Re: For those fortunate enough to have scammed an advance copy :SPOILERS TO COME: - Edit 2
Before modification by Kythorian at 29/10/2010 07:26:01 PM
1) Not 100% sure on this, but leaning toward the revelation that Mat's Ashandarai is the key to exiting Finnland
2) It never explicitly reveals how she did, although the hunters that Egwene assigns to finding Mesaana (the former black ajah hunters) come up with three ways it couuld be done. She could have been holding another oath rod (obviously with an inverted weave hiding it) that unbound her when she swore. The second possibility is she may have put someone under heavy compulsion and a mask of mirrors and sent them to swear in her place. The third and most likely possibility is that they discover a weave that can make people hear something other than what you say. For example, you could say "I swear I'll lie whenever I feel like it" and everyone hears it as "I swear to speak no word that is not true." This weave can be inverted and tied off so they wouldn't detect it.
-Interesting. I agree that makes the oath against lying completely pointless now. Not to mention the fact that if this weave gets widely known, anyone who doesn't want to follow the oaths could do exactly the same thing in the future. Even more reason they need to just get rid of the oaths.
3) Nope, but lots of other people do.
4) She can channel, but is much weaker since the Eelfinn drained much of her power. She no longer is strong enough to have attained the shawl. However, Moiraine has that Angreal that lanfear had been using whcih makes her more powerful than she was before.
-So even weaker than Siuan now? That kind of sucks. I guess it will make her lifetime line up at least a little bit closer to Thom's though.
5)Aran'gar, Delana, Asunawa, Jaret Byar, Katerine, Mesaana (basically), Nicola, Carlinya, Shevan, Noal (Jain Farstrider)
-So...no one very major. I am a little surprised about Nicola though. I figured Byar would need to die though. He was just way to much of a fanatic.