IE Visiting her eyes and ears, calling on informants, visiting the bank to convert Tar Valon notes, etc.
I don't think she is a darkfriend or a Black Ajah, namely because all the evidence points to the contrary. Plus, we know she is bound by the Three Oaths and cannot lie. She is not walking around engaging in the mysterious activities - she's just keeping her activities secret. In fact, we know of most of her "off screen" time - for one, she spent a lot of time with Adeleas Namelle and Vandene Namelle to research the Forsaken, ancient history and forgotten records. It is possible that she pieced together balefire from these records, as well as the psychological profiles of the Forsaken.
Plus, it really is not hard to trace a Forsaken's movements; in terms of the overall game mechanics, they are moving on the same board as you are, but acting on a parallel set of rules. Thus she could figure out which Forsaken was in a city by a number of criteria: A) Unnatural phenomena or unlikely events that started occurring (ie: widespread nightmares in a city, a large number of leaders mysteriously changing personalities or vanishing creating power vacuums, mysterious deaths), B) timeframe when these events occurred, C) modus operandi and Talents of the Forsaken, D) "new" citizens or nobles that have appeared when A and B happened and finally E) if all the factors in A, B and D match up with C.
I don't think she is a darkfriend or a Black Ajah, namely because all the evidence points to the contrary. Plus, we know she is bound by the Three Oaths and cannot lie. She is not walking around engaging in the mysterious activities - she's just keeping her activities secret. In fact, we know of most of her "off screen" time - for one, she spent a lot of time with Adeleas Namelle and Vandene Namelle to research the Forsaken, ancient history and forgotten records. It is possible that she pieced together balefire from these records, as well as the psychological profiles of the Forsaken.
Plus, it really is not hard to trace a Forsaken's movements; in terms of the overall game mechanics, they are moving on the same board as you are, but acting on a parallel set of rules. Thus she could figure out which Forsaken was in a city by a number of criteria: A) Unnatural phenomena or unlikely events that started occurring (ie: widespread nightmares in a city, a large number of leaders mysteriously changing personalities or vanishing creating power vacuums, mysterious deaths), B) timeframe when these events occurred, C) modus operandi and Talents of the Forsaken, D) "new" citizens or nobles that have appeared when A and B happened and finally E) if all the factors in A, B and D match up with C.
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One thing that has consistently bothered me about Moiraine...*spoilers*
30/11/2009 04:00:23 AM
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doing Moiraine-type things
30/11/2009 04:14:38 AM
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Re: doing Moiraine-type things
30/11/2009 08:23:19 AM
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I think anyone who'd met "Brend" would mention his scar, and if anything passed down from AOL
30/11/2009 01:31:30 PM
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and if he was the newest highlord then logic shows that he must be the just-released forsaken *NM*
30/11/2009 04:23:47 PM
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Also, in before this thread gets balefired for breaking the spoiler policy
30/11/2009 05:44:31 AM
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We know from her PoV that she isn't BA...
30/11/2009 02:48:20 PM
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what book? *NM*
30/11/2009 03:19:54 PM
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Especially Santhra's book on the Forsaken is mentioned in TGH, ch.22.
30/11/2009 03:34:08 PM
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Is it possible....
30/11/2009 03:26:56 PM
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As said above, Moiraine gathered informations about the Forsaken from books. *NM*
30/11/2009 03:35:08 PM
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She was doing "Aes Sedai business"
30/11/2009 04:37:18 PM
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