Rand's Retirement Home

[RandA lThor]

Technically he promised LTT that he could die so he may die, but that would be too sad for me.

[Terez]

We know he's not going to end the series dead, so 'gone' means he disappears from the public eye.

[Edynol]

How exactly do we know this? I am pretty sure he will be alive at the end, but we don't know for certain.

[Pinzarn]

I figure that after the Last Battle that the Blight will somehow revert back to an idylic paradise. Wasn't the site of the Bore some sort of vacation island in the AoL? I figure Rand will stay there with Min. Avi and Elayne can gateway in for booty calls.

[Durinax]

interesting thoughts on the teacher bit, we even have min's thoughts on how she wanted to be with a scholarly man of culture towards the start

[XXX]

Hope he dies. But he is not actually dead as he is a Hero of the horn so he will hang around in TAR. Anyone willing to talk to him just has to go into TAR.

[Terez]

He is going to die, but he has to be resurrected. And the Aelfinn said he would survive the Last Battle, so long as he died first. That along with the hope-building with Nynaeve etc. makes it extremely unlikely he'll end the series dead. And Rand would probably follow the precepts like a good boy, so no visiting after death.

[XXX]

Will be very very disappointed if Rand lives. We were promised his death from the very start.

[Suttree]

Will be very very disappointed if Rand lives. We were promised his death from the very start.

 

And Rand was told to live he must die...it's pretty clear that is what's going to happen.

[Terez]

Will be very very disappointed if Rand lives. We were promised his death from the very start.

 

Like I said, he's going to die. He's also going to be resurrected.

[Maleshub]

Will be very very disappointed if Rand lives. We were promised his death from the very start.

 

Like I said, he's going to die. He's also going to be resurrected.

 

Aside from evidence in the books, his death would be more fitting of the story, the battle, and the sacrifice needed to seal the DO. It would be a heart-breaking ending; but he will have saved humanity from the DO's touch for a few thousand years.

 

However, he would have to live if he were to retire!

[RandA lThor]

I don't think that Rand dying will happen. there are so many scenes that point to him dying like telling LTT that they can die after TG or telling Min that he won't survive, that he has to live to provide some surprise. It's how that we all don't know and that will be one of the cool parts in this.

[Halleck]

I chose the Two Rivers like most people. It fits his attitude towards leaving it and also fits into the whole cyclical nature of the series. That's where he started and that's where he'll end. Manetheren was once there too and even if the Two Rivers doesn't become that grand it will definitely be a pretty sweet place. It has already seen a lot of changes so I figure he will go back there and help it out. As a scholar (I liked that idea). He made those schools after all so I think he will end up teaching other people.

[Niel an' Tyomn]

He's going to move around...to be w/ Elayne Min and Avi. Think of how big an impact Tam has had on him he'd feel more than obligated to do the same for his kids! So he may settle in TR for a while but I doubt he'll be there permanently.

[cwbys21]

I think he will be dead at the end of the books (he could die, get resurrected and die again after all) but if he was to survive I think he would retire to the Two Rivers at least for a while and travel to whatever city that really needed him, but for the most part I think it would be best for the world to deal with it's own problems, the Dragon's work is done. But like I said in another thread a while back, the idea of a grey bearded Rand, Min long dead, telling stories at the local inn trying to eat a meal one handed is sadder to me than Rand dieing and kicking back in TAR.

[RandA lThor]

he will be with relatives of friends, and channelers like Aviendha and Elayne will live as long as he will.

[Terez]

And he should have his hand back after he's ripped out.

[RandA lThor]

that is also true, which is a good way of wrappiong it up, with some problems fixed

[Maleshub]

And he should have his hand back after he's ripped out.

 

And he should have the taint removed from him head. No black needles poking his brain!

[Terez]

No never-healing wounds either. Or dragons, or herons, if he doesn't want them.

[Maleshub]

No never-healing wounds either. Or dragons, or herons, if he doesn't want them.

 

Yeah! Having a nice, hale Rand would be a welcome change!

 

In A Lily in Winter, I always loved Aviendha's reaction to sensing Rand's pain. "He is the Car'a'carn, as strong as the three-fold land." And then she cried.

[RandA lThor]

I think that Rand would keep everything, or almost everything because it symbolizes who he is, but it would be nice for Rand to be back to whatever he wanted to be.

[moldham]

Maybe he'll go back to the Two Rivers but I dont see him retiring or anything. He will be in some sort of leadership role, and with traveling he can go somewhere peaceful and secluded and still make it to all his important meetings ;)

 

All assuming he somehow makes it . . . please make it

[Luckers]

He'll live in Tar Valon as God-King of the world.

[Jaedan_edhel]

I think that, if Rand lives, he would retire to the Black Tower, whether it remains in Andor, or re-locates. I think he would create a 'new mission' for hismelf, to ensure the Black Tower became some sort of guard over the World (over the World, I stress, not a Big Brother over the people). Or perhaps he would try to make it a true partner and equivalent to the White Tower, only I feel his approach would be different.

 

I also think that, perhaps initially, he would try to settle back in the Two Rivers, but would be in a 'Frodo' situation - he may have saved Two Rivers and everything he cares about, but couldn't find peace there himself.