Verin's Warder

[Guest The Thin Inn Keeper]

As for your post Thin Innkeeper--there is also the possibility that she left him behind to keep an eye on Siuan. His outward display of frustration at being left behind makes sense anyway--no gaidan is happy about being seperated from his Aes Sedai.

Another perfectly sensible reason, especially if shes working alone ... which it appears she is.

Also, the Purple Ajah theory is old and tired--we've seen no evidence of it up through the eleventh book, and i think we would have by now. And even were it the case--Verin is inherently a loner, her plans are hers and she allows no one else to see them. No i think it very unlikely.

Oh, I'm not ascribing to that, hence the use of the word might. Still, I think it might be reasonable to think that she'd be a little twitchy about letting Tomas in on the secret of the Dragon Reborn before she was totally sure.

Her point was simple--don't trust any Aes Sedai, not Alviarin whom she knows he is supicious of through to Verin whom he has the most reason to trust. It's contrasts, and his, not hers. She's saying from worst to best, trust none.

Exactly, but you have to admit, that it is a little vague. Probably a case of RJ stirring the intrigue pot.

Only one answers raises itself--to make the lads feel Moiraine was still trying to control them. And why would she want to do that since we know that she actively seeks to see that Aes Sedai assist Rand in his fight...? Positioning. She was acting to stop Moiraine from coming out in charge of them. She was seperating them from the one Aes Sedai they had some degree of warmth for, or some feeling of debt. The one Aes Sedai that they had placed in charge of them, however half-heartedly. As you state in your very next comment. "She wants to give Rand control of the situation."

I'm not too sure about her motivation, you can read a good few things into her appearance. Sure, one thing she was looking to acheive was to try to give Rand control. However, I don't believe she's a DF.

[Razor]

I think she said it as a way of being accepted by the boys.

[Luckers]

I think she said it as a way of being accepted by the boys.

 

A rather counterproductive method, since she knows that the boys are suspicious of Moiraine.