I really don't see the point of letting Graendal survive this. It's clear that RJ wanted to conclude most plotlines. Then he obviously came up with the cool idea that Rand won't play Graendal's game, but outsmart her by instantly using brute force. Why should RJ use a cheap twist then by letting Graendal escape somehow, so that his hero Rand actually looks stupid, if before RJ always indicated and showed that the Forsaken actually aren't that clever (especially if that means that one still has to deal with Graendal and has to come up with an even more brilliant plan to kill her).
Therefore her survival simply doesn't make sense. BS's statement that we will hear of Graendal in ToM and know at the end of the book, if she is dead, indicates as well that she is gone.
Furthermore, it's most unlikely that Graendal will have a PoV from before her death in ToM. RJ never jumbed back in the timeline to give a PoV of a person who already died. BS said he just wants to bring Perrin's, Mat's and the other plotlines up to date; nothing indicates that he will go back in Rand's plotline to confuse the readers even more. If anything more is revealed about Graendal's plans, we will learn it from the other Forsaken.
Therefore her survival simply doesn't make sense. BS's statement that we will hear of Graendal in ToM and know at the end of the book, if she is dead, indicates as well that she is gone.
Furthermore, it's most unlikely that Graendal will have a PoV from before her death in ToM. RJ never jumbed back in the timeline to give a PoV of a person who already died. BS said he just wants to bring Perrin's, Mat's and the other plotlines up to date; nothing indicates that he will go back in Rand's plotline to confuse the readers even more. If anything more is revealed about Graendal's plans, we will learn it from the other Forsaken.
Graendal: What would you do when a man appears at your door?
06/12/2009 03:37:39 AM
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I tend to agree
06/12/2009 03:46:37 AM
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Re: I tend to agree
06/12/2009 04:01:22 AM
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Delana!!!
09/12/2009 08:35:40 PM
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I think the weaving was too complex for a n00b like Delana. Nynaeve's comments point to Graendal.
09/12/2009 10:52:55 PM
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I was assuming Delana was mind-dead compulsed to weave the complex weaves by
10/12/2009 06:34:09 AM
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Ah, so you're proposing that
06/12/2009 04:29:34 AM
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Re: Graendal: What would you do when a man appears at your door?
06/12/2009 06:33:58 AM
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We're going to see Graendal's plan in ToM, including her interaction with Ramshalan.
06/12/2009 08:03:33 AM
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From the author's perspective...
06/12/2009 11:05:16 AM
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She'd have had to ask the right questions to get the right answers.
07/12/2009 12:44:29 AM
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Re: She'd have had to ask the right questions to get the right answers.
07/12/2009 02:18:07 AM
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