Tale'sedrin is one of the four Shin'a'in clans, the "Children of the Hawk." The clan standard is a vorcel-hawk. On the road to a horse fair, the clan was attacked by bandits. Had they not been away from their home on the Dhorisha Plains, or had they not been caught in the midst of a Clan celebration, and therefore, mostly unarmed, they would have been able to hold off the bandits. Unfortunately, this was not the case. The women were raped, every man, woman and child was slaughtered and everything was looted. Only one young woman, Tarma, survived the destruction.