I think its an English-type thing, there are many many of these types of saying floating around.

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is one of them.

My favourite of Lini's is "What cannot be changed must be endured."

not necessarily, after all, anyone who can channel the power can change to look like anything or any one... she could channel that much is clear, but if she was really lanfear... that remains in question. after all rand disguised himself to look like a serving man. why couldn't lanfear have changed to look like seline when she went to tear.

if you read the Cyndane POVs, we have one just before Rand cleanses the taint, she is taking fealty from a Lord with a pointed beard (Weiramon sprung to mind), and her POVs IMHO squander any doubts about whether or not she was Lanfear. Her memories are those of Lanfear.

Is it just me or does anyone else draw distinct similarities between Lanfear and Berelain?

I'm not making any suggestions here at all, I like Berelain and have absolutely no thoughts of her being anyone other than who she is, just a mere observation!

Boy would she have a shock on her hands if she tried that again now...

ok now that ive been fully flamed let me explain. first off, of course the forsaken can lie (come on im not a noob). ever since it was revealed that it was lanfear i accepted it, but as i read through time and again it feels like she is contradicting herself. another point i didnt bring up was her visiting perrin in the wolf dream and talking about glory and how he should grab it, same with mat in the white tower. i never thought she cared about anything else than having rand/lews therin.

The one thing that Lanfear desires more than anything, ever, is power. One of the main reasons she wanted LTT was that she believed together they could use the Choedan Kal and challenge the Dark One / Creator himself. I'm sure Cyndane will be suitably furious that Nynaeve was the one to use the female Choeden Kal.

No i thought i might have got it wrong, I had been saying how Anath was a really poor disguise for Semi, then when you said Alwhin I thought "oops, maybe i've made an idiot of myself!"

:D

Is Semirhage Alwhin or Anath?

If Selene was the one who marked him, how does Lanfear say that someone else marked him then? You think you would remember marking someone as important as Rand?

I assumed she meant that he had been marked by Ilyena, remember Lanfear sees Lews Therin, not Rand Al'Thor, she sees the soul within him. LTT shunned Mierin for Ilyena, whom he married.

She could also be referring to Min, Aviendha or Elayne.

In BWB RJ explicitly states that

"Upon awakening to the world, she adopted the pseudonym Selene and sought out Rand al'Thor, believing him to be somehow connected with, if not the direct reincarnation of, Lews Therin."

I've said it before and i'll say it again.

I love the Mord Sith. I have no particular affection for tSoT, although I have read them (so far) and didnt hate them.

I would love to see Cara or Renna appear in WoT... I think the Maidens are almost there, but not quite  ;)

I can't remember that exact passage but i'll happily believe it to have been Lanfear. What I can't understand about Lanfear, is how she veers between arch-enemy and aide of our little friends. She spends a long time trying to force Rand to do her bidding, then virtually gives him Asmodean as a teacher. Then later she attempts to kill Egwene (wrongly thinking her to be Aviendha, or perhaps not caring so long as ONE of the women with Rand is hurt) and takes Moiraine through the doorway.

Actually that begs the question - if she saw egwene (when under the guise of Sylvie) in tDR, how comes she didnt know her to NOT be Aviendha when she took Moiraine through the doorway?

We learn later on that it is actually Moghedien who is the expert in T'A'R, but Lanfear believes it to be herself - what extra knowledge does Moggy have?