Seanchan
The Seanchan are strangers from across the Aryth Ocean who land on the western coast of the Westlands, claiming an ancient right of return and bringing strange customs, stranger creatures, and leashed women who channel.
The Seanchan enter The Wheel of Time in The Great Hunt. They are strangers out of the west, arriving by sea on the far coast of the Westlands, and almost nothing about them is understood by the people they meet. Their forerunners claim descent from armies that Artur Hawkwing sent across the Aryth Ocean a thousand years ago, and they hold that the lands of their ancestors are theirs by right. They bring customs no one recognizes: a rigid order of rank in which speech and even posture are governed, soldiers in strange insectlike armor, creatures unlike anything living in the Westlands, and, most unsettling of all, women who can channel the One Power kept on leashes and called damane. To the coastal folk who first encounter them, they seem less an army than another world arriving.
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