That is what I was thinking mashi

Let me apologize in advance for not being able to cite the specific quotes I am going to reference, but this is a busy time of year for me and I simply dont have the time.

I don't believe that Moridin is a double agent.  I believe it was EoTW by Moiraine who said.  that there are certain places in the pattern where the dark one can affect the pattern, and that at the Eye, was one of them.  We know that Moridin thinks it is easy to find taveren, and that he has a better understanding of the pattern than most anyone else.  I think his  seemingly erratic decisions are based upon what he thinks the pattern will allow from moment to moment.

I do believe that he will turn in the end, but that will take a major revelation and change in perspective.  But I think I have an answer to that.  Bare with me for a second.

The pattern is all about balance.  That is a huge running premise in the book.  The one power-the male and female halves balancing- drive the wheel and weave the neutral pattern.  The OP is neutral.  The True Power is not, it is obvioiusly on the dark side of things.  That being said, isnt it only logical that there is a Light Power to balance it out?

Crazy, I know, and I am not sure I believe it, but I think I can back it up.

First, everybody swears "By the Light", and not by the creator.  About everyone agrees that the creator doesnt involve himself in events, but what if there is from time to time a force from the creator that does involve itself, much like the chosen using  the true power.  It would make itself known in the vernacular of the day.

Secondly there is Callandor.  The Three become one.  Perhaps the OP. TP, and the Light?  Recall Rand's first use of Callandor.  He made this construct that sought out and killed every trolloc and fade in the stone.  This wasnt something Lews Therin could do.  If I recall, Lanfear didnt know what he was doing.  And if LT could do it, then along with the 2 powerful Sa'angreal, they could have ended the war of shadow easily.  I think that Callandor helps channel the Light.

Thirdly, the Eye of the World.  It has to be something special, beyond a pool of untainted saidin.  Maybe it helped Rand learn to channel, or was a useful tool, or maybe it was only there to hide the horn and banner.  But I think it opened rand to The Light, and is where the halo of light that protects him from the taint that Nynaeve saw in him came from.

Lastly, and I think this one is the most compelling is the Green Man.  Trollocs and other shadow spawn were created using the True Power.  They couldnt be made with the OP apparently, so Aginor had to use the power associated with the dark one.  So, where did the constructs of the light come from?  The Nimh and the Tree of Life had to have been made.  I believe it even says somewhere that the Nimh were made.  It surely wasnt made with the TP, and I dont think it could be made with the OP.  It only seems right that these things of life were made with some force from the creator.

And so, it is the revelation of his power of Light, that shows the Creator is involved and so that the eventual victory of the DO is not a foregone conclusion.

I am probably wrong, and feel free to point out the flaws in this theory, but it is at least a compelling thought.

Secondly there is Callandor.  The Three become one.  Perhaps the OP. TP, and the Light?  Recall Rand's first use of Callandor.  He made this construct that sought out and killed every trolloc and fade in the stone.  This wasnt something Lews Therin could do.  If I recall, Lanfear didnt know what he was doing.  And if LT could do it, then along with the 2 powerful Sa'angreal, they could have ended the war of shadow easily.  I think that Callandor helps channel the Light.

I've had a similar thought about Callandor. Recall the first place Callandor is seen CHRONOLOGICALLY. In the history of Randlad, the first place Callandor appears is shortly after the Bore, right at the beginning of the Breaking. Rand sees this scene in the glass columns in TSR. He sees that Aes Sedai preparing to create the Eye of the World, and Callandor is sitting on the table as that meeting commences. Meaning it was made BEFORE the Eye was. And it appears to have been made for a specific purpose: To fight the Last Battle.

Remember, there were two competing plans about the Strike at Shayol Ghul: Lews Therin's place to use seals, and the female Aes Sedai plan to use the Choedan Kal (sp?). Rand has admitted that his (LTT's) plan failed. The seals were imperfect and temporary. And he shattered the Choeden Kal ter'angreal in Veins of Gold. So NEITHER of those was the correct plan.

Which leads me to believe that the surviving Aes Sedai at the time must have figured out what WOULD HAVE worked. Their plan needed the Dragon, so it was no help to the Age of Legends, because by that time, LTT had already killed himself, but they knew he'd be reborn in the next age. So they prepare the Eye to give him a clean source for when he starts channeling, and they make Callandor, which they believe is what he'll need to finally re-build the DO's prison from scratch, and then they wait for the next age.

My point is that Callandor was created at the end of the AoL, so even then, they must have figured out what the Dragon needed to do, REALLY do, in order to REALLY WIN. All Rand has to do is figure out what they knew.

TOTALLY UNRELATED SIDEBAR

Noticed something in my re-read yesterday. The sad braclet/mail a'dam plan probably never would have worked, at least not the way Semirhage wanted it to. She didn't seem to know what Moghedien did, to her own demise.

Modhedien explains to Nynaeve during their duel that the male a'dam can be used by one woman, but he will still go mad and the backflow will eventually give him control. Or TWO women can use the bracelets, but that lessens control.

"Lessens control?" Could that be another reason why Rand was able to break free? There were two women using it, which lessened their control over Rand, allowing him to touch the TP and break free. Perhaps if only Semirhage had used it, it might have worked. She only need to control him long enough to get him to Shayol Ghul. There was no more taint by that point, so theoretically there would have been no backflow. But she didn't know what Moghedien knew, so she used them incorrectly, hence... one very angry Dragon and some balefire.

Graendal can probably touch the True Power because Moridin has her soul in a Mindtrap and while we don't know a whole lot about the device, it could be entirely possible that a link is established between the soul held within the device and the person owning it. Obviously one can't channel when near the person holding it, and anyone with a soul in a Mindtrap is under the control of the owner as well.

Secondly there is Callandor.  The Three become one.  Perhaps the OP. TP, and the Light?  Recall Rand's first use of Callandor.  He made this construct that sought out and killed every trolloc and fade in the stone.  This wasnt something Lews Therin could do.  If I recall, Lanfear didnt know what he was doing.  And if LT could do it, then along with the 2 powerful Sa'angreal, they could have ended the war of shadow easily.  I think that Callandor helps channel the Light.

the only things i have against that theory, is that calendor was used during the cleansing, and it was nothing more than an angreal... and, that rand channeled with "the light" at the eye of the world, before he even knew of calendors existence...

while it would be nice for posterity to have a power of "the light"... at this point in the story, it would kinda be like mat pulling a ray-gun out of his hat...

I just read TGS last week, and I'm fairly certain Rand actually shattered the crystal on the actual statue, not the access key. The one on Tremalking melted or exploded, which was verified by one of the Red Blacks, a few books back. The choedan kal are donezo

that they are snowball... the chodenkal, and their larger counterparts are all exploded/melted... female melted during the cleansing, and rand broke the male during his epiphany ontop of dragonmount...

... would kinda be like mat pulling a ray-gun out of his hat...

Well, why not?

I think, although slightly off topic, that Moridin and Shaidar Haran may both be Ishamael in 'the dragon reborn' when Rand fights him he creates a ball of darkness then he seems to split into two, is it possible that one of them is the fuure Moridin and the other the future Shaidar Haran? Neither appear until later when Ishamael is long dead!

Rand and Moridin's balefire join in Shadar Logoth that creates the link between them. Also, doesn't Rand sever Ishamael's link to the dark one in the 'eye of the world' he cuts the dark chords running from him? Maybe that's why he doesn't attack Rand when he's cleansing Saidin because he knows he'll go mad? just a thought.

Just a bit to add to this conversation. Perhaps the dark one will not be destroyed but only reimprisoned. Clue: Egwene will probably be at Shayol Ghul with Rand and she can create cuendillar, the material that the seals on the dark one's prison are made of.  Coincidence?

Maybe.

I do think that there is a lot of foreshadowing for the death of the dark one related to Padan Fain and Shadar Logoth, in typical Jordan fashion.  When Fain scratched Rand with the dagger, the ashaman saved Rand by containing the evil, sealing it together with the evil from the wound, and speculated that the two evils would destroy one another.  In cleansing Saidin, Rand combined the taint with the evil from Shadar Logoth, and they destroyed one another.  Fain is frollicking in the blight waiting to meet Rand at the dark one's prison at the last battle, and what kind of sick joke will have been played on me if he's not important?  I think they will kill the dark one by sealing Fain with the dark one in a way that parallel's the cleansing of Saidin and Rand's wound.  And seriously, is Fain not the Golem of this series, with a Golemy ending coming, maybe?

Also, how anticlimactic will it be if everything repeats itself, only Jordan's not going to be there to write it?

I think Ishmael is Naeblis because he is the only one that wants what the dark one wants.  His reincarnated life is a pointless, painful repetition, and he wants to break the cycle, end the world, so he can just die, just as Rand wanted before he had the epiphany and became hippy-Rand.  As Min figured out in some of her random speculation.  From the dream conversation, it seems pretty clear that this is what Ishmael wants, and since he has no connection with ANYONE that he cares about, I don't think he is going to have an epiphany and go Vader on us, and i don't think Rand is going to do the carebear stare with the one power to bring him around.  Also, it seemed that channeling the True Power made Rand a lot more dark and crazy, and Ishmael apparently is holding it all the time....he's not going zen-Moridin any time soon, I think.   It seems Rand's ability to grab the true power because of their link should have a role in the end too, but it might be just the ability to see it being woven..though that blackened hand holding a sword bothers me.  And I think Ishmael's "Snapism" would also be anticlimactic, as would the cycle repeating itself again, but sorry, the author is dead.

In short....Moridin is hopeless and wants to die; I think he can't be a double agent.  And Fain's waiting at the end, and I think he should be important.