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My money is on Tomas. It's someone we don't recognize who would be worthy of a highlight of doing something badass.
This really goes along with the "Verin is the new Vandene" theory we've had for over a year now. Moiraine and Lan are meeting with Verin, and (instead of a Draghkar) we have a more traditional attack.
Honestly, it feels like they've always planned to merge Myrdraal and Draghkar, making them more inhuman instead of having the former occasionally put on a hood and chit-chat with townies.
I get what you mean. But refresh my memory, do we get any mentions in the books about someone who is not Rand using a flaming sword of Power? Assuming that's what we are seeing in the trailer i had always assumed you had to be a channeler to wield that
No, but not because it's an unknown or unreasonable weave. It just doesn't happen on-screen. One could argue women are weaker with fire, but fire is still damn useful in life-or-death scenarios and often used anyway.
But I got two takes on this. The first is that it's not really a flaming sword. I've heard at least one or two people guessing that it's a power wrought sword going full anti-myrdraal.
The second? Yeah, it could easily be a weave wreathing a sword in flame (we DO have non-Rand examples of flame-wreathing and other controlled/tied fire weaves, just not directly as weapons)
Let's be honest. Strong return with no lore cost in giving us firesabres once in a while. And it fits the spirit of WoT who, if you recall, DID end up opening a gateway into a volcano for us.