Maybe, she did but Lanfear knows their language - Edit 1
Before modification by newyorkersedai at 26/05/2010 07:57:15 PM
The doorway was in a AS-founded city (rhuidean), so the AoL folks would've known something about it and studied it. Although you say Lanfear might not have specialized in it, I doubt she'd be clueless in 'Finnland. Lanfear knew about the Portal Stones, didn't she? Knew them well enough to critique Rand's use of it and comfortably hop between worlds without a care in the world. So Lanfear is familiar with ancient dimensional oddities...
Moiraine & Rand said the Snakes speak an odd dialect of Old Tongue - so Lanfear would understand them perfectly. Current Randland folks play that S&F game, which is quite old, so there's good odds she's heard that chant before.
Lanfear isn't a trusting person, so she'd never ask a bunch of weirdos for stuff without thinking about possible costs; Mat makes that mistake because he's reckless and ignorant. Lanfear's only big-time stupid when it involves LTT.
Given her new OT name, I think Lanfear was killed - either because of the doorway or by the Dark on her return. Her reduced power level suggests she: (a) was healed by a woman or (b) had to give up power in a deal with the foxes.
I've considered that Lanfear might've killed Asmo many times - she has genuine motive to kill, can prolly make it so resurrection is impossible, is one 2-3 folks who swore to kill him on sight. I don't think you're outlining what happened, but encourage you to keep trying.
Moiraine & Rand said the Snakes speak an odd dialect of Old Tongue - so Lanfear would understand them perfectly. Current Randland folks play that S&F game, which is quite old, so there's good odds she's heard that chant before.
Lanfear isn't a trusting person, so she'd never ask a bunch of weirdos for stuff without thinking about possible costs; Mat makes that mistake because he's reckless and ignorant. Lanfear's only big-time stupid when it involves LTT.
Given her new OT name, I think Lanfear was killed - either because of the doorway or by the Dark on her return. Her reduced power level suggests she: (a) was healed by a woman or (b) had to give up power in a deal with the foxes.
I've considered that Lanfear might've killed Asmo many times - she has genuine motive to kill, can prolly make it so resurrection is impossible, is one 2-3 folks who swore to kill him on sight. I don't think you're outlining what happened, but encourage you to keep trying.