Yes.
Yes. In a nutthsell:
The same method, yet with a totally different result ofcourse. Isam and Luc both had living minds, but both couldn't channel. I'm pretty sure what Fades have for a mind doesn't qualify as a living mind. And yet Shai'tan needs just that for a Myrddraal to be able to channel. Oh the irony!

With Slayer - Luc & Isam; one lived and one died.
With the Nae'blis - Moridin & Shaidar Haran; one lived and one is 'neverborn'.
So yeah; same method... very different result.

I'm not sure if they were already one creature like Slayer is. I doubt that Ishamael was already linked to a specific Fade in that way back then to be honest.
First off, because Slayer is a 'newer' evil then Ba'alzamon.
By making Slayer, he found out a better method.
Second, because we know Shaidar Haran actually is a 'better' version of the previous one.
The current situation allowed for that better version.

I am convinced though, that Ishamael was capable of somehow linking to Myrddraal. Invading their mind and partly controlling the Myrddraal.

Compare it to what Myrddraal can do to Trollocs.
I think Ishamael could do something very similar that to a Myrddraal.
And I think as Moridin / Shaidar Haran, he can do that to all Myrddraal.

Etzel...stuff ads up. That's just one tiny part of it and you know it. I said that Trollocs having a different name for Ishamael -namely Ba'alzamon- is one of those clues, because Trollocs name their Myrddraal, yet we never see one named!
Incidently, no other Chosen has a Trolloc name. Those things stand out when you look at a bigger picture then you do Etzel.
Sorry.

RJ put some other clues in the books too, like constantly hinting that there was more to Ishamael and Moridin then that he was 'merely human'. Sometimes even in terms of 'half-human & half-mad'. You can either ignore those, or you can put half and half together. (pun intended )

You might have heard the term foreshadowing perhaps..
It's only foreshadowing if you manage to read the hints between the lines before it's pointed out to you by the writer though.
Then it's just admiring the beauty of the story in hindsight.


You look at incidents and try to ridicule them. I look at the whole story and see the Pattern within the Pattern. You see lame hints. I see true beauty in how the story unfolds. You think 'half a step' is meaningless drivel. I see yet another hint.

I'm not here to ruin your experience, Etzel. I'm trying to help you see a different story. If you don't want that, just say it and I'll not bother anymore with these posts. Ok?


Again, you try to ridicule me showing you that there's something odd about that whole story-line. I went out of my way to proove that;
a) Ishamael was the only one knowing about SHv.0.5 (Fact. No other Forsaken knew and Ishamael was working together somehow with it)
b) Ishamael dies and SHv0.5 stops killing Carridins family as it was and as it promised for roughly two months, while it picks up again like nothing happened later and even Moridin finds his way back into Carridins fate again.

Now I don't expect flowers and a feather up my arse for showing you something new. But I certainly didn't expect to have those facts ridiculed.
Whatever man.


I give up.
Lame twist?
I think it's beautiful. Rj had this planned from the very first chapter. It's hidden all over the books... in so many ways, it's beyond stupid I'm still here trying to convince you.
And you call it a 'lame twist'.

Maybe you'll apreciate it better once it's spelled out for you in the books. *shrugs*