I don’t see why she can’t do some creative trickery to achieve her results though. Like, make a huge wall of fire appear a bit ahead of the ships. They’ll obviously turn back, and she won’t have killed anyone.

Aes Sedai in the town could just sever the flows, I guess. Unless they set up a full-fledged blockade elsewhere, and totally impeding river traffic is not going to win them any support at all.

Though I’m disappointed we aren’t told much beyond the fact that the weave is actually pretty simple but needs some talent with earth.

You have to Align the Matrix!

And they found a huge three miles wide crater left where Shadar Logoth once stood.

Ah, that penny drops. I remember deleting a comment about that a couple posts ago.

They realise that they can’t stand against this type of power, not even if they linked – at least not if they are limited to circles of thirteen at most. And the way to cross that limit, of course, is to bring in a man

Frankly, I genuinely wonder whether a maximum circle (72 participants) could match Rand with that stupid little statuette. Maybe, I guess, depending on how powerful the circle's members are... but that sa'angreal is way too powerful. The amount of devastation it could cause is literally incalculable.

There’s one which clearly points to Mat using the Illuminator’s secrets in warfare – the precise image reminds me of cannons.

I wonder how much of that particular scene was RJ realizing that lots of people didn't pick up on the bellfounder line from the last book.

My god this Halima plant is such a work of genius on the Dark One’s part. No one is going to suspect her, and I don’t know if the Aes Sedai are aware the Dark One can do soemthing like this. So she basically has the run of the place – she can use the Power anytime, without anyone realising what she’s doing. How are they ever going to find her out?