Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: The Shadow Rising Chapters 8-14
Yeah, his nasty snarling comment to "Mierin" is the first conscious dollop of crazy wisdom. There certainly isn't any hint of it in the first two books, I'm sure of that much. From what we know later, for the taint to manifest in Rand, he has to channel for a while, and he doesn't really do any regular channeling until The Dragon Reborn.
Oh, and Kassina Sedai, the Oath Rod does only work on channelers, but that information comes from "Caddar", so I'm not sure how far to trust it... I can't recall any of the Aes Sedai saying anything about the Oath Rod regarding non-channelers anywhere throughout the series; I'm ~90% sure of that, so... there might be a minor comment somewhere that slipped my mind.
Yeah, his nasty snarling comment to "Mierin" is the first conscious dollop of crazy wisdom. There certainly isn't any hint of it in the first two books, I'm sure of that much. From what we know later, for the taint to manifest in Rand, he has to channel for a while, and he doesn't really do any regular channeling until The Dragon Reborn.
Oh, and Kassina Sedai, the Oath Rod does only work on channelers, but that information comes from "Caddar", so I'm not sure how far to trust it... I can't recall any of the Aes Sedai saying anything about the Oath Rod regarding non-channelers anywhere throughout the series; I'm ~90% sure of that, so... there might be a minor comment somewhere that slipped my mind.
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