Enligt wikia , boken Världen av Robert Jordanas Wheel of Time ( som inte skrivits av Robert Jordan själv, men baserat på detaljerade anteckningar som han lämnat) innehåller en universumsteori för att förklara detta:
Aran son of Malan son of Senar (born roughly 50 AB) had a theory based on Ishamael being thrown out and touching the world for specific periods of time. Aran had heard claims that people had encountered him as long as forty years after the sealing of the Bore. Using lost manuscripts, Aran concluded it might have taken some time for Ishamael to be brought into the prison with the remainder of the Forsaken, and might possibly have been "thrown out" in a regular cycle.