It would explain her passion for and knowledge of LTT (not Rand, please note) and if one of her requests was the one so often alleged of Lanfear, to be the strongest female channeler ever (note the passage says, "before the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn held her" not "before she went to the Finns",) then "no woman could be stronger." Ilyena, driven mad and into the Shadows service in her turn by LTT's inexplicably brutal betrayal. Now she's back, and turn about is fair play, Kinslayer111

It's so deliciously horrible I NEED it to be wrong.