"Matthew Kuhl" <patton1945@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>I think I may have a possibility for Cyndane's disguise among the
> Randlanders. Recall, if you will, from KoD, in the scene when Elayne
> has defeated the rebels and their leaders are standing before her.
> Remember Sylvase Caeren? The granddaughter of Nasin Caeren, the old,
> probably senile High Seat of House Caeren? There is something rather
> suspicious about her. For instance, the fact that her grandfather
> practically dotes on her. It would be quite easy to point his mind in
> that direction with Compulsion. And one need not even be a Graendal
> at Compulsion to handle something like this. Or there is her firm
> certainty that her cousins will practically fall over themselves
> confirming her as High Seat. Additionally, there is the fact that she
> has coopted Arymilla's shadowy Taraboner "secretary"/torturer for her
> own uses. Finally, Elayne herself admits that she doesn't actually
> know squat about Sylvase Caeren. Sylvase and Cyndane fit the same
> physical profile (so far as I remember): short, ice-blond, blue-eyes.
> It's been noted before that FS frequently "borrow" identities of real-
> world people who are little known and turn them into their own
> disguises (a la Mesaana). Last piece of evidence I can think of: The
> only POV we have from Cyndane is obviously when she's in
> "negotiations" with a high-ranking DF somewhere (obviously skeptical
> of Cyndane's Chosen-ness), right before Moridin's "call to arms." The
> only place of significance in Randland that (so far as we know) has no
> Forsaken operating in is...Andor, after Rahvin's death. Mesaana in
> the White Tower, Semirhage with the Seanchan, Aran'gar (formerly with
> Egwene's Rebs)...most places appear to be occupied already. Except
> for Andor. With its strategic location, historic unity, and future
> Queen who is very im****tant to the Dragon Reborn, it's only logical
> for Moridin to dispatch Cyndane, one of the Mindtrapped Duo, whom he
> directly controls, to Andor.
Makes sense. I don't remember their physical descriptions off hand.
Lanfear has used the pseudonym of Sylvie before. Sylvie,
Sylvase....close.
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