It was obviously Verin! She hoped that he would know a way around the oaths but got impatient and accidentally killed him! Poor Verin, if only she had been a bit more patient.



Agreed. Though it does beg the question of why she did not test it before. You have actually just pointed out an even more obvious problem that makes Verin even worse but more below.



Believe me, I know about WoT not being a rational world.

The post I made earlier about Rand and waygates is another example where I dislike people acting like morons. I do enjoy the series as a whole but I do dislike the fact that there are so many cases of people acting like idiots when they should know better.

Does the fact that Verin is surrounded by foolish people make it okay for her to be foolish too? Or does it just mean that all are to blame for being foolish, including Verin. I think the latter.



But surely she must have realised that since the BA was growing and changing all the time, the list would never be perfect. Not to mention that she could never reveal the list in public without a way out of the oaths. So while looking for BA was a major priority, freeing herself from the oaths would have been equally important if not more so.

You know, I wonder why she did not just reveal her knowledge the moment she knew that Dragon was reborn, back in the very beginning? We readers know Rand has plot-armor that makes him unkillable, but for all Verin knew some random BA sister might hunt and kill him when he was still weak and end everything if she did not stop it.

Why did she not destroy the BA by revealing what she knew to Siuan or anyone the moment she learned that Rand was the real Dragon Reborn and that the last battle had truly come? Sure she might not have caught every sister, but it would stil have been a lethal blow to the BA.

Instead she did not and let the BA run amok during the most important time in history, while also giving the Forsaken a powerfull tool to use in their plans. What possible motivation had she to dither and delay until the very last instant? I mean when she finally speaks out, the last battle is nearly upon the world and the BA have already accomplished most of their plans to weaken the world before the LB. Because she waited for so long, the only real thing Verin accomplished with her life's work was slightly reducing the amount of dreadlords available to face Rand at the end. Hurrah.



This is a good question. It is a really good question.

Why is it that Verin did not act the very moment she learned traveling? Why did Verin not travel to the tower store room the INSTANT she discovered the traveling weave and release herself from the oaths right then and there? I see NO reason to wait.

Infact why not do it before, sometime during the 70 years that she was an unwilling BA. okay, I could potentially see that the BA might have taken steps to prevent your average BA from doing so with regular tests to see if the oaths were still there or something. I could also see Verin having difficulties breaking through the wards into the storeroom or something. But these explanations become obsolete the moment she is taught traveling by Cadsuane and by the fact that she is now part of Rand's group and reasonably safe from BA tests/interference.

I think this is actually a far more stupid mistake in Verin's part. I got so stuck on the whole stilling thing to release her that I failed to see this. Verin should have fetched the OR long ago and released herself LOONG ago. What was she waiting for? Argh!