I think the defensive gear he uses is killing the other guy first

I would love to see Nynaeve look at Mesaana say "Oh, is that her?" and BAM hit her with a balefire weave

In TPoD we getg Egwene dreaming this;

Mat, weighing two Aes Sedai on a huge set of balance scales, and on his decision depended...She could not say what; something vast; the world, perhaps.

Are the two Aes Sedai the pair he rescued from the stables in Ebou Dar, or Verin & Moirainne? I used to be happy enough with the first thought but I think it fits the second situation a lot better. Mat had to weigh opening the letter and maybe leaving early to get Moirainne or not opening the letter and having a set time to fetch her. If he had gone with Verin's letter, he would have waited until the battle of Caemlyn was done before he left and this may have meant he wouldn't have been able to save Moirainne (or be back in time for FOM). Instead he bet on going into the ToG and so has saved the world.

I think the wise one agelessness is one of the later 'early bookisms'. The meeting in tGH between Verin & Urien(?) indicates there is some physical similarity, as does this passage, but I don't think there are any more comments

ok, well my follow on question from that is related to this quote from ACoS, chpt 19, when Annoura first meets Cadsuane, from Merana's POV

"I am only here to advise Berelain, though the truth of it is, she ignored my advice by coming in the first place." The Tarboner woman held her head up, voice confident. She was rubber her thumbs for all she was worth, though. She could not do well at the negotiating table if she was that transparent.

Then later

Merana looked at annoura with interest. A good manyh of the Gray Ajah had scurried from capital to capital after the war, in a futile effor to hold together the alliance that had formed against the Aiel, but she had never known aAnnoura was one of them. She could not be that bad a negotiator if she was.

Is the rubbing of the thumb, actually a cry of help in case either of them are Black Ajah? A thumb can be rubbed against the middle finger, thus causing the same action Delana saw, albeit a little more discretely.

Another scrap to consider is the visits she paid to Masema in secret and him being controlled.

I haven't seen the case for Annoura being a Black put forward, is it worth a little bit of merit?

Is there somewhere in the books that it describes hand signals black ajah use to identify themselves? I seem to remember there is by I can't find any reference to them anywhere.

That is a very good point, Yoniy0. If someone is doing something because of the Ta'veren nature of Rand, then it is pattern ordained. Although what about Tuon? was that a case of Rand wanting to twist the pattern to himself, but the pattern resisting this by allowing Tuon to resist him? if that all makes sense...

There is a reasonably solid answer if you check the appendix in ToM under Graendal. As to how, we haven't been told and it is all conjecture

I haven't seen any asmodean threads in a long while - are people still debating the how of the murder? or has it finally dropped to the wayside? or is it a rule of these forums to not mention his name?

despite that, I've always thought that it fitted in with moirainne's comment that they will have to make the wind blow on their travels south again and that they will never know the full consequences of calling those winds (floods etc). I link those two together cos this is right before the news that the White Tower party has arrived and could well have been the tail effects of their wind. I prefer my explanation better, despite what RJ says :)

Moiraine went through the rings, not the columns. The rings shows multiple lives much like the first portal stone trip the lads took

It could have been coincidence (she was mistress of the novices) but she may have been ready to 'discover' them, or clean up anything that needed cleaning. My money is that she meant to be there to find them

Remember that because the gene for channeling/sparking just has to be present, there should be just as many male sparkers as female. If you look at how many female sparkers there actually are, I could expect 1 male every few? 30? years to realise what he is doing and learn to control it somewhat. Remember men who fight also get taught (sometimes) the Oneness, which will enhance their ease of learning to touch the source.

is there a list of the weaves we have seen? and who can perform them?

And if Nynaeve can heal the madness, if she tried to do it to someone who was a darkfriend, would she see a reduced/no dark thorns in their head?

not all channelers can lift objects as heavy as the shot, and if they could then hurling it that far and hard could be quite hard

Also in regards to Paitr, he was hung as a darkfriend too.

Other doorways may not mean anything - if their bond is visualized as a string between the two of them and the doorway to Finnland is just a door into a house, no matter how many other ways there are into or out of the house, when the door closed, the string snapped

I read that part recently, it is before his Shadar Logoth incident and seems just like the starting of the swirling colours

Maybe it was just starting and still had to calibrate to the other two folk - or searching for them in Rand's consciousness to form the link

As an addition to what PhoenixUK says regarding Verin's compulsion, when Moggy compels Liandrin to live, or "LIVE" as it is put in the books, she thinks to herself that the command will hold as long as somewhere in her, she wants it to. This indicates to me that even other sorts of compulsion (AOL versions) are still limited in that it can't be absolutely what the other person wouldn't do.

Compel me to follow your orders? don't wanna! do it or die? hmm, maybe I will. BAM! you have me.

That would be how I imagine a non-darkfriend, who knew who the forsaken was could be compelled

Hey Red2111, I find your animation all the more interesting because elephants lack the leg structure to jump.

Where is Min? is she the one taking the photo?

I don't know if it's possible to ward somebody else's dreams.

Moiranne offered to ward the boy's dreams pretty much through the first half of EotW

She struggled to dismiss the gateway...

why? Did the balefire cause the gateway to want to stay open?

Question about Artur Hawkwing and the Stone of Tear,

Artur united all lands west of the spine of the world and yet the stone of Tear hasn't fallen - did the Tairens just submit to Artur? I thought he may have grown up in Tear and thus started there, but he was king of another country to the north of Tear