A: Ability to channel under extreme stress.

A: Too complex to answer.Join funding and contributions from ajahs to full tower.

A: All eyes and ears networks overlap a little, but hers was pretty independent.

A: No.

A: They travel where light and darkness meet.

A: The age before the third age.The breaking of the world brought on the third age.The trolloc and hundred years wars were only punctuations in local history.

A: ye....er...RAFO. You must be a stone cold fanatic to *want* to use the TP.Moggy is terrified of it.Avoids it.

A: RAFO. of course, if you die, the answer is obvious.

A: Mordeth + person. Mordeth is a humanmade evil.The black wind gets along with Mordeth because of professional courtesy. Fain is antiforsaken as well as antiRand.He has a lot of skills and abilities outside of channelling. He can not channel.

A: No.No one will finish the series.The hard disks will be reformatted 4x in successions.

A: No

A: Yes

A: Someone asked Jordan about the 'gars, and mentioned that he'd seen theoriesthat Lanfear was one of the 'gars.I was expecting a RAFO, but RJ gavethe guy a disgusted look, and said that "No, Osan'gar and Aran'gar areAginor and Balthamel."The guy said, "You're confirming this, and nothinting about it?"RJ replied (I'm paraphrasing here), "I'm confirming.After all, it's pretty obvious in the books that it's those two.After all,that's what Aginor thought was so funny; Balthamel, the lecher, was stuckin a female body."Jordan then went on to give the standard disclaimer thata lot of the stuff is already in the books, and reasonably intelligentpeople should be able to figure a lot of this out.His job, he said, wasto make sure you're still guessing about some stuff at the end of the story.

A: Compared to their current world, it certainly would be a utopia.However, that doesn't mean that it wasn't perfect.Of course, outbreaks of diseases were kept to a minimum, but it and other disasters of that ilk still occurred.Evil still existed, as well.The Forsaken, for example, weren't exactly a stellar bunch to begin with. Semirhage, for example, was a sadist.(I'll skip his description of what asadist is.)She went into her profession (the equivalent of a surgeon) because it provided an outlet for her sadism.(He then cited some studies that showed that there were more people with sadist tendencies in the medical profession, and surgeons in particular, to support his point.)Aginor (whom he said after some prompting had several elements of the classic mad scientist type) was a biological scientist who never considered the consequences of his actions.Aginor would say, "I wonder what would happen if I took the ebola virus and altered it to be an airborne virus."He'd go ahead and do just that, all without realizing he'd be creating a potentially unstoppable plague.All Aginor would reply to that was, "Hmm.Interesting."(He then mentioned Aginor's creation of the Trollocs, their defects, "It was strong, big, tough to kill, and......stupid.", and that it was the birth of the first Myrddral that saved the Trollocs from being a complete failure.)Even back in the AoL, regular, ordinary folks could do some pretty nastythings.He then cited a study about a small town of ordinary Germans inWW2 who did some pretty horrific things (I believe he was referring tothe book "Hitler's Willing Executioners").

A: The Horn of Valere was known in the Age of Legends, though it was an artifact of an earlier age, but it was never used in the Age of Legends. In part, this was because there wasn't any need in an Age that knew universal peace, but also it was because what it could do was considered a sort of myth by most people in that Age. No one who is serious spends time trying to test out whether a myth might be real. (Seen anybody sacrificing a white bull to Jupiter lately?) And once the Dark One touched the world, before the War of the Shadow actually began, the Horn was among the items lost, and thought destroyed, in the first rush of mob violence, terrorism etc. So it wasn't available for use then even had someone wanted to try. It was later recovered and sealed up with the Dragon Banner because along with the Foretellings that made up the Prophecies of the Dragon was one saying that it must be.In any case, the story of the Horn was carried on through the Age of Legends in the same way that myths are today, and magnified thereafter though the twisting that occurs in the telling and retelling of a story. And believe me, stories about the Dragon Reborn and the Prophecies and everything concerned with them were rife during the Breaking. When everything is going to hell around them, people cling to anything and everything that might offer hope. That is how the Breaking could end with tales of the Dragon Reborn and the Prophecies already on many peoples' lips

A: I intend to write each of the prequel novels just as I did NEW SPRING: The Novel, in such a way that someone could pick any one of them up and begin there with no other exposure to The Wheel of Time?, but for best effect, I suggest reading them in the order that they will be published. If you read the second one first, you might find a few surprises spoiled in NS:tN. And if you read the third one first, you would certainly find spoilers for the first book and some for the second. As for whether to begin with the prequel novels or with the main sequence books, you can do either.

A: There are definitely time constraints on the Dark One's power to transmigrate a soul. The soul doesn't have to be secured immediately - that is, the Dark One doesn't have to be ready to snatch the soul at the instant of death - but the longer that passes after the death, the less chance that the Dark One will be able to secure the soul. Someone who has been killed with balefire in actuality died before the apparent time of his or her death, and thus the window of opportunity for the Dark One to secure that soul for transmigration is gone before the Dark One can know that the soul must be secured unless the amount of balefire used is very small. Remember that the more balefire is used, the further back the target's thread is burned out of the pattern. After the soul is secured, then a suitable body must be acquired and stripped of the (former) owner's memory and soul to make way for the favored one. By the way, what constitutes a suitable body from the Dark One's perspective is not that of the recipient. Certainly Aginor would never have chosen to be reincarnated in his, shall we say, less than imposing body, nor would the womanizing Balthamel have chosen to be reincarnated as a beautiful woman. It was only chance that Moridin ended up in a body that is young, fairly good looking and physically imposing. Those things simply don't matter to the Dark One. But the body has to be basically healthy and sound, and neither too young nor too old. After all, the Dark One wants his servants to be effective, and a body that meets those basic requirements is more desirable than one that doesn't. Since there is no stockpile of such bodies, the only way for someone to die and immediately be reincarnated would be a matter of pure chance. That is, the death occurred when a suitable body was on hand for some other reason. There are a few other limits and constraints, but I won't go into them here, since I may want to use them in the books, and I would rather they come as a surprise if I do.

A: At recent book signing following the release of Crossroads of Twilight,it was reported that you confirmed that the Forsaken Demandred has never posed as the man known as Mazrim Taim, who was introduced to Rand at the beginning of Lord of Chaos.Yes. Demandred has never posed as Mazrim Taim. All right, those of who fell over from the shock of a simple, straightforward answer can get up off the floor now. Sometimes, simple and straightforward can be the most devious of all, as any student of Aes Sedai will tell you. <Maniacal laughter from the shadows!>

A: Very little, I hope. The prequels are all to be much smaller books and considerably less complex than the main sequence titles, so I expect to finish each of them relatively quickly.

A: We're told throughout the books that the male channelers get goose bumps whenever the females are channeling or embracing the source. However, it is continuously mentioned that the women don't know if the male Asha'man and Rand are embracing or channeling Saidin. So how does the Red Ajah and Cadsuane, find Male Channelers and then gentle them?There are various ways that the effects of male channeling can be found, weaves that find the resonance of the residues of saidin. Check in Crossroads of Twilight. They do not detect the actual weaves, though, only the residues left after the weave is released. After that, it becomes a matter of detective work. Though perhaps stalking a leopard might be a better metaphor. As for Cadsuane, she has a few more tools at her disposal than other Aes Sedai, the reason for her extremely high success rate. Check Winter's Heart, and a few earlier mentions, for this one.