Thom Merrilin

Chapter 16 - An Unexpected Encounter

Thom

Thom walks alongside Mat, warning of risky business and eventually taking Olver onto his shoulders to leave with Beslan. Mat later encounters a gholam in an alley and uses his foxhead medallion to fight it off. After the gholam slips through a small hole in a wall, a stoop-shouldered, white-haired old man finds Mat. The old man introduces himself as Noal Charin and explains that his pallet in the attic of The Golden Ducks is now occupied by a fat Illianer oil merchant who was rousted from his room in favor of a Seanchan officer, laughing about sleeping rough in a city.