I had to go and re-read this.

First of all, Lanfear never had to walk through the camp as you say. She was already at the wagons. She used her disguise as Keille to go see Kadere. No one knew who she was so there was no fighting there. She only went berserk, when Kadere told her that Rand had had sex with Aviendha. This happened INSIDE Kaderes wagon btw. Infact once the fighting started, Lanfear barely moved at all. She only took a few steps backwards once Rand tried to move forward to attack her physically.

Second. While Lanfear does kill quite a few, it is nothing like what Rand did. There was no army there, only random Aiel walking around with no idea that there would be danger. Infact, most of them would have been gathering elsewhere for Rand's planned attack against Rahvin. I admit that yes, Lanfears attack was impressive. Lanfear does summon flame, and even creates arrows of it (perhaps the same weave that LTT used), but based on the description I doubt she kills all that many. Her attack is also easily dealt with by Rand who counters her quickly with a barrier that blocks her flames. I might be biased since I think what she did was far inferior to Rands attack, but the way it reads does not really seem to match the description of Rand destorying the trollocs. I would go so far infact to say that some of the stronger asha'man such as Logain could easily have done what she did.

Third, You might be right about whether or not Lanfear had her angreal at the time. It is mentioned that Moiraine put it on the wagon of the doorway, but nowhere is it mentioned that she picks it up. She could have picked it up while she was going to see Kadere in her disguise, in which case she would have had it all the time. The fact that she was still able to dominate Rand so easily, despite the fact that Rand DID have his angreal all the time might be a clue that Lanfear already had hers. On the other hand, she might have picked it up during her fight with Rand, and it was simply not mentioned that she picked it up. The first time we see the angreal, is from Moiraines POV where she sees that Lanfear has the angreal, and thinks that Lanfear should be able to crush Rand easily unless he has his own angreal aswell.

Infact, the fact that according to the finns Lanfears angreal is virtually a sa'angreal, while Rand's angreal was pretty weak actually speaks pretty poorly of Lanfear here.



Oh sure, I agree that she killed dozens of people in only a second or so. The thing is, that is something any powerfull channeler could do. Just from the top of my head I can recall Rand believing that Taim could do much like Lanfear did, killing everyone around him if he wished. And since this was Rand's view, whether Taim is somehow linked to AoL or not is irrelevant.



I would disagree. The Asha'man are easily as lethal to the Shaido during Dumai's wells. Maybe even more so. Granted, there were several of them while Lanfear was alone. But the fact that Lanfear is very powerfull was never in question. I just don't believe that even Lanfears strength could have been sufficient to destroy a massive army like Rand did. An army that Ituralde says could not be stopped by anything they had and which would totally devastate Arad Doman. Lanfear was powerfull, but buddha!Rand is on another level entirely I think.



Except that Lanfear and LTT should be very close in ability, with LTT maybe having some edge. Lanfear was as powerfull as a woman could be, and apparently the strength advantage that LTT would have had would be countered by dexterity advantage of Lanfear as a woman. And yet, despite that, even you admit that the new Rand was much more powerfull. Which was ofcourse the point all along. Lanfear is extremely lethal, as are the other AoL forsaken. But Rand has become SO powerfull that he has jumped to another level entirely, somehow.



I disagree here too. Yes, she killed many more than just the empress, but again this would not have required anything truly spectacular. All Semirhage would have needed, would be the ability to travel which she had, the ability to kill quickly which any strong channeler can do and the locations of all the members of the imperial family, and given that there are darkfriends in Seanchan, and the fact that Semirhage is an expert interrogator, that would not be a problem.

Basically, all Semirhage would have needed to do was travel to the throneroom where the empress was using a reversed gateway, strike her down and leave. Then instantly open another gateway to where she knew the next member of the family was and repeat the process. Since the Seanchan back in their continent did not even KNOW what traveling was, Semirhage could have killed every single relative of the empress in very few moments. By the time the deathwatch guard recovered from the shock and even tried to arrange someekind of resistance, it would all be over. Rand actually plans to do something similar in tGS, traveling from place to place in rapid succession, striking instantly and then leaving before anyone had a chance to react. This kind of technique could have been used by anyone who knew the necessary weaves (traveling, reversing, information about locations).



It was actually LTT in Rand's head that did the channeling in the mansion, and he used weaves and techniques that Rand did NOT know. And infact, Rand uses some of the same things (deathgates) during the trolloc attack, implying that LTT at the time used nearly all of his skill. And Naeff would have seen it. And yet he still thinks that what buddha!Rand does is something else completely.



It simply makes little logical sense that the shadow would be breeding this massively huge army of trollocs to counter the light, if the forsaken could so easily match Rand's feat and singlehandedly blow up all of the lights forces. It is not a case of forsaken being weak, its just that something has caused Rand to grow into something beyond an ordinary channeler.



Oh I don't deny that Rand's LTT knowledge from AoL helped, I just don't think that that knowledge ALONE would have allowed him to do what he did.



Which is the point. Rand did something beyond ordinary channeling. Something unique that only he could now do, something even LTT could not have done in the AoL. We don't know what it was exactly. Ituralde mentions that Rand's attack left all the fortifications unharmed so maybe Rand somehow imbued his attacks with somekind of light-based anti-shadow attacks which were extremely deadly only to the trollocs. Or maybe Rand now has some bizarre connection to the OP that others lack. It just occurred to me that Rand's children with Aviendha have something like that, in her vision. We don't know what was going on exactly, but it WAS something more than just merely LTT being skilled.