Yes, if rarely - Egwene being the only AS truly exceptionally skilled in Earth (this was noted by the Seanchan as being rare and valued among damane as well). To get enough candidates for her cuendillar scheme, Egwene had to recruit even novices.

It's not surprising we haven't heard of any WF strong in Earth or Fire. Most of the channelling in the series involved Air/Water, and most of their traditional use of channelling use those two flows. There's probably WF with fair abilities in other flows - in fact the speed at which they learn what the AS teach them confirms that. It's just that SF previously didn't know many weaves that used Earth-Fire-Spirit. They relied almost solely on Air and Water.



You see though that the Heroes are also further evidence that Rand isn't unique and pure talent/skills aren't genetic but tied to the soul.

There's zero evidence that the Wheel shapes the skills/personality of the Heroes. Even the Heroes themselves believe they've been chosen by the Wheel for those skills and that on occasions new Heroes are chosen, not created by the Wheel to have specific skills.

Why does the Wheel isolate the Heroes's souls from the Soul Pool? It could be seen as evidence that the Wheel keeps these souls accessible, in a dimension of the Pattern, to be reborn at need because normally the Wheel has no influence at all over the soul pool and rebirth, that after death and until conception, the soul is out of reach to the Wheel, just like Shai'tan can't reach beyond a certain point.



This is overly complicated for nothing, and a bit illogical since Rand isn't a genetic clone of LTT, yet has the very same "pure talents" as LTT and as far as we can tell, the exact same profile as channeller (or LTT would have commented on the differences in strength, affinities for flows and so on.) . He's not inherited that from his genetics, but from the baggage of his soul. This was also there before he got touched by the taint. Rand trained hard, but he also proved a natural swordsman - Lan just formally honed this talent. He had the same early affinities for music, like LTT - Thom had no problem honing his natural skills.



This sounds very far fetched, every Hero Soul's rebirth would need to be genetically programmed over generations. If the Wheel could foresee so far in advance the imbalances in the pattern, it could correct them at their genesis, it wouldn't need Heroes as corrective mechanisms. In that Rand is a bit of a special case, because the imbalances he's meant to correct involve an external source.




What else would the "and special skills" distinct from Talents be but stuff such as aptitudes with flows? It doesn't make sense they would be shared in a circle but "talents" wouldn't be. Most of the weaving Talents are nothing but special aptitudes with some flows, only even more specific, at the level of weaves/categories of weaves. Egwene has great natural skills weaving Earth, linking with her doesn't make those skills pass to the circle leader, none of her abilities as a weaver do. The fact she's good with Earth doesn't provide a greater quantity of Earth to a circle either. She provides raw saidar, that's all. The circle leader's the one who picks the flows and handles them. Selecting a flow is the first step of weaving itself.



Not "very likely linked". We know they did, but not to Heal Rand. Corele linked with Flinn afterward at some point and off-screen (Jordan wasn't about to steal the thunder of the Cleansing with that), to get a demonstration of his Healing.

It's never been suggested they have later attempted mix gender Healing of any kind (Yellows are not prone to experiment with Healing - Nyhaeve is far more daring in this respect). If they did it's off-screen and has provided us with no data so far on mixed gender Healing. I don't think they did, that would have reached notably Nynaeve's ears when she joined that group. Corele would have been all too happy to boast about it to bring Nynaeve down a few notches.



The first and ground breaking mixed gender work was the Cleansing itself. That's also when mixed gender circles began again. After the bonded couples started experimenting - the first evidence of true mixed gender work (Rand's aside) - circles using both saidin and saidar combined, was in the aftermath of attack on the Tairen manor. It's the first time Nynaeve noticed it happening, anyway.