Ok, just finnished reading Crossroads of Twilight and some thoughts just stuck in my head.

If anyone out there has read Dragonlance – The War of Souls you have probally already thought of this but anyway. The plot of the War of Souls trilogy is like this: Magic in the world is failing, no one knows why, until some of the main characters discovers that ghost are feeding of the magic, sucking it out of the casters so to say.

I belive the same thing is happening in Randland, here are some points to strenghten this theory.

1 – Egwene thinks about the weevils in the meat, meat that was warded with saidar. Somehow saidar failed. It is also said somewhere else that wards where failing. They had holes, I think that was the correct term.

2 – Ghosts are suddenly popping out at the same time this is commented on. The town of So Habor, the maid at the mansion Elayne visits sees one, Mat actualle jumps out of the way of some. Coincidence? I think the souls of the dead are walking again somehow, feeding on saidar, and possibly saidin.

3 – The ghosts are sighted close to people who can channel. The ghost the maid sees is in the same room as Elayne, who can channel.

The ghost Kireyin sees, which also an AS sees.

The ghosts Mat meets, all heading towards Luca's show, where there are 3 AS and 3 sul'dam.

Maybe they are all hanging around, hoping they might channel so they can feed, take, turn the power into milk, whatever.

It could be true, then again...

I disregarded this theory myself, thinking about plagiarism. But RJ started writing WoT long before the tWoS was written, and he claims he's always known how the story would go so... It was originally his idea, or something... I seem to be having problems wording this right... Just sleepy, anyway, onwards.

Now, the most innteresting point; Rands problems grabbing saidin and LTT trying to grab it.

First I thought it was just the taint causing the nausea, but the taint is supposedly gone now, and he's still having problems.

LTT is dead, and he can't come back as a ghost ‘cause Rand has his soul. He is LTT reborn, and has the same soul in a way. But LTT has also come back but is “trapped” in Rand since they have the same soul. Is this the reason Rand is having problems... LTT is trying to feed directly off Rand when he's grabbing the Source. He also tries to grab the source himself, possibly to feed?

Just some thoughts... any one agree?

P.S. Has anyone played Drakan? There are assasins there, corps-soilders, who are sent by the Bad Guy, The Soulless the call ‘em. And a Dragon and his rider is Bonded. WoT fans in the staff maybe...