I suspect that it probably did. And honestly, I'm not trying to be too hard on Brandon, but a friend of mine mentioned yesterday that she was worried Brandon's WoT mindset was something like the masses of generally young men who inhabit Dragonmount and want the last book to be all about the three ta'veren talking about old times and making random references to things that happened way back when and putting Aes Sedai in their places. Not trying to stereotype Dragonmounters or young men; it's just a trend. As to the editing process, it might have even come up, but I suspect that there were a variety of instances along these lines and only the most important were addressed. This one can be explained; there was a lot going on in the Two Rivers during that time, and perhaps Perrin didn't fill Rand in on that particular detail before.



I just came across a quote from Peter the other day where he said that there wasn't going to be anything confusing like Tam in AMOL, that Mat was about 3 days behind, and the Black Tower maybe a little more. I don't know that we necessarily need to see what has Caemlyn burning; whatever it was, we already saw Caemlyn burning in the epilogue of TOM.

Edit: after this post I stopped being lazy and looked it up to be sure; Peter can't possibly be right about Mat since he left for Ghenjei on the same day Perrin left for Merrilor. Unless he means that Mat won't meet up with them for 3 more days.



I suspect that the wording was slightly different when Brandon wrote it, and that Maria or someone else also remembered that Moridin said the vintners of the Third Age made 'excellent wines', and that the wording was then changed.



There were certainly a few distracting points in this passage, obviously, and presumably because of that, it wasn't until about the third time I read it that I saw there was some really good stuff, too.