I may be completely wrong here but I just had a bit of a thought. There is the prophecy about 'the three become one' and we've always assumed it's Rand/Moridin/LewsTherin. It probably still is and I'm not so precious about my theory to be shot down in flames, but...

 

What if the 3 are Rand, Mat and Perrin? Rand has one hand, Mat... not sure how much I'm allowed to say in this forum. They can already 'see' each other when they think about them - surely that's got to be the equivalent of a live telephone link during battle?

 

Of course there are several suggestions that this is way off teh mark already:

 

Rand's hand - Min has 'seen' a black onyx hand, which my guess is Moridin gives it to him to make it a more fair battle

 

Perrin - has all his faculties, so to speak. He's not 'missing' anything other than the fact he's part wolf, mentally. I dont think he's going to lose his mind though - he'd have done it by now.

 

I think this bucket's got a lot of holes in it....!

I'm in agreement with you. However, there is a thread about this here:

 

http://www.dragonmount.com/forums/topic/61633-3-become-1/

 

See you on the other side!