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Ba�alzamon : In the Trolloc tongue, "Heart of the Dark." Believed to be the Trolloc name for the Dark One.

Bel Tine : Spring festival.

Birgitte : Golden-haired heroine of legend and a hundred gleeman�s tales, she had a silver bow and arrows, with which she never missed.

biteme : a small, almost invisible biting insect.

bittern : A musical instrument that may have six, nine, or twelve strings and played by plucking or strumming.

Breaking of the World, the : When Lews Therin Telamon and the Hundred Companions resealed the Dark One�s prison, the counterstroke tainted saidin. Eventually every male Aes Sedai went horribly insane. In their madness these men, who could wield the One Power to a degree now unknown, changed the face of the earth. They caused great earthquakes, leveled mountain ranges, raised new mountains, lifted dry land where seas had been, made the ocean rush in where dry land had been. Many parts of the world were completely depopulated, and the survivors were scattered like dust on the wind. This destruction is remembered in stories, legends, and histories as the Breaking of the World. See also Hundred Companions, the.