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2.3.13: Is Cadsuane's hair thingy a Ter'angreal?

Cadsuane Melaidhrin sports a hair-ornament the likes of which we've not seen anywhere else in Randland:

"An iron-gray bun decorated with small dangling golden fish and birds, stars and moons." [TPOD: 27, The Bargain, 536]

This thing is mentioned in just about every scene in which Cadsuane appears. Various incidents in TPOD led us to believe it may be an angreal or ter'angreal, and in WH we find out we were right.

To be exact, the hair ornament contains at least three Power-related objects. The one that looks "a little like a shrike" is an angreal [WH: 35, With The Choedan Kal, 642]. The other two are ter'angreal: one (a swallow) can detect the OP being channelled and the direction it is coming from (though not how far away or whether saidin or saidar) [ibid.], and the other (a hummingbird) is a Well, which can hold a reservoir of the OP to allow channelling in a stedding [WH: 34, The Hummingbird's Secret, 626].

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