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Birgitte is an oddity in several respects.

She is one of the world's only female Warders -- both she and Elayne have discovered first hand that the bond of their shared gender increases the empathic link of the Warder bond to sometimes unacceptable levels ( when Birgitte gets drunk, Elayne gets tipsy ).

She is also the first Hero of the Horn to have been expelled from Tel ' aran ' rhiod: she still has the memories of all her past lives, though as time passes they are beginning to blur together.

Finally, she is intimately linked with Gaidal Cain, having shared a storied romance in their incarnations from the Age of Legends, and apparently in previous incarnations as well ; though she hides it for the most part, she fears that her return to the real world through expulsion rather than reincarnation has broken the cycle of their love.