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this is the reason - though I still wish she was just dead and gone *NM* kcf Send a noteboard - 10/11/2009 10:38:02 PM
The "list" of names that Rand has in his head always starts off with Moiraine. He has blamed himself for her death along with all the other women on that list. Here is part of her letter to him:

I could not tell you, for the same reason I could not tell Lan. Even given the choices, I could not be sure which you would pick. Men of the Two Rivers, it seems, retain much of storied Manetheren in them, traits shared with men of the Borderlands. It is said that a Borderlander will take a dagger’s wound to avoid harm to a woman and count it fair trade. I dared not risk that you would place my life above your own, certain that somehow you could sidestep fate. Not a risk, I fear, but a foolish certainty, as today has surely proved....

And Rand's response to that excerpt:

“My choice, Moiraine,” he muttered. “It was my choice.”

What Rand needs to learn from her, and what Tam tried to tell him in tGS, is that everyone has a choice. Everyone has free-will. All the people that choose to fight along with him, or side with the Shadow, made their own choice of their own free will.

Just seeing Moiraine alive again will have its benefits. But, having an Aes Sedai he trusts will go a long way to ensuring he can learn to accept the help he needs to win the Last Battle.
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Why is Moiraine needed? - 10/11/2009 11:33:06 AM 1531 Views
She totally owes him ten crowns... - 10/11/2009 01:11:07 PM 895 Views
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seconded (and Nynaeve or Alivia. I hope Nynaeve) *NM* - 10/11/2009 02:30:07 PM 382 Views
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no Callandor or OP/TP in SG! - 10/11/2009 03:31:01 PM 959 Views
Just because he's learned to laugh doesn't mean he trusts Aes Sedai - 10/11/2009 02:27:53 PM 721 Views
Oh man! but I don't want Rand to revert back to being a total pansy.. He was cool in WH *NM* - 10/11/2009 02:42:04 PM 357 Views
How was he a pansy in FoH? - 10/11/2009 02:45:14 PM 704 Views
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I always imagined her return to be like Aliya from Lynch's Dune - 10/11/2009 03:08:34 PM 769 Views
She's not - 10/11/2009 03:43:53 PM 799 Views
agreed - I wish she would stay dead and gone *NM* - 10/11/2009 05:54:00 PM 343 Views
This is one place I feel that RJ could have improved the story - 10/11/2009 11:31:51 PM 675 Views
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Guilt - 10/11/2009 10:29:39 PM 791 Views
this is the reason - though I still wish she was just dead and gone *NM* - 10/11/2009 10:38:02 PM 352 Views

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