** al'Lan Mandragoran **

Except in settings where he might be recognized as a Warder by his clothes, he wears a typical (for Gaidin) dark green coat and fancloth cloak: "... a dark grayish green that would have faded into leaf or shadow, and his cloak swirled through shades of gray and green and brown as it shifted in the wind. It almost seemed to disappear at times ... fading into whatever lay beyond it ..." <TEotW: 2, 29, Strangers; see also RJWoT: 3, 36-38, The Age of Legends> Though the cloak is mentioned frequently, the dark, olive-green coat doesn't reappear until ACoS <ACoS: 12, A Morning of Victory, 232; 37, A Note from the Palace, 580; etc.>.

Lan dons his matching armor more rarely, a "... gray-green scaled armor that would make him all but disappear in forest or darkness." <TGH: 9, 147, Leavetakings> In the Blight, he also wears steel-backed gauntlets, though this is the only place where these are mentioned for Lan <TEotW: 49, 753, The Dark One Stirs>.

The hadori, the braided leather cord about his temples, holds back the shoulder-length hair of Malkieri warriors. Also described as a "narrow leather headband," <TEotW: 2, 50, Strangers> it apparently binds tightly: a Malkieri named Kurenin abandoned it, but apparently "The years had not erased the marks of his hadori completely." <Legends: 642, New Spring; see also Legends: 638, New Spring>

For the inside back cover of Legends (see my Kandori page, Sweet depicts the hadori as red. In all Jordan's descriptions, colour is never mentioned, and it is much more likely that it is unstained or undyed in any way.

Particular also to Lan is one more outward marker, the ring of the Malkieri kings, "... a signet ring, heavy gold and worn with age, almost large enough for both her thumbs to fit through. On it, a crane flew above a lance and crown, all carefully wrought in detail." <TGH: 8, 135, The Dragon Reborn>