yeah,the title speaks for itself..metaphorically..right? i am going to prove my hypothesis with just two quotations. so,let's start. 1.in the dragon reborn,verin says that there are three constants in all the worlds. one,the creator.two,the dark one.and three,the unseen world. 2.in the lord of chaos,herid fel says,"belief and order give strength". keeping these two statements in mind,we may start with our speculation. firstly,we must understand the unseen world,or tel'aran'rhiod. thoughts rule tel'aran'rhiod. stray thoughts can lead to nightmares. tel'aran'rhiod also reflects the dreams of the people in the waking world.once a person dies in this world,he dies in the waking world as well. verin also says that tel'aran'rhiod wraps around all the other worlds,or exists within all these worlds. another little observation- in the towers of midnight,perrin stops balefire thrown at him by mesaana.now,all know that only heartstone can stop balefire. what does balefire do? it burns off a thread of the pattern.say the thread of a pattern is just that,a thread, and balefire is the burner.burners are usually able to burn through most threads.but what if the thread were tough enough not to be burnt by the burner?if the thread were fireproof,or in our case,balefireproof? it is accepted that tel'aran'rhiod has place in the wheel,and wheel also weaves its threads there.now what perrin did was he toughened up the thread in the pattern.that or tel'aran'rhiod is totally outside the pattern.this is rather unacceptable. SORRY for getting sidetracked. where was i?..oh,yes. let us recall that the dark one is a constant in all worlds including tel'aran'rhiod.nothing else is constant in all worlds,except the creator.so if the D.O and creator are constant in All worlds,then they can be said to connect all worlds,they are reflected in all worlds. Let me pick up on an analogy.if you see yourself in a hat one mirror's reflection,then you wear a hat in all mirrors' reflections. consider a special mirror.in this mirror when you shine a light on it,it reflects as force, not light back again.so this is a mirror with special properties by which you can knock off the hat.so now in all ordinary mirrors you have no hat. similarly,the dark one is the guy.the hat is his prison.tel'aran'rhiod is the special mirror.but what on earth is the light that reflects as force,knocking off the hat, or in this case sealing the prison?? recall point number two.. "belief and order give strength" therefore,belief and order are the light. who shines the light on the mirror? the dragon reborn,and his followers. with belief and order rand can neatly heal the world in the world itself.if it is a light here,then it might well be a high intensity laser in tel'aran'rhiod. so that's what is gonna happen. rand will take his followers to shayol ghul in tel'aran'rhiod. he'll seal up the dark one's prison neatly.i am assuming callandor is the way,the key to sealing up DO's prison. the DO by definition is chaos and lies. so belief and order should bring him up short on his gleeful destruction. the two women we know from whom light shines like hell out of are moiraine and nynaeve. so these two will be in the circle with him. pretty involuted, i know. but it does kinda make sense.