Somehow I don't really buy Slayer being created just to be powerful enough to kill Fain. Seems like a channeler would be a better option.

True. However' date=' if the first real opportunity to kill him won't come until the Last Battle, then all the channelers will probably be a tad busy.

 

I can see it now...

 

Rand has driven his forces through to SG itself. Aiel cover the mountainside fighting some of the nastiest Shadowspawn ever created. Rand enters the Bore where he meets some kind of powerful resistence, backed up by Slayer. Rand meets them in battle and Fain, who has been following unseen, trembling all the way with his memories of his treatment in the very place, leaps out screaming that al'Thor is his. Dagger bared he lunges for Slayer to take him out of the way first, much as he eliminated the renegade AM in Far Madding before going after him himself.

 

Slayer and Fain battle. Slayer manages to cast Fain into the Bore where the DO tears him limb from limb and eats his soul, but not before taking a wound from the dagger. Slayer falls dieing, and as he does he splits into Luc and Issam. And as he takes his last breath Luc reveals some critical piece of knowledge to his nephew Rand that ensures the defeat of the Dark One.[/quote']

 

Smeagol Fain?

J