The purpose of the the 200 page last battle was that everything was rushed. Everything had to be a quick decision, without a lot of thought being put into it. Sanderson intended to create a strong mood of urgency. So when Gawyn died during the LB, Egwene didn't really have time to consider her dreams and prophecies. She was just concerned with doing her duty as Amyrlin Seat.

Some proof that Egwene may be a Hero of the Horn:

 

 

 

Bela's death was the runaway winner for most brought up subject, to which Brandon usually arched his arm across the head of Memory Keeper Avienda, pointed at Harriet and said, "Blame her."  At one point he said he wrote a scene where she fought back to life, but Harriet cut it.  She overheard this, said it wasn't true and Brandon responded that he'd wanted to.  He then said that he likes to think that when the horn is called next one of the heroes will be riding a shaggy, gray mare.

 

This seems to confirm that Birgette was a special case when she came back when the Horn called. She was never really born, after all.

 

Of course, Bela has morphed into a gray mare here, and this could just be Brandon's preference and not cannon or anything. But if he wasn't completely joking, its pretty obvious who would be riding Bela... 

When you say she was never really born, in a way, she was. The pattern was working backwards with her- erasing her memories of Gaidal, past battles, etc. However, when she died, she was once again at the pattern's complete disposal.

The AS for all their talk were not prepared to fight a war of power.It is understandable as they have not fought such a war in 2000 years since the Trolloc wars.All the experience they have since with fighting with the OP is to capture the random untrained man or fight the false dragons who show up of which there has been a handful.

 

I mean they came to fight wearing skirts in which they self admittedly could not even move fast.Does that scream preparation?

It has come up numerous times in the series before that the AS are sometimes all bark and little bite.

So ok. I can't not do this. The Flame of Tar Valon is supposedly the counter of balefire, thus explaining why it neutralized M'hael's beam. I get that, accept it, and am happy. It also counters the damage that balefire does to the pattern, IE the fixing the cracks with rock like bandaids. I get it, accept it, it works. 

 

but does it also counter balefire's other effect - of burning a thread from the pattern? If it did - it would add a thread to the pattern? I don't know - i'm just reaching for a theory here. Maybe balefire's apparent burning a thread from the pattern isn't right. Maybe balefire as a killing machine isn't it's legit purpose, and balefire just destroys the pattern. That would make her weave more logical as a counter.

Perhaps because balefire's only funtion is to destroy, the Flame of Tar Valon's crystal generation has something do to with the balance and creation of new matter

 

There is one Egwene arc, written by 2 authors.Now when discussing this one character you cannot say that Sanderson's Egwene has split personality disorder while RJ Egwene does not IMO.

I say that about almost all the characters handled by Sanderson. Egwene is just one case of it, and not even the worst.

True, many characters often had "conflicting intentions/ideas" when RJ passed the series to BS

I'm a new member to DM, finished all books, and loved AMOL. Been a fan for close to three years now :)