He has also said that he new how TG was going to go down when he started writing.

anyone have any info on this?

No official word but I do remember reading some where that it was only going to be three books.

What makes me ask is that I am currently reading the Dragon Reborn and for the first time it has really hit me just how ambiguous the references to future events are in tEotW and TGH. While right from the beginning TDR seems to be throwing out portents waaaay down the line whenever it can. Like, Rand cleansing Saidin and breaking the Aiel down the road, stuff.

While this is true to a point there was stuff inn the first books as well. For instance as early as EotW chapter 15 Min has viewings for the gang and we still haven’t seen the out come of some of them.