Weylan

Brief mention. Taren relays Weylan's introduction to Master Lugiran, the Wenshari thaumaturge:

Weylan introduced me to him, once, when I was out there. A brilliant man, but insufferable.

Establishes Weylan as Minalan's go-to man in Wenshar.

Brief mention. Taren:

Weylan told me that he'd heard details of the Battle of Spellgate from his contacts there three days before we released word of the victory.

Establishes that Weylan runs a working intelligence network at Wenshar.

Name-drop by Minalan to Arborn's uncle: "Weylan runs the magical orders in Wenshar." No on-page scene.

Weylan's major appearance. He writes to Pentandra at the Tower Arcane in Falas, then travels "halfway across the continent" to deliver his intelligence in person. Pentandra, who hadn't heard from him in ages, recalls him fondly as "a Wenshari warmage who fought at Boval Vale... quite a handsome man, and an excellent warmage."

Weylan arrives at her office in a rich blue velvet coat with brass buttons, mageblade worn cavalry-style on the hip, and brings news on three fronts: (a) Count Mesdaron has approached him to be Court Wizard of the new Wenshari palatinate (Weylan is inclined to accept); (b) Wenshari opinion is sharply anti-Merwyni and pro-Rard; and (c) the most important reveal — Weylan's clerks have inventoried the old Censorate records at the Citadel of Terramaton and found "an entire drawer devoted to" the Order of the Secret Tower.

The Order, he tells her, was not exclusively Remeran — there were chapters in Merwyn, Wenshar, and possibly Vore. The Wenshari chapter was crushed when the counts capitulated to the Narasi and accepted the Censorate, and the cell's records were confiscated. Crucially, before they were destroyed, the Order had "a definite plan on how to bring the Forsaken home."

Weylan's most important reveal — the one that re-frames the entire series' Forsaken arc — is delivered after lunch with Pentandra's triplets:

"If it does, it lies on a dagger's blade. A literal dagger. Apparently, there was some ancient artifact that held the key to rescuing the Forsaken. It was forged in the Magocracy, and it was eventually entrusted to the Order of the Secret Tower. Alas, it was confiscated by the Censorate — after burning a few magelord families to death in their homes. But it isn't in Terramaton. I have scoured the Citadel from dome to cellar, and I've seen no sign of it. But it existed. And it seems to be absolutely essential for rescuing the Forsaken."

— Weylan to Pentandra, Hedgewitch

This dagger is almost certainly the one Lord Commander Aleem gives Minalan in the next book (Mad Mage of Sevendor), with the words "When the time is right, you will know what to do with it." The Knights of Nablus, as a Censorate-adjacent military order, would plausibly have inherited the artifact through their shared Censorate-archive lineage. See The Forsaken's Dagger for the full lore. Weylan's offhand remark — "It might take me, oh, the rest of my life to read through them all" — about the Citadel's restored Imperial-magic library hints at how much pre-Conquest knowledge the Magocracy still preserves.