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 Falas requesting a face-to-face meeting and travels "halfway across the continent" to deliver his intelligence. Signs the letter "Weylan of Wenshar, Steward of the Citadel." At the meeting he informs her he has been approached to become Court Wizard to Count Mesdaron of Wenshar ("Perhaps not as glamorous as a ducal court wizard, but . . .") and that mercenaries are being hired by Tavard's faction.

He also hands Pentandra a major intelligence breakthrough: his clerks found an "entire drawer" of old Censorate records on her father's Order of the Secret Tower. The Order's highest priority was to "bring the Forsaken home," with emissaries dispatched to Unstara, the Shattered Isles, and the Ten Kingdoms, the Conquest-era contingency plan to preserve the means of recalling the New Horizon. Before leaving, he strips off his ornate coat and plays with Pentandra's triplets "like a doting father," winning her trust. Wenshari pride, unmalicious: "Wenshar has always been wary of Merwyn. We accepted Remeran sovereignty only because it was preferable to Merwyn's. And you people are awful."