Yeah but having a plan to kill the DO probably has some aspect that can be applied to a plan to trap him. This is all supposition though.



It shows he's missing important information for using Callandor. It also doesn't show that he literally intends to have this meeting then break the seals straight away. That is inferred from what e told Egwene which is deliberate misleading IMO. If not then I agree that his plan is very risky but just waiting and hoping things sort themselves out is not a better alternative.



I think it would be pretty in character, but then Egwene annoys me. Not that she hasn't done good things but she has made some very illogical decisions without Rand's excuse of madness. Plus any plan anyone comes up with cannot be guaranteed to succeed anyway- nobody knows what the DO is, he's always won in this cycle before, it's too much of a risk to try the same thing as last time but with Saidar and Saidin in case both get tainted. The only people with more knowledge of the DO that SuperRand are the FS and so only if Lanfear is genuinely going to switch over can trustworthy (if that) new useful information realistically come. It's all very well saying he needs to have everything perfectly planned out, but that can't happen. So should he wait forever for a plan that will never e finished or try and have some advantage of any kind? He's going to be punished next book for waiting so long as it is. Either he doesn't know enough about the bore and needs to find out more- which would require Lanfear or going to Shayol Gul and I suggest he should only do that once ever considering what it is!- or LTT already let's him know what he needs to know. There aren't many other places he can get useful information from! This idea of a perfect plan doesnt exist- every AS in the age of legends together couldn't come up with it.



How do you know? You don't know something is a clue until the event it is a clue for is revealed. I certainly didn't expect the Cleansing from the clues we were given, though I knew Saidin would have to be purified at some point. I didn't expect Rand to balefire Graendel's palace, or (until very late) trick and trap Asmodean. If anything this is Rand's MO when he's actually planning. He doesn't share his plans with his loved ones until the last minute, partially because they are dangerous and he knows they won't like the high risk to him.

I still think Rand will use Callandor in a circle to draw in the entire DO as the TP then try and seal it inside himself and throw himself through the bore, maybe as a corpse, using the Pattern that he can now control to close it up behind him. Then he might bodyswap with Moridin. There are clues that could indicate this but we won't know they are clues until we find put what actually happens. The whole purpose of a clue is to be obvious when the answer is revealed but not before then.