Cyclops Brendar
Gaidin in Training
Falcon_94_1@yahoo.com

Somewhere in his travels (I'm not sure where) he met a woman and she had me. For some reason my father ended up taking me with him while traveling as a gleeman. All of my life my only memories of Zak were of him getting drunk and coming to the room he would stay in and beat me every night. He would do this every night until I would black out, then he would go get drunk again.

One night in Carihien my father had just finished reciting a part of the Hunt for the Horn. He had gotten madly drunk and had come up to the room I shared with him ready to beat me again. This time I was ready for him. Being fourteen I was a little stronger than normal. I had broken a piece of wood off of the bed and waited with the lamp off. Zak came in screaming my name. I didn't have the nerve to attack him. My father turned on the light. When he saw me hidng he bacame very angry and attacked me. I easily fought him off the piece of wood. His being drunk did not help him much either.

I took his money and left the inn. I then found another inn where I met a Warder who told me about the White Tower and that it needed more Gaidin in Training. That was when I started my journey to Tar Valon.

If your wondering how I lost my left eye it was because my father, Zak, found me in Tar Valon during a battle and sliced my face before he died. He was killed by a fireball. I never saw Zak Brendar again.

Now that I am a GiT I have made many new friends and have learned many new things. I can not wait to become a full Gaidin.