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angling Threads in the Pattern

by Turqoise: 2000-12-14 | 2 out of 10 (4 votes)

Previous Categories: Who is the other person in Rand's head?

OK. Here's a wild pet theory about "the face".

I think it's reasonable to assume that it can't be Lews Therin, because as Lews Therin tells Rand in WH, there are now three people inside Rand's head. There's some quote which I don't have handy in which Lews Therin says something like "None of us are sane. Not me or you, or the other one."

Interesting that there are three people in Rand's head, and he is in love with three people. I had always thought that RJ should solve that little problem somehow (I want Min to have him to herself, damn it!). So now there's a personality for each lover. When I had first thought about how RJ could solve this problem, my reasoning was that Min loved Rand, Elayne loved the Dragon Reborn, and Aviendha loved the Car'a'carn (Yes, I know they're all the same people. Bear with me). We already had Rand and the Dragon Reborn, so if I'm right, whoever the third person is is the Car'a'carn. Granted, there isn't much proof of this, but RJ is a writer, and writers tend to solve dangling plot-lines. Feel free to shoot this down, I'm not terribly attached to it.
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Tamyrlin: 2000-12-14

...that is pretty weird and not well substantiated by anything. I don't think the three girls have anything to do with what LTT is talking about...but maybe he means Alanna...but I don't think that is true either.

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Anubis: 2002-12-03

I like that, but ill take it a small step further. We have the Farmer, the Ruler, and the Warrior. So Min compliments Rand AlThor, both farmish types, Elane (Ilyena) compliments Lews Therin, both rulers, and the third voice would be the warrior, complimenting avienda. This would fit with the builder preserver destroyer triangle that seems to be floating around the series.

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Weird Harold: 2003-03-22

I think the idea of three personalities for three loves has the appeal of symmetry, but is ultimately irrelevant to the story.

I think that primarily, because of Min's viewing that Rand would merge with somone and one of them would die and Egwene's Dream of Rand wearing many faces and becoming one of them in fact. To me, this indicates that Rand will eventually merge all of his personalities into a single personality.

I'd like to take Anubis' comment one step further.

Somewhere there is a comment about "the dragon feeling the land's wounds" -- there is more too it than that fragment and the quote probbly isn't exact -- that leads me to believe that Rand has to come to understand the land and ALL of it's peoples; Commoners, Nobles and Warriors alike.

Despite Rand's upbringing as a commoner, he doesn't really understand them. Min is less conservative and understands the common viewpoint better than Rand -- she is his teacher and guide for that viewpoint.

Elayne is his Teacher, Guide and Link to understanding the Nobility. Moraine taught him a lot about political maneuvering but nothing that would help him *understand* nobility.

Aviendha is his Teacher and Guide in understanding Cultural Differences, Duty and Honor. While Lan and others have set some ideas in Rand's head about Duty and Honor, Rand doesn't truly understand them, because he doesn't understand the cultural differences that formed them for Lan and the others.

When Rand finally understands all of the things his three women represent, his personalities will merge into a single strong, flexible and competent personality.