The problem is that people don't read the books or at least ignore what is said about Slayer... - Edit 1
Before modification by Etzel at 25/03/2010 09:46:12 AM
... we didn't even know that Slayer could travel the Dreamworld at the time. When he was shot in the dreamwoods by Perrin in The Shadow Rising he woke up in Emond's Field, like he was just an ordinary Dreamwalker. At the time I thought he was simply Luc who became Isam when he was in Tel'aran'rhiod.
The way Slayer's powers work in that book are bizarrely different from those he employs elsewhere.
We were supposed to have all the information we needed at the time, so it seems improbable that we are supposed to divine that the perpetrator was someone using powers that we did not even know he possessed until several books later. At the time, Slayer had not demonstrated the ability to enter the Dreamworld in the flesh, and therefore to travel using it.
The way Slayer's powers work in that book are bizarrely different from those he employs elsewhere.
We were supposed to have all the information we needed at the time, so it seems improbable that we are supposed to divine that the perpetrator was someone using powers that we did not even know he possessed until several books later. At the time, Slayer had not demonstrated the ability to enter the Dreamworld in the flesh, and therefore to travel using it.
For example is the following talk between Hopper and Perrin in TSR, ch.28, quite revealing:
"You chase Slayer, Young Bull. He it here in the flesh, and he can kill."
“In the flesh? You mean not just dreaming? How can he be here in the flesh?”
"I do not know. It is a thing dimly remembered from long ago, come again as so much else. Things of the Shadow walk the dream, now. Creatures of Heartfang. There a no safety."
And a bit later Birgitte tells Perrin after he mentions Slayer: “A good name for him. This Slayer is not old, archer, but his evil is ancient.”
This shows that Slayer is very deadly, uses TAR in the flesh and obviously got this ability from the DO.
Plus, Slayer always leaves the corpses behind.
If his Forsaken patron wanted that Slayer takes the corpse, he would naturally do it.