No need to look for the quote, I do believe you. I just don't see that this necessarily means that the DO has to be completely 100% aware of TP all the time. Basically it is possible that once the DO "separates" parts of himeslf to give to channelers, he temporarily becomes unaware of what happens to those parts of himself. I mean it is _possible_ is it not? Certainly it is also possible that the DO was aware of everything Rand was doing, but the possibility that the DO was ignorant has not yet been disproven.



I don't really see the need for the connections to have fully fused. Hmm. Lets imagine that the connection to OP is like a pipe through which water flows. Both of them still have their unique pipes to the source. Rand&Moridin themselves would be water tanks to which the water from the pipe goes. Now imagine that the balefire link has created a NEW pipe between the two water tanks. So the idea would be that TP went through Moridin-pipe to Moridin-tank, and then the TP flowed through the balefire-pipe to Rand-tank. You see what I mean I am sure. I don't see the need for their OP connections to have fused together, all that is required is somekind of connection between them, and we know that exists. Now I am sure we will eventually find out if that connection can transfer power, but I think it is quite feasible.



Why? Sure, Moridin-the-living-TP-angreal is somewhat strange, but that does not make it in any way impossible. Especially since Rand saw Moridins face at the exact time he channeled TP.



I said "only". I think they are linked so closely now that they are basically touching physically,mentally and also through the power. And remember I argued that that the dizziness that Rand experiences is caused by one or the other using OP, and if true that means that using the power does allow the other to feel it.



You may be right. However I will mention that while Rand first thinks it was LTT, he then says that LTT was nodding along as though someone ELSE had made the thought. Rand then assumes that it was actually his thought, and wonders how much LTT has affected him that he thinks such things now. But it is quite possible that it was actually Moridins thought. The whole "Creator does not care" would fit well in his ideology aswell I believe.



Yep. But would that not mean that using TP activated the link further. So using power activated the link. And TP uses the same link as OP.



We don't know, but we do know that at the time Rand was already feeling sick from channeling, Moridin was still able to use TP without showing any signs atleast. That is where the idea that maybe only OP causes sickness comes from. It is interesting that Rand himself did NOT get dizzy when he used TP. If the sickness was caused by some conflict between that and the Shadar Logoth wound then should he have not been utterly crippled from channeling it himself?



But what causes the reaction. I still think its OP itself, that OP being a power that naturally connects to others (circles) also tends to activate the link, which causes dizziness and sickness in both.



Oh yes, I cannot deny that they are linked in their thoughts too (I really want a Moridin POV in the next book!), but that does not prevent the possibility that they are ALSO linked through the power. We know channeling OP has other effects. It hinders compulsion, it distorts Min's visions and so on. Why could it not strenghten the balefire-link. The link is always there, but OP use activates it in full causing the "motion-sickness" as Rand feels he is suddenly in two different places/bodies at once.



Demandred says "since he last saw him". To me that suggests since he last saw Moridin, unless this is the first time Ishy meets Demandred in his new body. It also seems to me that if this had been normal behaviour for Ishy, it would not have been worth mentioning. So why does Demandred seem to think its somehow strange that Moridin has gone totally TP-exclusive.



He had some saa, but what Demandred thinks is: "so many saa gained so quickly", while the saa are a large stream in Moridins eyes. The point is not that Moridin has saa, but rather that he has much more than he should have according to Demandred.