One) (IV: 318)
- The wave that has passed cannot be called
back. (IV: 333)
- If it pleases the Light, all will be well. All
will be well, and all manner of things will be well, if it pleases the
Light. (IV: 334)
- The Light illumine [his/her] soul, and the
waters take [him/her] peacefully. (IV: 335)
- examples of Sea Folk familial relationships
(IV: 311)
- Sea Folk divided into clans? (VI: 376)
- kissing one's fingertips and touching them to
another's lips is a gesture of honor between lovers and family members.
(IV: 641)
- Sea Folk feel you must be born and die on
water, a woman will go onto a rowboat to give birth if she has to, to
fulfil this, and corpses are given burial at sea. (IV: 316)
- Sea Folk very rarely agree to carry Aes Sedai
passengers, and Aes Sedai are the only people who may be refused
passage, "and almost always are, as from the first day of the first
sailing." Knowing this, the Aes Sedai rarely bother asking. (IV:
314-315)
- many Sea Folk consider Aes Sedai bad luck.
(IV: 318)
- the real reason the Sea Folk are leery of Aes
Sedai is because some Windfinders can Channel. (IV: 333)
- there are Sea Folk Aes Sedai. (II: 52)
- the Sea Folk send a few girls to the Tower so
the Aes Sedai won't come looking for them and find out about the
Windfinders. (IV: 334)
- Sea Folk Windfinder could feel Elayne and
Nynaeve's strengths. (IV: 334)
- the Sea Folk have an oily potion to help those
with seasickness. (IV: 641)
- Sea Folk very close-mouthed with non-Sea Folk.
(II: 108)
- the Sea Folk are seen as secretive, and keep
to themselves, they are almost as mysterious as the Aiel. (IV: 309)
- even the Sea Folk know little of the lands
beyond the Aiel Waste. They allowed only to dock in certain harbors,
which are walled and closely guarded. Any ship other than the Sea Folk,
or Sea Folk who go where they're not permitted simply disappear. (IV:
331)
- Sea Folk refuse to cross Ayrth Ocean, they say
the Islands of the Dead are on the other side. (II: 108; III: 20)
- the Sea Folk don't approve of the excessive
Cairhien revelry during the Feast of Lights. (VI: 666)
Intra-ship politics
- the Cargomaster on a Sea Folk ship
conducts trade based on the travel route. (IV: 317)
- Sea Folk pay gleemen well. (II: 382)
Inter-ship politics
- the Sailmistress and Windfinder of one
vessel would honor their counter-parts on another vessel by bathing
together, serving honeyed wine, and telling tall tales. (IV: 319)
- it's the Windfinder, not the Sailmistress,
who decides whether to accept passengers? (IV: 316-317)
- the crew of a Sea Folk ship is half male,
half female. (IV: 569)
- Sea Folk Sailmistress' feelings towards
her ship. (IV: 335)
- Sea Folk do not "charge" for passage, rather
passengers exchange a gift of value equal to the gift of passage. (IV: 311)
- it's the Windfinder, not the Sailmistress, who
decides whether to accept passengers? (IV: 316-317)
- the Sea Folk make the best looking glasses and
burning lenses off on one of their islands. Spectacles are very rare. (IV:
317)
- the Cargomaster on a Sea Folk ship conducts trade
based on the travel route. (IV: 317)
- the Sea Folk trade a good deal of silk through
Tear. (III: 590)
- the Sea Folk trade ivory and silk that they buy
from lands beyond the Waste. (IV: 309)
- the sources of ivory and silk are not known in the
known part of the world, even to the SF who trade for them. (IV: 331)
- Sea Folk porcelain as thin as leaves. (IV: 76)
- porcelain in golden color. (IV: 76)
- thin, green porcelain of Sea Folk costs its weight
in silver. (III: 217)
- Sea Folk pay gleemen well. (II: 382)
- it takes 7-10 days for an Sea Folk raker to sail
to Tanchico from Tear, an unbelievable speed for any other type of ship. The
next fastest ship would take 15 days, and a coasting craft could take up to
100. (IV: 335)
- the Sea Folk have an oily potion to help those
with seasickness. (IV: 641)
- the sources of ivory and silk are not known in the known part of the world,
even to the Sea Folk who trade for them. (IV: 331)
- the Sea Folk make the best looking glasses and burning lenses off on one of
their islands. Spectacles are very rare. (IV: 317)
- there is at least one non-Sea Folk craftsman who makes lenses and looking
glasses. (V: 463)
- the "vast" sum of 3000 gold is considered necessary to convince a Sea Folk Sailmistress to change her sail plans, enough money to buy at least one ship,
and probably more. (IV: 314)
- the Sea Folk are not overly tall, of only
average height. (IV: 311)
- the Sea Folk are dark with curly hair. (III:
343)
- the Sea Folk are dark-skinned, with straight
black hair. (IV: 309)
- Sea Folk man dark skinned and tattooed. (V:
234)
- the Sea Folk are a graceful people, especially
the women, who are also rumored to be exceptionally beautiful and
tempting. (IV: 309)
- sailors go barefoot and bare-chested. The
men are clean-shaven. (IV: 309)
- both genders wear gold or silver
necklaces, and earrings, sometimes more than one and with stones set
in them. (IV: 309)
- the number of earrings and other jewelry
indicate rank among the Sea Folk. (IV: 310)
- one of the tattoos is of stars and
seabirds surrounded by stylized waves. (IV: 310)
- gold wire inlays and carving decorate belt
knives. (IV: 311)
- desc of Sea Folk Windfinder jewelry (VI:
448)
- the Sea Folk have tattoos on their hands.
(IV: 309)
- both genders wear baggy breeches of dark,
oiled cloth, held up by narrow, colorful sashes, and left loose at
the ankle. (IV: 309)
- a few women have nose rings. (IV: 309)
- the women wear loose, colorful blouses
when near the shore. (IV: 309, 313-314)
- the Sailmistress and Windfinder wear
clothes of the same cut as the others, but made from finer cloth.
They have a chain linking their nose ring and earrings, hung with
gold medallions. (IV: 310)
- they also wear a gold perfume box around
their neck, which emits a musky scent. (IV: 310)
- two-tiered fringed red parasol marks a
clan Wavemistress.
(VI: 124)
- both genders wear baggy breeches of dark,
oiled cloth, held up by narrow, colorful sashes, and left loose at
the ankle. (IV: 309)
- a Sea Folk man has a tattoo of a
six-pointed star on his right hand, marks of clan and line on his
left. (II: xviii)
- a single tiered red parasol marks a Blademaster.
(VI: 124)
- the Sea Folk raker has square and triangular sails. (VI: 326)
- the Sea Folk serve their tea hot, bitter and
unsweetened. (IV: 314)
Occupied by the Seanchan (since Falme)
- the mainland is hundreds of miles to the east
of Cantorin. (IV: 50)
- Cantorin Harbour is in the shape of a wide,
lop-sided bowl. (IV: 44)
- beyond the seawall is an inner harbor filled
with Sea Folk ships. (IV: 44)
- there's a mudflat near the harbor mouth. (IV:
44)
- the island is governed by a Sea Folk Governor,
who lives in a grand palace. (IV: 45)
- the palace has a colonnaded terrace. (IV: 44)
- pale wood panels in palace. (IV: 45)
- the palace floor is inlaid with a pattern of
light and dark woods. (IV: 46)
- Cantorin is part of Aile Somera? Dantora part
of Aile Jafar? (IV: 641)
- the deepest part of the known sea is near Aile
Somera. (IV: 921)
- one of the Sea Folk isles. (I: 356)
- there is a stone hand 50 feet high holding a
crystal sphere on the isle. (I: 356)
- there is a twin to the huge sa'angreal at
Tremonsien in Cairhien, a female statue on Tremalking. (II: 456)
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