Tam and Rand al'Thor

Tamlin or Tam al’Thor is a farmer and a member of the Village Council who lives near the Quarry Road just west of the village of Emond’s Field. Tam is played by Michael Mackle-hatton in the Wheel of Time tv series on Amazon Prime.

Tam’s son is Rand al’Thor, who is 19 years old at the start of the story. Rand al’Thor is played by Josha Stradowski in the Wheel of Time tv series on Amazon Prime.

Rand is a young farmer and sheepherder. He is very tall and has reddish hair and lighter eyes than many of the other people in the region. Tam says that Rand’s light eyes and red hair came from his mother, Kari or Kari al’Thor, who was an outsider that Tam married a few years before Rand was born. Kari died when Rand was very young. He doesn’t remember her very well, aside from a smiling face and gentle hands, but he still puts flowers on her grave every year, at Bel Tine, an annual holiday in the spring, and at Sunday, a yearly holiday in the Summer.

Tam is known for delivering his famous apple brandy to the village during yearly celebrations of Bel Tine. He is highly skilled with a Two Rivers longbow, never missing a shot and often winning the shooting competitions at Bel Tine and at Sunday.

Tam taught Rand at a young age a special focus trick that he uses to improve his accuracy with a longbow when shooting. He calls it the flame and the void. The idea is to meditate and to concentrate all emotion, fear, and thought into a single point of focus or a flame, which is then burned away, leaving the individual in a hyper aware state of consciousness called the void. Tam claims the flame and void give him a heightened ability to complete any desired task.

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