Wait! Is Moridin...

Just a note for spoiler: I'm only 2 chapters into The Path of Daggers (Unweaving). Anyway, I'm really excited because I think I've figured out who Moridin is. Ishamael!!!

I coud be dead wrong and you veterans are probably all laughing at me but it makes sense, at this point. We're in Moridin's perspective and he's thinking about how these "rustics" and "primitives" of today have surpriced him with what they can do with the One Power. Things that folks from his more advanced Age couldn't do. The clincher for me is the Warder bond, which Moridin says that "he had known of that for a long, long time..." Only Ishamael could have known about anything in the world post-sealing and pre-Rand before all the other Forsaken started to break free. I still don't understand how Ishamael could be both sealed in the Bore and free at the same time, but this will eventually be revealed in the story, so I'll just keep reading. At any rate, I am pretty confident about this.

For more evidence, he seems to be the only Forsaken to exclusively use the True Power instead of the One Power. And he's already crazy (I assume another side effect of the TP) now, which the other Forsaken thought he was. I'll predict that the black flecks in his eyes, the saa, will eventually lead him to have the eyes of fire that we saw him with when he was posing as Ba'alzamon. I just wish I could understand why he helped Rand in the last book. He can't be that crazy or stupid to think that after 3 attempts he'll finally get Rand to come to the shadow.

In all, a strong start to PoD. If only the wind bowl story line could be wrapped up, already. It's really dragging out.