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| - Gholam are immune to the One Power and most known weapons. They can detect a channeler at fifty paces and someone holding the One Power from even further. From several miles away gholam are able to feel use of the One Power and True Power as an itch akin to that experienced by the Myrddraal. Gholam live on fresh blood, generally rending their victims limb from limb or tearing their throats out before feeding. Their preferred prey are channelers, as they receive a sense of euphoria when they take the life of one who can channel. Furthermore, gholam are incredibly resistant to harm. They are completely immune to conventional weapons and weaves directed at gholam dissolve. However, they may be indirectly harmed by weaves that are directed at other objects or at the surrounding environment. At the present time, the foxhead medallion worn by Matrim Cauthon is the only thing known to have hurt a gholam. They possess a degree of superhuman strength, and one can easily tear a man's throat out with it's bare hands. While attempting to resist one strength-to-strength, Matrim Cauthon mentally compared the contest to a child attempting to resist the strength of a grown man, and that comparison was made while the gholam was merely toying with him. Additionally, the one that Mat fought in Ebou Dar was noted by him to be even faster than a Myrddraal. Due to the fact that they lack any sort of skeletal structure, they are impossibly flexible and agile, and can squeeze through incredibly small spaces. They can also apparently survive going through a gateway.
- A gholam is a type of Shadowspawn. It looks like a man, but it is unaffected by the One Power. It is also unaffected by steel, and it can change its shape to pass through tiny openings.
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