I agree. Another way you can look at it is that when Perrin goes off on Berelain, he's VALIDATING Faile's concerns by showing that the woman can get under his skin. If you'll notice, in later books, Perrin treats Berelain as a non-issue, passing her flirting off as unimportant and beneath his notice, and Faile is fine with it---in fact, beaming with pride.

So Moiraine is Taringail's half-sister. Elayne, Gawyn and Galad are Taringail's children. Taringail isn't Rand's father. So how is Moiraine related to Rand again? She is half-aunt to Galad, Elayne and Gawyn, not Rand. Maj, I can forgive your slip because you were drunk. But how come no-one else got this? Did no-one else read this properly? Or am I just mad? leebarr, if you put this 1 and 1 together, I would be very surprised if you came out with 2. Rand and Moiraine aren't related.

Right...

Taringail Damodred:

Moiraine's brother

Galad, Gawyn, and Elayne's father

Tigraine Mantear:

Luc's sister

Galad and Rand's mother

This gives us quite a few twists in the ol' family tree. Some of the more interesting are as follows...

1) Moiraine is Elayne's aunt (but not Rand's)

2) Galad is brother to BOTH Elayne and Rand, but Elayne and Rand are NOT directly related.

3) Galad---Lord Captain Commander of the Childred of the Light---is the nephew of an Aes Sedai

4) Luc---Rand's uncle---kills Rand's father.

Luc joins with Isam, who is Lan's cousin.

Thus, through Slayer (Luc+Isam), Lan is Rand's second cousin ;)