Next time, please don't skip the parts where you were dead-wrong. they are kinda important to the overall picture. If you can't answer them and I can, doesn't that mean something?
We all want a total picture so we better understand these books, right?
So, could you please adress those points? I pasted them at the bottom of this reply....

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I think the first time we can be sure we see SHv0.5 on-screen is as far back as TEotW (Chapter 17 - Watchers and Hunters (funny coincidence in the chapter name, right?)). It's the smiling Myrddraal who merely talks, threatens and tries to influence Rand. Sounds like something Ishamael does in Rand's dreams.
That's after 8 (yes; eight) days into the story....

And that's not the only time people -me included- think there's a special Myrddraal showing up in the story. Whitebridge....Prologue of TGH....etc.

Apperently it was around from the start, regardless of when the first Seal broke. Makes more sense too then your story. A story not supported anywhere in the books.

Considering that Ishamael was only partly-bound by the Sealing, couldn't it make sense just a teensy bit -with the Taint (a finite amount of the essence of Shai'tan) on saidin- and Myrddraal roaming free, that Ishamael has a link to Myrddraal?
And that it was this link that allowed a certain degree of freedom?

Or maybe I should pose a question; what set Ishamael apart this time for him to be only partly bound?

Again, you're the one speculating based on unfounded asumptions. In the prologue of LoC, Shaidar Haran says to Aran'gar that "none but he and the Great Lord know she lives". That's on Shaldine 12, according to the WoT Timeline.

Then later in LoC (Chapter 30 - To Heal Again) "Halima" 'was told to mention a name to Delana: Aran'gar' and this is how Delana responds:
"Delana sat down heavily. That name had been mentioned in her dreams. For the first time in years, Delana Mosalaine was afraid."

That is on Nesan 23, not even a WoT-month (39 days) later then the Prologue of LoC. This was also the FIRST on-screen time the name Aran'gar was mentioned again since the prologue. There has always only been one walking the dreams of Darkfriends; Ishamael/ Moridin.
And as we know, Myrddraal don't dream. Who do you think visited Delana's dream somewhere during that month?

To me, this looks like Shaidar Haran / Moridin working on the same project again from the get-go.

Besides, when we do first see Moridin on-screen, his eyes already show the saa, which only show after a long period of extensive use.


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Sammael didn't hear a thing. He just glanced behind him. A glance: "a hasty or brief look". It's not like he was investigating something he heard. Besides, the Watcher 'ghosted through trees without producing any sound'.

It's specifically mentioned the Watcher isn't making sound. It's not saying 'trying to move as soundlesly as possible or something like that. Even Aiel produce sound when stalking through woods. It's specifically mentioned that same chapter by Sevanna.

You're the one making stuff up as you go. First off, warding against sound is a two-way street. (read KoD, where Egwene meets with the SAS-hall) Second, the Watcher was merely holding the TP. The Watcher didn't channel a speck that we know off untill he ripped a hole in the Pattern to travel outside the Pattern.
It just says he isn't producing sound, like we know a Myrddraal can do! It doesn't say it's stopped/ muted/ blocked/whatever.

Fancloth 'absorbing sound'? Classic! Maybe it makes you weigh less too... a little. And you're actually saying my arguments are weak? This is conjecture that's actually unsupported by what we know from the books.


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Care to explain why Shaidar Haran in his own PoV think to itself as having eyes? When you think to yourself that "In your eyes, something looks a certain way, you are certainly referring to your visionairy capabilities.

I didn't write those precious few lines showing Shaidar Harans PoV. 13 lines to be exact. And in one of them, SH refers to it's eyes, while we all know, Myrddraal don't have any! Aint that a hoot?


How short sighted is that? Did you actually read what I wrote the previous post? I clearly explained that in chapter 20, it was noon on a sunny day and when we see Shaidar Haran in chapter 40 it's somewhere around dusk! (Grandael PoV: The sun sat
low behind the mountains to the west, half of a glowing red ball)
I also clearly explained that Myrddraal need 'deeper shadows' to become invisible.

Enterrrrr PoV-trap! Already explained as well. And if Shaidar Haran can think of itself as having eyes, why can't "the Watcher" were that a Myrddraal think of eyebrows/ eyes..?
Like I said earlier..; the mind bends to the body.
We see it happening between chapter 20 to 40;
from 'he/himself' and 'eyes/ eyebrows' to 'it/itself' and 'eyes'.
*shrugs*




Do me a favour and answer the hard parts about my answer..?