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I don't have the time to pull out more quotes now, but I do believe it is mentioned several times that the sul'dam ... well, they don't weave per se, but they can make the damane weave without having to ask, like they can force them to seize saidar with a thought. Doing the same with weaves...

Actually, it was Seta I was referring to, not Bethamin. I'm fairly positive it was indicated somewhere that she did it because she missed feeling saidar through the a'dam, but maybe that was just my guess at why she wanted to learn.

The Sul'dam being on the edge of channeling is also exemplified with those two sul'dam Mat encountered (don't remember which book, exactly), who had been captured, and missed using the One Power through damane so much, that they wanted the Aes Sedai (Teslyn, Joline and Edesina, I think) to teach...

I'd like to think that Hawkwing might've. And while Tuon did agree that Rand's claim had precedence, Rand is, for all intents and purposes, gone now. Besides, whatever Tuon thinks is irrelevent, in the long run. Even if she is convinced that they shouldn't push into Randland, there are...

From Tuon's statements, I've a hard time believing that she cares about the treaty in any way, aside from how it benefits her and the Empire at the moment. I do believe that Mat might be able to talk sense into her - she doesn't feel completely set into the Seanchan ways - but that would be the...

It's not about the strength in what he channeled, though ... in sheer amount of power, nothing Rand+Nyn+Moiraine channeled would've measured up to the amount of saidin The Hunred Companions channeled (they undoubtedly had angreal and sa'angreal of their own). It's more the fact that a circle...

Indeed. All those 113 male channelers LTT used couldn't focused all that power with the same intricacy that Rand could while linked with Nynaeve and Moiraine.

No, we don't know if Rand really did know all of the DO's secrets. The fact remains that it is the only PoV that's based on first-hand experience rather than theoretical speculation based on fragmented documents.

The evil in Aridhol grew from came from Mordeth, didn't it? He advised the king, Aridhol closed in on itself, grew harsher and colder ... gradually until there was just evil. With no Dark One, the first seed of that evil would never have existed. No one would've thought about doing such a thing...

Robert Jordan has also discussed the intelligence and motivations of the Dark One, a little bit.

I'm not sure it's such a huge "twist", since people predicted exactly that happening.

Hammar: Amazing post. I might just quote it if I end up discussing it elsewhere ;) Aulrick: I could yield that Rand might not be an expert in the sense that he knows all there is to know on the subject (more or less). But "expert" is a relative term. Compared to everybody else in the series...

No, the point is that The Dark One cannot be destroyed without destroying all evil. Perhaps The Dark One is the "source" of evil. Perhaps the embodiment would simply reappear if all evil wasn't destroyed with it. Rand's PoV indicates that a world without The Dark One is a world without evil...

I have not argued against this. Like Toral said: The Dark One is some sort of embodiment of evil. As long as evil exists, it will exist. To kill The Dark One would be to kill evil. What we see as Shai'tan is merely the intelligent embodiment of a much greater force, and that embodiment seeks to...

I see it as the Pattern having some form of built-in filtering process for The Dark One. A tiny portion of this huge force can enter the Pattern, but only so much that it creates a balance between Light and Dark. Like how air is circulated into houses (if we imagine a perfect house in this...

Really. LTT didn't know much about The Dark One? He was the one who constructed the seals and figured out how to seal the Dark One away. I would say that requires a pretty high expertise on the subject. Anything anyone after the Age of Legends - inlcuding Harid Fel - knew about The Dark One...

He he forced the Pattern to show a world where there would be no Dark One. As such, where there would be no evil. He did think that Shai'tan did something to it an lie in that scene; it wasn't until the end that he realised that it was true. When he held The Dark One and saw all of its secrets...

My own guess would be that, since their minds are already either twisted, or their souls have already been driven out and "replaced" (if what Lanfear talked about is true), the effect will still be there.

True. It could be a combination of both, as well. The Bore always has been and always will be a thinner part of the Pattern. Perhaps a place where force that is The Dark One will seep into the world, to enable the whole choice thing. Maybe the fact that it was sealed with The True Power is what...

I just posted this in the other thread, but I think it fits better as a discussion here ... We're never told who wrote it. http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=824 Meaning that, anything later revealed that contradicts TBWB overrules TBWB. I consider this quote from AMoL, for...