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After Tarmon Gai'don

Rand will die

Thom, Book 2, Chapter 26, "Discord"
Twice and twice shall he be marked, twice to live, and twice to die

Rand, Book 6, Chapter 1, "Lion on the Hill"
The only way to live is to die. The thought came into his head suddenly. He had been told that once, in such a way he had to believe it, but the thought was not his.

Rand, Book 6, Chapter 26, "Connecting Lines"
If you would live, you must die; that was one of three things he knew must be true, told to him inside a ter'angreal where the answers were always true if apparently never easy to understand.

Rand, Book 9, Chapter 25, "Bonds"
"Sooner or later, I have to die, Min," he said patiently. He had been told by those he had to believe. To live, you must die.

If it hasn't become apparent yet, to live Rand must die. Now we look for prophecies that have to do with a dead Rand.


Three on a Boat

Nicola, Book 6, Chapter 14, "Dreams and Nightmares"
The lion sword, the dedicated spear, she who sees beyond. Three on the boat, and he who is dead yet lives.

Wise Ones, Book 6, Chapter 19, "Matters of Toh"
Melaine and Bair dreamed of you [Rand] on a boat with three women whose faces they could not see and a scale tilting first one way and then the other.

The second prophecy tells us the identity of the dead guy - Rand. The first one tells us who the women are. Lion Sword --> Elayne, Dedicated Spear --> Aviendha, She Who Sees Beyond --> Min. In the second prophecy, "a scale tilting first one way and then the other" presumable refers to "he who is dead yet lives", i.e. a precarious balance between life and death. The implication is that it is the three women who are responsible for the change in state of Rand from dead to alive.


More on Rand and his Women

Min, Book 1, Chapter 15, "Strangers and Friends"
three woman standing over a funeral bier with him [Rand] on it, A bloody hand and a white hot iron, and black rocks wet with blood.

Rand, Book 6, Chapter 49, "The Mirror of Mists"
[Rand]"Trust me, Min. I won't hurt you. I will cut off my arm before I hurt you." She was silent, and he finally looked round to find her peering at him with a strange expression. "That's very nice to hear, sheepherder." Her voice was as odd as her face.

Elayne, Book 2, Chapter 24, "New Friends and Old Enemies"
One of the things she [Min] said she saw looking at me was a severed hand. Not mine, she says.

Min, Book 2, Chapter 43, "A Plan"
above Elayne's [head], a red-hot iron and an axe. They meant trouble, she was sure, but it seemed distant, somewhere in the future. The first prophecy links us with the thread of the three women, so is related to the above. Elayne has a severed hand that isn't hers, and Rand has a bloody hand. In Elayne's other viewing there is a red hot iron, Rand has a white hot iron. Add the second passage, which is almost certinaly a viewing from Min, and it is clear that Rand will lose his hand. The instrument will probably be the "axe" of Elayne's second viewing. Note that Min felt this was "distant, somewhere in the future" which supports the view that this will happen after TG.


Accessories

Min, Book 7, Chapter 35, "Into the Woods"
it was not as if she had really expected Moiraine to turn up alive. Moiraine was the only viewing of hers that had ever failed.
[a few pages later]
He would almost certainly fail without a woman who was dead and gone

Rand, Book 9, Chapter 25, "Bonds"
You [Min] said she [Alivia] was going to help me [Rand] die

Egwene, Book 7, Chapter 10, "Unseen Eyes"
Logain, laughing, stepped across something on the ground and mounted a black stone; when she looked down, she thought it was Rand's body he had stepped over, laid out on a funeral bier with his hands crossed at his breast, but when she touched his face, it broke apart like a paper puppet With the first two viewings there is no doubt that Moiraine is the subject of the second one. However nothing about it sugests that Moiraine will be needed in the time frame we are dealing with. Alivia's role is a lot clearer, although it's impossible to say how she will "help him die". In the last viewing, the words "mounted a black stone" suggest that Logain will come to lead the Asha'man, but the second half is less comprehensible. It seems to imply that Rand on the funeral bier is a fake, despite Min's viewing of "a funeral bier with him [Rand] on it" above. Perhaps it signifies that Rand would not die, as a funeral bier implies.


After

Nicola, Book 6, Chapter 14, "Dreams and Nightmares"
The great battle done, but the world not done with battle. The land divided by the return and the guardians balance out the servants. The future teeters on the edge of a blade.
The first sentence implies that the Wheel of Time series will not end with Tarmon Gaidon (the great battle), but will be divided firstly by Seanchan vs non-Seanchan (divided by the return), and also Aes Sedai vs Asha'man (guardians balance out the servants). Pretty straitforward.


Unanswered Questions

The above synopsis does do a bit of skipping about, and not all of it is understood.
1) What is the nature of the boat that the three women would be on when Rand was resurrected? I understand there is something similar in Arthurian Legend. Perhaps it refers to a Skimming barge (?)

2) What's the deal with Rand's body crumbling like a puppet? Does Logain have anything to do with this?

3) What would Rand do after he was resurrected?

4) What about that retarded "Twice dawns the day when his blood is shed. Once for mourning, once for birth." propechy?

5) + a few gazzillion others........


The End