Ok, I admit my evidence for this is sketchy at best, but I feel strongly that ToM may have revealed GC indirectly.
towards the end of "After the Taint" (4 pages from the end in my Orbit paperback)Perrin is talking to Jur Grady who had expressed the desire to visit wife and family.
"I Just want to talk to her you know? And I need to see little Gadren again, I won't recognize the lad" Perrin replies "I am sure he is a handsome child, Grady". "Grady laughed. It felt odd, but good to hear that from the man. Handsome? Gadren? No my Lord he might be big for his age, but he is about as pretty as a stump. Still I love him something fierce."
My feeling is that Gadren is GC reborn. This exchange between Grady and Perrin seems inserted to indirectly lead the reader to that conclusion. It seems to have no other purpose and Perrin even goes out of his way to say the child must be handsome which Grady sees as odd. Also Gadren is large for his age and I would expect GC to be large based on Birgitte's taste in men.
Birgitte has said in an earlier book that she knows GC has been reborn and the timing would seem about right.
towards the end of "After the Taint" (4 pages from the end in my Orbit paperback)Perrin is talking to Jur Grady who had expressed the desire to visit wife and family.
"I Just want to talk to her you know? And I need to see little Gadren again, I won't recognize the lad" Perrin replies "I am sure he is a handsome child, Grady". "Grady laughed. It felt odd, but good to hear that from the man. Handsome? Gadren? No my Lord he might be big for his age, but he is about as pretty as a stump. Still I love him something fierce."
My feeling is that Gadren is GC reborn. This exchange between Grady and Perrin seems inserted to indirectly lead the reader to that conclusion. It seems to have no other purpose and Perrin even goes out of his way to say the child must be handsome which Grady sees as odd. Also Gadren is large for his age and I would expect GC to be large based on Birgitte's taste in men.
Birgitte has said in an earlier book that she knows GC has been reborn and the timing would seem about right.
Gaidal Cain ??
- 07/12/2010 09:11:09 AM
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I thought it was just good dialogue which added some depth to Grady, but you may be right.
- 07/12/2010 09:38:01 AM
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Grady's son was four years old in LOC3, which rules him out. *NM*
- 07/12/2010 09:45:26 AM
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That kid was already 4 years old in LoC
- 07/12/2010 09:47:25 AM
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Time is different in TAR ... Who knows what's possible 
*NM*
- 07/12/2010 03:39:42 PM
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*NM*
- 07/12/2010 03:39:42 PM
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Time may be different in T'A'R, but we're not counting time in T'A'R.
- 07/12/2010 06:53:37 PM
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Pretty sure you're missing the point
- 07/12/2010 07:19:50 PM
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No, he's said exactly the opposite. Time doesn't run backwards in TAR. *NM*
- 07/12/2010 07:31:20 PM
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It would be amusing if it were Elayne's son
- 07/12/2010 10:04:45 AM
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that would be so splendidly hilarious
- 07/12/2010 02:13:07 PM
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was my first though too ... Gadren Grady = Gaidal Cain reborn ... *NM*
- 07/12/2010 03:38:42 PM
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