

As soon as Moridin nabs the sword, Rand, Moraine, and Nynaeve link their channeling with him and use the combined weave to grab Shai'tan and seal it away. He also knows Moridin would try to steal it if given the opportunity.so he does just that. Also, it can only be triggered by a male channeler, but two female channelers are needed to direct its powers safely. He knows that Callandor - the Amplifier Artifact he needs for the fight - is flawed in that it has no buffer to prevent its wielder from burning himself out from using too much power. Batman Gambit: How he wins and survives the Last Battle.Badass in Charge: The Chosen One, a leader of all who opposes the Dark One (at least in spirit), the strongest male chaneller of Light, and the Master Swordsman.Rand: Come against me, if you dare! I am the storm! Come if you dare, Shai'tan! I am the Dragon Reborn! The one below stands out for breaking The Scottish Trope as he rains down destruction upon the Shadow's forces, although it's spoken while Rand is erratically losing control of his faculties and unleashing his power against his own allies as well as his enemies. Babies Ever After: At least six, two with Elayne and four with Aviendha.He is implied to have become so powerfully Ta'varen that he's able to light his pipe just by thinking about it without needing to channel. And the Adventure Continues: Having accomplished everything he set out to do and left behind his former life, Rand is last seen riding south to explore the world as himself, not as the Dragon Reborn - just as he'd wanted to do from the start of the series.

Amazon Chaser: To a degree, in that the first official member of his Battle Harem was a member of an Amazon Brigade of Aiel who he chased through a gateway before One Thing Led to Another.Contrast the Nae'blis, who had a slightly different epiphany about the Wheel, but came to the opposite conclusion. The Anti-Nihilist: His salvation and transformation on Dragonmount at the end of Book 12 the result of realizing that the Wheel continues to turn and put people through the same trials so that they can have second chances to fix their mistakes.This was just the first step in Rand's journey into discovering that he is a male channeler, The Dragon Reborn, and fated by the Wheel of Time to lead the fight against Shai'tan. Thereafter he was told by the story's The Mentor that The Dark One was trying to find him (or perhaps one of his two friends, Mat Cauthon and Perrin Aybara), and was convinced to flee. "He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slopes of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!"Ī farm boy from a village so remote that they didn't even know they were technically part of a kingdom, Rand had no idea he was adopted until one fateful Winternight when Trollocs attacked his home town.
