Well it really depends on who you think Taim is, doesn't it?

 

And that's a whole different debate.

Yeah, I still think Taim is the same Taim as always, just turned by the thirteen Black Ajah sisters that went out to supposedly set him up as a false dragon.

I have asked this before, but didn't get much feedback, so I'm going to ask again. Did it bother anyone else at the end of KoD when the WT AS go to ask Taim if they can bond Asha'man to balance their own bondings of WT AS and....

TAIM - "Very Well"

PEVARA - "Very well?"

TAIM - "...besides, you must remember the old saying. Let the Lord of Chaos rule"

OTHER ASHA'MAN - Laugh Raucously

Pevara had never heard the saying before, but the DO had originally said it to the Forsaken.

Is he referring to Rand, and all the others laugh because it is a saying known to Darkfriends? Or is he referring to himself, still wanting the power of the DR?

As we all now know Rand completely destroyed the male half of the Choedan Kal, so this one is no longer usable. My question is for the female statue. True Nynaeve destroyed the access key while cleansing the male half of the source, but does that render the female CK useless. Can a woman still somehow access it if she is standing right by it?

I believe all of those followers are Darkfirends (Dreadlords).

They know what it means.

Good call. He has over 100 Ashaman in the room in that part. 100 powerful dreadlords trained by Taim himself, that's not good. I guess I was kind of under the impression that Taim was thinking of himself as the Lord of Chaos, being the power hungry Dictator he is...  :-\

Ha. As far as Taim goes, they have kept his true nature pretty tightly under wraps. Does it bother anyone else in KoD when the Aes Sedai come to ask if they can bond Ashaman warders and Taim agrees and says. "as they say, let the lord of chaos reign" or something to that nature and all of his followers laugh as if its the funniest thing in the world?

Has Beidomon played any other roll in any of the books other than when he drill's into the Shoram with Lanfear(Meirin)?