I'm not sure Mesaana would die, but regardless I agree with your reasoning - it's essentially the same as mine.



Actually, the person being Bound is not the one who channels the Spirit into the rod - another channeler does that. So, when I talked about (and rejected) the idea of Mesaana diverting the flow of Spirit, I meant the other channeler's flow of Spirit. The person being Bound doesn't channel during the process, as I understand it. She just holds the rod and speaks the words.



I see what you mean. However, since it appears the person being Bound has to hold the rod while speaking the words, I'm guessing that the holding part is key, in which case creating a fake target may not be possible.

Just thinking off the top of my head here. We certainly don't know enough to rule that idea out for certain.



Yeah, that might have been possible. But, for no one to notice her channeling during the process (since normally the Bound channeler doesn't channel), not only would she have had to invert the weaves (no problem, there), but she'd also have had to mask her ability (otherwise she'd glow), and if she had masked her ability before arriving, you'd think the other women there would have noticed. *shrugs *



I agree. My guess is that, whatever she did, she did/prepared it before she arrived, so that she didn't have to channel during the process, because of the mask-her-ability issue I mentioned previously.