What you are laying out for Egwene would have been a very effective method, but Aran'gar doesn't seem to have skill required to pull this off ... Or she most likely would have done this and then moved on to other tasks. Instead she had to rely on other methods such as questioning Sheriam and using Moria to sow discontent in the Hall.
What happened with Ramshalan seems to suggest that Aran'gar does have the necessary skill. She placed compulsion on Ramshalan with no warning and in just few minutes, and did so in a way that left Ramshalans mind intact, just manipulated. And that was with just few moments to work with.
With Egwene, Aran'gar would have had weeks or months to slowly and carefully place delicate compulsions with as much care and precision as was needed. She could even have asked for advice from Graendal on what would work best given the timeframe.
As for why she used others to sow discontent too, I would say probably because she could not use Egwene for it so easily. Remember that what we are talking about here is the idea that Aran'gar placed some very subtle compulsions in Egwenes mind that no one noticed and which will come to play in the final book.
If Aran'gar had placed a compulsion on Egwene that had her march to her followers and declare that its time to surrender to Elaida or anything utterly out of character like that, she would likely have been delved and Aran'gar discovered.
Egwene under compulsion
17/05/2012 05:40:31 AM
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17/05/2012 08:27:50 AM
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To add to that
17/05/2012 01:46:02 PM
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Re: To add to that
18/05/2012 06:04:07 AM
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Re: To add to that
18/05/2012 08:58:23 AM
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Re: To add to that
19/05/2012 04:00:49 AM
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Re: Egwene under compulsion
18/05/2012 11:31:01 PM
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Except we know Aran'gar was punished in some way for "losing control of her charge"
18/05/2012 11:47:44 PM
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Re: Except we know Aran'gar was punished in some way for "losing control of her charge"
19/05/2012 12:31:10 AM
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Yes I know. That's the point we are discussing.
19/05/2012 12:44:27 AM
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Re: Yes I know. That's the point we are discussing.
20/05/2012 07:01:23 AM
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Fair point on Ishamael
20/05/2012 03:36:32 PM
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Re: Except we know Aran'gar was punished in some way for "losing control of her charge"
20/05/2012 06:54:40 AM
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It happened off screen
20/05/2012 03:44:40 PM
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Re: It happened off screen
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19/05/2012 12:05:32 AM
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The Headaches
19/05/2012 04:47:23 AM
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I always thought the headaches were just something Aran'gar did to get close to Egwene
19/05/2012 04:10:32 PM
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Re: Egwene under compulsion
20/05/2012 06:37:23 AM
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Like I said before...
20/05/2012 07:30:58 PM
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Re: Like I said before...
20/05/2012 08:57:17 PM
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Finding a weave and recognizing the symptoms are different things
21/05/2012 03:13:12 AM
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21/05/2012 01:32:30 PM
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No argument that a subtle compulsion would be necessary
21/05/2012 01:48:06 PM
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Why bother? She's Egwene, and served the Shadow's end of her own free will
21/05/2012 11:13:26 PM
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Re: Why bother? She's Egwene, and served the Shadow's end of her own free will
22/05/2012 08:22:46 AM
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