Have you ever noticed that at the start of an episode of nightrider, Micheal and Kitt are given some new gadget such as a beam that controls helicopters, or a parachute that will save them should they drive off a cliff; only for that to be exactly the tool need when they are chasing a helicopter near a cliff.

This is what Androl is.

We have final confirmation that gateways are a thing of the world of dreams. We have BS's hammer stroke of subtlety that the last battle, for Rand at least, will be fought there and all of a sudden a man with preternatural control of gateways appears.

I predict swathes of message board posts after aMoL, along the lines of "oh wow yer man who can barrely channel figured it out isn't that so ironic"

Yeah as ironic as a brick in the face.