I, like all here, am very excited and thoughtful now that it is so close. I have avoided this, and all fan sites, for most of 2012 to avoid spoilers. I want to saviour every page and word after the majority of my life spent with this series.

While there can be neither beginnings nor endings in the wheel of time, this will be an ending.

getting slightly off topic with the Rand conversation but I have had theory for around 10 years that Rand would be killed and then summoned by the Horn to fight the DO as he would then be immortal and indestructable (how can a mortal man take on a being outside the pattern?)

Then after the battle Nyn will rip him out similar to what she earlier witnessed happen with Birg and Moggy.

On topic, I fully agree that Lan will not die. I am not sure who saves him, but somebody will...