It was probably not him being evil, but his excessive use of balefire that caused it.  Or at least that was the justification that I thought made the most sense, given that it was supposed to be the opposite of balefire.  It could also have been having ability to channel the TP caused some unknown reaction with the weave.

Gawyn was already dying, even before he put the rings on to stop Demandred.  I do think he should have warned Egwene beforehand, though.  (from what i understand taking the ring off won't save your life, just allows you to last longer.  it was why he had looked sunken since the book began).  It really is sad that Egwene waited so long to go completely overboard since she could have saved thousands of lives if she had taken out Taim and the other shadow channelers along with herself sooner.

Ironically, also, the world they got married was the path in which they died.  Shame Min didn't know that bit to warn them.

It is also possible that the wound has "scarred" because of the previous healing and it is impossible to get them back to full strength again. (Similar to how Moiraine could not repair Thom's leg completely, it had partially healed on its own and there was nothing she could do about the improper setting. Even stilling them again does not guarantee the blockage their full strength would be removed.)

The Creator bound the Dark One outside of reality at the moment of creation.

 

Or so the characters believe. But now it seems someone in a differnet age, possibly even Rand himself, actually made or remade the prison that contains the DO, at some point between Rand's time and when then Age of Legends comes around again. People keep saying things like "how could any person re-create what the Creator made", but I don't know if the Creator ever did actually make the Dark One's prison.

 

I agree with you on this completely.

 

It has been very firmly established that the Creator DOES NOT TAKE PART (see what I did there?). RJ was always emphatic on that point. The Creator will not help, not a chance.

 

We know the Wheel is endless and has turned countless times before this. This is not the first rotation of the Wheel.

 

Thus, if the Prison was whole when the AoL came around again, the Prison must be made complete again before the next age of legends. The Creator will not fix it, thus it must be that either a) it fixes itself naturally after a while of the DO being held back or b) humanity (or some other race in some other age) makes the prison whole again.

 

There is very good reason to believe that Rand will indeed fix the DO's prison, make it whole until it is drilled through in the next AoL.

Perhaps everyone is wrong, and when the DO wins he just laughs, says "good game" and then goes back and closes it back up and everything starts over.

So in the end, ironically, both were responsible for saving the world. She prevented the breaking from destroying everything, and he stopped the DO before the light lost the war. (In the end the sealing DID work, and as much as LTT was cursed for the breaking that followed, the truth is they saved the world from a defeat that could never be undone.)

I suspect he simply sees Moiraine as another child, like the Forsaken see them, as it is clear they don't care if the Aes Sedai is good or evil, just that they have little knowledge compared to the past.

The Black Ajah oaths are much less likely than the 3 oaths to be accidentally violated with an order, since Therava doesn't care about the DO, Darkfriends, etc, so Galina shouldn't have any problem.

Yeah, I forgot that no one ever actually managed it, they teased with doing it for so long some part of me must have thought they did it.

Perhaps, but we still don't know how they were made, and depending on how it could easily be possible to make your own. Perhaps that is why they were numbered? (not to mention there appears to have been at least a hundred of the things, if they were numbered in order)

I wonder if you can take an oath to not forswear any oaths, because something like that seems like it would be needed to prevent criminals in the AOL from freeing themselves.

Honestly, I do agree that Setalle being unable to sense anything (so far as we are aware) makes it less likely that she could be healed. But at the same time while Nyn used the argument that because they felt something they could be healed, the converse (ie can be healed means they must feel something) does not necessarily follow (this is a common logical mistake that pretty much everyone makes) . In other words, her wound could simply be "worse" in a sense, still healable, but harder to do so. I suppose like the different between a 1st degree burn and a 3rd, both are the same type of injury, but one is much worse.

In other words, I don't think this a good place for that question, we don't know enough for it to be a "simple question". The only real answer is "Shrug?" Aka, probably not, but Nyn continues to insist that everything short of death should be healable, and so far she has managed to prove it (I continue waiting for her to figure out a way to regrow lost limbs or something).

It likely is not possible for the Horn to work there, and it might not be possible to bring it into TAR.

To be fair, Verin managed to avoid letting any of know she was a DF who was really working for the light despite us being in her head multiple times, so it doesnt say everything.

I believe they died of old age long before. Rand simply trigged a defensive weave with the battle, they were not really there.

Ghenjei Tower; is/was there a limit for that like there was for the doorways?

If so, what is/was that limit?

Probably as many times as you can manage it and live. But I think you have to leave the tower before you can return, and well, that game is considered unwinnable for a reason.

Simply put, I don't think anyone has been insane enough to try more than once, and few enough survive that.

It is possible that a connection with the TP leaves the Dark One vunerable to someone in a way, which makes using it as bait a gamble for him.

I think LTT knew because he knew the DO was a source of power avaliable to both men and women, and it certainly wasn't Saidin Rand was holding.

It could simply be Rand infering from what he knows about the working of the Guardian, where it has two, seperate, layers one that blocks Saidin and the other Saidar

Don't hurry. If you manage to take almost a year you won't have to wait :P.

Anyone feel like finding all the times that world-ending one has happened?

You belong to the Blue Ajah!

Members of the Blue Ajah seek to right wrongs in the world, and are often on some kind of quest for justice in various forms. While their goals are often noble (though they need not be), it is not rare for a Blue to lose herself in her mission completely.

This is your result in its entirety:

Blue Ajah: 6

White Ajah: 5

Green Ajah: 5

Gray Ajah: 4

Brown Ajah: 3

Red Ajah: 3

Yellow Ajah: 0

Do not read it first, I did so and nearly resorted to looking a host of things up, fortunately I was able to piece it together rather quickly, but see, the taint isn't actually explained until far into the book, so not knowing about it can make questioning why the DR is so terrifying a problem.

RJ's responses about the Hero of the Light, can be rather... confusing and or seemingly contradictory, at times.

This is something we know to be a fault in Rand, its his way to try to not lose himself in what he has to do, and he ends up losing himself in large part because of it. He learns better in VoG, so yea, Rand was being an idiot.

It would simply be the normal death recoil, balefire would simply cause them to have been dead for a time before they actually remember feeling the pain/rage.

Did that actually happen Elgee? I would laugh so hard I wouldn't be able to stand up for weeks.

I believe one went to the white tower, one to ???, and the third to the Seanchan. (remember, it wasn't until after what Elaida did to her that she went to the Seanchan).