Dravid ter'Mand
Gaidin
Brandon Sanderson (/u/mistborn on Reddit) commented on a thread in Reddit's Wheel of Time subreddit which asked if Rand's suspicion of King Roedran as Demandred was simply lip service to the fans.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/2de52v/jordan_sanderson_and_king_roedran/
It's impossible to separate Brandon the fan from Brandon the writer, so I can't say 100% certain what things I wrote because of fandom influence and which I wrote because the story demanded it. I tried to separate the two while working on the project, but who knows. Bela is a good example. Did I know Bela needed to have a role in the ending because it was thematically promised by her relevance to the earlier books, or did I put her in because the fan in me couldn't imagine an ending where Bela didn't show up? Is there a difference?
For what it's worth, with Roedran, when I was plotting that scene my thoughts went like this: "Rand HAS to have a theory on who Demandred is. Following the way he's thought before, and the places he's found the Forsaken, I think Roedran is going to be his prime suspect." His comment was meant to be an acknowledgement of this, not a nod to fans. There were a ton of fan theories about Demandred; this was the one Rand arrived at himself.
But, as I said above, this might have been my thought process--but writing is an instinctive process, and thoughts are often less relevant than what your gut tells you. The gut reason could easily have been a direct reaction to fan theories.
As a side note, if it wasn't clear, this was me, not RJ--though Merrilor is one of the sequences with a lot of hybridizing between the two of us. Moiraine's appearance later in this scene, for example, was his.
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/2de52v/jordan_sanderson_and_king_roedran/