Brandon said LTT was right that the DO is the TP. I asked someone who went to a Stormleader event to ask him that directly (because it had been my theory about the nature of the DO for many books... so I was very interested in getting a confirmation). The quote was in his report. It's most likely in Terez's DB on TL (though maybe not the exact question I got Peter or Ken to ask Brandon)



Yet very unlikely IMO. It would mean their connection to the TS have fused, that they draw from the same connection, and IMO there's absolutely nothing in the books to support that notion,



You transform Moridin into some sort of well or alternative source for the TP. That's a most bizarre notion.





Actually you do, or you misunderstand that humans must have the ability to channel to draw the TP. If Rand drew the TP through Moridin's connection, it means Moridin and Rand share their connection to the TS as well, and would be aware whenever the other channels, because it would feel as if they had embrace the Power themselves.




No, you brought that one above too, but you are mismembering it. Moridin said nothing about that, it was LTT. That's not Moridin's philosophy, it's most likely a reflect of how AOLers felt about the Creator when their God never seemed to come to their help. It must have been depressing, when the other side's God helped directly. It's no wonder so many lost faith and joined the Shadow. Rand/LTT's faith was rekindled on DM - the Creator leaves us the choice to fight Shai'tan or not, it's up to us, and we've decided Creation is worth saving. The Creator told Rand no different in EOTW: "only the Chosen One can do it, if he choose to". Rand was always to face that choice.



Yes. After Rand channelled the TP, his mirroring of Moridin started increasing at top speed, until on DM he basically quoted Elan Morin's nihilist philosophy about the Pattern being a prison to make souls suffer.

What I am suggesting that its not just body(hand/tiredness) and mind(philosophical thoughts) that are connecting, but ALSO their intangible power connections. If they are merging in all other ways then why not in that way too?



By all evidence, Moridin now spends most of his time at SG, quite incapacitated (he doesn't seem to have Rand's resilience). How often does he channel anyway?



And it turn this doesn't happen only when Rand feels sick. He sees/feels Moridin, or what Moridin sees, notably when Moridin feels very strong emotions.



A case of the above. When Rand embraces saidin, his reaction is very violent and overwhelming. Moridin feels it (as Birgitte would if Elayne was in the same situation), and experienced a strong emotion: fury. When they're connected this way, they see each other.

Another similar case not involving saidin or sickness occured when Moridin was in a fury at a meeting of the Forsaken (when he told them in anger "if you want to kill somebody, kill those two!" and Rand too was in a mood. He suddenly thought angrily that he needed Perrin and Mat but they were off at the Ansaline Gardens.



Of course, when it comes through Moridin it's less violent, that's all. It's the same for Rand. To him it's "overwhelming" while to Moridin it was "he looked about to sick up".


No, I am convinced that the dizziness and sickness that comes with OP is indeed caused by the balefire link. That is why Moridin has abandoned OP. He may have wielded it a couple of times (the few times Rand got dizzy without channeling), but now he has gone TP only to avoid the nausea, and it should be added that since then Rand has not got sick without channeling himself.



Demandred meant "since Ishamael re-appeared as Moridin" he had to channel exclusively the TP to get the saa so fast.

Moridin already had the saa before the SL incident. Nothing suggests any sudden change of behaviour, and he seemed to have used almost exclusively the TP as Ishamael as well.