OP Weaves and Technology (again I know)

[Jaxen Marveet]

Can the Power really be used to make you different? [This arose as part of a discussion of Illusion ("Mirror of Mists" is an old name for the same thing).]
ROBERT JORDAN
Illusion is illusion. Doesn't fool the sense of touch, so you have to be really subtle (such as Moghedien's disguise) to avoid detection.
QUESTION
So Sammael couldn't make himself taller?
ROBERT JORDAN
He could make himself look taller, but he's not interested in looking taller. He wants to be taller. Besides, any sufficiently experienced man would be able to tell that it was illusion.
QUESTION
So the Power really isn't capable of genetic reconstruction? (Like, for example, making you taller.)
ROBERT JORDAN
Maybe, in the Age of Legends, someone might have been able to pull it off, if they were really skilled. Might have.
QUESTION
Like Aginor? He seemed to be the expert among the Forsaken on that.
ROBERT JORDAN
Aginor was d**n good, but he wasn't that good.




Loki could have done it. Hot damn! That's how he went back and forth from male to female.

Myths baby.