Why would they not carry the horn from the very beginning and blow it at every battlefield. I guess it would have made it too easy.The horn was a foolish addition by RJ in the first book and then he did not know wht to do with it.

they thought that Mat was needed to blow the horn and he was never with the others between Falme and FoM ...

(BTW, anyone else agree that Gawyn seemed to fare better against Demandred than Galad?  Had Gawyn also given his rings to Galad, the ring-medallion combo might have been enough for Galad to take him.  As it stood though, I didn't find Galad's challenge to be particularly well done.)

as a magical weapon , i am not sure that the ring can work together with the medallion ... but obviously , it would have been better to have 3 assassins with 1 ring instead of all the rings on the same guy ...

 

 

 

 (POV ruminations don't count)

why ???

POV's ruminations don't count in the real world ( as noone can really know what's in another's brain ) but it's a book man , POVs ruminations are a way for the author to make us understand the character ... you will never  understand truly a character ( Egwene or another one ) if you read only half what the authors writes about it ...

 

 

Yes they are killed. By no male channelers, I mean none who are trained. And only a few who would be of channeling age at the time Demandred took over. Since they're only used for breeding stock, and kept ignorant and treated as animals. Demandred would have to overcome years of that abuse in order to begin training, he wouldn't have had enough time to do it. Thus when they came, they'd have none, or nearly no male channelers, yet they brought some with them. Odd. 

This feels like we're arguing about two different things man. Yeah, it was extremely weird there were male Ayyad among them. I never said otherwise. But what does that have to do with what I'm saying? There are no male channellers anywhere until the BT. Why should the presence/absence of male channellers matter at all? They are on equal grounds.

 

Shara is as big as Randland + Waste. If we assume their population is the same as well, 400 is a ridiculuous number. If they have 50 million population in total, then they have 250.000 potential female channellers. How in the Light are they going to miss all of those people? Even the White Tower is better at recruiting and their recruiting until Egwene is practically nonexistent.

 

 

I guess we are. I'm just saying Randland has Male's because Rand specifically started recruiting them, and his Taveren nature drew so many, plus on this side, a lot of men knew they could channel because their dads died of it. In Shara, it wouldn't work like that. Anyway, yea you're right 400 is small, but we don't know if they only keep the woman who can spark or what? Plus, how many were lost in the hostile take over?

 

I think at most they would match the Aiel or Seanchan. I guess instead of having 11000 channelers battling it out at the end of the book, 8000 on one side, he just nerfed EVERYONE. 

Shara is a big land but they're fighting for the shadow and they cannot ignore it as they're on the same side as trollocs ...

i don't know how Demandred has succeeded in this but it has probably been a very difficult task with big losses on the way due to channelers ( and warriors ) fighting against this or flying away before the last battle ...