Hi,

Just signed in here because I felt I had to reply.

Like many of you Egwene's one of my favourite characters in the series, and like many of you I thought the death was well-written but didn't make sense. To be honest, Gawyn's death struck me as the release from the only thing holding her back from becoming the living personification of the Amyrlin Seat - a woman who cannot and should not have any worldly ties. Letting her make the ultimate sacrifice was good, but letting her mourn and continue the Aes Sedai legacy would have been poignant in a different way.

I know this is Egwene's thread, but since Gawyn's been mentioned above, I also should point out - when Demandred wasn't being distracted by Gawyn and Galad, he was decimating troops like nobody's business. Sure, his decision to go challenge him was boneheaded, but he probably saved thousands of lives out there in the minutes that he was duelling Demandred. It wasn't entirely the worthless sacrifice that people seem to think it was.