Here is the question that has always been a sticking point for me through all the books:
According to SoT canon only the first Male is ever born with the power of Wizards - even if we go to to the fact that they only allow the first male to live - how do we explain Nathan.
Nathan of course was pulled from his home by the sisters of the light - but we would have to assume he was the eldest male Rahl child at the time. Since he would have been taken as a child over 1000 years earlier - how can Panis or Darken or Richard even exist in the Rahl bloodline. He would not have been able to have children and by the time the Palace of the Prophets would have aged him enough to have children with one of the local woman paid off to serve him - theoretically the Rahl bloodline would have died out or the Sisters of light would have taken the boy in discovering the fact very quickly as it owuld have been highly unlikely a woman with a new born would have escaped into the midlands from the old world.
In theory we could assume that Nathan's father had a second child - but would the magic that went in the Rahl bloodline have allowed this to happen since a first born magic wielding son had been born?
