ACoS, ch.40:
"It could not tell one flow from another", but it could distinguish saidin from saidar by the smell. Saidin smelled like the sharp edge of a knife, the point of a thorn. Saidar smelled soft, but like something that would grow harder the harder it was pressed. No other Myrddraal could smell that difference. Shaidar Haran was like no other Myrddraal."
However, I think it's clear that it was a Forsaken, since you need the Forsaken mark to force Shadowspawn. Demandred and Cyndane want to kill Rand personally, while Moridin doesn't want that Rand is harmed. That rules them out. Aran'gar is ruled out by her own thoughts. I seriously doubt that Moghedien would risk it, since she is mindtrapped and Moridin certainly grilled her. Similarly another Mesaana betrayal seems very unlikely, since she was just punished by SH for disobedience; besides she is concentrated on the WT.
That leaves Semirhage and Graendal as possible culprits. IMO, it is more likely that Graendal posed as her old buddy Sammael to kill/weaken Rand and play mind-games with the other Forsaken.
"It could not tell one flow from another", but it could distinguish saidin from saidar by the smell. Saidin smelled like the sharp edge of a knife, the point of a thorn. Saidar smelled soft, but like something that would grow harder the harder it was pressed. No other Myrddraal could smell that difference. Shaidar Haran was like no other Myrddraal."
However, I think it's clear that it was a Forsaken, since you need the Forsaken mark to force Shadowspawn. Demandred and Cyndane want to kill Rand personally, while Moridin doesn't want that Rand is harmed. That rules them out. Aran'gar is ruled out by her own thoughts. I seriously doubt that Moghedien would risk it, since she is mindtrapped and Moridin certainly grilled her. Similarly another Mesaana betrayal seems very unlikely, since she was just punished by SH for disobedience; besides she is concentrated on the WT.
That leaves Semirhage and Graendal as possible culprits. IMO, it is more likely that Graendal posed as her old buddy Sammael to kill/weaken Rand and play mind-games with the other Forsaken.
Part of a mystery from KoD is solved
14/12/2009 08:37:45 PM
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Only SH can distinguish saidin and saidar
14/12/2009 08:46:31 PM
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I think this Mydraal in question was Shaidar Haran 1.5, was it not? I don't remember. *NM*
14/12/2009 08:50:24 PM
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SH obviously wasn't one of the Myrddraal, who were ordered by "Sammael" to attack Rand. *NM*
14/12/2009 08:53:43 PM
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Alviarin's Mark doesn't give her control over shadowspawn. RJ told us this in a Q&A.
14/12/2009 08:49:50 PM
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Link please to the RJ quote. *NM*
15/12/2009 03:31:06 PM
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I always thought it was Demandred
14/12/2009 08:59:01 PM
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I've always thought it was Semirhage's doing
14/12/2009 09:39:18 PM
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I agree
15/12/2009 04:44:14 AM
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In my view...
15/12/2009 07:32:18 AM
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Graendal is low on my list
15/12/2009 01:47:20 PM
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Posing as Sammael is Graendal's modus operandi
15/12/2009 01:58:34 PM
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Re: Posing as Sammael is Graendal's modus operandi
15/12/2009 02:21:07 PM
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But if she want's to appear as Sammael, she would surely "act in character"...
15/12/2009 02:42:27 PM
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Re: But if she want's to appear as Sammael, she would surely "act in character"...
15/12/2009 03:01:40 PM
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Two things...
15/12/2009 02:03:23 PM
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