Setalle Anan

"Setalle Anan", more commonly referred to as "Mistress Anan" is one of the characters of the "Wheel of Time" fantasy series by Robert Jordan. She is the innkeeper of the "Wandering Woman" in Ebou Dar.

Description

Setalle is hazel-eyed and has a little grey in her hair. She has an air of command, not unlike that seen in Aes Sedai. In fact, in Knife of Dreams she acknowledges to having been Aes Sedai, or at least a White Tower novice or Accepted. She also hints at having been stilled (or possibly having burnt herself out). Not much else is known about her history. Mat Cauthon thinks that she is not Ebou Dari, which would indeed make sense if she was a White Tower runaway or exile. Joline recognizes her voice in book 9, so that is more evidence that she was once Aes Sedai.

It is possible that Setalle Anan is the former Aes Sedai once known as Martine Janata, who studied ter'angreal for forty years in the Tower until she was found stilled by something that she did not expect. Assuming that she became a novice at eighteen and studied ten years or so to become Aes Sedai, she was about sixty eight when she was Stilled in the ter'angreal accident. After losing the Power, she left the Tower twenty-five years before the books' events, so that gives her twenty-five years to have her family and settle into Ebou Dar life, have her children and build her business.