This may well have been discussed many times, but I'm on a aCoS-and-onward reread and things are suddenly fitting together a lot more for me, so bear with me here. 
In WH, chapter 13, Wonderful News, Cadsuane comments that "Blackmail was a tool she disliked using, but she had already used it on the three Asha'man". One would guess based on the rest of the chapter that "the three Asha'man" are Narishma, Hopwil and Flinn, and that she blackmailed them into letting themselves be bonded. But what did she blackmail them with? Do we ever find out?
In WH, chapter 13, Wonderful News, Cadsuane comments that "Blackmail was a tool she disliked using, but she had already used it on the three Asha'man". One would guess based on the rest of the chapter that "the three Asha'man" are Narishma, Hopwil and Flinn, and that she blackmailed them into letting themselves be bonded. But what did she blackmail them with? Do we ever find out?
Cadsuane blackmailing Narishma and the others
- 03/12/2009 12:13:58 AM
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Re: Cadsuane blackmailing Narishma and the others
- 03/12/2009 01:43:46 AM
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Maybe not that hard for Flinn...
- 03/12/2009 01:52:17 AM
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But that hardly constitutes blackmail.
- 03/12/2009 02:03:15 AM
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Do as I say or I will tell the Black Tower of your whereabouts ? *NM*
- 03/12/2009 02:59:25 AM
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Maybe a poor word choice, but that's basically what she did. You're right about Alanna not knowing.
- 03/12/2009 03:29:35 AM
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If that's the truth of the situation it's a good thing
- 03/12/2009 02:01:51 AM
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There's still no evidence that that applies to anyone but Rand. *NM*
- 03/12/2009 02:35:18 AM
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And there is no logical reason to assume he is unique. *NM*
- 03/12/2009 03:30:24 AM
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Beyond the fact that he is the prophecied savior of mankind?
- 04/12/2009 03:33:29 PM
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So the Power doesn't work around him? Why did Semirhage's fireball work and not Alanna's bond? *NM*
- 07/12/2009 11:18:32 AM
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I was kidding. Rand is unique, but not so much in this context. *NM*
- 08/12/2009 08:42:07 PM
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Re: If that's the truth of the situation it's a good thing
- 03/12/2009 07:08:34 AM
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Except that all the Aes Sedai that been bonded by Asha'man can be compelled using the bond.
- 03/12/2009 01:26:24 PM
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Re: Except that all the Aes Sedai that been bonded by Asha'man can be compelled using the bond.
- 03/12/2009 06:14:46 PM
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