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- Edit 1Before modification by DomA at 06/03/2010 12:07:25 AM
The only way in which we have seen dead souls is when they have been reincarnated into a new body.
But Birgitte, Gaidal Cain, Heroes are all bound to the wheel. We don't know of any soul that is not connected to the wheel, but in 'limbo' or waiting to be respun or whatever, having a physical appearance.
I mentionned that because Birgitte and co. have a body in TAR, and Kari appeared in TAR as well, so why wouldn't she have a body? In Tar, Birgitte technically is dead, in between lives.
And aren't souls born into different bodies? Why does Rand and LTT look so different, but Birgitte always have golden braid...
Ah... that's because she doesn't always,/i> have that appearance. That's the appearance(and name) of her last incarnation, and the appearance she got when she got ripped out of TAR. Her last life was that of Birgitte Silverbow, companion of Gaidal Cain. They lived in the years of Hawkwing, around the same time as Rogosh Eagle-Eye etc. They are the Heroes around which the Great Hunt cycle got started. The stories and legends about Birgitte with her golden braids and her silverbow are about that life, and they've been part of the folklore for 1000 years at the time of the series's timeline (and Birgitte seem to say many have been made up, or liberally altered by gleemen over the years). There are other stories about "Birgitte", but no one but Birgitte knows it's about her as she has another name and appearance, and not exactly the same personality (probably not even the silver bow itself that's probably unique to her last incarnation, but that's debatable)
One thing to keep in mind is that it's not part of the stories that Heroes come back under new names and new appearances over and over (no more than it is known that the Dragon is one of them), so no one in the series is playing "spot the hero". People have not figured this out. Rand became aware of it when the Horn was sounded and he got an intuitive feeling of their many lives and names, and the girls were told about that from Birgitte herself. Birgitte seems to still be the only one in the series to know "Rand" is one of the Heroes (ie: if Rand died before TG, right now Birgitte is the only one who knows he could be brought back as leader of the Heroes at TG by the Horn. As far as we know, not even the Shadow knows about this).