Because you're splitting hairs. RJ never knew the absolute strengths of his channelers - he admits it's a 21 level list. You can't prove that a level 1 is twice as strong as a level 10 - you can only talk about the prevalence of that level.



Not at all. He spoke about the percentage of women who would qualify for the shawl, saying that a third are too weak. You can't place a value on more than that.



Because adding several levels above Nynaeve, or even one level, would cause an imbalance and there's no evidence that he never conceived of the weakest channelers like Morgase.



I'm saying you can't put a value on the 21-levels based on the bell curve.



RJ only has the levels. He doesn't have anything else. Really..



It's possible that some equal her.



I'd be surprised if there weren't some who had Kiruna's strength.



No, not really. In fact, without RJ's bell curve quote you probably can't prove a single claim regarding your strength list. There are many quotes to refute it. You're clutching to this quote when in fact it lends almost no evidence by way of female strength, only how common each level is.



So omission is evidence now?



I don't know... maybe Reds are practiced at shielding. We know for a fact that Amys can't hold Egwene properly, so what more do you need?


She thought that in book 3. It's likely Moiraine thinks that both of the women are very strong and together can match an extremely strong foe. There's nothing wrong with that assertion. I myself think that Egwene has half of Rand's full potential, so I don't know why it's an issue for her to challenge his weaker Forsaken foes linked with Aviendha.



She's obviously straining herself. Rand says so.



We know they were not linked.



Linking has an advantage - we know that already.



I assume this is based on gateways? Very erroneous evidence if you ask me. There's a Talent, and several factors can mess it up like forming a circle.


Because they're weaker. Travelling is more than just a weave - see Asmodean's statements on gateway formation.



Okay then - I also found a quote from Egwene in that book where she says that any of them could destroy Elaida.



How is 'only Nynaeve can match the Forsaken' and 'she can't challenge Moghedien' different?


I don't think Moghedien is that weak. I'd put her at 70.



The cleansing ... right before she gained her full strength. Before that she was making leaps in strength that I showed you but you've ignored those.