High Lord Meilan of House Mendiana

Pronunciation: MYE-lan mehn-dee-AH-nah

A High Lord of Tear.

Physical Description

He is tall, lean, and gray-haired with dark eyes. (TSR,Ch8) He is gray-haired, hard and lean with dark eyes. (TFoH,Ch46) He has dark, predatory eyes. (TFoH,Ch51) He has a gray pointed beard. (LoC,Ch19)

Chronology

Carleon, Meilan, Tedosian, Sunamon and other High Lords meet with Rand in the Stone of Tear. They resist his orders to lower taxes, treat with Mayene and ship grain to Illian. (TSR,Ch8)
Torean, Sunamon and Meilan craft a treaty with Mayene that virtually gives Torean an occupying army. Rand angrily burns it and tells Sunamon and Meilan to come up with a reasonable treaty or he will hang them. (TSR,Ch9)
Rand orders High Lords Aracome, Gueyam, Hearne, Maraconn, Meilan, Simaan, Torean and Lady Alteima to lead the Tairen army to Cairhien to restore order. Meilan is to lead the force. (TSR,Ch21)
High Lord Meilan is in charge of the defense of Cairhien when Couladin and the Shaido lay siege. TFoH,Ch30)
The morning after the defeat of the Shaido, High Lords Meilan, Aracome, Gueyam, Hearne, Maraconn, Simaan and Torean try to call on Rand in his tent, but the Wise Ones and Maidens chase them away. (TFoH,Ch45)
When Rand rides into Cairhien, Meilan goes out to meet him without telling the other High Lords. At the Sun Palace they all swear fealty to Rand as the Dragon Reborn. (TFoH,Ch46)
Aracome, Colavaere, Dobraine, Maringil, Meilan and Torean meet with Rand in the Sun Palace. (TFoH,Ch51)
After the explosion and fire, Rand sees Maringil and Meilan watching the docks from the city walls. (TFoH,Ch53)
Rand prepares for meetings with the Cairhienin, Colavaere, Maringil and Dobraine, the Tairens, Meilan and Aracome, and Timolan and the other clan chiefs. (LoC,Ch18)
Many Cairhienin including Colavaere, Dobraine, Maringil and Selande and many Tairens including Meilan, Fionnda, Anaiyella, Maraconn, Gueyam and Aracome wait to meet with Rand in the Sun Palace but he Travels to Caemlyn instead. (LoC,Ch19)
Nesune Bihara meets with High Lord Meilan to discuss who will take the reins of power when Rand leaves Cairhien. (LoC,Ch25)
In a foul mood, Rand shouts at Anaiyella, Colavaere, Maringil and Meilan driving them away in terror. (LoC,Ch28)
Back in Cairhien, Rand meets with the nobles including Colavaere, Dobraine, Maringil, Meilan, Maraconn, Gueyam and Aracome and has Min view them. (LoC,Ch50)
Maringil is poisoned and Meilan is killed by a footpad, both on commission of Colavaere. (LoC,Ch53)

Other References

TFoH,Ch30 - The young nobles who escaped Cairhien report to Rand that High Lord Meilan is leading the city's defense.
TFoH,Ch46 - Meilan's servants wear livery of red embroidered with six-pointed stars in blue.
TFoH,Ch46 - Meilan is the highest ranking of the Tairen High Lords in Cairhien.
TFoH,Glossary - Meilan's House is Mendiana.
LoC,Ch50 - Min views Meilan - Meilan would die by the knife.
LoC,Ch53 - Dobraine reports to Perrin that Maringil and Meilan were murdered. Berelain reports that her thief-catchers have proof that Colavaere was responsible.
ACoS,Ch5 - When Rand returns to Cairhien, Berelain reports that Colavaere had Maringil and Meilan murdered.

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