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Lanfear is one of the primary antagonists of the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. She is one of the Forsaken.

AKA Cyndane

Lanfear, which means Daughter of the Night, was born Mierin Eronaile. She is considered to be the most powerful female of the Chosen. In her early life, she was involved in a relationship with Lews Therin Telamon himself, but he broke it off when he realized Mierin desired only power. This, of Lanfear, is absolutely true. Even when serving the Dark One, she seems to put her needs first, baffling her fellow Chosen. She is stunningly beautiful, even more so than Graendal. She has dark eyes and pitch black, flowing hair and she is tall, only a hand shorter than Rand. She has always loved Lews Therin, even after he broke off with her. She believed he would have continued loving her if not for Ilyena. She has transferred her love for Lews to Rand.

When her affair with Lews Therin ended, she became a researcher at the Collam Daan, a world famous school in the Age of Legends. With a team of experts, she headed the project to find a new source of power, one that both men and woman could use. It was the most important research of the Age; the possibilities were endless if it was discovered. However Mierin, thinking she had at last found this new source, actually stumbled upon the Dark One's prison, who had been sealed there since creation. Opening his prison, the Dark One was allowed to touch the Pattern; at this very instant, the Collapse had begun. In a sense, she achieved her goal of discovering a power useable by both men and women--the Dark One can allow his most faithful servants access to the True Power, a power source similar to the One Power but far more dangerous and corrupting. Soon after crashing Lews and Ilyena's wedding she pledged allegiance to the very thing she had released: the Shadow. She chose her own name, Lanfear (the only original Forsaken to do so), and made public her alliance in the Hall of Servants. She considers herself the master of Tel'aran'rhiod, even though Moghedien could easily outstrip her.

When she awoke from the seal, she immediately sought Rand out, under the guise of Selene, a beautiful woman. She often used her beauty to try and seduce Rand; she would constantly urge him to grasp glory and power, although he refused. She disappeared, but turned up again, this time posing as a peddler in the Waste named Keille Shaogi, along with Asmodean, posing as a gleeman named Jasin Natael. Shielding Asmodean, allowing him only to channel a trickle of saidin, she forced him to teach Rand to use the One Power. She confronted Rand at the end of The Fires of Heaven, meaning to kill him. Moiraine Damoddred tackled her while she was focusing on Rand, and they fell into the red gateway, which burned to the ground, 'supposedly killing' them both. Rumor has it though that both women where trapped in the land of Eelfinn.

Reincarnated by the Dark One, she is now Cyndane, which in the Old Tongue means "last chance". She is mind-trapped by Moridin and now travels with Moghedien. Cyndane looks nothing like she did when she was Lanfear and she is also not as strong as she was. This is lack of strength is noted in Cyndane's POV when in '''Winter's Heart''' she is battiling against Alivia.