This video is a spoiler breakdown. The first of many. It is designed specifically for people
who have read the entire book series. So if you have not finished The Wheel of Time, please
close out before the next clip is done. and take back that which nature itself does
not wish you to hold! Let’s take a look at Logain and Nynaeve.
In The Wheel of Time episode 4, Nynaeve exploded with light and healed everybody. This was
a nice nod to a line from book 2. In book 2, Siuan Sanche tells Moiraine that Elayne
Trakand could well be the most powerful Aes Sedai in a thousand years. Moiraine then counters
by saying that Egwene is at least as strong as Elayne. And Nynaeve is even stronger than
Egwene. Moiraine says that once Nynaeve gains conscious control of what she now does without
knowing, she will be as strong as any in Tar Valon. With training, she will shine like
a bonfire beside the candles of Elayne and Egwene. That last line is very similar to
what Moiraine said to Logain about the Dragon Reborn in the show. Very cool.
Now let’s get to the big topic of debate. When Nynaeve exploded with light, Logain shielded
his eyes. So Logain saw the explosion of light. Male channelers cannot see the weaves of female
channelers. So it begs the question: how did Logain see Nynaeve’s explosion of light?
Well, Logain may not have seen her weaves per se. He saw light. And that happens at
times. When Rand fought Moridin in a swordfight,
Perrin had to create a bubble around himself that was shaded, like glass that was only
translucent. When Egwene created the Flame of Tar Valon
for the second time, she became a column of light.
And when Rand reforged the bore, light exploded from him. A light that was blinding to Moiraine
and Nynaeve. Here’s where it gets interesting. Egwene’s
flame of Tar Valon was a majestic, marvelous weave, a combination of all Five Powers.
Similarly, Rand’s weave was something, majestic, a pattern of interlaced saidar and saidin
in their pure forms. Not Fire, not Spirit, not Water, not Earth, not Air. Purity. Light
itself. So Rand also used all Five Elements simultaneously in a pure way. Light itself.
That leads us to Nynaeve and her healing. Healing is very dangerous. Historically, Aes
Sedai have used Spirit, Water, and Air. But when Nynaeve does healing, she uses all Five
Elements. When asked why, she said that it just seemed right. That she almost always
uses everything. So that may be the reason as to why Logain
saw Nynaeve’s light. Maybe, just maybe, when channelers use all Five Elements, it
creates light. I will continue to dig for more evidence both for and against this theory.
But for what it’s worth. When Nynaeve healed Talmanes, she wove the Five Powers together,
and an explosion of weaves burst from Nynaeve like the sudden light of a sun coming out
from behind clouds. That is a direct quote.
But, that comes from Egwene’s perspective. So she may have been seeing an explosion of
weaves that male channelers could not. So here’s another idea.
In the show, Moiraine told Logain that as strong as he is, his power is a trickle. It’s
a pinprick of candlelight against the raging sun that will be the Dragon Reborn. And as
I mentioned earlier, Moiraine tells Siuan Sanche that with training, Nynaeve will shine
like a bonfire beside the candles of Elayne and Egwene. So Moiraine’s line in the show
was a nod to Moiraine’s line in the books. But Moiraine’s line in the show is also
a nod to another line from the books. Siuan Sanche has the Talent of seeing ta’veren.
Siuan told Moiraine that when she saw Rand, she noticed that he was a handsome young man.
Not much different from any young man you might see in any town. But then she paused
to draw breath and she went on to tell Moiraine that Rand blazed like the sun. That she’s
seldom been afraid in her life, but the sight of him made her afraid right down to her toes.
So Moiraine’s line to Logain about the Dragon Reborn in the show is both a nod to Moiraine’s
line about Nynaeve in the books as well as Siuan Sanche’s line about Rand in the books.
And Siuan Sanche’s line may be the reason that we are looking for in terms of the show.
In the books, Logain says that he saw a glow around a boy in Caemlyn and knew that he’d
shake the world. That boy was probably Rand. So it suggests that Logain has the talent
of seeing ta’veren just like Siuan Sanche. In the show, there are not three ta’veren.
There are five ta’verene. And Nynaeve is one of them. The light that Logain saw may
be a reflection of that. Logain may have the talent of seeing ta’veren. Or explosions
of light may be the shows way of visually representing specific ta’veren type events.
Or as we said earlier, the light may have just been a function of the fact that when
Nynaeve heals, or when she does anything, she uses all Five Powers. And at times, the
use of all Five Powers at once causes explosions of light.
Let me know what you think in the comment section.
And last but not least, the reason that the Aes Sedai were able to gentle Logain was because
he was shocked by Nynaeve’s explosion of light. So Nynaeve was indirectly responsible
for Logain getting gentled. That will make his eventual healing by Nynaeve all the more
impactful.