Selucia

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Selucia is a high ranking Seanchan da'covale and so'jhin to Tuon. Selucia is described as being beautiful with blue eyes, gold hair and creamy skin. Standing at average height, the left side of her scalp is shaved and she appears to be in her mid-forties.

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Selucia spent the first twenty-five years of her life training to be nursemaid and bodyguard to the Seanchan royalty and was offered as a cradle gift to Tuon when she was born. Upon Tuon's sixteenth birthday she gives Selucia a choice of service and was greatly pleased when she chose to be her chief maid. She accompanied Tuon when she traveled to Ebou Dar from Tanchico and was present almost everywhere the Daughter of the Nine Moons went. When Mat Cauthon had Tuon prisoner and was about to leave the Tarasin Palace, Selucia managed to arrive and be taken by him as well as long as he didn't hurt Tuon.

She acts like the mother hen to Tuon when Mat "comes a-calling" and seems to dislike Mat as well for his apparent lack of respect for Tuon's social rank and it's likely she does not consider his romantic interest in Tuon proper for one so far below Tuon in social rank.

On one occasion, in the book Knife of Dreams, she tries to kill Mat just as he's about to free three Aes Sedai that she has leashed with the a'dam on Tuon's orders. She knows Mat's quick with a knife, having seen him draw two of the knives he usually keeps secreted in his sleeves, earlier in the Knife of Dreams so she pretends fear, hands outstretched towards him as she approaches him, intending to surprise him and maximize her chances of success, but Tuon sees her, knows her aim and calls her sharply to heel.