Valan Luca

Pronunciation: LOO-cah

Owner and manager of Valan Luca's Grand Traveling Show and Magnificent Display of Marvels and Wonders.

Physical Description

He is a tall, dark-haired man, good-looking with a well-turned leg. (TFoH,Ch13)

Chronology

Valan Luca is in Illian at the Great Square of Tammaz when the Hunters of the Horn take their oaths. (TFoH,Ch36)
Valan Luca is thrown out of Sienda and heavily fined when one of Cerandin's giant boar-horses wrecks The King's Lancer. (TFoH,Ch13)
Elayne, Nynaeve, Thom and Juilin pass Valan Luca's camp. Nynaeve insults him by throwing a penny at him. (TFoH,Ch13)
Valan Luca agrees to let Elayne, Nynaeve, Thom and Juilin join his circus, but they must pay heavily and perform in the show. (TFoH,Ch17)
Latelle attacks Nynaeve with a stick when the Chavanas flirt with her. After the resulting melee, Valan Luca is furious and blames everyone. (TFoH,Ch24)
Luca forces Nynaeve to apologize to Latelle. (TFoH,Ch25)
Valan has Thom throwing knives at Nynaeve. He is becoming enthralled with Nynaeve. He plans to cross the River Eldar and set up his circus outside of Samara in Ghealdan. (TFoH,Ch33)
Valan Luca continues to try to make time with Nynaeve. She does not know how to dissuade him. (TFoH,Ch34)
Valan Luca loses a bet shooting arrows against Birgitte. He is overjoyed at the prospect of her shooting arrows at Nynaeve. (TFoH,Ch36)
Luca leads his circus through Samara and sets up his camp a half mile outside of town. (TFoH,Ch37)
Luca goes into Samara looking for Nynaeve. (TFoH,Ch40)
In a panic, Luca tells his performers to break camp when the Prophet's men start a riot. He takes Nynaeve aside and proposes to her. (TFoH,Ch47)
Luca gives Nynaeve a bouquet of flowers as she leaves. (TFoH,Ch48)
Luca brings his circus to Ebou Dar and does very well. (TPoD,Ch1, WH,Ch15)
Valan Luca and Latelle get married. (WH,Ch15, CoT,Ch2)
While Mat visits with Aludra, Thom and Beslan negotiate with Valan Luca for transport away from Ebou Dar. (WH,Ch15)
Mat, Egeanin and Bayle Domon smuggle Selucia and Tuon out of Ebou Dar and hide out in Valan Luca's circus. (CoT,Ch1)
Bayle Domon and Blaeric Negina watch closely while Seanchan soldiers question Luca about his horses. (CoT,Ch2)
Valan Luca's circus slowly moves northeast toward Lugard. Luca insists on stopping to perform at every flyspeck village. (CoT,Ch28)
As Mat and Tuon leave the show for Jurador, Luca and Latelle are readying the performance. After Egeanin's stabbing, Mat orders them to pack up and leave, but he returns from the chase to find Tuon with Luca and Latelle in their wagon. Tuon gives Luca a warrant putting him and his show under her personal protection. (CoT,Ch29)
Mat has breakfast with Latelle and Luca. He plans to stay at Jurador at least two more days. (KoD,Ch6)
Bollin, Petra, Luca and other circus men stand their ground when some Seanchan soldiers try to bully their way into the circus. (KoD,Ch7)
Valan Luca has the circus packed up and moving before dawn to avoid more confrontation with the Seanchan. At midday they stop at the town of Runnien Crossing. (KoD,Ch8)
Luca lets slip to the Aes Sedai that Tuon is a High Lady. They begin badgering her about stopping the Seanchan invasion. (KoD,Ch9)
After the ghost village sinks into the ground, most of the circus performers want to return to Ebou Dar. Valan Luca convinces them to continue on and he and Latelle lead them forward at a gallop. (KoD,Ch10)
Midmorning Luca and his circus arrive at Maderin. (KoD,Ch11)
After the incident with the local merchant in Maderin, Valan Luca buys Mat sixty pack horses to be rid of him. (KoD,Ch25)

Other References

TFoH,Ch16 - Fearing that Galad will turn them in, Elayne and Nynaeve agree that they should join up with Valan Luca and go to Ghealdan.
WH,Ch15 - Luca is now married.
WH,Ch28 - Seeing the guards at the docks convinces Mat that Luca's circus is the only way he can escape.
CoT,Ch3 - Luca and Latelle are the only circus people who know who Tuon really is.
CoT,Ch29 - Mat thinks of Luca and Latelle, Petra and Clarine among those who will die if he does not catch Renna.
KoD,Ch25 � After Mat learns of a death in Jurador two days after they left, he thinks the gholam is now following Luca and the circus.
ToM,Ch19 � Thom tells Elayne the story of how they escaped from Ebou Dar with Valan Luca�s circus.
ToM,Ch29 � Elayne remembers Aludra from Valan Luca�s circus.
AMoL,Ch11 � Petra leaves the circus, travels to Ebou Dar and hires on as a city guard.

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