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In conflicts amongst this ethnic group, harmlessly touching an enemy holding a weapon causes them to don white robes and serve for a year as a gai’shain, one of the many complicated rituals in this ethnic groups’ ji’e’toh morals. (15[1])This ethnic group began an invasion whose only goal was murdering Laman Damodred after he made a throne from a sapling of the tree Avendesora. Thousands of members of this ethnic group assisted in storming the Stone of Tear, a sign of the coming of He Who Comes with the Dawn. People of this ethnic group are organized into clans and (*) septs (10[1])and have characteristic pale eyes and light, red hair. During a battle near Tar Valon in a war named for this ethnicity, one of their Maidens of the Spear gave birth to Rand al’Thor, thus fulfilling a prophecy of the Dragon Reborn. For 10 points, name this ethnic group that live in a “Waste” and whose Wise Ones channel the One Power similar to Aes Sedai. ■END■ (0[4])

ANSWER: Aiel (eye-EEL) [or Aielmen]
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