Knowing the compulsion weave and how it works is no protection against it in itself.[/quote]
Its a protection because you get better at looking for its effects on yourself. Egwene does say she learned Compulsion so she could counter its effects. And further, the subtler forms of compulsion are not effective when a person channels, making it useless to place these on Egwene, because she's going to be channeling fairly often.

That was the very strongest form of compulsion, and it almost destroyed their brains.

The effect of Compulsion has nothing to do with which side of the Power was used.

No she isn't. She is wary of him, and wants to guide him, but she is not mistrustful of him.

But that isn't what you're suggesting. You're saying her mistrust was being slowly amped up. If a week/month from now, you're more mistrustful of your childhood friend who dominates your thoughts and conversations, trust me you will notice, and so will those around you.

That assumes that multiple small compulsions don't add up to effects similar to a single complex compulsion. That has no proof, and as a neuro-scientist, I can say that it makes no sense either.

And things would swiftly spiral out of control. The moment you have to make people ignore a part of themselves, you've gone into more complex territory. That's why the subtlest forms usually need the greatest understanding of psychology. And Aran'gar has shown herself to have no such facility. She's dumb, and not even clued in that Graendal's hedonism is a ruse!


She did keep her at arms length, though. And if you have to force someone to like you and not suspect you, you're again moving from subtle compulsion territory.

We don't know how much she was punished, except that Graendal says she was which makes no sense at all if she had such major success.

And what kind of compulsion can she have placed that's going to be useful anyway? She had no way of knowing what the future held for Egwene. Heck, she didn't even know Egwene would personally take over sealing Tar Valon's harbor. How was she supposed to place compulsions that would help in the future with no idea on how events would unfold?