The only other possibility, and it works pretty much only if it happens fairly soon and before Rand returns from DM, is Tam getting killed in Tear, which would be extremely sad as Rand could never apologize and make up to him, and lost his one chance to have a good time with Tam. That fact (that Tam is killed while very unhappy and crushed by what happened to Rand and angry for that at Nynaeve and Cadsuane, and the whole sadness of all this situation), and the fact that Tam is an EFer Nynaeve feels responsible for and that she was the one who brought him to Tear would most definitely make her grieve over his corpse, and very badly at that. She would be catastophied if Tam gets killed by a DF or something.
This is purely a possibility (remote, I guess). Having Tam killed by a DF right after he joined Rand is believable (I wouldn't say "likely", it would be a surprise if this happens). It at least fits with Moridin's orders (in that case to Graendal, but it's in general what he wants for Rand) to cause Rand "pains of heart". It would also be a fitting reply to what he must have sensed happened on DM, to suddenly give orders to kill people close to Rand, to try to undo Rand's new hopes/changes of worldview.
Oh well.. at some point, RJ had to bring up the DF among the HL and have him do something of some importance (especially if it's Weiramon, after all the "set up". Maybe he's been a red herring all along, or maybe LTT misjudged him in TGS, and this was a set up for Weiramon doing something soon... but he's not in Tear anyway, he's with, presumably, Logain at the Illian border. The fact he's been tied before to a DF Asha'man makes me think it's in Logain's story line he will finally do something... if he's really a DF anyway).
This is purely a possibility (remote, I guess). Having Tam killed by a DF right after he joined Rand is believable (I wouldn't say "likely", it would be a surprise if this happens). It at least fits with Moridin's orders (in that case to Graendal, but it's in general what he wants for Rand) to cause Rand "pains of heart". It would also be a fitting reply to what he must have sensed happened on DM, to suddenly give orders to kill people close to Rand, to try to undo Rand's new hopes/changes of worldview.
Oh well.. at some point, RJ had to bring up the DF among the HL and have him do something of some importance (especially if it's Weiramon, after all the "set up". Maybe he's been a red herring all along, or maybe LTT misjudged him in TGS, and this was a set up for Weiramon doing something soon... but he's not in Tear anyway, he's with, presumably, Logain at the Illian border. The fact he's been tied before to a DF Asha'man makes me think it's in Logain's story line he will finally do something... if he's really a DF anyway).
This message last edited by DomA on 31/07/2010 at 03:00:15 AM
tGS: Chapter 81 comment from BS (*spoilers*?)
27/07/2010 03:57:34 AM
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Yeah, I saw that.
27/07/2010 04:03:34 AM
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Well I don't think it was too big of a scene or RJ would have written it I think.
27/07/2010 04:11:01 AM
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Re: Well I don't think it was too big of a scene or RJ would have written it I think.
27/07/2010 05:17:22 AM
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Re: Well I don't think it was too big of a scene or RJ would have written it I think.
27/07/2010 09:18:54 AM
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You say that as if RJ was able to write all the scenes he wanted to before he died.
31/07/2010 02:08:51 AM
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Re: Yeah, I saw that.
27/07/2010 05:28:53 AM
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... and 94 chapters
27/07/2010 04:04:51 AM
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Ouch....
27/07/2010 05:48:13 AM
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BS twittered then, though...
27/07/2010 08:15:06 AM
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Don't you mean aMoL: Ch 81?
27/07/2010 08:38:30 PM
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The next book, Towers of Midnight, is meant. *NM*
27/07/2010 10:24:43 PM
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Hmm, Lan's death?
27/07/2010 08:09:25 AM
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sure, why not. my only problem is...
27/07/2010 08:58:06 AM
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I was thinking Cadsuane *NM*
27/07/2010 10:46:26 AM
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Also possible, of course
27/07/2010 10:58:34 AM
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I don't consider it foreshadowing
27/07/2010 11:15:37 AM
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Hmm, I doubt it...
27/07/2010 11:25:57 AM
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Re: Hmm, I doubt it...
28/07/2010 12:47:33 AM
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Either Lan or Rand, I guess. *NM*
28/07/2010 08:02:37 AM
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Or...
31/07/2010 02:59:22 AM
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rand's fake death. from a POV that thinks he died for real
*NM*
27/07/2010 07:07:00 PM
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My bets are on Rand's actual death
30/07/2010 07:40:06 AM
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I can resist the urge. It's basically just a survey after all.
*NM*
30/07/2010 07:46:52 AM
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Lan's death and Nynaeve's reaction would fit "heart-wrenching", Cadsuane's not so much for most *NM*
29/07/2010 03:50:34 PM
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