Hi I just wanted to express my personal opinion, on who it was and why they would do what they did, I have a feeling they did it on purpoe because they had learned, or atleast theorized from what they had heard from lessons about how terrengreal had killed the first aes sedai who had died or burned out because they had suaght to do everything at their full power, so naturally she held back her prowess, and was eventually thrown out of the
tower, not thrown out of being aes sedai, so techniquely is still aes sedai, Settale Annon, the only person who we have no idea just how strong she was but had portrayed great inner strength and maintained the calm posure of aes sedai in a new life, she even picked up being advisor to the empress, and she seems to be the sort similar to Nynaeve in that free sense of self almost
oh and I just wanted to say most of all hello and I absolutely enjoyed reading some of the stuff you guys have written already