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Yeah, that's what I was saying. It looks to me from the quotes I've read on the subject like Brandon created Nakomi out of something found in the notes because he needed to set-up this mysterious Aiel-dressed woman RJ had talking to Rand as he comes out of Shayol Ghul.
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She's nothing but a piece of intrigue placed in the books for the fans to be intrigued about. This is made clear by three things.
1. Her existence was not something RJ plotted for this book but something based on something Brandon found 'deep in the notes'. Which leads us to two.
2. Brandon has disavowed using the notes--rather, when he needs something, he goes and asks Maria, who does the research.
3. She didn't really do anything. Or rather, she did nothing that wouldn't have occurred just as easily without her presence.
Brandon needed something (a mystery for the fans, perhaps--one may note his likening of Nakomi's role to the fandom with Asmodean's), went to Maria who provided him with something he could use, and ultimately the entire thing had little to no plot relevance.
According to yesterday's twitter chat, the scene that includes Nakomi in AMOL was written by RJ:
http://twitter.com/BrandSanderson/status/294203184098967552
Mike Cox @Mikecox20
@BrandSanderson would like to know how much of the last chapter was written by RJ and how much did you do? #TorChat
Brandon Sanderson
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@Mikecox20 I did Perrin and some of the in-between writing with Loial. RJ did Mat, Rand, scene exiting the mountain, and others. #torchat
ockquote>So that seems to say that RJ did "plot" her for this book.
No it doesn't and that response wasn't a complete answer. We know Brandon added a number of things. For instance the Cadsuane part of the epilogue was Brandon as well. Brandon has previously stated the character was his.
But it says right there that RJ did "Rand, scene exiting the mountain." That's the scene in which Nakomi appears. I know he broke up the later Rand POV to add in Cadsuane's, but I haven't seen anything that proves he added in Nakomi to the Epilogue. -
I was thinking that Nakomi's brief appearance in the epilogue was written by RJ, and then Brandon had to go "deep in the notes" to figure out who this random Aiel woman who Rand sees after coming out of Shayol Ghul was supposed to be, and then went and added her appearance in TOM so that she doesn't come completely out of nowhere in AMOL.
Who *are* you, Nakomi? (Full spoilers)
in Wheel of Time Books
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The dead were just walking the earth, but they were not interacting with people at all. The supposed "ghosts" never showed any sign they had any awareness of their surroundings. Which is why I dismiss the idea of Nakomi as a ghost, she doesn't behave like they did.
I also don't think the ghosts were actual ghosts at all, but more like temporal anomalies, portions of the past bleeding into the present as the Pattern weakens and frays.
I have no real theory on who or what Nakomi was. Nothing I can come up with seems to fit.