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Inverted illusion should do the trick and then the oath rod would truly be defeated. RabidWombat Send a noteboard - 14/11/2009 08:58:34 PM
I wish I had been the one to come up with this but I now know how Mesaana can circumvent the Oath Rod

"I will speak no word that is not true"
"I am not Black Ajah"

From Linda_Sedai of "The 13th Depository"

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Brandon used the words 'defeat the oath rod' not 'defeat the oath'.

Mesaana would take the oath if she had no choice. It would be much easier though to not touch the rod and only appear to touch the rod using an illusion. Or to have the flow that she uses to activate the rod barely miss the rod, being an atom away or so. Or perhaps since she has the ability to make her strength in OP seem smaller then it is she also has the ability to make a fake flow of OP and only pretend to activate the rod. There is even a small possibility that the oath rod binding is based on intent at the oath taking and not the words. That would defeat the original purpose of the binder, but the AoL may have had a way around that.

I don't think that Mesaana would swear on the oath rod if she has a choice. Even if she thinks about using T'A'R to create a duplicate oath rod and remove the oaths there is still the possibility that someone will ask her a damning question in the meantime.

RabidWombat
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Mesaana's identity NaClH2O - 14/11/2009 01:33:47 PM 1108 Views
Doesn't really help to identify her... Etzel - 14/11/2009 02:09:35 PM 679 Views
True enough NaClH2O - 14/11/2009 02:33:14 PM 683 Views
Ah, ok. *NM* Etzel - 15/11/2009 10:21:33 AM 491 Views
Yeah, people have been suggesting that as soon as the book was out... Legolas - 14/11/2009 02:58:38 PM 697 Views
It's been brought up here before. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 14/11/2009 03:32:10 PM 224 Views
Inverted illusion should do the trick and then the oath rod would truly be defeated. RabidWombat - 14/11/2009 08:58:34 PM 554 Views
All she has to do is say "not" during her oath so quietly that nobody else can hear *NM* Marshall - 14/11/2009 10:14:35 PM 230 Views
Or cross her fingers behind her back. *NM* Master Radishes - 15/11/2009 02:52:06 AM 221 Views
I thought this was an old theory... Moridin_2000 - 15/11/2009 03:01:56 AM 575 Views
Cutting lifespan 1/2 is a small price compared to promised eternity by DO, provided DO wins. Bookwyrm - 15/11/2009 07:21:12 AM 444 Views
Mesaana was afraid to enter the ter'angreal storerooms before... Moridin_2000 - 15/11/2009 09:48:02 AM 490 Views
Mesaana's identity? It's easy. We had BIG THEORY about it. It's Selene as Lanfear *NM* Skeeve the Great - 20/11/2009 12:38:36 AM 233 Views
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