His death was foreshadowed through the series, and we know that the Shadowspawn armies will most likely attack in ToM according to the blurb. Min even had a Viewing of Nynaeve "kneeling over someone's corpse in a posture of grief" in TGS. It would also nicely allude to the title "Towers of Midnight" if the last "King of the Seven Towers of Malkier" dies alongside his fellow Malkieri in a stand against the Shadow (though Nynaeve might become pregnant yet, and give Lan/Malkier an heir, as also another of Min's Viewings suggests). Finally, I think it fits in a bittersweet way that at the time when Moiraine returns from the dead, her former Warder dies, so that they won't ever see again.
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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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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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