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Certainly. L'tol's also mentioned as an exception to the rule. (Though certainly it appears that many riders choose suicide.)

I think the daughter has to post-date his riding, unless he already had his journeyman's knots when he Impressed. Either would be a very odd occurrence, I think, and it's interesting we hear nothing of the surviving daughter in canon. One would think with her mother and sisters dead, that she'd have been fostered within Ruatha to be close to her surviving family.