As of note, Moraine says too much instead of the usual know-as-much-as-needed. I found signs of Rand's channeling in book 1 and I wonder how I could have missed them in the first reading.
Moraine describes to Nynaeve exactly how wilders come by the use of power, the giddy feelings, the sickness that passes in a couple of hours and adds that men also go through this. Then, a few chapters ahead, after lighting "miracusly" hits darkfriends that have Mat and Rand holed up and they escape, Rand goes through all the steps Moraine explained.First time I read it, I didn't even suspect.
Far later, in the blight Rand watches Nynaeve "listening to the weather" and finding out it's wrong. And then he ponders about what he listens in the weather too.
And of course, my favorite quote from Moraine in book 1: "All the forsaken together cannot move 1000 trollocs"
They really have no idea what can be done with the power. The Forsaken are right to sneer at them and even feel incredulous at the ignorance of the age.Book 2 At the end of the 4th chapter Siuan declares that if anyone finds out what they plan with Moraine (hiding the Dragon Reborn, keeping him under Moraine's wing for fear of black Ajah) would lead to both of them being stilled for treason. Well, she was right about that.
Reading again about it now, it seems quite treacherous for an Amyrlin to hide news so important from the hall of the tower, especially if she did it because of fear of the Black Ajah. Siuan and Moraine admit to themselves immediately that it is treason, but they have to do it. Elaida was demanding by book 2 Moraine to be sent to penace for meddling with her affairs with that young ta'veren she met.
At chapter 15, Ishamael/Balzamon stops short of revealing it's not the Dark One. He calls the DO "great lord of the Dark" and speaks about him as if he's a different person. Even when he claims to have fought the dragon countless times, he doesn't actually sound as if he is the Dark one but a champion of the D.O. Strange that I've missed that.
What I really find amusing was that the Blue Ajah has a secret weave to control and command insects (Moraine uses it in NSpring) and they consider it a good weave. Well, Lanfear had a better one, one that worked on Grolm, and for miles. First time I read the Great Hunt, I wasn't sure she had something to do, but now I'm sure.
The "good" black sisters: A couple of Aes Sedai revealed to be black sisters aren't actually evil or bad. They had done their share of crimes as they say themselves but they had a positive impact on the main story. One joined just to save her skin as she admits.
I'm not sure some of them won't return in the final book. The Dark One can bring people back to serve and if he could do it a year before, then he certainly could do it with the seals weakening more and more. It is kinda forshadowed for one of the black sisters as she screams before dying, as if realizing that her oath of service isn't over just because she died.
Nynaeve's accepted testing: There's more there than meets the eye. As when she's tested for the sawl properly, Nynaeve is able to channel in there and still be unharmed. Not to mention that she either makes the gateway back reappear or she at the very least, she holds it back, long, long, long before she's taught to Travel. And what's this about those thorns in her hands?!