As regards the True Power, how come Rand was able to use it, when earlier we are told only those the Dark One allows can use it?
Semirhage believed that the Dark One had specifically granted Rand the ability. I won’t say whether that’s true or not. There are other theories out there that I don’t want to squelch. But one possibility—and she certainly believed it—was that Dark One, in his desire to corrupt Rand, gave him that ability.
Brandon said later that one typically has to go to Shayol Ghul to get permission to use the True Power, and many suspect that Rand’s sensing of it is a product of the link between him and Moridin.
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