Through Rand's visions in the glass columns, it was revealed that the Aes Sedai of the Age of Legends had the knowledge and ability to somehow filter out the taint from saidin, an act apparently fatal for the channelers involved, as male channelers with assistance from the female Aes Sedai fashioned the Eye of the World with pure untainted saidin. ![]() This connection can be cut, as happened when Rand severed Asmodean's connection in Rhuidean. The Dark One is able to protect male channelers from the taint through a connection that is visible in places like Tel'aran'rhiod. The first time Rand attempted to seize saidin he "felt the taint inside of him" and it nearly made him sick. Saidin in and of itself remains pure, but in order to reach it one must mentally reach through the taint. ![]() The taint is described as being like an "oily slick" surrounding the "clear water" that is saidin. All the ancient male Aes Sedai eventually went mad and tore the world apart, causing the Breaking and ending the Age of Legends. The taint placed on saidin instantly drove all members of the Hundred Companions mad, and doomed all other present and future male channelers to insanity and slow death. In their daring attack, the Bore was sealed using saidin, but because saidin was touched to the Dark One in closing the gap, he was able to inflict a taint on it. The Dark One tainted saidin as a counterstroke to the acts of Lews Therin Telamon and the Hundred Companions.
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