She was born in or around FY 920 in the village of Salidar in what was then the kingdom of Shiota. She made her way to Tar Valon and became Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah. In FY 992 Aryman discovered damning evidence proving that the incumbent Amyrlin Seat, Bonwhin Meraighdin, had manipulated nations into attacking Artur Hawkwing after he allegedly embarrassed her by saving Tar Valon from destruction by the followers of the false Dragon Guaire Amalasan during the War of the Second Dragon. Those actions, and her subsequent manipulations of Hawkwing as he ruled as High King, were to blame for Hawkwing's siege of the city beginning in FY 975, endangering the existence of the sisterhood. Aryman accused Bonwhin of negligence, incompetence, and being unfit to hold the staff and shawl. Bonwhin was de