I simply refuse to believe that a Forsaken like Arangar spends *all* of her time attending to Egwene. Even including meetings with her BA lackey, Delana is probably quite busy, so Arangar should have a good 19-22 hours in a day for whatever things she wants to do herself. Unlike Semi in Seanchan territory, no one could detect Arangar, so she could just come and go as she chose. Seriously, she would only have had stuff to do for like 4-5 hours in a day, tops.

I've never heard any power comparisons of Arangar or Taim. Taim is supposed to hold nearly as much as Rand, while Arangar was supposed to be quite strong in the AoL, but I heard no measure of him. There's that Angreal thing, though, and I believe RJ said that you could fool people as to how strong you actually are...

I do agree, though, that "impersonation of other FS" was what Arangar meant by "playing my own game." For my money, it was obviously Cyndane who sent those Trollocs...

Taim's special knowledge could easily be explained in the way you describe. But him calling them "so-called Aiel?" That's just too much, y'know? If we're going to be told that he picked up that phrase from his boss, and gets a hoot out of saying "let the lord of chaos rule," then that will be a real asinine move on the part of the authors.

I did not mean to toss my idea out as some certainty - I just mentioned I was working up a Taimangar theory. Working up means trying to find support for, which means that I've been going through the books to make sure it's not flat-out impossible. I'm not certain yet that the text doesn't rule it out, as it does with Moridin and Osangar...