Well nearly so. Obviously they don't know it at the end of TGS, since Elaida has not yet arrived at Ebou Dar even. However Elaida knows how to do it and I expect she will break quickly. Infact it would not surprise me at all if she is actually arrogant enough to proclaim herself Amyrlin and demand to be released and such, thereby making herself a priority target. Though odds are that the Seanchan already know her. She is not exactly been incognito.

As you yourself say, Elaida will crack easily, and once she does the Seanchan will have traveling very quickly. Traveling was afterall one of the primary reasons for the entire raid. They will be wanting that most of all, and doing their very best to break the prisoners as quickly as possible. I doubt it will take long.



Well, ToM will actually jump back in timeline apparently in that we get to see what Mat and Perrin were doing while Rand was going loony, so this is true. But I expect that once we do get to the latter half of the book and the timeline goes beyond the WT attack, we can expect Seanchan to have traveling soon afterwards.



Yes and no. I am not saying that BT is unprotected, but at the same time they do NOT expect an attack like the Seanchan would do. The Asha'man do not know how to block gateways from opening, so the best the wards would do would be to warn them that someone is channeling saidar inside the tower.

They also do not expect an attack via traveling since they think the Seanchan don't have that. Aes Sedai do, but the oath against killing prevents the AS from performing an all out ambush attack like the one I am thinking off.

Here is a theoretical possibility:
Lets say the attack happens during the night as I originally suggested, there are likely guards, but most of the Asha'man are sleeping. Suddenly 25 gateways open all over the BT area. And out of each gateway two damane/sul'dam pairs run through and INSTANTLY start using the OP to throw fire and destruction at the best of their ability. What do you think would happen? I would say that a lot of people in BT would simply die before they even knew what was happening, while the rest would take a while to react and start fighting back, during which time even more would die.

BT might not fall from an attack like this, but they would likely take very heavy casualties. One might even say that the Black Tower would be rent in blood and fire. And would that not be basically what the Seanchan want? Unlike with the AS and WT, they don't want to capture the Asha'man, but rather to kill them all as quickly as possible.