They way Siuan and Egwene talked about the 3 oaths and how they were to deal with the Seanchan, I thought about the novices and accepted as possibilities. I thought harder on that in KoD when the novices started following Egwene. Kind of suspected they might be the ones to drive of the Seanchan, at least be the start of it. Maybe after warders lives became endangered the sisters would jump in, but the way RJ made a point about the novices following Egwene just seemed pointed at that. I couldn't think of a reason why he'd spend so much time on that topic otherwise. For some reason though, I failed to think about the fact she'd still be drugged for that theory to work.