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Alive. It's the simplest answer for me, especially considering that Rand knew she was more cunning RugbyPlayingAshaman Send a noteboard - 04/11/2009 05:03:38 PM
Firstly, Rand's assumption that the fading of the webs of Compulsion signalled her death are erroneous. Weaves such as Compulsion are generally set and remain regardless of whether the channeler dies. Indeed, the Warder Bond still has an effect on the mind of a bondmember who loses the other - it doesn't simply vanish.

Secondly, Graendal is not an idiot. I say this because we already know what her modus operandi would be - she came out and said it much earlier in the series. 1) She would throw herself at his mercy counting on his treatment of women and 2) She would flee and go to another base of operations. This second answer, it seems to me, to account for her treatment of the noble Rand sent. It seems to me that once you get a messenger from the Dragon Reborn at your secret palace, it is time to escape as soon as possible, because he is at your doorstep and has destroyed other formidable opponents. I don't think she would know about Semirhage's death, but I also don't think it's important - Graendal isn't the type to risk a confrontation given how disastruosly Semirhage's went. Also, and most luckily for her, she did well to create chaos and cripple Arad Doman. Even better, she knows that Rand has done something even more terrible than her Compulsion - he's removed innocent souls from the Pattern never to be Reborn. This will cause him pain in the future, especially when she re-appears. Even worse, he duplicated a tactic that Aes Sedai and Forsaken in the Age of Legends had abandoned as being detrimental to the Pattern - who knows what he has unleashed in the space/time continuum of the area?

Finally, if she is alive, I think her next base of operations - Shara, which she already knows enough to Travel to since she has the Sh'boan/Sh'botay. Even more ominous is that it perfectly fits with her habit of adopting bases of operations that are far from the other Forsaken's.

I think it interesting that Rand doesn't consider the obvious - inverted wards to sense a male channeling are probably erected all over the palace and the surrounding grounds - she may have well had an alert as soon as he used the access key. Even more obvious would be a humongous light boiling in the air in a forest not quote out of sight of the palace. She may have very well used her Compulsion, sent the nobleman back in a hurry while gathering her angreal, useful servants and etc, and then seeing the bar of white light forming, Travelled away from the area immediately. Bel'al himself realized what Moiraine was weaving based on the reaction in the air before her, and she was handling a far weaker amount of saidar to generate it compared to what Rand held. Plus, the palace itself, not being a fortress, probably has many more vantage points to see from. Heck, Moriding could have woven a gateway, informed her that the Dragon was on her doorstep and that could have been why her Compulsion on the nobleman was so thick.

Also, I think she killed Asmodean - thought so for years and even if she is now dead, that doesn't remove her from the list of suspects.
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Graendal's fate? - 02/11/2009 04:18:11 AM 2039 Views
Dead. - 02/11/2009 04:22:48 AM 992 Views
Maybe... - 02/11/2009 04:28:16 AM 969 Views
I think it's fair to say at this point that Graendal did not kill Asmodean. - 02/11/2009 04:36:37 AM 1003 Views
Re: I think it's fair to say at this point that Graendal did not kill Asmodean. - 02/11/2009 04:40:30 AM 993 Views
Re: I think it's fair to say at this point that Graendal did not kill Asmodean. - 02/11/2009 05:08:09 AM 902 Views
Why has she been removed from the list of suspects? - 02/11/2009 02:29:41 PM 890 Views
She is dead - 09/11/2009 01:37:03 AM 843 Views
That's pretty terrible logic - 19/11/2009 05:58:57 AM 1015 Views
I disagree. - 02/11/2009 10:29:21 PM 852 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 19/11/2009 11:43:45 AM 415 Views
Could it have been Verin who killed Asmodean? - 02/11/2009 05:20:37 AM 1416 Views
She is dead *spoilers* - 02/11/2009 05:44:21 AM 1000 Views
Re: She is dead *spoilers* - 03/11/2009 09:01:07 AM 869 Views
Re: She is dead *spoilers* - 09/11/2009 01:38:56 AM 974 Views
I say dead. *NM* - 02/11/2009 06:07:15 AM 450 Views
Dead. - 02/11/2009 06:46:10 AM 851 Views
Dead as Dumbledore. But why does it preclude her from being Asmo's killer? - 02/11/2009 07:04:08 AM 934 Views
Right. That info could easily be revealed through the POV of another. *NM* - 02/11/2009 02:15:31 PM 410 Views
It could but... - 02/11/2009 03:14:23 PM 943 Views
Moridin would most likely know. - 02/11/2009 04:06:04 PM 854 Views
Well.... - 02/11/2009 08:52:52 AM 892 Views
*NM* - 18/11/2009 10:45:52 PM 391 Views
Alive until proven otherwise IMO *spoilers* - 02/11/2009 03:47:51 PM 912 Views
That weave was very complex. - 02/11/2009 10:34:36 PM 834 Views
Actually, the one that Rand had Nynaeve study earlier was more complex. - 04/11/2009 05:11:07 PM 911 Views
But you can't reverse Compulsion by unraveling it, right? - 18/11/2009 10:48:08 PM 861 Views
Almost certainly dead - 02/11/2009 04:48:18 PM 1019 Views
Yeah. Compared to, say, Sammael's "death" - 02/11/2009 10:40:01 PM 916 Views
Not even almost. Graendal and Sammael now both go well with eggs. *NM* - 03/11/2009 01:51:15 AM 438 Views
Oh, I agree, but fiction, deus ex machina, etc - 04/11/2009 09:58:42 PM 842 Views
Graendal is dead. the evidence is pretty hard - 03/11/2009 08:00:27 PM 3181 Views
Well, unlike everyone else, - 04/11/2009 01:34:57 AM 842 Views
Alive. It's the simplest answer for me, especially considering that Rand knew she was more cunning - 04/11/2009 05:03:38 PM 1033 Views
Re: Balefire. - 04/11/2009 05:30:12 PM 867 Views
Not necessarily. - 04/11/2009 06:08:34 PM 822 Views
The thing is... - 04/11/2009 06:25:43 PM 895 Views
Here's the rub - she had no desire to come into contact with Rand. - 04/11/2009 10:30:05 PM 1091 Views
Hm. Possible. - 04/11/2009 06:42:12 PM 1135 Views
I think it's the most simple possibility. - 04/11/2009 10:39:02 PM 858 Views
Re: I think it's the most simple possibility. - 09/11/2009 01:51:52 AM 797 Views
That's just absurd - 04/11/2009 10:48:30 PM 939 Views
No, I'm making it more simple. - 04/11/2009 11:11:36 PM 879 Views
That thoery doesn't account for the undoing of the Compulsion - 04/11/2009 11:50:06 PM 884 Views
Yes, it does. Distance causes maintained weaves and Links to attenuate. - 05/11/2009 04:22:37 PM 940 Views
Yes, but Compulsion is almost never a maintained weave *NM* - 06/11/2009 07:19:24 PM 459 Views
But the real question in my mind... - 02/12/2009 08:28:31 PM 841 Views
Well - 06/12/2009 08:45:12 PM 1292 Views
Odds are she's dead - 06/12/2009 08:48:19 PM 737 Views
Re: No, I'm making it more simple. - 09/11/2009 01:53:49 AM 850 Views
Amen! Praise the Great Lord of the Dark! **I agree with all points** - 05/11/2009 07:21:52 AM 878 Views
This sounds familiar. - 09/11/2009 06:54:17 AM 795 Views
Yes... - 17/11/2009 12:12:04 PM 797 Views
Yeah, I was shocked initially. - 18/11/2009 10:58:15 PM 875 Views
Proof for reincarnation exists - 26/11/2009 06:38:17 PM 816 Views
RJ said... - 26/11/2009 06:51:26 PM 970 Views
But Rand's was spread over a LARGE area *NM* - 27/11/2009 12:17:47 AM 370 Views
He was drawing through the Choedan Kal... *NM* - 27/11/2009 01:09:23 AM 360 Views

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