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Overview
A Nym is a giant humanoid growth-being made for agricultural service in the Age of Legends. The remembered field scene in The Shadow Rising shows Nym dancing while Ogier and Aiel sing, promoting the health and growth of crops. That cooperative practice has a different purpose from summoning a creature to attack an enemy. Someshta's body makes the relationship visible through leaves, vines, grass-like hair and seed-like details.
The Eye of the World's Green Man is the particular surviving Nym placed to guard the Eye during the Breaking. His damaged memory and scarred head carry that long history into the travellers' encounter. He fights Balthamel by embracing him in destructive growth, then dies with an acorn that becomes a great oak. His garden begins to fail after his death. Those actions show a life-giving construct turning its power against destruction; they do not mean every Nym's normal agricultural work consists of killing people or that all trees growing near a shrine are revived Nym.
First appearances & development
The Eye of the World (1990) presents Someshta as the Green Man. The Shadow Rising (1992), chapter 26, later reveals Nym within earlier Age of Legends and Breaking memories. One profile joins the constructed being-type with its principal survivor instead of counting Green Man and Nym as unrelated species.
Canon & continuity
Encyclopaedia WoT's Nym and Someshta pages provide chapter locators for field work, guarding and death. Leigh Butler's publisher-hosted reread discusses the agricultural role and the Green Man imagery as critical interpretation. That comparison is not a newly inspected direct claim by Jordan about historical foliate-carving inspiration.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
- 01
The Eye of the World
Chapters 48–52: Someshta's body, the Eye, battle and garden aftermath.
- 02
The Shadow Rising
Chapter 26: Nym field-dancing and Someshta's assignment during the Breaking.
Family & connections
A source-supported family tree or inspiration record has not yet been compiled for this profile. Related reading below indicates a connection in subject matter, not a proven lineage or creative influence.
References
Sources supporting this profile. Linked pages have their own scope and editorial standards.
- ReferenceEncyclopaedia WoT - NymResearch access: 2026-10-05
- ReferenceEncyclopaedia WoT - SomeshtaResearch access: 2026-10-05
- ReferenceLeigh Butler - Eye of the World Redux, Part 27Research access: 2026-10-05
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