It is rather a good example of how good you are at intepreting what people say to make them say what you want instead of what they meant....

As I told you, what's the difference between having a POV of Aran'gar remembering a meeting with Graendal or showing this meeting?

Plotwise it's exactly the same thing! It's strictly a story telling choice, and a meeting on screen is tempting because it's more interesting to read and a rule of writing fiction is to show whn you can instead of telling the reader what happened, and based on the example of several of your theories that turned out completely wrong (notably your notion that Tuon would be totally turned over just by learning she had a Forsaken with her, and worse, that Rand would send her to save the Tower!), you're not very good at figuring out storytelling, resulting in theories that make no sense as they would ruin all the build-ups for the third act.(your notion that Fain is irrelevant and will be killed early by Slayer and DH is another example of your misundestanding of storytelling).



You admitted the point I was trying to make all along: it's perfectly credible that the alliance between Graendal and Aran'gar is still relevant and Aran'gar and her met off-screen during the timeline of TGS.

It doesn't matter to me if this happens on-screen in TOM or through an Aran'gar POV, the bottomline is still that Aran'gar would get information/agents Graendal has now and Aran'gar didn't have by KOD....

The odds it happens on screen are still 50/50. Remember this, and don't come in a few months claiming I said there had to be a Graendal scene in TOM.



You're hopeless.

Beonin, Ashmanaille and Phaedrine discussed this too, and their reasoning was based on logic and intuition. It was very obvious Anaiyia and Kairen were not random victims. They were looking for the link between them.



A BA would suggest an alliance with the BT "against the Forsaken" on her own? Come on! Of course a Forsaken put her up to this!

For the rest, what difference does it make if Alviarin passed Mesaana's orders or Mesaana or another Forsaken gave them to her? It's still the Shadow, and it sure ain't Aran'gar. Strange that Moridin would do this without warning Aran'gar, and he has no reason to undermine her position. Who does that leave but Graendal (unlikely) or someone in the trio?



I remember you saying it made no sense that Tuon would refuse Rand's truce either.

Not much that is reasonable ever seem to make much sense to you.



Pretty much what I said, but it doesn't exclude the other obvious possibility either: Graendal managed to find out. She knows Mesaana well, and finds her obvious and easy to read. It's far from impossible she figured out who Mesaana is in the Tower.



Of course, it's reasonable, so to you it's nonsense.



And of course, it your mind it's all just idle curiosity...

Why does she wants to know? Because she seeks to undermine her rivals and end up on top.

Even in TGS Moridin presents to Graendal the fact she's given glimpses of the trio's plans, and is present to see them weakened as a reward....



Irrelevant to anything I've said. What does it matter if Aran'gar meet at Graendal's lair or at another pre-arranged place? You imagine even Semirhage/Demandred/Mesaana are allied out of more than pure self-interest?



Read the damn books. There's tons of reflections about the trio and "their bid for control of the Chosen" (her own words), and how Semirhage's capture has undermined this, and how she had puzzled out Semirhage's plans recently, and how Mesaana was obvious and easy to read, how useful her alliance with Aran'gar who is among the rebels is proving to be, and how she would very very much love to know what Demandred is up to.

You're blind if you can't see how interested in the trio's plans Graendal has always been, and perfectly aware that they seek to end up above her, and she has no intention of letting that happen. It goes way back to LOC.

You're blind if you can't see Graendal would bring them down if she could, and so would Aran'gar. They both referred to this before, actually.



You keep repeating this as it there was some meaning to that comment. In KOD, Aran'gar already considered the revelation Mesaana was in the Tower could be taken advantage of. Why would her depature change anything to that, whether she thinks Mesaana is behind her fall or not. It becomes even more interesting for her to eliminate her rivals now that she's lost her own position.