#if it was me I probably would have gone with Sereille Bagand but given those two had a uh fraught relationship I get why they didn't

[asha-mage]

I have exerted an unreasonable amount of energy to determine if Elena Kotab is a book reference or not, and I have managed to determine that she is not.

As near as I can tell Cadsuane's most important pre-series relationships that we are aware of are Myriam Copan and Sereille Bagand, both of whom come up in Egwene's Amyrlin Crash Course.

I find the idea that Cadsuane apparently had a lover/best friend so important to her that Elayne recalls their relationship as a defining part of Cadsaune's legend DEEPLY interesting. Elayne is a White Tower Fangirl so obviously she's a bit more familiar with these things, and she might be exaggerating a bit, but if she isn't.....My brain ITCHES to fill in the blank here, and to uncover new Cadsuane dimensions/lore.