Tamyrlin: 1998-09-07

I think that I would respect RJ as an author more if Rand did truly die saving humanity...unless there is some compelling reason that he doesn't have to. But I am not one for the happily ever after, so I think you are right about his incumbent death.

Erial: 2011-07-05

I think we should take care when referring to this quote. After all, blood does not necessarily signal death. The simple fact that Blood will be spilled on the rocks of Shayol Ghul could refer to death certainly (I'm by no means ruling it out), however it could simply be referance to a struggle or fight. We know for a fact that the wound Balzamon gave him splits at the slightest provocation (even when Rand fights his reflections at Tear relatively early on in his inheritance, his old wound tears once more simply due to strain, and it is later stated that he was covered in blood, which naturally would have been spilled onto the surrounding area.) All I'm trying to say is that the prophesised shedding of blood does not necessarily signal a morbid death, as so many people seem to assume :)

Ashaman Leyrann Gaidin: 2011-07-05

I never knew many people assumed that. I thought Rand was the only one who assumed that. I myself believe he's going to die as much as Min believes. The first time I read this Prophecy, I already thought "so, he's going to be wounded. No wonder, when fighting the DO." It could also be just one drip of blood.

And he is reborn at the end of each Age (well, people assume. Was he Tamyrlin at the end of the First Age?), but that doesn't have to mean he has to die at the end of each Age. An Age is far to long to survive until the end. He could live happily with his three women, then die after 400 years. And being reborn the next time the Dragon is needed.