All this talk about the pattern makes my head hurt!!
Why doesn't the Creator just step in...? Here's a real world answer. I wish I could remember the book that I read this statement in, so I could reference it and quote it more correctly. However, I don't remember so I'll do the best I can.
We live such short lives that we have a hard time understanding long distances of time, like a million years ago 5 million years ago.... So if you condense the history of the world into a 24 hour period, then the entire history of the human race, from the first person until right now, would be the last 2 seconds of the day. The entire recorded history of the human race would be the last 1/10th of a second of the day... Think about how many times in those last "two seconds", how many people asked, where's god, prove it to me, save me, help me, blah, blah, blah... If he answered every prayer, saved every person, there would be miracles happening 24/7 every place you would look. God would be our circus monkey, and we would be his spoiled children...
There, now I hope your head hurts!
Anyways, back to the WOT, I wonder if we'll ever see the Creator or not.
Fain was a faithful hound, I'm assuming he'll have another role but I think that his biggest was to cut Rand with the Dagger. It'd be funny if he fell into the "hole" where the DO is with the choden'kal (forgive my spelling) or some other powerful sa'angrael
. I don't think that Saidin and Saidar will be bridged because this has happened before, probably countless amounts of times, and that hasn't happened. Rand lives on because of the vision Min has of him with a beggars cane, unless this will happen before the ending I'll stick with the bodyswap idea that I've grown more fond of
I'm going to entertain the body swap for a second, and ask this question. I remember reading how odd it was to have three taveren living in the same village. They were friends also, that would be considered off too, but I don't think that was mentioned in the book. Is there anyway possible that Rand, Perrin, and Mat are all the same person from different eras?? They can all sense what the other two are doing, and Rand has said that he can pull them back to him whenever he needs to.
So Rand and Perrin die during battle, and Mat blows the horn. Rand, Perrin, and Mat would become one person. All of Mat's memories would be his own, and his blank spots in his memory would be because he was split into three people. Mat/Rand/Perrin would then battle the DO as one person. He would have his Luck, be able to Channel, and his senses would be heightened w/ yellow eyes, and he'd be able to talk to the wolves.
OK, I know I'm on the ledge for this one, and I definitely wouldn't bet even a nickel that this theory is right. However, it was fun to think about!!