Unfortunately while this is technically true, it is also irrelevant. She might have been Aes Sedai as far as the law was concerned, but if the other Aes Sedai don't accept her as such, the law doesn't matter. Call it compromise or realpolitik, but Nynaeve had to swear the Oaths, unless she wanted to spend years being treated worse than Daigan.

And I don't meant this as a defence of the Oaths - I agree that they're mostly useless, certainly not worth the cost of half a lifetime.



Do you mean that Egwene had no business raising she, Elayne, Theodrin and Faolain in the first place? If so I don't disagree - she did it out of political necessity, but it set a disturbing precedent. I'm not convinced it was even legal - can an Amyrlin's decree contradict established law? - in which case the four of them were never Aes Sedai at all. On the other hand, when the White Tower was first being formed out of the many groups then that called themselves Aes Sedai, they tended to absorb their competitors, where they could. Perhaps, in changing how a woman could become Aes Sedai, Egwene was trying to pave the way for bringing Wise Ones and Windfinders and the rest into the Tower.