On 1/24/2023 at 7:44 AM, Asthereal said:

 

Well, Forsaken tend to come back from the dead. It's kind of what they do. So Lanfear dying right when the Dark One and his forces are defeated would mean she'd be gone for good. Some people thought she died at the docks in Cairhien, but that's a long time ago. Also, quite a few people knew she returned, or would have at least suspected so. Considering Lanfear tends to think about herself first and foremost, staging her death like this in order to allow herself free reign in the coming decades seems fitting to me.

 

Also, while Rand or Perrin would probably not be intersted in hunting her, there's still the Aes Sedai, who absolutely know she did not just die for good at the docks. They'd surely want to know what happened to her, and barring a satisfactory story they'd hunt her for sure.

 

As to the Red Veils and Demandred+Shara: as far as I can tell, these were reveals that Jordan had planned. Sanderson just had to figure out how to weave them into the narrative. At first he wanted to foreshadow the Sharans, but it didn't work and the team decided to make it a shock reveal. You can't have too many of those, so the Red veils reveal comes early on, allowing us time to chew on the ramifications.

Lanfear had an ongoing arc from books 9-11, that as far as I can tell from the interviews and panels wasn't much planned for in Jordan's notes. Sanderson got to finish her arc, and this is what he chose to do.

For Aes sedai to hunt her they would have to know that she is alive. They already think that she is dead. Very few Aes Sedai even knew that the forsaken even returned from the dead. 

I don’t get why Lanfear felt the need to fake her death. That was needless and also redundant if you think about it. Everyone on the side of light except Perin and Rand already thought that she was dead. People already thought that the saw her die in the real world. Neither Rand or Perin were going to chase after her. Her actions made absolutely no sense.