It's not her, it's the fact of her case indicating a wasteful attitude, especially with the end times approaching.

Yes. Your point being?

Why not? I am wotmania's biggest advocate of the Seanchan and apologist for the a'dam. And Else was not a prisoner. She was SENT away, not permitted to go home. Once again - THE LAST BATTLE IS APPROACHING! She doesn't need to be promoted, she can be given a special status (THIS is where Egwene's Kin plan or a variation would be useful) that indicates her dead end career, she can be given a job as a servant if she wishes or else used as an ambulatory battery. A human well, as it were. Keep her strength. There are ways for the Tower to send a message to their novices with promise that they do NOT want to imitate Else, especially when girls who came to the Tower after her, start to pass her on the ladder (as Egwene and Nynaeve did). As for her skankiness, let her boink all the Warder students she wants. She just might pop out a channeler or two.



But that's the beauty of it all. With channeling, unlike intellectual and physical gifts, the channeler does not even have to WANT to cooperate, as the Seanchan demonstrate. Let her care or not care, the amount of saidar flowing from her is still the same. I am not necessarily endorsing keeping a woman against her will, but with the Tower's dwindling numbers and strength in saidar a real concern at the time she was sent away, I can't see how the one Amyrlin to know for sure how close Tarmon Gaidon is can justify sending her off, simply because she lacks the gumption to be a full sister.