Does Rand and Galad know that they are brothers?

[RandomName]

I don't think they do, but maybe I missed something? I remember Rand trying to figure out if he and Elayne were blood related at one point (in TDR or TSR?), but don't remember anything about whether he realized he is related to Galad. I doubt Galad has any clue, but I'm not sure about that either.

[Sid]

They do not. It seems unlikely (but certainly not impossible) they ever will either, since almost nobody knows that they are. Other than Rand, Moiraine knows and maybe Egwene could reason it out. If Verin somehow knew, it could have been in one of her several letters she sent to people all over the world preceding her death.

[ranjitb]

Rand knows for certain that he is Tigraine's son - he managed to put it together from the information he got from Amys (about Shael), and from Dyelin (about the missing daughter-heir). He is concerned that he and Elayne might be close relatives before Dyelin reassures him that all the big houses are connected, but not really closely related.

 

He has chosen to NOT reveal this information because.... well I can't think of a single reason.

 

It is less certain if Galad knows, but many people (including me) believe he knows as well

[Areopagitican]

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[Shard]

Rand does know he has a brother, he commented internally on the fact, and he should know that Galad is Tigraine's son. I would think he had added 2+2 already.

[RandomName]

Thanks for the replies. It was just one of the random things I wonder about while I'm sitting in my office. It would be weird if this is not mentioned at all in the last book, but then again, it doesn't seem to be the most important thing under the light.

[Finnssss22]

He knows, he asked about his mother and father in tSR.

He was told her story about being found in the waste, that she was told to go and be among the maidens or the world was doomed. That she had left a son who she loved and man that she didn't.

Rand then thought to himself that he has a half brother out there somewhere and always wondered what it would be like to have a brother.

I'm sure when he figured out that Tigraine was his mother, he put it together.

 

Rand's father was killed by Tigraine's brother, his uncle....Lord Luke, who is of course the waking world half of Slayer, the other half is Isam, Lan's first cousin.

[Myrenna]

That bugs me, sometimes, too! I think Rand's clever enough to figure it out, but his real parents are kept secret, mostly, because he obviously sees Tam as his "real" father. I'm not even sure if Elayne knows Rand's true heritage, and I have a feeling that did Galad know, he'd have some enormous internal moral conflict, considering the "right" thing is to care for family, but the whole Whitecloak/channeler thing... (Morgase hardly counts, and other Whitecloaks don't really seem to consider her a channeler, just "tainted" by her time at Tar Valon, rather than being a proper witch.)

[David Selig]

Galad's views on channellers are much different from those of most Whitecloacks. He already knows that he has a half-sister who can channel in Elayne and it doesn't seem to have created a moral conflict in him - when he had to choose between helping her and following the current Whitecloacks doctrine on channelers, he chose the former. Of course, the Dragon Reborn is not your average channeller, and male channellers have been the biggest horror story in Randland for millennia, so the potential for trouble is still there.

[mb]

Its actually Luc, not Luke. And either one can be in the waking world or in Telaranrhiod; the POV of Slayer in Winter's Heart tells this.

 

Since nobles seem to have some copy of the Karaethon Cycle; Galad might have been permitted to look at it once in a while when he was younger. If he has read it, he would know the right thing to do would be to let the Dragon Reborn live.

Or if he has not read it, he might have grown favorable to male channelers from being acquainted with the 2 Ashamen in Perrin's camp.

Either case, the potential trouble might actually be absent.

Also, some Whitecloaks seemed to favor fighting along with the Ashamen. Knife of Dreams Prologue

[RandomName]

Hmmm. It seems that Rand probably does know. I hope there'll be a scene in the last book when they acknowledge each other as bros. I've also heard the theory that Galad will die in the Last Battle to satisfy the prophesy of "Rand's blood being spilt at Shayol Ghul" (I probably butchered that one), as Galad is "Rand's blood".

[ImNoBloodyHero]

Hmmm. It seems that Rand probably does know. I hope there'll be a scene in the last book when they acknowledge each other as bros. I've also heard the theory that Galad will die in the Last Battle to satisfy the prophesy of "Rand's blood being spilt at Shayol Ghul" (I probably butchered that one), as Galad is "Rand's blood".

 

 

That is a cool theory...

[Myrenna]

Galad's views on channellers are much different from those of most Whitecloacks. He already knows that he has a half-sister who can channel in Elayne and it doesn't seem to have created a moral conflict in him - when he had to choose between helping her and following the current Whitecloacks doctrine on channelers, he chose the former. Of course, the Dragon Reborn is not your average channeller, and male channellers have been the biggest horror story in Randland for millennia, so the potential for trouble is still there.

 

Yes, I meant that a female channeler is one thing, but the Dragon Reborn is another matter entirely. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that! You kind of got my point though, so I'm happy, haha. I know, it was pretty stupid of me not to mention Elayne in my post. Oops.