I guess i'll concede with the masses, and say taim is probably demandred. the whole giving rand the seal is a bit weird, and freaking out that rand was about to smash it, but... taim is too convenient and too knowledgable at times i think we've heard all the stuff about it so i won't go into it at this time. i think the dark one probably frowns upon chosen killing each other--he likes dissention, etc but i don't think he wants them killing each other, or would've happened long ago...so now, taim (if he's demandred) now has express orders from rand to kill another forsaken--since he's been following rand's orders for some time now, obviously the darkone isn't opposed to this, so demandred now can justify knocking out some of his nae'blis competition with rand's order hopefully all this makes sense...any comments or flaws in all this?