You're not logical there. What do you think she'd know best: how strong someone has to be to operate the Bowl or how strong Nynaeve is? Why would she wonder if maybe Nynaeve could operate it on her own unless she wasn't more than guessing how strong exactly the operator needed to be? She certainly wasn't guessing about Nynaeve's strength...

Elayne couldn't do more than move the clouds a bit the only time she's tried the Bowl because she didn't know how it worked. The Windfinders did.

She probably wasn't strong enough either to operate it on her own, but that's a bit beside the point.

Nynaeve is significantly stronger than Elayne. It's perfectly well established, I'm not sure why you're making an issue out of it again. I get the idea of shifting away from the Asmodean issue, but you've picked another dead horse...

Brandon wasn't confused about Nyaneve (he was about Cyndane). On the older list that didn't yet include Sharina, Alivia etc., Brandon said Nynaeve stood alone at the top, significantly higher than Elayne and Egwene.



Again, there's two logical flaws in your reasonning:

1) You are assuming that Nynaeve would use her full strength to lift Rand and Lan? Why assume this? We don't know the size of her well - it may not even be big enough to handle her full strength. There was saidar enough in it to weave air to lift the pair, but not enough to do it twice, to bring them down. What does this tell us about Nynaeve's strength or the weight she can lift? Not much at all! Her limit is somewhere beyond Lan and Rand, but we have no idea what it is. As I said earlier, the well makes the scene impossible to use for that kind of comparisons. You're also forgetting about Nynaeve's sskill in handling Air vs. Egwene's and Elayne's (with the Windfinder, Elayne has trained to handle huge quantity of Air). There's more about lifting stuff than just raw strength. There's aptitude for Air too.

2) In TGS Nynaeve wasn't commenting about her strength, she was commenting about the fact the Guardian doesn't interfere in any way with weaving the Power. It blocks the Source and a gizmo can triangulate the location of someone who channels, that's all. Standing outside the perimeter with the CK, Rand could have balefired Far Madding any time. It's implied by Cadsuane (or Verin?) Raolin Darksbane used the OP against the city from outside the perimeter once.



Their achievements had not much if anything to do with strength, beyond the fact they were strong enough to make those weaves... Many much weaker AS can too. Some Yellows much weaker than Nynaeve can do her healing too.

Very weak AS could make amazing discoveries. A lot of weaves aren't about strength but finesse and dexterity, or special skills. Leane was the second best after Egwene at making Cuendillar, and she's quite weak.

Their discoveries (not the Moghedien ones) have to do with skill/Talent, intelligence/creativity and the fact the "dangers of trying out stuff" has not been indoctrinated into them yet when they left the Tower. Another factor is that Moghedien showed them a hint of a much vaster world of channelling waiting to be rediscovered, and this stimulated them.



I'm not sure what you're talking about. Height? Why height? Theories about height vs. strength don't really work. It appears to be a coincidence that Rand and Lanfear are so tall.

Sammael was quite strong in the power, and yet he was really short.

Alivia is very strong for a woman yet short (barely taller than Nynaeve). Nynaeve is quite short. Moiraine used to be one of the strongest Aes Sedai, yet unless there's dwarf AS, she was probably one of the smallest sisters alive. Leane and Siuan's strengths were comparable, yet Leane is much taller.

Both Aliva and Nynaeve stand at the base of the top tier of AOL channellers (at least if the legend that the 13 surviving Forsaken were among the strongest people of their Age is more than a legend). They're not quite Mierins, but they're way above the median.

The Namelles were very tall, yet quite weak.

Balthamel went from a tall/muscled male body to a much frailer female body and can still channel the same volume of saidin...

Cyndane is short, yet still formidably strong for a woman.

There's no apparent corrolation between physical body and OP strength.