Rand and Galad

[Dragon21]

Will Rand and Galad find out that they are half brothers?

And what effect might that have on them?

[vinay87]

Mostly Galad will go mad and shout out "Little Brother!!!!" and turn himself in for a dark friend.

 

I don't really think they will find out, though. Since we always do credit RJ for making this as real as possible, well, I don't see the need to. Its not like he will actually feel any affection for Rand. And definitely Rand wouldn't care at all, except trying to reconstruct how that relates him to Elayne.

[RobertAlexWillis]

Rand already knows.

[Paviel]

Maybe it won't matter to Rand and Galad, but I believe that a meeting between Perrin and Galad is inevitable at this point...

 

On second thought, Perrin couldn't possibly know that the leader of the Whitecloaks was Rand's older brother...

[safwd]

Rand already knows. He knows who his real mom was, and he knows who Galads mom was.

And i think Galad will except him as a brother pretty quickly. Galad is good and i believe he knows that the Dragon Reborn is the champion of good.

[Dragon21]

Yes thanks, I know Rand already knows, I should have worded it different.  :) Really I was just saying do you think there will be a scene in the next book where it is adressed between the two of them. I guess it would have to be Rand telling Galad.

[Paviel]

I wonder if it would make a difference if Galad knew that Tigraine had loved him. It seems like he doesn't.

 

I'm pretty sure that Galad was quite young when Tigraine disappeared, so maybe he even considers himself abandoned.

[trakand_01]

Ever since we first met Galad, I've had a sence of pity for him. Not pity, empathy.

 

His father was killed, and to all intents and purposes from my understanding wasn't a very nice man when he was around. His mother disappeared with him still a toddler, and his step-mother had two children of her own. There is a passage where Morgase thinks to herself how she's always loved Galad as if he was her own which i found particularly touching but does Galad know this?

 

I have always felt that he is a little lost. He cannot really play the son as his mother figure is not his mother, he has no blood relatives (doesnt know of Rand), so the only role he can really play is 'older brother' which he does.

 

Perhaps in a ploy to become 'favoured' by his parents / adults in a world where he has no blood relatives, he resorted to being 'goody two shoes'; it is frequently said how Galad always does what's right, whether it helps you or hinders you.

 

We also see his compassion when he makes the deal with Nynaeve to find her a boat if she promises to go on it. All because he's in love with Egwene and Elayne is his sister.

 

I wonder how the rejection of finding out Egwene is now in love with Gawyn will hit him?