Raised by stern, yet loving, parents on a farm far from any city, the youngest of four boys and three girls, Rhi'hara's parents would have chosen a husband for her, just as they had chosen spouses for her siblings when they reached 18 summers. She had faith they would choose as wisely for her as they had for all their children. But that life was not to be.

A month before Rhi's seventeenth name day, someone left a lantern alight in the barn. No one knows how it got tipped over, spilling flaming oil onto the hay. Luckily, the wind blew the smell of smoke toward the house, alerting the family. They rushed to douse the blaze, but it seemed hopeless.

All but one of the horses were removed from the flaming barn, when a wall of fire engulfed the doors, trapping a pregnant mare inside. Before any of them could stop Rhi', she ran into the barn. Something told her, if she ran fast enough, the flames wouldn't touch her.

After being ill with a delirium for two days, Rhi' woke to find her parents preparing to make a journey. The mare had foaled early from the stress, but both animals were healthy and the bottoms of Rhi's feet were only slightly singed. Her eldest brother told her, in a voice filled with wonder, that Rhi' had made the flames bend away from her to get in and out of the burning barn.

There could be only one explanation...the one power. Her parents knew they had to take her to 'The Tower' for training. The sojourn to Tar Valon took weeks, but Rhi'hara knew that to survive she had to learn to control the ability to channel that had awakened within her.

Being from Andor, Rhi's family accepted her channeling as though it were an every day occurrence. "The wheel weaves as the wheel wills". She is not exceptionally strong in any of the five powers, but Rhi' makes up for that with her ability to weave incredibly complex patterns with Saidar.

Years of training have given Rhi'hara control over her power, but she still has far to go, if she is to attain the Yellow shawl she dreams of wearing one day. Her ability to make ter'angreal makes her hopeful that she will be able to use the talent to make a ter'angreal to, if not heal men who suffer from the taint, at least aid in slowing it's advance; protecting them until someone learns the secret of cleaning Saidin.

Rhi' is of average height, with eyes so blue they look like sapphires and deep brown-red hair. Though she does not consider herself 'pretty', she is actually very attractive. She is not willowy or thin, being of solid Andorran stock, but there is a grace and natural stillness about her farm-toned frame that is eye-catching. Her smile makes her eyes sparkle like stars in the night sky, but it tends to creep in at the wrong moment. (Just when she's trying very hard to be serious, or to get away with a prank.) At twenty-four summers, Rhi' looks young for her age and she has a tendency to try making up for it by acting older.