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40 Votes in Poll
40 Votes in Poll
The first thing I want to touch on is that "the wolf dream" , the place where the heroes wait are both the same the in between all the possibilities of worlds (Tel'aran'rhiod) . There is another spot where he says he sees snake like people. He didn't go to get answers like Rand and Matt so he would not know.
As far as how Rand lights his pipe, its as if he is able to treat this world as otheres do Tel'aran'rhiod. I always imagined that he can do so because of the backlash of power from mixing all the sources, or alternatively because he has became the opposite of what the Dark One truly was. Not all powerful, but more so then anything else existing currently in this world.