I expected some of the five main to die but in the very end only Egwene did...Rand has another body so it's not really death.What I wonder if Rand is going to tell his closest friends that he's alive!
Now that I'm thinking of it, I believe Egwene's death was foreshadowed!Just count the times it had been speculated that she would have become the longest serving Amyrlin Seat of all time.
As I read AMOL before finishing TGS & TOM(I had read only summaries) I have to say I was sad about the deaths of some characters!But I know they were needed because it was a battle and there are always deaths from both sides...Still Egwene's death.. :( and Siuan,why did she had to die???:cry One...