..... or Lews Therin being a donkey. :lol
I did think it was kind of strange how so many of them turned dark 'because of' Lews. He must have been a real piece of work (as Rand notes, I think, later in the series).
It is also interesting later on in the series how they allude to the fact that...
I thought it was Ishamael who opened the Bore and freed the DO.
I'm not sure that the DO is always sentient - I think he might just be the compilation of dark thoughts/emotions until he was released and then eventually became sentient.
Also not sure there really is a 'Creator'. If Randland is...