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2025-03-08T13:23:10Z

Arinna Katal: fixed typo in email address

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Claire Al'Rahien

2022-12-05T15:34:19Z

Arinna Katal: added mentors

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Alviarin Freidhen

2022-11-08T03:28:19Z

Arinna Katal: copy edits; some restructuring of paragraphs and cleaning-up of language

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''Author: Lyssandra Darai''

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== General ==

'''Alviarin Freidhen''' is a slim, cool-faced, swan-necked [[Aes Sedai]] ({{tsr|1}}; {{Prol7}}). When she first appeared, she was cool, accepting, and willing to help others learn ({{tgh|12}}). She was always cool and calm, as was the stereotype for any sister of the [[White Ajah]] ({{tsr|1}}); in fact, she was often more so. It was said the woman had ice for blood ({{Prol5}}, {{Prol7}}). When [[Elaida]] moved to depose [[Siuan]], Alviarin backed her despite the White's traditional alliance with the [[Blue Ajah|Blues]] ({{tsr|1}}). Alviarin's position as [[Keeper of the Chronicles]] was the price for her bringing the White Ajah with her ({{Prol5}}. She is never commented on as being young, so it can be assumed that she has had the shawl for at least 50 years, and likely close to 100. Her nationality is unknown.

== Relationships ==

Alviarin has never shown any friendship with anyone. She is a loner who prefers to act from a position of strength and power. She is also very cruel and skilled at hurting others ({{loc|12}}).

After she flees the White Tower, she bonds [[Varil Nensen]] ({{amol|42}}).

== Timeline==

At the start, Alviarin was simply a sister of the White Ajah. She had no official rank but carried considerable weight within her [[Ajah]]. When Elaida overthrew Siuan, Alviarin brought the White Ajah around to support her, becoming the Keeper of the Chronicles ({{Prol5}}). She claims that her status as Keeper instead of Amyrlin is by her own choice ({{tfoh|19}}).

Her relationships with other characters are based on her power as Keeper and the hold she gains over Elaida. After the disastrous attempt to capture [[Rand]], Alviarin exerted more control over the Tower. She threatened to expose that attempt to the others, which would have resulted in Elaida's [[stilling]]. In return for staying on the [[Amyrlin Seat]], Elaida was forced to do only as Alviarin told her ({{acos|32}}). As Alviarin was head of the [[Black Ajah]] and worked directly for [[Mesaana]], this resulted in Mesaana's control of the Tower ({{acos|32}}). Mesaana finds this a very useful place to be and Alviarin to be a very useful tool. She teaches Alviarin some new weaves, like [[Traveling]], and has her running around and doing errands ({{cot|21}}).

Alviarin lost her position as Keeper when she left the Tower for a month on business for Mesaana. When she returned, she found that Elaida had managed to pin the blame of her two failures on the people leading them and had accused Alviarin of treason for having been gone so long. Alviarin was ousted from her position of Keeper and was desperate to find some way to deflect the charges ({{cot|21}}).

After this, she ran down to her quarters and summoned Mesaana, who refused to help. During this interview, [[Shaidar Haran]] arrived and marked Alviarin for the [[Dark One]] ({{cot|21}}).

After being stripped of the stole, Alviarin tried to maintain an outward calmness, but on the inside she was on the verge of hysteria, fingering her forehead constantly where Shaidar Haran marked her. She was pleased to notice that the Dark One's touch seemed to be reaching the White Tower while overhearing White sisters discussing the food spoilage. As the Head of the Black Ajah, she ordered a search to find [[Talene]], a Black Ajah member who had fled from the Tower. Another order was to surveil [[Yukiri]] and [[Doesine]], who were heading the hunt for Black Ajah in the Tower ({{Prol11}}).

The White Ajah felt the loss of the Keeper's stole, which made Alviarin even less popular than before. She had to tolerate glares and turned backs even from sisters of her own Ajah, nearly all of whom stood far below Alviarin in the Power ({{Prol11}}).

As a penance ordered by Elaida, Alviarin received a strapping from the [[Mistress of Novices]] every morning. The penance was theoretically private, but even the servants knew about it ({{Prol11}}). Elaida was furious at Alviarin because of her proclamation about Rand al'Thor, among other things ({{kod|1}}). Alviarin reacted poorly to the strappings, seeing each morning as adding more bruises to her already aching bottom ({{Prol11}}).

[[Egwene]] overheard Alviarin taking the penance and thought to herself that she was not taking it very well. Alviarin suggested the possibility of escape to Egwene several times, but Egwene declined the offer, frustrating Alviarin. ({{kod|24}})

Egwene saw Alviarin going to her daily punishment({{tgs|2}}).

Egwene saw Alviarin's name on Verin's list. She told [[Meidani]] to have Alviarin taken into custody, questioned, and forced to re-swear the Oaths ({{tgs|39}}).

Alviarin escaped before the Black Ajah hunters had time to apprehend her ({{prol12}}).

Alviarin attacked Egwene, Nynaeve, and Elayne in ''[[Tel'aran'rhiod]]'', accidentally killing another [[Black]], [[Talva]] ({{tom|14}}).

Alviarin was part of the group of Black Ajah that launched an assault on Egwene's group ({{tom|37}}).

When Mesaana captured Egwene, she sent Alviarin to tell the others to withdraw ({{tom|38}}).

She survived the Last Battle and was in command of a small group of [[Dreadlords]] that got trapped inside a ''[[stedding]]'' ({{amol|42}}).

==Quotes==
Alviarin was as cool and businesslike as a merchant come to buy wool and tabac, surprised Nynaeve was part of the lesson but accepting, sharp in her criticisms but always ready to try again. ({{tgh2|Chapter 12}})

"Talking to yourself, Elaida? I know you Reds never have friends outside your own Ajah, but surely you have friends to talk to inside it." ({{Tsr2|Chapter 1}})

With respect, I humbly beg to make myself known to the great Lord Dragon Reborn, whom the Light blesses as savior of the world.

All the world must stand in awe of you, who has conquered Cairhien in one day as you did Tear. Yet be wary, I beseech you, for your splendor will inspire jealousy even in those not toiled in the Shadow. Even here in the White Tower are the blind who cannot see your true radiance, which will illumine us all. Yet know that some rejoice in your coming, and will delight to serve your glory. We are not those who would steal your luster for ourselves, but rather those who would kneel to bask in your brilliance. You shall save the world, according to the Prophecies, and the world shall be yours.

To my shame, I must beg you to let no one see these words, and to destroy them when once read. I stand, naked of your protection, among some who would usurp your power, and I cannot know who around you is as faithful as I. I am told that Moiraine Damodred may be with you. She may serve you devotedly, obeying your words as law, as I will, yet I cannot know, for I remember her as a secretive woman, much given to plotting, as Cairhienin are. Yet even if you believe she is your creature, as I do, I beg you to keep this missive secret, even from her. My life lies beneath your fingers, my Lord Dragon Reborn, and I am your servant.

(Letter to Rand, {{Tfoh2|Chapter 51}}).

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Aran'gar

2022-11-02T16:17:35Z

Arinna Katal: minor copy edits

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''Author: Estyrien al'Halien''

==General==

Aran'gar is one of the [[Forsaken]], or Chosen as they like to call themselves ({{Prol6}}). She is actually [[Balthamel]] reincarnated, though she cannot remember much of her life as a man ({{tpod|16}}). During the [[Age of Legends]], she was an expert on primitive cultures, something she believes makes her qualified to rule in the current age ({{kod|3}}). Despite being put in a female body, Aran'gar can channel ''[[saidin]]'' ({{wh|13}}). Aran'gar was given the identity of Halima Saranov, who was supposedly a companion of [[Cabriana Mecandes]]. [[Semirhage]] tortured Cabriana to find out about [[Salidar]]. That knowledge was passed on to Halima, who then used it to infiltrate the [[Salidar]] camp ({{loc|6}}; {{loc|30}}). She attached herself to [[Delana Mosalaine]], a [[Black]] sister posing as [[Gray]], and was made her 'secretary'. She ordered Delana to support all factions in [[the Tower]] in order to create chaos ({{loc|37}}) and was taken into [[Egwene al'Vere]]'s confidence ({{acos|17}}). She was forced to flee the Tower when [[Jahar]] and [[Merise]] visited and she risked being exposed ({{kod|23}}). After fleeing, she joined [[Graendal]]. When Rand destroyed the palace, Aran'gar was killed when Graendal [[shield]]ed her and held her in Air as part of Graendal's plan to escape and make Rand think she was dead ({{prol13}}).

''Aran'gar'' was one of a pair of poisoned daggers used for dueling during the Age of Legends, the other being an ''[[osan'gar]]''; one was used in the left hand and one in the right, but it is not known which was which ({{prol6}}).

Aran'gar's soul was reincarnated in a body taken from the [[Borderlands]] during a raid. She has black hair and green eyes; her skin is the color of ivory, and she has an oval face. She is very beautiful, and her body would have been suitable for a [[daien]] dancer in the Age of Legends ({{prol6}}). She is slender and often wears dresses with low neck lines to show off her bosom ({{loc|30}}).

==Timeline==

*998/999 NE: Balthamel is reincarnated as Aran'gar ({{prol6}}).

*999 NE: Aran'gar arrives in Salidar under the name of Halima Saranov ({{loc|30}}).

*999 NE: Egwene's headaches start the day that she first talks to Halima ({{acos|12}}).

*999 NE: Aran'gar frees [[Moghedien]] from her ''[[a'dam]]'' and tells her to go to [[Shayol Ghul]] ([[Lord of Chaos: Epilogue|LoC, Epilogue]]).

*1000 NE: Aran'gar [[Travel]]s to [[Shadar Logoth]] in an attempt to stop [[Rand]] and [[Nynaeve]] from using the [[Choedan Kal]] ({{wh|35}}).

*1000 NE: Aran'gar kills [[Anaiya]] and her [[Warder]], [[Setagana]] ({{cot|20}}).

*1000 NE: Aran'gar is summoned to a meeting with the other Forsaken. She tries to make an alliance with Graendal, planning to kill her when she has the chance, something she also plans for [[Moridin]] ({{kod|3}}).

*1000 NE: Aran'gar flees with Delana when Jahar and Merise visit ({{kod|23}}).

*1000 NE: Siuan reasons that Aran'gar was posing as Halima, not Delana ({{tgs|8}}).

*1000 NE: Aran'gar is killed at [[Natrin's Barrow]] when [[Rand al'Thor]] destroys it with [[balefire]] ({{prol13}}).

==Relationships==

Under the disguise of Halima, Aran'gar has managed to get close to Egwene al'Vere, the [[Amyrlin Seat]] of the Salidar [[Aes Sedai]]. She 'cures' Egwene of her headaches ({{acos|12}}). She is the only one who can cure these aches; [[Healing]] from a sister makes no difference ({{cot|20}}). However, it is fairly obvious that Aran'gar is in fact causing the headaches as a way to get Egwene to trust her, especially because her headaches started the day she met Halima ({{cot|17}}) and have been known to start when Halima was annoyed about being sent away. After Halima's massages, Egwene always has troubled dreams, and she can't remember what happened in them, something that she should be able to do as a [[Dreamer]] ({{cot|20}}). It has been wondered if Aran'gar is using [[Compulsion]] on Egwene to control her.

Halima is thought by many to be a lightskirt, and this has been met with disapproval from many of the Salidar Aes Sedai. Halima is as lecherous as Balthamel was and seems amused by her reputation ({{cot|18}}).

[[Siuan]] in particular does not like Halima, especially because Halima doesn't treat her with the respect someone should show to an Aes Sedai ({{cot|18}}). Halima treats Aes Sedai as she would any other woman, which shocks many people ({{tpod|15}}).

Halima doesn't hold her temper around anyone but Egwene and often yells at people, including Delana and Siuan. She has also broken a wheelwright's arm ({{cot|18}}).

Aran'gar has murdered several times during her stay with the Salidar Aes Sedai. First, there were [[Meri]] and [[Selame]] who were Egwene's maids ({{tpod|30}}), one of whom Aran'gar buried in the snow ({{tpod|16}}). Aran'gar is also the likely culprit for the murder of Anaiya and her Warder, Setagana; they were smothered to death when weaves of solid Air were woven around their heads ({{cot|20}}). When Aran'gar arrived at Shadar Logoth during the Cleansing, she killed [[Eben Hopwil]] when he tried to prevent her from attacking Rand ({{wh|35}}). Aran'gar also wanted [[Logain]] killed or [[gentle]]d so that she would be free to use ''saidin'' in the camp ({{loc|27}}).

She approaches Graendal for an alliance. Most people believed she never formed them during in Age of Legends, but in truth she did, but she killed the ally before they had a chance to reveal anything ({{kod|3}}).

When [[Jahar]] reveals that he met a woman holding ''saidin'' at Shadar Logoth, [[Romanda]] orders Aran'gar's arrest, but she has already fled with Delana ({{kod|23}}).

==Miscellaneous==

*Aran'gar is even more reckless and less cautious than [[Lanfear]] ({{prol6}}).

*Aran'gar is strong in the One Power and could kill all of the Salidar Aes Sedai easily ({{tpod|16}}).

*Aran'gar cannot write very well. In fact, her handwriting looks like that of a child who is learning to write ({{tpod|17}}).

*Aran’gar’s abilities in ''[[Tel'aran'rhiod]]'' are weak, and she can only find Egwene’s dreams when next to Egwene.

==Quotes==

"Why has this been done to me? Why have I been put into this body? Why?" (Aran'gar to [[Shaidar Haran]]; [[Lord of Chaos: Prologue|Lord of Chaos, Prologue]])

"A guest is not exactly what I had in mind. Something rather more permanent, I think. Your secretary, or better yet, your companion. I need to make sure your [[Hall]] is guided carefully. Beyond this tale of Cabriana's news, from time to time I'll have instructions for you." (Aran'gar to Delana; {{loc2|Chapter 30}})

"She was no fool--Egwene had known that at their first conversation, the day after Logain escaped, when the headaches had begun--not at all the brainless flipskirt." (Egwene thinking about Halima; {{acos2|Chapter 12}})

She could destroy the lot of them, and even dying they would never suspect who was killing them. Of course, she would not survive them long. That thought made her shiver. The [[Great Lord]] gave very few a second chance at life, and she was not about to throw away hers. (Aran'gar about the Salidar Aes Sedai; {{tpod2|Chapter 16}})

Supposedly, Halima was Delana's secretary, but everybody believed it a case of charity, or possibly friendship, however unlikely, between the dignified, pale-haired sister and the hot-natured, raven-haired country woman. (Egwene thinking about Halima; {{tpod2|Chapter 17}})

All of her mannerisms had changed since she became a woman, but not the core of what had been placed into that female body. [[Demandred]] hardly scorned fleshy pleasures, but one day her cravings would be the death of her. As they already had been once. (Demandred about Aran'gar; {{wh2|Chapter 13}})

Halima did ask for nothing beyond a pallet in Egwene's tent, so she could be on hand for when one of Egwene's headaches came on, and sleeping there must have given difficulties with carrying out her duties for Delana. Besides, Egwene liked her earthy outspoken manner. (Egwene thinking about Halima; {{cot2|Chapter 18}})

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Amys

2022-10-11T03:52:43Z

Arinna Katal: minor copy edit that I missed the first time :)

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''Author: Lireina Dormerus''

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== General ==

Amys is a [[Dreamwalker]] and [[Aiel]] [[Wise One]], and she is of the Nine Valleys [[sept]] of the [[Taardad]] Aiel.

When in [[Aiel Waste|the Waste]], she lives in [[Cold Rocks Hold]] and is married to [[Rhuarc]]. She has a [[sister-wife]], [[Lian (2)|Lian]], who is the roofmistress of Cold Rocks Hold. Once a ''[[Far Dareis Mai]]'' before becoming a Wise One, Amys sometimes walks the dream in her old form.

She is tall and still looks young, although she has waist-length white hair. She also has sharp blue eyes ({{tsr|11}}; {{acos|10}}) and sun-darkened skin ({{tsr|11}}).

== Timeline ==

*In her youth, Amys and several Maidens of the Spear discover a wetlander in silks, wandering near the [[Dragonwall]]. They follow her for several days, and then question her when she finally collapses. This wetlander is [[Tigraine Mantear]], who becomes Shaiel and gives birth to [[Rand]] ({{tsr|34}}).

*While exploring ''[[Tel'aran'rhiod]]'', [[Egwene]] accidentally stumbles upon Amys in the Aiel Waste, in her guise as a Maiden of the Spear, and Egwene jumps away. Egwene encounters Amys again, in the dream [[Tanchico]], and Amys tells her to come and train with the Wise Ones ({{tsr|11}}).

*Amys and three other Wise Ones send a letter to [[Moiraine]] at the [[Stone of Tear]], ordering [[Aviendha]] to come to them at [[Chaendaer]], near [[Rhuidean]] ({{tsr|11}}).

*Amys, [[Bair]], [[Melaine]], and [[Seana]] wait for Rand, Moiraine, and the rest of their party at Chaendaer. She greets Rhuarc and passes greetings from Lian, her sister-wife, and then agrees to let Rand enter Rhuidean. She and Melaine prevent an attack on [[Mat]] when he also requests to enter Rhuidean, and then they send Aviendha into Rhuidean as well. She and the other Wise Ones then take Moiraine and Egwene into the tents to offer water and shade and to speak of ''[[ji'e'toh]]'' and Dreamwalking. They then reveal that Moiraine needs to go through the rings in Rhuidean herself, and after she does, they begin to teach Egwene Dreamwalking ({{tsr|23}}).

*Amys and the other Wise Ones meet Rand and Mat coming out of Rhuidean, and after Rand shows the Dragons on both his arms, they go back into the tents, where Amys tells the story of Rand's real parents, Shaiel and [[Janduin]] ({{tsr|34}}).

*Amys teaches Egwene a lesson about going into ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' after being told not to by scaring Egwene in her sleep. She then demands that Egwene braid her hair like a child for breaking her word. After that, Amys takes Egwene to the sweat tents to discuss what will happen next with Rand and the Aiel. She also charges Aviendha with staying close to Rand, to teach him and learn what she can of him ({{tsr|35}}).

*Amys and Bair circulate through the wounded after the [[Trolloc]] attack at [[Imre Stand]], along with Moiraine and Egwene ({{tsr|37}}).

*Amys and the other Wise Ones agree to let Egwene unbraid her hair. She also accompanies Egwene, Moiraine, and the other Wise Ones to check on Rand at the end of the day to see how he is holding up. Amys and the other Wise Ones also begin teaching Aviendha to channel and tell Moiraine and Egwene to stay out of it ({{tsr|48}}).

*Upon reaching Cold Rocks Hold, Amys breaks away from the other Wise Ones to join Rhuarc in meeting up with Lian, her sister-wife and the roofmistress of Cold Rocks. They greet Rand, and Lian gives him permission to enter her hold. Amys agrees with Rand's request to keep Aviendha as his teacher. Amys is not pleased at Moiraine's statement that there will probably be more [[Aes Sedai]] in the Aiel Waste soon ({{tsr|49}}).

*Amys orders Aviendha to clean the rugs and carpets from the hold. She and the other Wise Ones speak to Rand about Aviendha's purpose with him, and Amys orders a ''gai'shain'' to show Rand his room when Melaine begins to get angry with him ({{tsr|50}}).

*Nynaeve goes into ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' to meet with Amys, Bair, and Egwene to discuss the goings on in Tanchico and with Rand. While there, Amys transforms Nynaeve into a young girl to teach her a lesson on controlling her thoughts in the dream. She also tells Nynaeve of the way to search ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' using need ({{tsr|52}}).

*Amys prevents Moiraine from going down into [[Alcair Dal|Bowl of Alcair Dal]] because Rand needs to handle "chiefs' business" ({{tsr|57}}).

*Rand confirms with Aviendha that Amys, Bair, and Melaine are not happy with him for shielding his dreams from them ({{tfoh|4}}).

*Amys, Bair, Melaine, and Aviendha meet with Egwene and Moiraine in the sweat tents to discuss Rand and their intentions to follow him and do what is best for the Aiel, not the White Tower. Once Moiraine leaves Amys and the other Wise Ones, they discuss Aviendha with Egwene, and then Melaine asks Amys and Bair to talk to [[Dorindha (1)|Dorindha]] for her, as she wishes to marry Dorindha's husband, [[Bael]] ({{tfoh|5}}).

*Egwene learns to find certain people's dreams by finding Amys' one night, and they celebrate by sharing tea in the dream at Cold Rocks Hold ({{tfoh|7}}).

*When camp is made overnight in Jangai Pass, Amys, Bair, and Melaine have their tents put up by ''gai'shain'' ({{tfoh|21}}).

*Amys, along with Egwene, Melaine, and Bair, comes to check on Rand after yet another Trolloc attack. Amys and Bair make a wager on who Melaine will check on first after they're done, Dorindha or Bael ({{tfoh|22}}).

*Amys and Bair punish the Maidens that were with Rand the night of the attack by making them make dolls and carry them as reminders that they are no longer children ({{tfoh|23}}).

*Amys and Bair surprise Egwene in ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' and scold her for showing up early, without them ({{tfoh|24}}).

*Amys and the other Wise Ones discuss whether to allow Aviendha's participation in the battle against the [[Shaido]] ({{tfoh|43}}).

*After the battle, Amys, Bair, Melaine, and [[Sorilea]] guard Rand's rest, along with several hundred Aiel, and don't allow a [[Tairen]] and [[Cairhienin]] delegation in to see him ({{tfoh|45}}).

*Amys and Egwene meet again with [[Nynaeve]] and [[Elayne]] in ''Tel'aran'rhiod''. Amys is surprised to see both of them there, and her disapproval at how hard Rand is pushing himself is evident on her face. Amys gives them news of the battle with the Shaido and questions whether or not the Aes Sedai in [[Salidar Aes Sedai|Salidar]] will follow Rand. She is also displeased to find that Elayne and Nynaeve have other ''[[ter'angreal]]'' that allow them to Dreamwalk ({{tfoh|47}}).

*Amys and a large group of Wise Ones come to meet with Rand to remind him that his obligations to Elayne don't outweigh his obligations to the Aiel ({{tfoh|52}}).

*Amys and Bair, along with Melaine and Sorilea, rush to check on Aviendha and Egwene after the attack by [[Lanfear]]. They forbid Egwene from going with Rand or Dreamwalking until they say she is well. Mat later tells Rand that Amys says that Egwene will be well after a few days' rest ({{tfoh|53}}).

*Amys sends Aviendha along with Rand on his journey - the other Wise Ones question her success with Rand, and Amys begins to tell them something when she spots Rand nearby and gives him a dirty look ({{tfoh|54}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Melaine come to check on Egwene's recovery after being attacked by Lanfear. She then sends [[Cowinde]] out to search for a red grain of sand in the sandpile outside, in an attempt to get Cowinde to accept that her time as ''gai'shain'' is done. She and the other Wise Ones discuss [[Carlinya]]'s accusation that the Wise Ones are holding Egwene against her will. Amys continues to teach Egwene about the Dream but will not let her into Tel'aran'rhiod yet ({{loc|15}}).

*Amys turns Egwene away when she tries to follow Aviendha into a meeting in the Wise Ones' tent ({{loc|18}}).

*Amys and a contingent of Wise Ones, Cairhienin, and Tairens arrive at the [[Sun Palace]] to witness [[Mangin]]'s hanging ({{loc|19}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Sorilea are having tea with [[Berelain]] when Egwene arrives to tell them that a group of Aes Sedai have come to the palace. Amys agrees to tell Rhuarc to see Berelain when he returns, and she kisses Berelain on the forehead and cheeks in farewell, as the Aiel do with their children. Amys then asks Egwene about the Aes Sedai that have arrived and follows with an examination of Egwene's health ({{loc|24}}).

*Amys and a tentful of Wise Ones discuss the embassy from the White Tower with Egwene. After the discussion, Amys takes a small group of Wise Ones and heads for the palace ({{loc|25}}).

*In a foul mood, Rand yells at Amys and Sorilea, startling them and putting them in a foul mood too ({{loc|28}}).

*Amys and Sorilea come back from their meeting with Rand in a terrible mood, which is only made worse by the presence of the [[Shaido]] Wise Ones in the camp. Amys and Bair take Egwene on a couple of short trips to ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' to see how she is healing, and then come to check on her and test her health after each trip ({{loc|32}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Egwene meet with seven of the Aes Sedai from Salidar in ''Tel'aran'rhiod''. The Aes Sedai summon Egwene to them when they arrive ({{loc|32}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Sorilea come to Egwene's tent after the meeting with the Salidar Aes Sedai. She admits her lies to them about being Aes Sedai and entering ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' when she was not supposed to, and she asks them to help her meet her ''toh''. They, along with [[Cosain]], [[Estair]], [[Aeron]], [[Surandha]], and several other Wise Ones, strap Egwene until they say she has no more ''toh'' towards them. Although Bair will continue to teach Egwene in ''Tel'aran'rhiod'', Amys no longer will because she swore she would stop teaching Egwene if Egwene ever entered ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' without permission ({{loc|33}}).

*Amys, Bair, Sorilea, and a group of other Wise Ones come to check on Rand after hearing that he's collapsed, and they question [[Min]] about [[Min's Viewings|her abilities]] as they examine Rand ({{loc|50}}).

*Because Amys has said that she will no longer teach Egwene in the dream, she does not go with Bair and Melaine when Egwene goes to meet with them in ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' ({{loc|52}}).

*Amys, along with Rhuarc, Sorilea, and [[Nandera]], goes to [[Perrin]]'s room to discuss a course of action after Rand is kidnapped. Amys tells Rhuarc that he needs to tell Perrin everything, and Rhuarc tells Perrin that they can only take Maidens and ''siswai'aman'' to rescue Rand ({{loc|53}}).

*Amys and Sorilea accompany a small group of Maidens and Aiel to meet up with Perrin to let him know what numbers of Aiel are going after Rand. Amys tells Perrin that Sorilea leads the Wise Ones, 94 in number ({{loc|54}}).

*Amys joins the other Wise Ones in fighting at the battle at [[Dumai's Wells]] when they realize that the Shaido Wise Ones are fighting ({{loc|55}}).

*Amys accompanies Rand around Dumai's Wells as he views the carnage after the battle. When they return to camp, she takes the Wise Ones aside to confer with Sorilea and the Wise Ones that didn't go out with them. Amys and Sorilea speak with Rand about having the Aes Sedai that kidnapped him turned over to them for guarding ({{acos|2}}).

*Amys and Sorilea are approached by one of the Wise Ones that stayed behind in [[Cairhien (City)|Cairhien]] when they return. [[Feraighin]] tells them about the Aiel that have fallen to [[the Bleakness]] and the other problems with the Aiel since Rand has been kidnapped ({{acos|3}}).

*Egwene summons Amys and the other Wise Ones to meet her in ''Tel'aran'rhiod''. They startle her on their arrival, but then they settle to discuss the reason that Egwene was summoned from the Wise Ones and her new status. They also discuss Egwene's apprehensions about Rand, and Amys promises that she will not interfere if Rand wants to talk to [[Merana]] ({{acos|10}}).

*Amys comes to see Rand after his trip to the rebel camp south of Cairhien. She dismisses Bera and Kiruna and speaks with [[Cadsuane]]. She watches carefully as [[Flinn]] uses the [[Asha'man]] version of [[Healing]] on Rand ({{acos|36}}).

*Rand wakes to find Amys, a few Aes Sedai, and some Asha'man in his room, with Min protecting him and yelling at them. When Rand says he wants to get out of bed, Amys threatens to have Nandera and the other Maidens help him out of bed. When he sends all the women out so he can talk to the Asha'man, Amys tells him he may not leave his rooms before leaving with Bera and Kiruna ({{acos|41}}).

*Amys, along with several other Wise Ones, participates in Elayne and Aviendha's first-sister ceremony. Amys acts as their new mother at the end of the ceremony ({{Prol9}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Melaine question Aviendha and tell her she will be punished for going scouting as she is not yet a Wise One ({{tgs|3}}).

*Amys asks Aviendha her opinion on Rand's actions and then asks her about her personal intentions with Rand ({{tgs|3}}).

*Amys tells Aviendha that she is strong ({{tgs|3}}).

*Amys, Melaine, and Bair are present when Rand meets with the clan chiefs and tells them his plan for [[Arad Doman]] ({{tgs|7}}).

*Amys tells Aviendha that sometimes people are so concerned with what they have done that they fail to consider what they have not ({{tgs|15}}).

*[[Corana]] tells Amys and Aviendha about the Seanchan taking Shaido Wise Ones as ''damane''. Amys says they will be dealt with once the war with [[the Shadow]] is done ({{tgs|15}}).

*Aviendha tells Amys, Bair, and Melaine that she is ready to become a Wise One ({{tgs|23}}).

*Amys is with Cadsuane when Nynaeve arrives to tell them what happened at [[Natrin's Barrow]] ({{tgs|37}}).

*When Cadsuane says Nynaeve may be the only one of the current crop who is salvageable, Amys corrects her and says Egwene has much honor ({{tgs|37}}).

*Amys meets with Egwene in ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' and tells her that Rand has changed ({{tom|14}}).

*Egwene suggests to her that the White Tower might send novices to train with the Wise Ones ({{tom|14}}).

*Egwene tells Amys that Rand intends to break the [[seals]], and she leaves to consult the clans ({{tom|14}}).

*Amys meets with Egwene and the [[Windfinders]] and discusses the possibility of an alliance between the three groups ({{tom|36}}).

*Amys aids in the battle against the [[Black Ajah]] ({{tom|37}}, {{ch13|38}}).

*Amys is one of the Wise Ones present when Aviendha tells of her visions from the [[Glass Columns|glass columns]] of the future and the fall of the Aiel ({{Prol14}}).

*During the meeting where the [[Dragon's Peace]] is signed, Amys stands with Egwene ({{amol|5}}).

*Amys, Bair and Melaine meet with Egwene in Tel'aran'rhiod, where they discuss the black cracks in the rocks that are created by the extensive use of [[Balefire|Balefire]]. The Wise Ones and Egwene say their farewells ({{amol|19}}).

*Amys joins forces with Aviendha, Cadsuane, [[Talaan din Gelyn|Talaan]], and [[Alivia|Alivia]] to battle [[Graendal|Graendal]] ({{amol|42}}).

== Relationships ==

Amys is wife to Rhuarc and sister-wife to Lian, who is also married to Rhuarc ({{tsr|12}}).

"That was left to Amys and Lian, lying on either side of Rhuarc and smiling at each other almost as much as their husband. If they had both married him so as not to break up their friendship, it was plain they both loved him." ({{tsr|49}}).

Amys agrees to tell Rhuarc to see Berelain when he returns, and she kisses Berelain on the forehead and cheeks in farewell, as the Aiel do with their children ({{loc|24}}).

== Quotes ==

"You are like a girl just wedded to the spear who thinks now she can wrestle men and leap mountains. For her it means a few bruises and a valuable lesson in humility. For you, here, it could mean death." Amys eyed the white buildings around them and grimaced. "Tanchico in...[[Tarabon]]? This city is dying, eating itself. There is a darkness here, an evil. Worse than men can make. Or women." She looked at Egwene pointedly. "You cannot see it, or feel it, can you? And you want to hunt Shadowrunners in ''Tel'aran'rhiod''." ({{tsr2|Chapter 11}})

"The danger is this, and you must be aware of it." The Wise One leaned toward her intently, driving her words home with a tone as sharp as her gaze. "Each step is made blind, with eyes closed. You cannot know where you will be when you open your eyes. And finding the water does no good if you are standing in a den of vipers. The fangs of a mountain king kill as quickly in the dream as in waking. I think these women Egwene speaks of will kill more quickly than the snake." ({{tsr2|Chapter 52}})

"There is much ''ji'' in her decision. She will bend her enemies to her will, not run from them. I wish you well in your dance, Egwene al'Vere." ({{acos2|Chapter 10}})

"This is my daughter Aviendha," Amys said, "and this is my daughter Elayne, born on the same day, within the same hour. May they always guard one another, support one another, love one another." She laughed softly, tiredly, fondly. "And now will someone bring us garments before my new daughters and I all freeze to death?" ({{wh2|Prologue}})

"No woman is ready until she has declared herself ready. She must see herself as our equal." (To Aviendha; {{tgs2|Chapter 23}})

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Amys

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''Author: Lireina Dormerus''

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== General ==

Amys is a [[Dreamwalker]] and [[Aiel]] [[Wise One]], and she is of the Nine Valleys [[sept]] of the [[Taardad]] Aiel.

When in [[Aiel Waste|the Waste]], she lives in [[Cold Rocks Hold]] and is married to [[Rhuarc]]. She has a [[sister-wife]], [[Lian (2)|Lian]], who is the roofmistress of Cold Rocks Hold. Once a ''[[Far Dareis Mai]]'' before becoming a Wise One, Amys sometimes walks the dream in her old form.

She is tall and still looks young, although she has waist-length white hair. She also has sharp blue eyes ({{tsr|11}}; {{acos|10}}) and sun-darkened skin ({{tsr|11}}).

== Timeline ==

*In her youth, Amys and several Maidens of the Spear discover a wetlander in silks, wandering near the [[Dragonwall]]. They follow her for several days, and then question her when she finally collapses. This wetlander is [[Tigraine Mantear]], who becomes Shaiel and gives birth to [[Rand]] ({{tsr|34}}).

*While exploring ''[[Tel'aran'rhiod]]'', [[Egwene]] accidentally stumbles upon Amys in the Aiel Waste, in her guise as a Maiden of the Spear, and Egwene jumps away. Egwene encounters Amys again, in the dream [[Tanchico]], and Amys tells her to come and train with the Wise Ones ({{tsr|11}}).

*Amys and three other Wise Ones send a letter to [[Moiraine]] at the [[Stone of Tear]], ordering [[Aviendha]] to come to them at [[Chaendaer]], near [[Rhuidean]] ({{tsr|11}}).

*Amys, [[Bair]], [[Melaine]], and [[Seana]] wait for Rand, Moiraine, and the rest of their party at Chaendaer. She greets Rhuarc and passes greetings from Lian, her sister-wife, and then agrees to let Rand enter Rhuidean. She and Melaine prevent an attack on [[Mat]] when he also requests to enter Rhuidean, and then they send Aviendha into Rhuidean as well. She and the other Wise Ones then take Moiraine and Egwene into the tents to offer water and shade and to speak of ''[[ji'e'toh]]'' and Dreamwalking. They then reveal that Moiraine needs to go through the rings in Rhuidean herself, and after she does, they begin to teach Egwene Dreamwalking ({{tsr|23}}).

*Amys and the other Wise Ones meet Rand and Mat coming out of Rhuidean, and after Rand shows the Dragons on both his arms, they go back into the tents, where Amys tells the story of Rand's real parents, Shaiel and [[Janduin]] ({{tsr|34}}).

*Amys teaches Egwene a lesson about going into ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' after being told not to by scaring Egwene in her sleep. She then demands that Egwene braid her hair like a child for breaking her word. After that, Amys takes Egwene to the sweat tents to discuss what will happen next with Rand and the Aiel. She also charges Aviendha with staying close to Rand, to teach him and learn what she can of him ({{tsr|35}}).

*Amys and Bair circulate through the wounded after the [[Trolloc]] attack at [[Imre Stand]], along with Moiraine and Egwene ({{tsr|37}}).

*Amys and the other Wise Ones agree to let Egwene unbraid her hair. She also accompanies Egwene, Moiraine, and the other Wise Ones to check on Rand at the end of the day to see how he is holding up. Amys and the other Wise Ones also begin teaching Aviendha to channel and tell Moiraine and Egwene to stay out of it ({{tsr|48}}).

*Upon reaching Cold Rocks Hold, Amys breaks away from the other Wise Ones to join Rhuarc in meeting up with Lian, her sister-wife and the roofmistress of Cold Rocks. They greet Rand, and Lian gives him permission to enter her hold. Amys agrees with Rand's request to keep Aviendha as his teacher. Amys is not pleased at Moiraine's statement that there will probably be more [[Aes Sedai]] in the Aiel Waste soon ({{tsr|49}}).

*Amys orders Aviendha to clean the rugs and carpets from the hold. She and the other Wise Ones speak to Rand about Aviendha's purpose with him, and Amys orders a ''gai'shain'' to show Rand his room when Melaine begins to get angry with him ({{tsr|50}}).

*Nynaeve goes into ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' to meet with Amys, Bair, and Egwene to discuss the goings on in Tanchico and with Rand. While there, Amys transforms Nynaeve into a young girl to teach her a lesson on controlling her thoughts in the dream. She also tells Nynaeve of the way to search ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' using need ({{tsr|52}}).

*Amys prevents Moiraine from going down into [[Alcair Dal|Bowl of Alcair Dal]] because Rand needs to handle "chiefs' business" ({{tsr|57}}).

*Rand confirms with Aviendha that Amys, Bair, and Melaine are not happy with him for shielding his dreams from them ({{tfoh|4}}).

*Amys, Bair, Melaine, and Aviendha meet with Egwene and Moiraine in the sweat tents to discuss Rand and their intentions to follow him and do what is best for the Aiel, not the White Tower. Once Moiraine leaves Amys and the other Wise Ones, they discuss Aviendha with Egwene, and then Melaine asks Amys and Bair to talk to [[Dorindha (1)|Dorindha]] for her, as she wishes to marry Dorindha's husband, [[Bael]] ({{tfoh|5}}).

*Egwene learns to find certain people's dreams by finding Amys' one night, and they celebrate by sharing tea in the dream at Cold Rocks Hold ({{tfoh|7}}).

*When camp is made overnight in Jangai Pass, Amys, Bair, and Melaine have their tents put up by ''gai'shain'' ({{tfoh|21}}).

*Amys, along with Egwene, Melaine, and Bair, comes to check on Rand after yet another Trolloc attack. Amys and Bair make a wager on who Melaine will check on first after they're done, Dorindha or Bael ({{tfoh|22}}).

*Amys and Bair punish the Maidens that were with Rand the night of the attack by making them make dolls and carry them as reminders that they are no longer children ({{tfoh|23}}).

*Amys and Bair surprise Egwene in ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' and scold her for showing up early, without them ({{tfoh|24}}).

*Amys and the other Wise Ones discuss whether to allow Aviendha's participation in the battle against the [[Shaido]] ({{tfoh|43}}).

*After the battle, Amys, Bair, Melaine, and [[Sorilea]] guard Rand's rest, along with several hundred Aiel, and don't allow a [[Tairen]] and [[Cairhienin]] delegation in to see him ({{tfoh|45}}).

*Amys and Egwene meet again with [[Nynaeve]] and [[Elayne]] in ''Tel'aran'rhiod''. Amys is surprised to see both of them there, and her disapproval at how hard Rand is pushing himself is evident on her face. Amys gives them news of the battle with the Shaido and questions whether or not the Aes Sedai in [[Salidar Aes Sedai|Salidar]] will follow Rand. She is also displeased to find that Elayne and Nynaeve have other ''[[ter'angreal]]'' that allow them to Dreamwalk ({{tfoh|47}}).

*Amys and a large group of Wise Ones come to meet with Rand to remind him that his obligations to Elayne don't outweigh his obligations to the Aiel ({{tfoh|52}}).

*Amys and Bair, along with Melaine and Sorilea, rush to check on Aviendha and Egwene after the attack by [[Lanfear]]. They forbid Egwene from going with Rand or Dreamwalking until they say she is well. Mat later tells Rand that Amys says that Egwene will be well after a few days' rest ({{tfoh|53}}).

*Amys sends Aviendha along with Rand on his journey - the other Wise Ones question her success with Rand, and Amys begins to tell them something when she spots Rand nearby and gives him a dirty look ({{tfoh|54}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Melaine come to check on Egwene's recovery after being attacked by Lanfear. She then sends [[Cowinde]] out to search for a red grain of sand in the sandpile outside, in an attempt to get Cowinde to accept that her time as ''gai'shain'' is done. She and the other Wise Ones discuss [[Carlinya]]'s accusation that the Wise Ones are holding Egwene against her will. Amys continues to teach Egwene about the Dream but will not let her into Tel'aran'rhiod yet ({{loc|15}}).

*Amys turns Egwene away when she tries to follow Aviendha into a meeting in the Wise Ones' tent ({{loc|18}}).

*Amys and a contingent of Wise Ones, Cairhienin, and Tairens arrive at the [[Sun Palace]] to witness [[Mangin]]'s hanging ({{loc|19}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Sorilea are having tea with [[Berelain]] when Egwene arrives to tell them that a group of Aes Sedai have come to the palace. Amys agrees to tell Rhuarc to see Berelain when he returns, and she kisses Berelain on the forehead and cheeks in farewell, as the Aiel do with their children. Amys then asks Egwene about the Aes Sedai that have arrived and follows with an examination of Egwene's health ({{loc|24}}).

*Amys and a tentful of Wise Ones discuss the embassy from the White Tower with Egwene. After the discussion, Amys takes a small group of Wise Ones and heads for the palace ({{loc|25}}).

*In a foul mood, Rand yells at Amys and Sorilea, startling them and putting them in a foul mood too ({{loc|28}}).

*Amys and Sorilea come back from their meeting with Rand in a terrible mood, which is only made worse by the presence of the [[Shaido]] Wise Ones in the camp. Amys and Bair take Egwene on a couple of short trips to ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' to see how she is healing, and then come to check on her and test her health after each trip ({{loc|32}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Egwene meet with seven of the Aes Sedai from Salidar in ''Tel'aran'rhiod''. The Aes Sedai summon Egwene to them when they arrive ({{loc|32}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Sorilea come to Egwene's tent after the meeting with the Salidar Aes Sedai. She admits her lies to them about being Aes Sedai and entering ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' when she was not supposed to, and she asks them to help her meet her ''toh''. They, along with [[Cosain]], [[Estair]], [[Aeron]], [[Surandha]], and several other Wise Ones, strap Egwene until they say she has no more ''toh'' towards them. Although Bair will continue to teach Egwene in ''Tel'aran'rhiod'', Amys no longer will because she swore she would stop teaching Egwene if Egwene ever entered ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' without permission ({{loc|33}}).

*Amys, Bair, Sorilea, and a group of other Wise Ones come to check on Rand after hearing that he's collapsed, and they question [[Min]] about [[Min's Viewings|her abilities]] as they examine Rand ({{loc|50}}).

*Because Amys has said that she will no longer teach Egwene in the dream, she does not go with Bair and Melaine when Egwene goes to meet with them in ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' ({{loc|52}}).

*Amys, along with Rhuarc, Sorilea, and [[Nandera]], goes to [[Perrin]]'s room to discuss a course of action after Rand is kidnapped. Amys tells Rhuarc that he needs to tell Perrin everything, and Rhuarc tells Perrin that they can only take Maidens and ''siswai'aman'' to rescue Rand ({{loc|53}}).

*Amys and Sorilea accompany a small group of Maidens and Aiel to meet up with Perrin to let him know what numbers of Aiel are going after Rand. Amys tells Perrin that Sorilea leads the Wise Ones, 94 in number ({{loc|54}}).

*Amys joins the other Wise Ones in fighting at the battle at [[Dumai's Wells]] when they realize that the Shaido Wise Ones are fighting ({{loc|55}}).

*Amys accompanies Rand around Dumai's Wells as he views the carnage after the battle. When they return to camp, she takes the Wise Ones aside to confer with Sorilea and the Wise Ones that didn't go out with them. Amys and Sorilea speak with Rand about having the Aes Sedai that kidnapped him turned over to them for guarding ({{acos|2}}).

*Amys and Sorilea are approached by one of the Wise Ones that stayed behind in [[Cairhien (City)|Cairhien]] when they return. [[Feraighin]] tells them about the Aiel that have fallen to [[the Bleakness]] and the other problems with the Aiel since Rand has been kidnapped ({{acos|3}}).

*Egwene summons Amys and the other Wise Ones to meet her in ''Tel'aran'rhiod''. They startle her on their arrival, but then they settle to discuss the reason that Egwene was summoned from the Wise Ones and her new status. They also discuss Egwene's apprehensions about Rand, and Amys promises that she will not interfere if Rand wants to talk to [[Merana]] ({{acos|10}}).

*Amys comes to see Rand after his trip to the rebel camp south of Cairhien. She dismisses Bera and Kiruna and speaks with [[Cadsuane]]. She watches carefully as [[Flinn]] uses the [[Asha'man]] version of [[Healing]] on Rand ({{acos|36}}).

*Rand wakes to find Amys, a few Aes Sedai, and some Asha'man in his room, with Min protecting him and yelling at them. When Rand says he wants to get out of bed, Amys threatens to have Nandera and the other Maidens help him out of bed. When he sends all the women out so he can talk to the Asha'man, Amys tells him he may not leave his rooms before leaving with Bera and Kiruna ({{acos|41}}).

*Amys, along with several other Wise Ones, participates in Elayne and Aviendha's first-sister ceremony. Amys acts as their new mother at the end of the ceremony ({{Prol9}}).

*Amys, Bair, and Melaine question Aviendha and tell her she will be punished for going scouting as she is not yet a Wise One ({{tgs|3}}).

*Amys asks Aviendha her opinion on Rand's actions and then asks her about her personal intentions with Rand ({{tgs|3}}).

*Amys tells Aviendha that she is strong ({{tgs|3}}).

*Amys, Melaine, and Bair are present when Rand meets with the clan chiefs and tells them his plan for [[Arad Doman]] ({{tgs|7}}).

*Amys tells Aviendha that sometimes people are so concerned with what they have done that they fail to consider what they have not ({{tgs|15}}).

*[[Corana]] tells Amys and Aviendha about the Seanchan taking Shaido Wise Ones as ''damane''. Amys says they will be dealt with once the war with [[the Shadow]] is done ({{tgs|15}}).

*Aviendha tells Amys, Bair, and Melaine that she is ready to become a Wise One ({{tgs|23}}).

*Amys is with Cadsuane when Nynaeve arrives to tell them what happened at [[Natrin's Barrow]] ({{tgs|37}}).

*When Cadsuane says Nynaeve may be the only one of the current crop who is salvageable, Amys corrects her and says Egwene has much honor ({{tgs|37}}).

*Amys meets with Egwene in ''Tel'aran'rhiod'' and tells her that Rand has changed ({{tom|14}}).

*Egwene suggests to her that the White Tower might send novices to train with the Wise Ones ({{tom|14}}).

*Egwene tells Amys that Rand intends to break the [[seals]], and she leaves to consult the clans ({{tom|14}}).

*Amys meets with Egwene and the [[Windfinders]] and discusses the possibility of an alliance between the three groups ({{tom|36}}).

*Amys aids in the battle against the [[Black Ajah]] ({{tom|37}}, {{ch13|38}}).

*Amys is one of the Wise Ones present when Aviendha tells of her visions from the [[Glass Columns|glass columns]] of the future and the fall of the Aiel ({{Prol14}}).

*During the meeting where the [[Dragon's Peace]] is signed, Amys stands with Egwene ({{amol|5}}).

*Amys, Bair and Melaine meet with Egwene in Tel'aran'rhiod, where they discuss the black cracks in the rocks that are created by the extensive use of [[Balefire|Balefire]]. The Wise Ones and Egwene say their farewells ({{amol|19}}).

*Amys joins forces with Aviendha, Cadsuane, [[Talaan din Gelyn|Talaan]], and [[Alivia|Alivia]] to battle [[Graendal|Graendal]]({{amol|42}}).

== Relationships ==

Amys is wife to Rhuarc and sister-wife to Lian, who is also married to Rhuarc ({{tsr|12}}).

"That was left to Amys and Lian, lying on either side of Rhuarc and smiling at each other almost as much as their husband. If they had both married him so as not to break up their friendship, it was plain they both loved him." ({{tsr|49}}).

Amys agrees to tell Rhuarc to see Berelain when he returns, and she kisses Berelain on the forehead and cheeks in farewell, as the Aiel do with their children ({{loc|24}}).

== Quotes ==

"You are like a girl just wedded to the spear who thinks now she can wrestle men and leap mountains. For her it means a few bruises and a valuable lesson in humility. For you, here, it could mean death." Amys eyed the white buildings around them and grimaced. "Tanchico in...[[Tarabon]]? This city is dying, eating itself. There is a darkness here, an evil. Worse than men can make. Or women." She looked at Egwene pointedly. "You cannot see it, or feel it, can you? And you want to hunt Shadowrunners in ''Tel'aran'rhiod''." ({{tsr2|Chapter 11}})

"The danger is this, and you must be aware of it." The Wise One leaned toward her intently, driving her words home with a tone as sharp as her gaze. "Each step is made blind, with eyes closed. You cannot know where you will be when you open your eyes. And finding the water does no good if you are standing in a den of vipers. The fangs of a mountain king kill as quickly in the dream as in waking. I think these women Egwene speaks of will kill more quickly than the snake." ({{tsr2|Chapter 52}})

"There is much ''ji'' in her decision. She will bend her enemies to her will, not run from them. I wish you well in your dance, Egwene al'Vere." ({{acos2|Chapter 10}})

"This is my daughter Aviendha," Amys said, "and this is my daughter Elayne, born on the same day, within the same hour. May they always guard one another, support one another, love one another." She laughed softly, tiredly, fondly. "And now will someone bring us garments before my new daughters and I all freeze to death?" ({{wh2|Prologue}})

"No woman is ready until she has declared herself ready. She must see herself as our equal." (To Aviendha; {{tgs2|Chapter 23}})

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Amathera Aelfdene Casmir Lounault

2022-10-11T03:31:50Z

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''Author: Atarah al'Norahn''

==General==

Amathera Aelfdene Casmir Lounault is a [[Tarabon]]er noblewoman who was raised to the position of [[Panarch]] of Tarabon ({{tsr|46}}; {{cot|2}}).

Amathera has many of the physical characteristics that are common to Taraboner females. She wears her long, dark hair in multiple braids and has large dark eyes. Her mouth is shaped like a rosebud and is pouty, with a petulant look to it. She has not yet reached middle age and is quite beautiful ({{tsr|52}}; {{acos|26}}). Amathera takes [[Snakes and Foxes]] seriously but is an adequate [[Chess and Go/Tcheran and Stones|Stones]] player ({{kod|10}}).

Although Amathera seems to have no clue as to what the lives of the common people are like when she is made Panarch, [[Elayne]] thinks that she has a true concern for justice ({{tsr|55}}). However, at least before being taken captive by the [[Seanchan]], Amathera knows what her position is and knows what she can do and the respect that her position entails. This sense of position can often make her seem quite selfish.

==Timeline==

*Amathera is rejected by the Assembly of Lords but is raised to the position of Panarch anyway ({{tsr|46}}).

*The [[Black Ajah]] is using Amathera ({{tsr|52}}; {{ch4|54}}).

*Elayne and [[Egeanin]] rescue Amathera from the Black Ajah ({{tsr|54}}).

*Amathera is taken from the palace to [[the Three Plum Court]], where she is to hide until she is safe ({{tsr|55}}).

*When Tarabon is invaded by the Seanchan, Amathera is made ''[[da'covale]]''. Her name is changed to "Thera" ({{acos|26}}).

*Thera is in [[Ebou Dar]] as one of [[Suroth]]'s ''da'covale'' ({{wh|28}}).

*[[Juilin]] frees Amathera from Ebou Dar when he and the others escape ({{wh|30}}; {{ch9|31}}; {{cot|1}}).

*Amathera spends most of her time with Juilin. She is very hesitant and nervous after her captivity ({{cot|1}}; {{ch10|2}}; {{ch10|3}}; {{ch10|28}}).

*Egeanin tells Amathera she should look her in the eyes. She and [[Bayle Domon|Bayle]] go off to be with Juilin and Amathera ({{kod|10}}).

*When [[Teslyn]], [[Joline]], and [[Edesina]] leave for [[Tar Valon]], Amathera goes with them and Juilin, as she does not believe [[Tear (Nation)|Tear]] is safe from the Seanchan ({{tom|17}}).

==Relationships==

Amathera and [[Andric]], later raised to King of Tarabon, were once lovers ({{tsr|38}}).

Amathera is grateful to Elayne, [[Egeanin]], and [[Nynaeve]] for rescuing her from the Black Ajah in [[Tanchico]]. Even so, she wants to do things her own way until Elayne makes her see sense by using [[the One Power]]. After that, Amathera becomes very amenable. When Elayne and Nynaeve leave Tarabon, she gives them a fortune in jewels in payment for rescuing her ({{tfoh|9}}).

After her captivity by the Seanchan, Amathera spends most of her time with Juilin. [[Mat]] hopes that Thera feels more than gratefulness towards Juilin for Juilin's sake. Juilin is very much in love with Thera, and she seems to return the affection ({{cot|2}}). In any case, he is the only one that she really trusts.

==Miscellaneous==

*The Legion of Tarabon is controlled by the Panarch ({{tsr|38}}).

*In Tanchico, [[Temaile]], one of the Black sisters, makes Amathera sing lewd songs such as:

"My breasts are round, and my hips are too.<br>
I can flatten a whole ship's crew.<br>
My thighs are strong are strong as anchor chain.<br>
My kiss can burst --" ({{tsr|54}}).

*Mat thinks that there is nothing to say that a dethroned Panarch cannot fall in love with a thief-catcher; stranger things have happened ({{cot|2}}).

*Mat doesn't think that Thera can be trusted ({{cot|28}}).

==Quotes==

"The others made me sit on my throne and speak the words they put into my mouth. It amused them to make me sometimes give justice, and sometimes pronouncements of horrible injustice, rulings that will cause strife for generations if I cannot put them aright." (Amathera to Elayne and Egeanin about the Black Ajah; {{tsr2|Chapter 54}}).

"I am in agreement, Aes Sedai. I will do exactly as you say, and I will provide papers that should make even the rebels let you pass unhindered. There is no need for more...talking." (Amathera to Elayne, Nynaeve, and Egeanin; {{tsr2|Chapter 55}}).

"It was not very difficult to convince Amathera she should stay in hiding for a few days. It really isn't that far from "The Panarch is dead" to "Death to the Panarch". I think seeing the riot helped, too. She doesn't want to depend on Andric to put her back on her throne; she wants her own soldiers to do it, even if it means hiding until she can get in touch with the Lord Captain of the Legion." (Elayne to Nynaeve after saving Amathera; {{tsr2|Chapter 55}}).

"Burn me, why?" Mat growled. "[[Renna]] was always ready to lick my bloody wrist! I thought if anybody went over the edge...!" He did not even glance at Thera, but Juilin still scowled at him darkly ([[Mat]]; {{cot2|Chapter 29}}).

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Aludra Nendenhald

2022-09-01T18:47:12Z

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''Author: Kyria d'Oreyn''

== General ==
Aludra is an [[Illuminator]] from [[Tarabon]] and was Mistress of the Chapter House in [[Cairhien (City)|Cairhien]]. She is a slender, dark-eyed woman in her thirties with dark waist-length hair in the Taraboner fashion of thin, brightly beaded braids ({{tdr|40}}). She does not wear the braids when she demonstrates her dragons to [[Elayne]] ({{tom|29}}).

Since there is no Guild in Tarabon anymore, Aludra travels with [[Valan Luca's Circus]] ({{wh|15}}). She gives daily displays of her nightflowers when they are outside of towns ({{kod|6}}).

She came up with the idea of using bronze lofting tubes - "[[dragons]]", as she calls them - in battle. She intends to use them on the [[Seanchan]] for destroying the Guild of Illuminators in Tarabon ({{kod|8}}; {{ch11|37}}).

[[Mat]] thinks her a little crazy because of the way she treats the explosives ({{tgs|34}}).

== Timeline ==

* She grew up in the Guild of Illuminators ({{kod|8}}).

* She was the Mistress of the Chapter House in Cairhien until [[Rand]], [[Lanfear|Selene]], and [[Loial]] set off the Guild's display they had prepared for King [[Galldrian]] and destroyed a big part of the house ({{tgh|27}}).

* After the incident, she is cast out of the Guild but continues to make fireworks. [[Tammuz]] and some other Illuminators follow her to [[Aringill]] intending to kill her. Mat saves her from them, and she rewards him with some of her fireworks ({{tdr|40}}).

* She travels with Valan Luca's menagerie when [[Nynaeve]] and [[Elayne]] join them ({{tfoh|17}}).

* She produces lots of firesticks and wants everybody to try them out ({{tfoh|33}}).

* She bids farewell to Elayne and Nynaeve and gives them two boxes of firesticks before they leave the menagerie ({{tfoh|48}}).

* Mat wants to find out about Aludra's fireworks. After a while she gives him a puzzle: he is to figure out what use she could have for a bellfounder ({{wh|15}}).

* When Luca's circus arrives in [[Jurador]], Mat spots Aludra talking to a salt merchant ({{cot|29}}).

* When Mat comes back from a walk to Jurador, he spots Aludra taking on wagonloads of barrels ({{kod|6}}).

* Mat goes to her wagon to tell Aludra that he finally figured out why she wants a bellfounder. She then tells him about what she intends with her dragons and agrees to go with Mat when he leaves the menagerie if he helps her to get her dragons made ({{kod|8}}).

* In the battle against the Seanchan who were set to abduct or kill [[Tuon]], she provides Mat's crossbowmen with grenades and fires her dragon herself ({{kod|37}}).

*[[Leilwin]] tells Mat he should show Aludra respect, rather than being so flippant ({{tgs|34}}).

*She is faintly uncomfortable with Mat since his marriage but wishes him happiness ({{tgs|34}}).

*She helps in the doomed defense of [[Caemlyn]] ({{prol14}}).

*She supervises the use of the dragons outside Caemlyn ({{amol|10}}).

*She stays with the Band as they move to the [[Polov Heights]] ({{amol|37}}).

*She and the Band move to an inaccessible cavern ({{amol|13}}).

*She and the Band use the dragons to finish off the fleeing Trollocs ({{amol|41}}).

*After the Last Battle, she sets up a firework show ({{epi14}}).

== Miscellaneous ==

* She carries a slim-bladed dagger at her belt ({{tdr|40}}).

* She invented strikers or firesticks, as she later calls them ({{tdr|40}}; {{tfoh|33}}).

* [[Egwene]] has a [[Egwene's Dreams#Book 10 - Crossroads of Twilight|dream]] about Mat bowling and killing people with every toss. An Illuminator is somehow connected ({{cot|20}}).

* She usually keeps to herself ({{tfoh|25}}).

* She likes giving her inventions fancy names ({{kod|37}}).

* She requires charcoal, sulfur, bat guano, copper, and tin and has said she will need every bellfounder from [[Andor]] to [[Tear (Nation)|Tear]] and all the copper and tin ({{tgs|34}}).

*Mat arranges with Elayne for [[Andor]] to build the dragons ({{tom|11}}).

*Before the first test, she has the bellfounders recast them three times to get them perfect. She gives Elayne an oath to keep the plans secret ({{tom|29}}).

== Quotes ==

Aludra had everyone trying out her strikers, or firesticks, or whatever she would decide to call them next. They certainly would light a fire or a lamp. They could also burst into flame if the blue-gray heads rubbed against each other or anything else rough. (Nynaeve; {{tfoh2|Chapter 33}})

"Do you remember Aludra?"<br>
Mat had to think. "The Illuminator we kept from getting her throat slit in Aringill?"<br>
"The very one. [[Juilin]] and I met her during our travels, and she didn't know me. Not that she failed to recognize me; you say things to a stranger you travel with, to get to know them. Aludra did not want to know me, and even if I didn't know why, I saw no reason to impose. I met her a stranger and left her a stranger. Now, would you call her a friend or an enemy?"<br>
"Maybe a lover," Mat said dryly. He would not mind meeting Aludra again; she had given him some fireworks that proved very useful.<br>
([[Thom]] and Mat about Aludra; {{loc2|Chapter 44}})

"So long as one Illuminator lives, the Guild, it lives too, and me, I still live." (Aludra; {{wh2|Chapter 15}})

Mat attempted to make Aludra relent, but the woman might as well have been cast bronze herself. Well, she was considerably softer than bronze once she finally let him put an arm around her, yet kisses that left her trembling did nothing to slacken her resolve. (Mat about Aludra; {{wh2|Chapter 18}})

With her dark hair in thin, beaded braids that hung to her waist, Aludra was probably the most exotic of Luca's marvels. He advertised her as an Illuminator, and unlike many of the other performers and marvels, she really was what Luca claimed, though Luca probably did not believe it himself. (Mat; {{cot2|Chapter 2}}).

“Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?” (To Mat; {{tgs2|Chapter 34}}).

“I don't want them to ... when Aludra taps one of those nightflowers the wrong way and blows herself halfway to [[Tarwin's Gap]]." (Mat; {{tgs2|Chapter 34}})

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Alliandre Maritha Kigarin

2022-08-30T02:31:17Z

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''Author: Atarah al'Norahn''

==General==

Alliandre's full name and title is Alliandre Maritha Kigarin, Queen of [[Ghealdan]], Blessed of the Light, Defender of [[Garen]]'s Wall ({{loc|28}}; {{tpod|10}}).

Alliandre is described to be rather lovely, although her nose is too long for beauty. She is short, with long, dark hair, and is short of her middle years ({{tfoh|39}}; {{tpod|10}}).

She is described as being elegant, reserved, poised, and stately ({{cot|9}}).

Alliandre is the fourth noble to be raised to the throne of Ghealdan in half a year. She has only managed to keep her throne by placating [[Masema]] ({{tfoh|39}}). Alliandre is willing to go to any lengths to keep Ghealdan safe; she submits to [[Rand]], and even swears fealty to [[Perrin]] ({{loc|28}}; {{tpod|10}}).

==Timeline==

* Alliandre becomes the Queen of Ghealdan ({{tfoh|39}}).

* Alliandre visits Masema. They speak about crime in Ghealdan ({{tfoh|39}}).

* Alliandre contacts Rand via a note. She says that she supports him ({{loc|28}}).

* Alliandre visits Perrin and swears fealty to him ({{tpod|10}}).

* Alliandre is captured by the [[Shaido]] [[Aiel]], along with [[Faile]], [[Morgase|Maighdin]], [[Arrela]], [[Lacile]], [[Bain]], and [[Chiad]]. They are made ''[[gai'shain]]'' ({{tpod|30}}).

* When Alliandre and the others are taken to the Shaido camp, she fights against her captors. She is beaten for it ({{wh|3}}).

* Alliandre, along with Faile and Maighdin, is told by [[Therava]] to spy on [[Sevanna]] ({{wh|4}}).

* Alliandre, along with Faile and Maighdin, is told by [[Galina]] to steal Therava's binder ({{wh|4}}).

* Alliandre and Faile speak in the Shaido camp ({{cot|9}}).

* Alliandre, Maighdin, and Faile tie up [[Dairaine]] after Maighdin notices that she is likely to tell the Shaido about their escape plans. Alliandre suggests killing Dairaine and hiding the body ({{kod|28}}).

* Alliandre, Maighdin, Faile, [[Arrela]], and [[Lacile]] are trapped in a collapsed building by Galina ({{kod|28}}).

*[[Arganda]] wants her to be allowed to move ahead, but Perrin refuses. Instead, he agrees to allow her party to lead ({{tgs|9}}).

*She gathers to commemorate [[Kinhuin]] who had just begun to look after her ({{tgs|21}}).

*She tells Faile that Perrin should either attack the [[Whitecloaks]] or march away ({{tom|29}}).

*Alliandre goes with Faile and Perrin when they meet Elayne and joins them for the private meeting ({{tom|47}}).

*In the meeting, Alliandre suggests that if Faile becomes Queen of [[Saldaea]], one child could inherit the throne and another the Lordship of the [[Two Rivers]] ({{tom|47}})

*She goes with Perrin to the [[Field of Merrilor]] ({{tom|53}}).

*She signs the [[Dragon's Peace]] ({{amol|5}}).

*She is present during the battle outside [[Caemlyn]], possibly following Elayne's example ({{amol|10}}).

*After the battle moves to the Field of Merrilor, she stays with the Ghealdanin forces ({{amol|37}}).

==Relationships==

Alliandre walks upon a very thin rope when around Masema. She worries about what his policies are doing to Ghealdan but knows that, if she challenges him, she will lose her throne.

While Alliandre has never met Rand, she sends him a letter saying that she supports him. She also swears fealty to him through Perrin; these things she does in order to save Ghealdan. She is the first ruler to approach Rand without his sword at a nation's throat ({{loc|28}}).

Gerard Arganda, Alliandre's First Captain, is willing to do almost anything to get his queen back from the Shaido ({{wh|2}}; {{ch9|5}}).

Alliandre obeys Faile because, through Perrin, Faile is her liege lady ({{tpod|10}}; {{wh|3}}; {{ch9|4}}).

[[Ragan]] thinks that Alliandre is a wise queen and that a man could be proud to serve her, even if she is a southlander ({{tfoh|39}}).

After the rescue and before Morgase is identified, Alliandre is unsure how to relate to her ({{tom|6}}).

After Morgase is revealed, Alliandre is angry that she kept her secrets ({{tom|29}}).

She is not fooled by [[Berelain]] and Faile's pretense at friendship ({{tom|43}}).

==Quotes==

"Forgive me. It is as you say, of course. There is no lord save the Lord Dragon, and I am but a humble follower of the Lord Dragon -- blessed be the name of the Lord Dragon -- who comes to hear the wisdom and guidance of the Prophet." (Alliandre to Masema; {{tfoh2|Chapter 39}})

"Under the Light, I, Alliandre Maritha Kigarin, pledge my fealty and service to Lord Perrin Aybara of the Two Rivers, now and for all time, save that he chooses to release me of his own will. My lands and throne are his, and I yield them to his hand. So I do swear." (Alliandre to Perrin; {{tpod2|Chapter 10}})

"Ghealdan needs protection I cannot give, so duty demands I find it. You can give it, my Lord, you and the Lord Dragon Reborn, blessed be his name in the Light. In truth, I would swear directly to him if he were here, but you are his man. Swearing to you, I also swear to him." (Alliandre to Perrin; {{tpod2|Chapter 10}})

"I will not leave without you. I will not take my oath of fealty lightly, my Lady. I will escape with you, or not at all!" (Alliandre to Faile after they have been captured by the Shaido; {{wh2|Chapter 4}})

"If he helped me escape, I would marry him. Or not, as he wanted. He's not quite pretty, but it wouldn't be painful, and my husband, if I had one, would never have to know. If he had any sense, he would be overjoyed to have me back and ask no questions he didn't want to hear answers to." (Alliandre to Faile about [[Rolan]]; {{cot2|Chapter 9}})

"I did not swear to him. I swore to you. If Ghealdan will march for [[Tarmon Gai'don]], it should do so beneath your banner." (To Perrin, about Rand; {{tom2|Chapter 6}})

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Alivia

2022-08-23T17:59:08Z

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''Author: Estyrien al'Halien''

==General==

Alivia is [[Seanchan]] and used to be a ''[[damane]]''. [[Rand]]'s forces captured her when they attacked the Seanchan. Rand then sent her to [[Caemlyn]] after the battles so that [[Elayne]] could look after all of the captured ''[[sul'dam]]'' and ''damane''. After a time, [[Reanne]], [[Nynaeve]], and Elayne decided that Alivia truly wanted to be free of the ''[[a'dam]]'' and released her, albeit slightly reluctantly ({{wh|8}}).

Alivia credited Rand with being the one to save her and so insisted that she accompany Nynaeve to [[Far Madding]] to help him ({{wh|22}}). She later went to [[Shadar Logoth]] with him and protected him when [[the Forsaken]] attacked. She fought [[Cyndane]] and stopped her from getting to Rand ({{wh|35}}). Alivia then followed Rand to Lord [[Algarin]]'s estates in [[Tear (Nation)|Tear]] ({{cot|23}}).

Alivia has blue eyes and golden yellow hair with threads of white running through it. She has fine lines at the corners of her eyes. She speaks with a slow Seanchan drawl ({{wh|11}}).

==Timeline==

*C. 586 NE: Alivia is born ({{wh|8}}).

*C. 600 NE: Alivia is made ''damane'' when she is 13 or 14 ({{wh|8}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia is captured when Rand fights the Seanchan. She kills nine Defenders and a Soldier when he tries to remove her ''a'dam'' ({{tpod|23}}).

*1000 NE: Rand sends Alivia and the other captured ''sul'dam'' and ''damane'' to Elayne ({{wh|8}}).

*1000 NE: Reanne, Nynaeve, and Elayne decide that it is time to release Alivia from her ''a'dam'' ({{wh|8}}).

*1000 NE: Reanne sends Alivia with a message to Nynaeve ({{wh|11}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia insists on going to Far Madding with Rand and Nynaeve ({{wh|22}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia goes riding with [[Cadsuane]] ({{wh|32}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia and [[Min]] go to find Cadsuane ({{wh|33}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia Travels to Shadar Logoth with Rand. She fights Cyndane when the Forsaken attack ({{wh|35}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia and [[Elza]] guard Rand's door when he stays at Algarin's estate in Tear ({{cot|23}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia watches Cadsuane to learn from her and is pleased that Rand approves ({{kod|19}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia goes to Tear with Rand ({{kod|21}}) and to the meeting with the [[Semirhage|false Tuon]] ({{kod|27}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia is present when Semirhage is questioned for the first time ({{tgs|1}}).

*1000 NE: Alivia takes part in the group that defends Rand while he is in the [[Pit of Doom]] ({{amol|23}})

*1000 NE: Alivia is part of Cadsuane's hand picked group ({{amol|42}})

*1000 NE: After Rand fakes his death, Alivia prepares his bag for his new body ({{epi14}}).

==Strengths and Talents==

Alivia is considerably stronger than Nynaeve ({{wh|8}}). Only the Forsaken can match her strength ({{wh|11}}). When she uses the bracelet and rings ''angreal'', she is stronger than Lanfear was ({{wh|35}}).

Alivia is good at using [[the One Power]] as a weapon. She believes that she knows more about destructive weaves than the [[Asha'man]] do ({{wh|11}}). However, she knows little else about using the One Power ({{wh|32}}).

==Relationships==

Alivia claims that she hates all ''sul'dam''. She claims that she didn't voice it as soon as she was captured because she was afraid that she would be recaptured ({{wh|8}}). She now wants to kill the ''sul'dam'' ({{wh|11}}).

Rand does not fully trust Alivia ({{wh|22}}). However, Alivia has appointed herself Rand's protector. She credits Rand with being the one to free her of her ''a'dam'' ({{cot|23}}).

Min likes Alivia ({{wh|25}}). She reminds Min of her Aunt [[Rana]] because Alivia can tell when someone has done something wrong ({{wh|33}}).

Alivia thinks that Nynaeve thinks about men too much ({{wh|22}}). Alivia intimidates Nynaeve ({{wh|33}}).

Alivia thinks that Cadsuane is a remarkable woman and a strict taskmistress ({{wh|32}}).

Alivia knows nothing about men ({{wh|33}}).

[[Elza]] dislikes Alivia and thinks that she is a liar ({{cot|23}}).
==Visions and Prophecies==
*She is going to kill you (to Rand). Rand claims this was better expressed as she was going to help him die ({{wh|25}}).

This may have been fulfilled when she prepared Rand's clothes after his body transfer ({{epi14}}).

==Miscellaneous==

*Reanne was worried about freeing Alivia of her ''a'dam'' because of her strength and the length of time that she had been ''damane'' ({{wh|8}}). Alivia was not allowed to walk through the Royal Palace without an escort ({{wh|11}}).
*Min had a [[Min's Viewings#Winter's Heart|viewing]] that Alivia was going to help Rand die ({{wh|25}}).
*Alivia likes to plays children's games ({{wh|33}}).
*Alivia has talked to Rand about the Seanchan in an attempt to make Rand better prepared for any confrontation with them ({{cot|23}}).

==Quotes==

"She says she hates all the ''sul'dam'', and she certainly makes a good show of it, snarling at them and cursing them, but...She was collared at thirteen or fourteen, Elayne, she's not certain which, and she's been ''damane'' for ''four hundred years''!" ([[Reanne Corly]] to Elayne; {{wh2|Chapter 8}})

"A few days ago, she had been a bundle of simpers that made [[Talaan]] look bold. She did not simper for anybody, now." (Nynaeve about Alivia; {{wh2|Chapter 11}})

"An intriguing woman. Much too old to become a novice, unfortunately; oh, yes, very unfortunate. She drinks in whatever she's taught. I believe she may know almost every way there is to destroy something with the Power, but she knows almost nothing else." [[Verin]] to Rand about Alivia ({{wh2|Chapter 32}})

"Just so you know, I keep my word, too. I owe him anything he wants of me." (Alivia to Cadsuane about Rand; {{cot2|Chapter 23}})

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Alise Tenjile

2022-07-25T19:50:43Z

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''Author: Estyrien al'Halien''

==General==

Alise Tenjile runs [[the Kin]]'s farm. She is a practical woman who does not suffer fools gladly. She was sent away from [[the White Tower]] because she was not strong enough to become [[Aes Sedai]] ({{tpod|4}}).

Alise looks like she is in her middle years, but because she can channel, this is not true. She is, however, over two hundred years younger than [[Sumeko]] ({{kod|31}}). She has brown hair flecked with grey and is of middling height. She has a mild face and a comforting smile ({{tpod|4}}).

Alise flees from the farm to [[Andor]] when the [[Seanchan]] attack ({{tpod|6}}). She still keeps a firm hand on people who were at the farm. She prevents Kinswomen from rebelling when [[Adeleas Namelle|Adeleas]] puts [[Kirstian]] and [[Zarya Alkaese|Zarya]] back in [[novice]] white ({{tpod|28}}).

==Timeline==

* Alise flees the farm with [[Elayne]] and the rest of the Kin when the Seanchan attack ({{tpod|6}}).

* Alise stops a small rebellion from the Kinswomen against the Aes Sedai ({{tpod|28}}).

* Alise arrives in [[Caemlyn]] ({{tpod|28}}).

* Alise, [[Caiden]], [[Kumiko]] and one other Kinswoman make a gateway from the [[Royal Palace]] to the city walls to take [[Birgitte]], Elayne, and their troops to fight [[Arymilla]]'s attackers ({{kod|13}}).

* Elayne asks [[Vandene]] to speak with [[Sumeko]] and Alise to make sure the rest of the Kin don't panic after the recent murders ({{kod|17}}).

* Alise and Sumeko update Elayne on another murder of a Kinswoman - the third in the last ten days. They are present when Elayne meets [[Duhara]]. Both confirm that they believe Elayne is Aes Sedai despite what Duhara said ({{kod|31}}).

* She and Sumeko meet with Elayne to discuss the future of the Kin ({{tom|17}}).

* She and three other Kinswomen accompany Elayne to [[Cairhien (City)|Cairhien]] ({{tom|52}}).

==Miscellaneous==

* Alise only needs a week to convince a woman that stubbornness does not pay ({{acos|24}}).

* Alise does not defer to Aes Sedai in the way that most of the Kin do ({{tpod|4}}).

* Alise runs the farm with a firm hand ({{tpod|4}}).

* Even [[Nynaeve]] agrees that Alise is a very capable woman ({{tpod|6}}).

* Now that the Kin are no longer a secret, Alise is not willing to return to the old ways ({{tom|17}}).

==Quotes==

"What would we go back for? To be told again we aren't strong enough and be sent on our ways? Or will they just keep us as novices the rest of our lives? Some might accept that, but I won't." (Alise upon being told that the Kin would be accepted into the White Tower; {{tpod2|Chapter 4}})

The woman was far from strong in [[the One Power]] - she would never attain the shawl - but she had a way of taking charge when she wanted to and making everyone around her accept it. Including Aes Sedai. (Elayne about Alise; {{wh2|Chapter 8}})

Alise did not persuade. She simply expected people to do as she said, and they nearly always did. ([[Elayne]] thinking about Alise; {{kod2|Chapter 31}})

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Alanna Mosvani (TV Series)

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Pronunciation: Ah-LAN-nah mohs-VANH-nee

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==General==
Alanna is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Green Ajah]]. She is from [[Arafel]]. She has two Warders - {{TVname|Maksim|Maksim}} and {{TVname|Ihvon|Ihvon}}.

She was an Accepted when Moiraine was also at the same level, and they used to be friends. Moiraine tells her she could've easily been [[Blue Ajah]] based on the subtle way Alanna tries to get information out of her. However, Alanna has chosen the Battle Ajah because of their purpose - to protect humanity from the Dark One at the Last battle, even though she hadn't believed that she would live to see it.

Alanna is strong in the One Power, one of the few who could shield and keep the shield on [[Logain Ablar (TV Series)|Logain]], the False Dragon.

==Appearance==
Alanna has dark hair and skin. She usually wears her long hair down. Her hair reaches to her waist, and she has small bells woven into it.

==Timeline==
===Season 1===
Alanna is one of the eight Aes Sedai who were sent to capture the False Dragon [[Logain Ablar (TV Series)|Logain]].

[[Season 1 Episode 4: The Dragon Reborn|Episode 4]] - Alanna and Moiraine keep the shield on Logain. Alanna believes that the Last Battle is coming based on Logain's sheer strength in the One Power. She wonders if the Dragon has already been reborn but was unknowingly gentled by the Red Ajah.

Alanna is the one to stop multiple arrows shot by Logain's followers after their camp is under attack and flings them back at the attackers. During the battle with Logain's followers, she uses multiple battle weaves to protect herself, her Warders, and the other Aes Sedai. After returning to the cave where Logain is kept, she gives her power to Liandrin, and they gentle Logain.

[[Season 1 Episode 5: Blood Calls Blood|Episode 5]] - Alanna is one of the survivors after the attack on the Aes Sedai camp and helps bury the rest. A month later, she reaches Tar Valon and is a part of the procession that brings Logain to the city.

Later she tells Moiraine that they are both called to go in front of the Amyrlin Seat to answer for what they did to Logain. She warns Moiraine that Liandrin is gaining a lot of followers, not only among the Red Sisters.

[[Season 1 Episode 6: The Flame of Tar Valon|Episode 6]] - In the Hall of the Tower, Alanna supports Liandrin for her choice to gentle the False Dragon. After the Amyrlin's decision to exile Moiraine, Alanna is surprised but doesn't say anything to her friend.

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Alanna Mosvani

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''Author: Estyrien al'Halien''

Ah-LAN-nah mohs-VANH-nee

== General ==

'''Alanna Mosvani''' is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Green Ajah]] ({{tgh|4}}). She is [[Arafel]]lin ({{tdr|29}}). Alanna is a beautiful woman. She is slender and has dark eyes and hair. Her eyes are very expressive and flash when she is angry ({{loc|10}}). She is noted for her temper and her sense of humor ({{tdr|23}}).

There are conflicting quotes about Alanna's age. In {{loc|43}}, Alanna is supposedly 36 years old, but in {{tpod|12}} it is claimed that she has worn the shawl for forty years, making her about 56. In {{ns|3}}, 978, Alanna is an [[Accepted]]. She was a novice for six years, ({{loc|43}}), so if she started channeling at the average age of 16 and had just been raised to Accepted in 978, she would be 43 in the scenes mentioned above from the main series.

Alanna and [[Verin Mathwin]] traveled to the [[Two Rivers]] to test the girls there to see if they could channel. It was there that they found [[Trollocs]] and [[Myrddraal]] terrorizing the region, and both sisters fought the [[Shadowspawn]] ({{tsr|31}}). They took part in the two battles in [[Emond's Field]] ({{tsr|44}}; {{ch4|56}}). They left the region with many female channelers and journeyed towards [[Tar Valon]]. When they reached [[Whitebridge]], they learned of the split in [[the White Tower]] but continued to [[Caemlyn]]. They later decided against taking the girls to Tar Valon ({{loc|10}}).

In Caemlyn, Alanna and Verin joined the [[Salidar]] embassy to [[Rand]] ({{loc|43}}). When Rand left for [[Cairhien (Nation)|Cairhien]], Alanna was included in the new embassy because of her [[bond]] to Rand ({{loc|49}}). She and the new embassy traveled to [[Cairhien (Nation)|Cairhien]] with [[Perrin]] and his troops ({{loc|54}}). Alanna took part in the battle at [[Dumai's Wells]] and was forced to swear fealty to Rand afterwards ({{loc|55}}). She was sent to the [[Wise Ones]] ({{acos|3}}).

When Rand went to [[Far Madding]], [[Cadsuane]] decided to follow him there. Alanna had to beg to be let to go with her; she disliked being away from Rand for so long. However, Rand asked her to go to Cairhien to collect [[Rafela]], [[Merana]], [[Bera]], and [[Kiruna]]. The five sisters were then to [[Travel]] to [[Tear (City)|Tear]] to negotiate with the rebels in [[Haddon Mirk]] ({{wh|25}}).

== Timeline ==

* Alanna leaves the White Tower to collect women's names for the bounty after the [[Aiel War]] ({{ns|3}}).

* Alanna arrives at [[Fal Dara]] with [[Siuan Sanche]] and her escort ({{tgh|4}}).

* Alanna is part of the circle that [[Heal]]s [[Mat]] of his connection to the [[ruby dagger]] ({{tdr|18}}).

* Alanna is present during [[Egwene]]'s [[Accepted Test|Accepted test]] ({{tdr|22}}).

* Alanna and Verin leave the Two Rivers with many potential novices ({{loc|11}}).

* Alanna arrives in Caemlyn and bonds Rand ({{loc|10}}).

* Alanna travels with the reduced Salidar embassy to Cairhien ({{loc|54}}).

* Alanna fights in the Battle of Dumai's Wells and swears fealty to Rand ({{loc|55}}).

* Alanna accompanies Rand to the [[Sea Folk]] ship to make a deal with them ({{acos|34}}).

* Alanna is unconscious for three days after [[Min]], [[Elayne]], and [[Aviendha]] bond Rand ({{wh|25}}).

* Alanna Travels to Far Madding with Cadsuane to find Rand ({{wh|23}}).

* Alanna Travels back to Cairhien to collect Rafela, Merana, Bera, and Kiruna and then Travels to Tear ({{wh|25}}).

* Alanna is present when Rand Travels to the [[Stone of Tear]] to meet with [[Darlin Sisnera]]. She seems genuinely pleased to see Rand again. ({{kod|21}})

* Alanna is with Darlin when Rand returns to Tear, but Rand chooses not to look at her ({{tgs|42}}).

* Alanna disappears from the Stone. Bera claims she felt channeling, but not enough for a gateway. Cadsuane finds an envelope in the room but no letter ({{tom|12}}). Rand says she is somewhere to the north ({{tom|13}}).

* When Rand enters the [[Pit of Doom]], Nynaeve finds her weak, with a knife wound to the gut ({{amol|36}}))

* Nynaeve works to heal her with herbs ({{amol|37}}).

* Moridin throws a knife at her and hits her with a killing blow, but she is able to release the bond before she dies ({{amol|37}})

== Strengths and Talents ==

Alanna, Verin, and [[Merana]] are very close in strength ({{loc|43}}).

Alanna knows [[Illusion]] ({{loc|11}}). She is better at Healing than Verin ({{tsr|43}}). She can Travel ({{wh|25}}).

== Relationships ==

Alanna was interested in Rand, Mat, and Perrin since she first heard of them ({{tgh|12}}). She believed that they are too important to be allowed to remain unbonded. She tried to bond Perrin in the Two Rivers, but [[Faile]] threatened to kill her if she tried it ({{loc|11}}). Alanna did, however, bond Rand. She did this without his permission while she was staying in Caemlyn; he was furious when he realized what she had done ({{loc|10}}). Rand, at times, forbade her to approach him ({{acos|18}}).

She tried to compel Rand using the bond but found that she could not ({{loc|49}}). Alanna was jealous when it came to Rand. She disliked it when other sisters tried to control him ({{loc|43}}). Alanna considered him her responsibility ({{wh|25}}). She later swore fealty to Rand after the Battle of Dumai's Wells ({{loc|55}}). Min subsequently had a viewing of Alanna showing that she would keep her oath ({{acos|34}}). Over time, it became easier for Rand to ignore Alanna's presence in his head ({{tpod|13}}). Alanna was furious to know that Rand had been bonded by someone else, even though she did not know by whom ({{wh|25}}).

Min, Elayne, and Aviendha were livid when they learn that Alanna has already bonded Rand ({{wh|12}}).

Alanna bonded two willing [[Warders]], [[Ihvon]] and [[Owein]]. However, Owein was killed by Whitecloaks in the Two Rivers ({{tsr|31}}). Alanna was distraught over his death and cried often; Rand knew that she is distraught but did not know why ({{acos|18}}). Following Owein's demise, Ihvon was even more determined to protect Alanna ({{loc|11}}).

Perrin was suspicious of Alanna when he first met her in the Two Rivers because he remembered Egwene telling him that she was too interested in Rand ({{tsr|31}}). This suspicion was deepened when Verin told him not to trust Alanna ({{tsr|33}}).

Egwene did not trust Alanna because she thought that Alanna showed too much interest in Rand and that she might be [[Black Ajah]] ({{tdr|23}}; {{tsr|31}}). She felt that hidden motives were behind Alanna's actions ({{acos|9}}).

== Miscellaneous ==

* When Alanna was an Accepted, she was quite shy but always exaggerating. Even then she knew she wanted to be Green Ajah ({{ns|3}}).

* Alanna accompanied Siuan Sanche to Fal Dara. When they travelled back to Tar Valon, Alanna taught Egwene and Nynaeve about the One Power ({{tgh|11}}).

* Alanna was partially responsible for the three-arched ''ter'angreal'' during Egwene's Accepted test. When it almost destroyed itself, she felt that she was to blame and asked for penance. Egwene was suspicious of her motives and thought that she might be Black Ajah ({{tdr|23}}). When Nynaeve mentioned this suspicion to Siuan, she decided to have someone keep an eye on Alanna ({{tdr|29}}).

* Alanna spent six years as a novice ({{loc|43}}). She was Accepted at the same time as Moiraine, Siuan, and Sheriam ({{ns|3}}).

* Alanna has [[eyes-and-ears]] who can find out information about [[the Black Tower]] ({{loc|43}}).

* When Elayne, Min, and Aviendha bond Rand, Alanna falls unconscious for three days ({{wh|25}}). During this time, her Warder senses that she is afraid to wake ({{wh|13}}).

* Alanna dislikes fully masking the bond with her Warders ({{wh|25}}).

== Quotes ==

Alanna was a shy woman at heart, but she worked hard at being fierce. She told anyone who would listen that she wanted to belong to the Green, the Battle Ajah, and have a dozen Warders. (Moiraine about Alanna; {{ns2|Chapter 3}})

Alanna nodded in satisfaction. And suddenly the warmth was heat, one great flash of it, as if he stood for a heartbeat in the middle of a roaring furnace. Even after it passed, he felt odd, aware of himself as he never had been before, aware of Alanna. (Rand about Alanna bonding him; {{loc2|Chapter 10}})

"I do not know yet, Alanna, whether your actions have had any adverse affect. He did not bring up your bonding him - against his will - but he was very sharp, very sharp." (Merana Ambrey to Alanna about Rand al'Thor; {{loc2|Chapter 43}})

"If you had to bond a man without asking him, why, by the Light most holy, have you not used the bond to bend him to your will? Compared to the other, that is only slapping his wrist." (Kiruna Nachiman to Alanna about Rand al'Thor; {{loc2|Chapter 49}})

He had sensed tears from the moment she bonded him, tears a raw grief like being ripped by claws. Sometimes it was less, sometimes more, yet always there. (Rand al'Thor about Alanna's grief; {{acos2|Chapter 18}})

"You let someone else bond you?" she snarled. "How dare you! Whoever she is, I'll see her before a court! I'll see her birched! You are mine!" (Alanna on hearing that Rand has been bonded by someone else; {{wh2|Chapter 25}})

"Success? A blow?" Alanna's scowl took in [[Weiramon]] and [[Anaiyella]] both before she twisted back around to face Rand. "They landed at the Stone's docks with one ship, but they put most of their armsmen and all the mercenaries they hired in Cairhien ashore from the rest upriver. With orders to enter the city and attack the rebels." She made a sound of disgust. "The only result was a great many men dead and our negotiations with the rebels thrown back to the beginning." (Alanna talking about Weiramon and Anaiyella; {{kod2|Chapter 21}})

[[Caraline]] and Min seemed to have switched their talk to clothing. At least, they were fingering each other's coats, and he heard words like back-stitch and bias-cut. Whatever that meant. Alanna's gaze drifted between him and Min, and he felt disbelief warring with suspicion along the bond. (Rand observing Alanna; {{kod2|Chapter 21}})

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Aginor

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''Author: Estyrien al'Halien''

AGH-ih-nohr
==General==

'''Aginor''' was one of the [[Forsaken]], [[channel]]ers from the [[Age of Legends]] who went over to [[the Shadow]]. Aginor was bound with the other Forsaken when [[the Bore]] was sealed and was trapped for an Age. Aginor was bound near the surface, and so he experienced the passing of time. When he was released, Aginor followed [[Rand al'Thor]] to the [[Eye of the World]] with [[Balthamel]]. They followed the evil from [[Mat]]'s [[ruby dagger]] ({{teotw|50}}). It was at the Eye that Aginor died ({{teotw|51}}).

In the Age of Legends, Aginor was a famous biologist and went by the name of '''Ishar Morrad Chuain'''. Ishar apparently understood "the most basic structures of living things". His specialized field was creating new variations of plants. He was, however, disciplined several times for attempting to do the same with animals ({{guide|5}}). His research abilities transferred to the [[True Power]], and he had a better understanding of this than most ({{prol13}}).

Ishar went over to the Shadow so that he could continue his experiments without the restrictions placed on him by the [[Hall of Servants]] ({{guide|5}}). Aginor was responsible for creating [[Shadowspawn]], such as the [[Trolloc]]s and, therefore, the [[Myrddraal]] ({{Prol6}}). He was also responsible for ''[[gholam]]'', [[Draghkar]], [[Darkhound]]s, [[Jumara]], and Cafar ({{loc|23}}; {{guide|7}}). Another one of his creations was the [[zomaran]], human-like servants who obeyed every command ({{kod|3}}). Aginor took on average ten thousand people a day during the [[War of the Shadow]] for his experiments and to feed his new creations ({{guide|5}}). Aginor was never a governor, nor did he hold a field command ({{guide|5}}).

==Timeline==

* Age of Legends: Aginor is a scientist ({{guide|5}}).
* [[The Collapse]]: Aginor goes over to the Shadow ({{guide|5}}).
* The [[War of the Shadow]]: Aginor is bound by [[Lews Therin Telamon]] and his Companions ({{teotw|50}}).
* 998NE: Aginor is freed from his prison and follows Rand to the Eye of the World ({{teotw|50}}).
* 998NE: Aginor is killed by drawing too much of the Power into himself ({{teotw|50}})
* 1000NE: Aginor is reincarnated as [[Osan'gar]] ({{prol6}}).

==Miscellaneous==

* Aginor was believed to be the second strongest of the male Forsaken and was close in strength to Lews Therin ({{teotw|52}}).
* Aginor hated being ordinary ({{Prol6}}).
* Aginor was proud of the Trollocs, but the Myrddraal made him uneasy ({{Prol6}}). Even he could not discover how they moved between shadows ({{loc|6}}).
* Aginor turned to the Shadow during the first thirty years of the Collapse ({{guide|5}}).
* Aginor faced Lews Therin in the Hall of Servants ({{teotw|51}}).
* When Aginor was freed, the passing of time was obvious. His skin was stretched tight across his skull and most of his hair was missing. Aginor's eyes were sunken and his ears withered ({{teotw|50}}).

==Quotes==

"Some of us are bound no longer. The seals weaken, [[Aes Sedai]]. Like [[Ishamael]], we walk the world again, and the rest of us will come. I was too close to this world in my captivity, I and Balthamel, too close to the grinding of the wheel, but soon the [[Great Lord of the Dark]] will be free, and give us new flesh, and the world will be ours once more." (Aginor; {{teotw2|Chapter 50}}).

"Why should I share power with you? Why should I bend knee to you? I, who faced Lews Therin Telamon in the Hall of the Servants itself. I, who threw might against the Lord of the Morning and met him stroke for stroke." (Aginor to Rand al'Thor; {{teotw2|Chapter 51}}).

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Nakomi

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==General==
Nakomi is a woman [[Aviendha]] meets in the [[Waste]] while traveling to [[Rhuidean]] to pass through the [[Glass Columns]] and become a [[Wise One]]. She approaches Aviendha without Aviendha sensing and is either unable to channel or has masked the ability. She dresses as a normal [[Aiel]] woman but something about her puts Aviendha in mind of a Wise One. She asks Aviendha why the Aiel would return to the Three-fold Land if they have met their ''[[toh]]'' and no longer require either punishment or shaping. She suggests to Aviendha that the reason some refuse to follow [[Rand]] is that they are worried about what it will mean for them when the Last Battle is done. After sharing food with Aviendha, she claims to need to see to nature and disappears. Aviendha goes to look for her, but when she returns, Nakomi has been back to Aviendha's camp and taken her things.

==Quotes==
"So, once we have fought for the ''[[Car'a'carn]]'', we will have met that ''toh''. And therefore, will have no reason to be punished further. If that is the case, why would we return to this land."

"How do we find honour in raiding, in killing one another if we are no longer preparing for such an important task?"

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Nakomi

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{{info|{{ToM2|Chapter 39}}}}
==Genera==
Nakomi is a woman [[Aviendha]] meets in the [[Waste]] while traveling to [[Rhuidean]] to pass through the [[Glass Columns]] and become a [[Wise One]]. She approaches Aviendha without Aviendha sensing and is either unable to channel or has masked the ability. She dresses as a normal [[Aiel]] woman but something about her puts Aviendha in mind of a Wise One. She asks Aviendha why the Aiel would return to the Three-Fold Land if they have met their ''[[toh]]'' and no longer require either punishment or shaping. She suggests to Aviendha that the reason some refuse to follow [[Rand]] is that they are worried about what it will mean for them when the Last Battle is done. After sharing food with Aviendha, she claims to need to see to nature and disappears. Aviendha goes to look for her, but when she returns, Nakomi has been back to Aviendha's camp and taken her things.

==Quotes==
"So, once we have fought for the ''[[Car'a'carn]]'', we will have met that ''toh''. And therefore, will have no reason to be punished further. If that is the case, why would we return to this land."

"How do we find honour in raiding, in killing one another if we are no longer preparing for such an important task?"

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Alliandre Maritha Kigarin

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''Author: Atarah al'Norahn''

==General==

Alliandre's full name and title is Alliandre Maritha Kigarin, Queen of [[Ghealdan]], Blessed of the Light, Defender of [[Garen]]'s Wall ({{loc|28}}; {{tpod|10}}).

Alliandre is described to be rather lovely, although her nose is too long for beauty. She is short, with long, dark hair, and is short of her middle years ({{tfoh|39}}; {{tpod|10}}).

She is described as being elegant, reserved, poised, and stately ({{cot|9}}).

Alliandre is the fourth noble to be raised to the throne of Ghealdan in half a year. She has only managed to keep her throne by placating [[Masema]] ({{tfoh|39}}). Alliandre is willing to go to any lengths to keep Ghealdan safe; she submits to [[Rand]], and even swears fealty to [[Perrin]] ({{loc|28}}; {{tpod|10}}).

==Timeline==

* Alliandre becomes the Queen of Ghealdan ({{tfoh|39}}).

* Alliandre visits Masema. They speak about crime in Ghealdan ({{tfoh|39}}).

* Alliandre contacts Rand via a note. She says that she supports him ({{loc|28}}).

* Alliandre visits Perrin and swears fealty to him ({{tpod|10}}).

* Alliandre, along with [[Faile]], [[Morgase|Maighdin]], [[Arrela]], [[Lacile]], [[Bain]], and [[Chiad]] are captured by the [[Shaido]] [[Aiel]]. They are made ''[[gai'shain]]'' ({{tpod|30}}).

* When Alliandre and the others are taken to the Shaido camp, she fights against her captors. She is beaten for it ({{wh|3}}).

* Alliandre, along with Faile and Maighdin, is told by [[Therava]] to spy on [[Sevanna]] ({{wh|4}}).

* Alliandre, along with Faile and Maighdin, is told by [[Galina]] to steal Therava's binder ({{wh|4}}).

* Alliandre and Faile speak in the Shaido camp ({{cot|9}}).

* Alliandre, Maighdin, and Faile tie up [[Dairaine]] after Maighdin notices that she is likely to tell the Shaido about their escape plans. Alliandre suggests killing Dairaine and hiding the body ({{kod|28}}).

* Alliandre, Maighdin, Faile, [[Arrela]], and [[Lacile]] are trapped in a collapsed building by Galina ({{kod|28}}).

*[[Arganda]] wants her to be allowed to move ahead, but Perrin refuses. Instead he agrees to allow her party to lead ({{tgs|9}}).

*She gathers to commemorate [[Kinhuin]] who had just begun to look after her ({{tgs|21}}).

*She tells Faile that Perrin should either attack the [[Whitecloaks]] or march away ({{tom|29}}).

*Alliandre goes with Faile and Perrin when they meet Elayne and joins them for the private meeting ({{tom|47}}).

*In the meeting, Alliandre suggest that if Faile becomes Queen of [[Saldaea]], one child could inherit the throne and another the Lordship of the [[Two Rivers]] ({{tom|47}})

*She goes with Perrin to the [[Field of Merrilor]] ({{tom|53}}).

*She signs the [[Dragon's Peace]] ({{amol|5}})

*She is present during the battle outside [[Caemlyn]], possibly following Elayne's example ({{amol|10}}).

*After the battle moves to the Field of Merrilor, she stays with the Ghealdanin forces ({{amol|37}}).

==Relationships==

Alliandre walks upon a very thin rope when around Masema. She worries about what his policies are doing to Ghealdan, but knows that if she challenges him, she will lose her throne.

While Alliandre has never met Rand, she sends him a letter saying that she supports him. She also swears fealty to him through Perrin; these she does in order to save Ghealdan. She is the first ruler to approach Rand without his sword at a nation's throat ({{loc|28}}).

Gerard Arganda, Alliandre's First Captain, is willing to do almost anything to get his queen back from the Shaido ({{wh|2}}; {{ch9|5}}).

Alliandre obeys Faile because, through Perrin, Faile is her liege lady ({{tpod|10}}; {{wh|3}}; {{ch9|4}}).

[[Ragan]] thinks that Alliandre is a wise queen, and that a man could be proud to serve her, even if she is a southlander ({{tfoh|39}}).

After the rescue and before Morgase is identified, Alliandre is unsure how to relate to her ({{tom|6}}).

After Morgase is revealed, Alliandre is angry that she kept her secrets ({{tom|29}})

She is not fooled by [[Berelain]] and Faile's pretense at friendship ({{tom|43}}).

==Quotes==

"Forgive me. It is as you say, of course. There is no lord save the Lord Dragon, and I am but a humble follower of the Lord Dragon -- blessed by the name of the Lord Dragon -- who comes to hear the wisdom and guidance of the Prophet." (Alliandre to Masema; {{tfoh2|Chapter 39}})

"Under the Light, I, Alliandre Maritha Kigarin, pledge my fealty and service to Lord Perrin Aybara of the Two Rivers, now and for all time, save that he chooses to release me of his own will. My lands and throne are his, and I yield them to his hand. So I do swear." (Alliandre to Perrin; {{tpod2|Chapter 10}})

"Ghealdan needs protection I cannot give, so duty demands I find it. You can give it, my Lord, you and the Lord Dragon Reborn, blessed be his name in the Light. In truth, I would swear directly to him if he were here, but you are his man. Swearing to you, I also swear to him." (Alliandre to Perrin; {{tpod2|Chapter 10}})

"I will not leave without you. I will not take my oath of fealty lightly, my Lady. I will escape with you, or not at all!" (Alliandre to Faile after they have been captured by the Shaido; {{wh2|Chapter 4}})

"If he helped me escape, I would marry him. Or not, as he wanted. He's not quite pretty, but it wouldn't be painful, and my husband, if I had one, would never have to know. If he had any sense, he would be overjoyed to have me back and ask no questions he didn't want to hear answers to." (Alliandre to Faile about [[Rolan]]; {{cot2|Chapter 9}})

"I did not swear to him. I swore to you. If Ghealdan will march for [[Tarmon Gai'don]], it should do so beneath your banner." (To Perrin, about Rand; {{tom2|Chapter 6}})

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Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan

2021-10-15T04:37:20Z

Arinna Katal: /* Towers of Midnight */

{{comp}}

''Author: Praesmed Phoenix''

eh-LY-da doh AHV-rih nee ah ROY-han
==General==
Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan is an [[Aes Sedai]] of the [[Red Ajah]].
===Personality===
Elaida has always had an exacting personality. She loves flowers, in particular red roses, and has always made it a priority to surround herself with them, even during droughts. She also enjoys knitting, and often occupies her time with the activity. She has a special loathing for rats, perhaps because they can be spies for the [[Dark One]]. Her composure is often compared to unveiled steel, as [[Rand]] muses that, "He had sometimes thought of [[Moiraine]] as steel covered with velvet; with Elaida the velvet was only an illusion" ({{teotw|40}}). Egwene notes, "She had always thought of Moiraine as strong, steel under silk, but Elaida dispensed with the silk" ({{tgh|24}}).

Elaida has no interest in novices, but the novices know of her and her reputation ({{tsr|1}}).
===Appearance===

"Elaida was a handsome woman rather than beautiful, and the sternness on her face added maturity to her ageless [[Aes Sedai]] features. She did not look old, yet [[Egwene]] could never imagine her looking young." ({{tgh|17}})

===Condensed Timeline===
==Strengths and Talents==
Elaida is one of the strongest Aes Sedai in [[the Tower]] (prior to the arrival of Egwene and company) and according to [[Verin]], is one of the few living Aes Sedai who could wield the [[Choedan Kal]] ({{tgh2|Chapter 31}}).
===Foretelling===
Elaida has the [[Talent]] of [[Foretelling]]. It is faint and comes rarely, but it is still more than any Aes Sedai has had since [[Gitara Moroso]] ({{tsr2|Chapter 1}}).

Elaida's first Foretelling, as an [[Accepted]], was that "the Royal line of [[Andor]] would be the key to defeating the Dark One in the Last Battle" ({{tsr2|Chapter 1}}).

"From this day Andor marches toward pain and division. The Shadow has yet to darken to its blackest, and I cannot see if the Light will come after. Where the world has wept one tear, it will weep thousands. Pain and division come to the whole world, and this man (Rand) stands at the heart of it." ({{teotw2|Chapter 40}})

{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|"The [[White Tower]] will be whole again, except for remnants cast out and scorned, whole and stronger than ever. Rand al'Thor will face the [[Amyrlin Seat]] and know her anger. The [[Black Tower]] will be rent in blood and fire, and sisters will walk its grounds." ({{acos2|Prologue}})}}

==Relationships with Other Characters==

{{Spoiler|the whole series|Upon her initial meeting with Rand, she believes that he may be a [[Darkfriend]], and she finds his heron-mark sword and appearance to be quite remarkable for someone from [[Emond's Field]] ({{teotw|40}}). She is one of the first to declare him ''[[ta'veren]]'', and "more dangerous than any man since [[Artur Hawkwing]]" ({{tgh|4}}). Above all, she sees Rand as a threat to Andor and seeks to eliminate him ({{tsr|1}}). Upon learning that he has taken the [[Stone of Tear]] and wielded ''[[Callandor]]'', Elaida begrudgingly admits that he is indeed the Dragon Reborn ({{prol5}}). In her initial overtures toward the Dragon Reborn, she sends Rand a letter offering him an escort to the White Tower ({{tfoh|51}}). Especially after her embassy captures and shields him, and he escapes from it, there is certainly no love lost between Rand and Elaida.

After Foretelling that Andor would be pivotal in the Last Battle, Elaida attached herself to the soon-to-be-Queen [[Morgase]] as her Aes Sedai advisor. She has watched over and had a vested interest in [[Elayne]] since birth, in particular after discovering her potential as a channeler. Unfortunately, Morgase severed all ties with the Tower (and Elaida with it) after Elayne disappeared.

Despite the fact that [[Alviarin]] is her [[Keeper]] of the Chronicles, there is no love lost between the two characters even during Elaida's first days as Amyrlin, as Alviarin consistently does not show the proper respect for Elaida. Elaida often finds the [[White]] Sister's cool composure to be maddening when the two lock horns. Her choice of Alviarin as Keeper was purely a political one, as she could not have gained the necessary support from the White without Alviarin's help ({{prol5}}).

Elaida holds a special animosity toward [[Thom Merrilin]] after he attempted to meddle in Aes Sedai affairs that involved his nephew ({{teotw|35}}).

Elaida is totally unaware of [[Padan Fain]]'s status as doubly Dark, and attempts to use him to learn more about Rand and perhaps to capture him. Fain, of course, is using her to get his [[ruby dagger|dagger]] back ({{prol5}}).

Elaida takes a particular interest in [[Min]], due to her connections with Rand and Moiraine ({{tgh|24}}). She tries to interrogate Min about Rand.

Elaida is one of the Aes Sedai involved with Egwene's testing for the ring, and after having demanded to be part of it she is very critical of Egwene's character. We later learn that Elaida despises Egwene because she is a [[wilder]] and will never consider Egwene a true Aes Sedai ({{tdr|23}}). It is Elaida who pours the first two chalices over Egwene. In Egwene's ''[[ter'angreal]]'' vision of the future, Elaida denounces Rand to the [[Hall of the Tower]], claiming that he is a false Dragon, and Egwene refuses to sentence him ({{tdr|22}}).

Elaida, believing [[Siuan]] to be a threat to the integrity of the Tower (and having never really liked her much, anyway), is the ringleader in deposing her and ascending to the Amyrlin Seat ({{tsr|47}}). Elaida once worked with Siuan to bring "Morgase to heel" ({{tfoh|27}}) but ultimately feels slighted that her efforts to control [[Caemlyn]] may have cost her the Amyrlin Seat, something about which she envies Siuan intensely.}}

==Elaida's Journey==
{{Spoiler|Elaida's life before the beginning of the series|
*Elaida was an Accepted when Siuan and Moiraine were novices, and then an Aes Sedai while the two were Accepted, and is one of the few (if not the only) people in the tower who remember their childhood friendship ({{tsr|1}}).

*All that is known of Elaida's childhood is that, according to [[Joline]] Sedai, "Elaida had been petted too much as a novice, made over too much for her strength and the remarkable speed of her learning" ({{acos|17}}).

*[[Meidani]] and Elaida were [[pillow friends]] but the relationship ended when Elaida gained the ring, out of propriety ({{prol10}}). }}
===The Eye of the World===
===The Great Hunt===
Elaida takes it upon herself to interrogate [[Nynaeve]], Egwene, and Elayne regarding their abduction by [[Liandrin]] and company ({{tgh|17}}).
===The Dragon Reborn===
===The Shadow Rising===
{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|
Though Elaida is extremely dislikable, she is not a [[Darkfriend]], as revealed by a passage from her point of view: "The Dark One was sure to break free -- the very thought made Elaida shudder and wrap her shawl around her more tightly" ({{tsr|1}}). }}
===The Fires of Heaven===
===Lord of Chaos===
===A Crown of Swords===
{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|
Despite becoming Amyrlin Seat, Elaida is frustrated by her debt to her co-conspirators, and their knowledge of this debt. In an effort to assert her authority, she assigns penances to Sisters, something that is nearly unheard of. Feeling a bit envious of the living quarters of other rulers, Elaida has also commissioned the creation of a palace for the Amyrlin, one that would be taller than the White Tower itself ({{prol7}}). Though Elaida's embassy is able to temporarily capture Rand and send word of its success to the White Tower, Rand escapes during the battle of [[Dumai's Wells]]. Having heard only of her embassy's success, Elaida arrogantly assembles a force of fifty Aes Sedai to defeat the Black Tower, refusing to believe any rumors about their power, ignoring Alviarin's warnings to the contrary ({{prol7}}). After learning of the embassy's rout at Dumai's Wells and realizing that the force sent to the Black Tower is doomed to meet the same fate, Elaida is thoroughly cowed by Alviarin, and follows her directions to sow a bit of disorder in the Tower by seizing ''[[angreal]]'' from the [[Green Ajah]] ({{acos|32}}). Searching for a means through which to dispose of Alviarin, Elaida hits upon the idea of searching the Tower for [[Black Ajah]]. She creates a secret committee, headed by [[Seaine Herimon|Seaine]] ({{acos|32}}). }}
===The Path of Daggers===
{{Spoiler|[[The Path of Daggers]]|
After a bit of searching, the committee uncovers the ten rebels who returned to Tar Valon through [[Pevara]] ({{tpod|26}}). Alviarin also has Elaida take private penances for her incompetence. }}
===Winter's Heart===
===Crossroads of Twilight===
{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|
The tables are turned, however, when, through the work of Seaine and company and some political scapegoating, Elaida is able to remove Alviarin as [[Keeper]] due to her absence from the Tower. Further, upon her dismissal, Elaida hints that she knows that Alviarin is Black, and sends her fleeing from Tar Valon ({{cot|21}}). }}
===Knife of Dreams===
{{Spoiler|[[Knife of Dreams]]|
*She is annoyed that [[Tarna]] does not seem proud to be Keeper ({{kod|2}}).
*She expects to have Elayne back in hand shortly ({{kod|2}}).
*She instructs Tarna to have the streets cleaned and sewers drained ({{kod|2}}).
*She intends to merge the Tower armies with the rebels with Gareth in charge ({{kod|2}}).
*[[Beonin]] tells her Egwene is a Dreamer and makes many good weaves – one of the reasons she decides to save her ({{kod|2}}).
*Beonin teaches Elaida Travelling and Skimming, and Elaida tells her not to teach anyone those weaves ({{kod|2}}).
*Beonin betrays the spies; Elaida realizes why Meidani was so keen on renewing friendship and considers it ({{kod|2}}).
*She orders that Sitters from Ajahs that fail to send Sisters to the chain tower or from those who go to talks with the rebels should submit to penances ({{kod|23}}).
*Elaida orders that Egwene is to attend her and Meidani that night ({{kod|23}}). }}
===The Gathering Storm===
{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|
*Egwene attends Elaida. During the meal, Elaida taunts Meidani ({{tgs|2}}).
*Elaida considers an fourth oath, of obedience to the Amyrlin Seat ({{tgs|2}}).
*Elaida dismisses the [[Seanchan]] as an invention of Rand ({{tgs|2}}).
*When Egwene drops the soup, Elaida sends her for punishment ({{tgs|2}}).
*Elaida has Egwene serve her again, in the company of a group of Sitters ({{tgs|16}}).
*She and Egwene get into a discussion about her failures and she loses her temper when Egwene claims the Dark one would be ashamed to have her. Whe beats Egwene and orders that it be announced that Egwene is a Darkfriend ({{tgs|16}}).
*[[Silviana]] denounced Elaida and demands her removal. Elaida replaces Silviana as [[Mistress of Novices]], imprisons her, and demands her execution ({{tgs|38}}).
*Elaida is captured in the Seanchan raid ({{tgs|41}}).
*The Ajah Heads decide to replace her ({{tgs|43}}). }}
===Towers of Midnight===
{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|
*Elaida is brought before [[Tuon]] as a ''[[damane]]''. She now has the name Suffa and is being trained by [[Melitene]]. She offers to give Tuon twenty of the most powerful sisters from the White Tower if she is released, but she is quieted by Melitene. Melitene then has her open a [[gateway]], surprising Tuon with the knowledge of Traveling. ({{tom|47}}) }}

===A Memory of Light===

==Changes==
{{Spoiler|the whole series|One of the reasons that Elaida's position in the Tower is becoming so precarious is that she really hasn't changed much at all since we first met her as an officious, stubborn, and stern [[Red]]. Elaida is extremely arrogant and self-absorbed, which is ultimately her tragic flaw despite her strength in the One Power. She supports ideas only when she conceives of them herself, and she is very set in tradition, believing the White Tower to be effectively invulnerable and ignoring intelligence regarding both the [[Salidar Aes Sedai]] and the Black Tower. Her insistence that the Black Tower is a weak entity costs the Tower many sisters, as did her insistence that Rand could be captured and tamed. Further, she unknowingly played directly into the hand of the Black Ajah when Alviarin encouraged her to depose Siuan Sanche.}}

==Quotes==
{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|"Why no oath to obey the Amyrlin? If that simple promise were part of all of us, how much pain and difficulty could we have avoided? Perhaps some revision is in order." (To Meidani; {{tgs2|Chapter 2}})

"I’d name you Darkfriend as well, but I suspect that the Dark One would perhaps be embarrassed to associate with you." (Egwene; {{tgs2|Chapter 16}})

"You must learn. Your name is Suffa. And Suffa will be a good ''[[damane]]''. Yes she will. A very, very good ''damane''." ({{tgs2|Chapter 41}}) }}

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Aravine Carnel

2021-10-14T20:13:27Z

Arinna Katal: /* Timeline */

{{comp}}

{{Author Leora}}
==General==

Aravine Carnel is plump and has a plain, tired face ({{wh|4}}; {{kod|28}}); she is from [[Amadicia]] and is either a wealthy merchant or a noble ({{cot|9}}). [[Faile]] thinks she is probably a noblewoman because she is unused to saying "please" ({{cot|9}}).

==Timeline==

* Aravine is one of the ''[[gai'shain]]'' who brings Faile food when she is first captured by the [[Shaido]] ({{wh|4}}).

* Aravine steps in to defend Maighdin/[[Morgase]] when [[Galina]] attacks her ({{cot|9}}).

* Aravine tells Faile that [[Sevanna]] wants to see her, but shows her that [[Arrela]] and [[Lacile]] have been captured first ({{cot|9}}).

* Aravine swears fealty to Faile and asks Faile to taker her along when she escapes ({{cot|9}}).

* Aravine is with Faile when [[Alvon]] and [[Theril]] bring her the [[the Oath Rod|binding rod]] of [[Therava]] ({{kod|5}}).

* Aravine waits outside Faile's tent the morning Faile goes to meet Galina in [[Malden]]; Faile tells Aravine that she cannot come right now but that Faile will be back for her ({{kod|28}}).

* Aravine finds Faile and the others buried in a pile of rubble in Malden. She tells Faile that Galina pulled the building down on top of them ({{kod|29}}).

* Once [[Perrin]] finds Faile, Faile directs Aravine to gather up all the ''gai'shain'' she can find so they can be taken to safety ({{kod|30}}).

* Aravine quickly organises the former ''gai'shain'' by nationality ({{tgs|9}}).

* She becomes Perrin's unofficial Steward ({{tom|6}}).

* She organises the departure when Perrin fights the [[Trollocs]] ({{tom|34}}).

* She organises Perrin's forces when they go to the [[Field of Merrilor]] ({{tom|53}}).

* She accompanies Faile as Faile tries to take the [[Horn|Horn of Valere]] to [[Mat]] and they end up in the [[blight]] ({{amol|37}})

* She betrays the group to try and take the Horn to [[Demandred]] ({{amol|37}}).

* Faile manages to throw a knife into her back, killing her ({{amol|37}}).

==Relationships==
[[Aldin]] has struck up an interest in her ({{tom|34}}). As she dies, she asks Faile not to tell Aldin what she did ({{amol|37}}).
==Quotes==
"I thought I could hide, or that I would be forgotten, that I could come back to the Light. But the Great Lord does not forget, and one cannot hide from him. " ({{amol2|Chapter 37}})
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Old Tongue

2021-10-14T03:51:15Z

Arinna Katal:

==General==
The Old Tongue was the language during the [[Age of Legends]]. It began to be replaced by the common tongue sometime after and now is known only to scholars, though nobles are expected to learn it ({{{ns|2}} and most do know at least a few words. ({{tsr|2}}) It was written in a script with more letters than the modern tongue, some representing diphthongs ([http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=25 October 2nd 2005 Robert Jordan's Blog]) and few can still read it. The fall in usage was not completed for many years, and, up to Artur Hawkwing's time, many people still knew it. During the time of the [[Compact of the Ten Nations]], it was in fairly common use ({{wh|21}}).
==Vocabulary==
{{Main|Old Tongue Dictionary - English}}
==Modern Usage==
None of the current nations still use the Old Tongue in everyday speech, though the [[Aelfinn]] and [[Eelfinn]] still do ({{tsr|15}}).
===The Westlands===
* ''[[Tel'aran'rhiod]]''
* ''[[Carneira]]''
* ''[[Angreal]]''
* ''[[Sa'angreal]]''
* ''[[Ter'angreal]]''
* ''[[Gaidin]]
* ''[[Aes Sedai]]
* ''[[Atha'an Miere]]
* ''[[Ta'veren]]
* ''[[Tuatha'an]]
* ''[[Saidin]]
* ''[[Saidar]]
===The Aiel===
* ''[[Seia Doon]]'' = Black Eyes
* ''[[Far Aldazar Din]]'' = Brothers of the Eagle
* ''[[Rahien Sorei]]'' = Dawn Runners
* ''[[Sovin Nai]]'' = Knife Hands
* ''[[Far Dareis Mai]]'' = Maidens of the Spear
* ''[[Hama N'dore]]'' = Mountain Dancers
* ''[[Cor Darei]]'' = Night Spears
* ''[[Aethan Dor]]'' = Red Shields
* ''[[Shae'en M'taal]]'' = Stone Dogs
* ''[[Sha'mad Conde]]'' = Thunder Walkers
* ''[[Tain Shari]]'' = True Bloods
* ''[[Duadhe Mahdi'in]]'' = Water Seekers
* ''[[Cadin'sor]]
* ''[[Gai'shain]]''
* ''[[Ji'e'toh]]''
* ''[[Car'a'carn]]''
* ''[[Da'tsang]]''
* ''[[Siswai'aman]]''
===The Seanchan===
*''[[a'dam]]:'' Leash
*''[[Darkfriend|Atha'an Shadar]]:'' Darkfriend
*''[[damane]]:'' Leashed one
*''Marath'damane:'' Those who must be leashed
*''[[sul'dam]]:'' Leash holder
*''[[da'covale]]:'' One who is owned
*''Da’concion:'' “the Chosen Ones” (The Forsaken)
*''Sei'cair:'' Golden Eyes
*''sei'mosiev:'' lowered eyes (one who has lost honor)
*''sei'tair:'' Level eyes
*''[[Soe'feia]]:'' Truth speaker
*''[[so'jhin]]:'' Height among lowness
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Old Tongue

2021-10-14T03:50:51Z

Arinna Katal:

==General==
The Old Tongue was the language during the [[Age of Legends]]. It began to be replaced by the common tongue sometime after and now is known only to scholars, though nobles are expected to learn it ({{{ns|2}} and most do know at least a few words. ({{tsr|2}}) It was written in a script with more letters than the modern tongue, some representing diphthongs ([http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=25 October 2nd 2005 Robert Jordan's Blog]) and few can still read it. The fall in usage was not completed for many years, and, up to Artur Hawkwing's time, many people still knew it. During the time of the [[Compact of the Ten Nations]], it was in fairly common use ({{wh|21}}).
==Vocabulary==
{{Main|Old Tongue Dictionary - English}}
==Modern Useage==
None of the current nations still use the Old Tongue in everyday speech, though the [[Aelfinn]] and [[Eelfinn]] still do ({{tsr|15}}).
===The Westlands===
* ''[[Tel'aran'rhiod]]''
* ''[[Carneira]]''
* ''[[Angreal]]''
* ''[[Sa'angreal]]''
* ''[[Ter'angreal]]''
* ''[[Gaidin]]
* ''[[Aes Sedai]]
* ''[[Atha'an Miere]]
* ''[[Ta'veren]]
* ''[[Tuatha'an]]
* ''[[Saidin]]
* ''[[Saidar]]
===The Aiel===
* ''[[Seia Doon]]'' = Black Eyes
* ''[[Far Aldazar Din]]'' = Brothers of the Eagle
* ''[[Rahien Sorei]]'' = Dawn Runners
* ''[[Sovin Nai]]'' = Knife Hands
* ''[[Far Dareis Mai]]'' = Maidens of the Spear
* ''[[Hama N'dore]]'' = Mountain Dancers
* ''[[Cor Darei]]'' = Night Spears
* ''[[Aethan Dor]]'' = Red Shields
* ''[[Shae'en M'taal]]'' = Stone Dogs
* ''[[Sha'mad Conde]]'' = Thunder Walkers
* ''[[Tain Shari]]'' = True Bloods
* ''[[Duadhe Mahdi'in]]'' = Water Seekers
* ''[[Cadin'sor]]
* ''[[Gai'shain]]''
* ''[[Ji'e'toh]]''
* ''[[Car'a'carn]]''
* ''[[Da'tsang]]''
* ''[[Siswai'aman]]''
===The Seanchan===
*''[[a'dam]]:'' Leash
*''[[Darkfriend|Atha'an Shadar]]:'' Darkfriend
*''[[damane]]:'' Leashed one
*''Marath'damane:'' Those who must be leashed
*''[[sul'dam]]:'' Leash holder
*''[[da'covale]]:'' One who is owned
*''Da’concion:'' “the Chosen Ones” (The Forsaken)
*''Sei'cair:'' Golden Eyes
*''sei'mosiev:'' lowered eyes (one who has lost honor)
*''sei'tair:'' Level eyes
*''[[Soe'feia]]:'' Truth speaker
*''[[so'jhin]]:'' Height among lowness
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List of Amyrlins

2021-10-14T03:29:49Z

Arinna Katal:

''Author: Robert Jordan''

''The world of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of time, section 5, chapter 24 - The White Tower''

*[[Elisane Tishar]] - First Amyrlin
*[[Anghara]] - Time Unknown
*[[Rashima Kerenmosa]] (Green Ajah): 1251-1301 AB
*[[Tetsuan]] (Red Ajah): Trolloc Wars

# [[Bonwhin Meraighdin]] (Red Ajah): FY 939(?)
# [[Deane Aryman]] (Blue Ajah): FY 992(?)-FY 1084(?)
# [[Selame Necoine]] (Green Ajah): FY 1084(?)-5 NE
# [[Rabayn Marushta]] (White Ajah): 5-36 NE
# [[Dalaine Ndaye]] (Gray Ajah): 36-64 NE
# [[Edarna Noregovna]] (Blue Ajah): 64-115 NE
# [[Balladare Arandaille]] (Brown Ajah): 115-142 NE
# [[Medanor Eramandos]] (Gray Ajah): 142-171 NE
# [[Kiyosa Natomo]] (Green Ajah): 171-197 NE
# [[Catala Lucanvalle]] (Yellow Ajah): 197-223 NE
# [[Elise Strang]] (Gray Ajah): 223-244 NE
# [[Comarra Zepava]] (Blue Ajah): 244-276 NE
# [[Serenia Latar]] (Gray Ajah): 276-306 NE
# [[Doniella Alievin]] (Brown Ajah): 306-332 NE
# [[Aliane Senican]] (White Ajah): 332-355 NE
# [[Suilin Escanda]] (Blue Ajah): 355-396 NE
# [[Nirelle Coidevwin]] (Green Ajah): 396-419 NE
# [[Ishara Nawan]] (Blue Ajah): 419-454 NE
# [[Cerilla Marodred]] (Gray Ajah): 454-476 NE
# [[Igaine Luin]] (Brown Ajah): 476-520 NE
# [[Beryl Marle]] (White Ajah): 520-533 NE
# [[Eldaya Tolen]] (Blue Ajah): 533-549 NE
# [[Alvera Ramosanya]] (Yellow Ajah): 549-578 NE
# [[Shein Chunla]] (Green Ajah): 578-601 NE
# [[Gerra Kishar]] (Gray Ajah): 601-638 NE
# [[Varuna Morrigan]] (Green Ajah): 638-681 NE
# [[Cemaile Sorenthaine]] (Gray Ajah): 681-705 NE
# [[Marasale Jureen]] (Yellow Ajah): 705-732 NE
# [[Feragaine Saralman]] (Blue Ajah): 732-754 NE
# [[Myriam Copan]] (Green Ajah): 754-797 NE
# [[Zeranda Tyrim]] (Brown Ajah): 797-817 NE
# [[Parenia Demalle]] (Gray Ajah): 817-866 NE
# [[Sereille Bagand]] (White Ajah): 866-890 NE
# [[Aleis Romlin]] (Green Ajah): 890-922 NE
# [[Kirin Melway]] (Brown Ajah): 922-950 NE
# [[Noane Masadim]] (Blue Ajah): 950-973 NE
# [[Tamra Ospenya]] (Blue Ajah): 973-979 NE
# [[Sierin Vayu]] (Gray Ajah): 979-984 NE
# [[Marith Jaen]] (Blue Ajah): 984-988 NE
# [[Siuan Sanche]] (Blue Ajah): 988-999 NE
# [[Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan]] (Red Ajah): 999 NE-1000 NE
:41. [[Egwene al'Vere]] (None): 999 NE-1000 NE
: 42. [[Cadsuane Melaidhrin]]: 1000 NE-
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Altara

2021-10-14T03:18:40Z

Arinna Katal: /* Names */

{{comp}}

''Author: Toral Delvar''

al-TAH-rah

All information is taken from {{guide2|30}} unless stated otherwise.

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|BannerImage=VAltara.jpg
|Nation=Altara
|Capital=[[Ebou Dar]]
|Banner=The Golden Leopards on a field checked four-by four in red and blue, with red next to the staff on the topmost row.
|Sigil=Two golden leopards, one above the other; the Golden Leopards; the Leopards
|Ruler=King [[Beslan Quintara]]
|Throne=The Throne of Winds
|Crown =
|Palace=The [[Tarasin Palace]]
}}

==General==
Altara does not have the strong central control that most of the other countries do. Like Murandy, it is in many ways a land in name only, with many inhabitants seeing themselves as primarily subjects of a particular lord or lady rather than a subject of the Queen. The nobles themselves seldom pay taxes or more than lip service to the Queen. It is perhaps only the fact that it is surrounded by strong neighbours that keeps it together as a nation, as fear of annexation is strong.

Honorific title: by the Grace of the Light, Queen of Altara, Mistress of the Four Winds and Guardian of the Sea of Storms ({{wh|17}}).
==History==
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==Geography==
[[image:Altara-on-the-map.png|500px|right|alt a map of the continent, outlining the position of Altara in the south coast]]
===Relation to previous national borders===
According to the majority of the maps, most of the land that forms Altara was previously claimed by [[Shiota]], though a portion of [[Farashelle]] east of [[Garen]]'s Wall is now claimed by Altara. During the time of [[the Compact of the Ten Nations]], the land that is now Altara was part of the countries of [[Manetheren]] and [[Eharon]] ({{guide|10}}; {{guide|15}}).
===Borders===
Altara is a land at the far south of the main continent on the [[Sea of Storms]]. It borders [[Illian (Nation)|Illian]] on the east and [[Amadicia]] on the west. To the north, it shares borders with [[Ghealdan]], [[Andor]] and [[Murandy]].
===Physical features in Altara===
Much of Altara is forested, a mix of evergreens and deciduous, including the land above the Eldar where Salidar lies and all the land for three days to the east of that ({{loc|31}}). In the south, in the hills around Ebou Dar, there are olive groves and vineyards ({{acos|3}}; {{cot|10}}).
;Bodies of Water
*The [[Sea of Storms]]
*The [[Eldar]]
*The [[Manetherendrelle]]
*The [[Reshalle]]
;Hills and Mountains
*The [[Venir Mountains]], along the south coast, dwindling to hills just outside Ebou Dar ({{tpod|14}})
*The [[Rhiannon Hills]].
*The [[Damona Mountains]] ({{kod|25}})
*The Malvide Narrows, a five mile wide gap in the mountains and the Molvaine gap ({{kod|27}})
;Miscellaneous Features
*[[Arran Head]] ({{tpod|14}})
*[[Garen's Wall]]

==Government==
Altarans and Altaran nobles show little loyalty to the nation and less to the throne. Before the [[Seanchan]] arrived, the various nobles were all but independent, with fear of each other and of Amadicia and Illian on either side being the main reason for any cohesiveness as a nation. Altara was also caught up in the battles against [[Logain]] ({{tdr|13}}). Following [[Rand]]'s battle in [[Falme]] and his taking of the [[Stone of Tear]], Altara, as with many of the other countries, suffered from Dragonsworn. This was exacerbated by [[Pedron Niall]] and a plan he set in motion a plan to have Dragonsworn plague the country ({{prol6}}; {{acos|12}}). With its proximity to Ghealdan, it was also affected to some extent by [[the Prophet]] and his mobs. Away from Ebou Dar, the law is what the local lord or lady says and the paying of ransom to brigands or anyone they can't fight off is a common practice ({{cot|8}}).

After the Seanchan arrived, they began to force a sense of unity on the country. Tylin swore fealty to [[the Empress]] ({{wh|16}}) and was promised that she would rule in her name and be raised to [[the Blood]]. Beslan was also offered the opportunity to marry one of the Blood and to shave his head on both sides ({{wh|16}}). A similar opportunity was offered to many of the other nobles, who conspired against each other and Tylin in an effort to benefit themselves as much as possible ({{tpod|23}}).
===The Throne===
Traditionally, the Throne of Winds has lacked power and few families have held onto it for long. Since [[the War of the Hundred Years]], only House Todande held it for as much as five generations and their fall was so drastic that today they are little more than a lapdog for any other house that wants to use them. The current ruling house, Mitsobar, has held the throne for three generations. Tylins's father took the throne and initially only had control slightly beyond the palace. Since that time, he, and later Tylin, extended the control further, for a hundred miles beyond the capital.
===Nobility===
;Noble Houses
*Mitsobar
*Todande
===Military===
Altara has never had its own national military force, as no ruler has been strong enough to demand one. Despite not having a military to speak of, they have in the past been effective and were able to force the [[Whitecloaks]] out of Altara by making the country too hot to hold, something they refer to as “The Altaran Noon” ({{tpod|16}}). Following the Seanchan conquest, the Altarans fight for them. In the battle against Rand and the [[Asha'man]], they are not yet fully trusted and so wear red criss-crosses on their breastplates to mark them as such ({{tpod|24}}).
===Cities, Towns and Villages===

Many towns are similar in their masonry to Ebou Dar, with white being common, but not all are as stark; for example Remen, on the Manetherendrelle River, is built mostly of stone, with bright tiles of every colour. Villages may have white plastered buildings with flat roofs of pale reddish tile ({{loc|47}}).

;Towns and villages in Altara

*[[Ebou Dar]]
*[[Fyall]]*
*[[Jurador]]
*[[King's Crossing]]
*[[Mosra]]
*[[Remen]]
*[[Runnien Crossing]]
*[[Salidar]]
*[[Samaha]]*
*[[So Eban]]
*[[So Habor]]
*[[So Tehar]]
*[[Tallan (village)|Tallan]]*
*[[Weesin]]
*[[Willar]]*

Note: Those with asterisks are located in either Ghealdan or Altara.
==Relations and Trade==
==People and Customs==
The people are very polite, yet quick to take offence, and respond with the offer to duel. Although this is especially prevalent in the capital, most Altarans will carry a curved dueling dagger at the waist, within easy reach. Duels are a normal part of life for all Altarans, a regular occurrence in Ebou Dar and occur almost hourly in the Rahad. According to the law, the death of a man at the hands of a woman is considered justified unless proven otherwise. For this reason, men are very solicitous of women.

It is customary in Altara for married women to wear a marriage knife. This tradition is especially prevalent in Ebou Dar. The woman is given a knife by her husband when they marry, at which time he requests that she use it to kill him should he displease her. The knife is worn around the neck, hilt hanging down, from a choker. A woman who is engaged to be married will simply wear the choker.

The knife gives a great deal of information about the woman. A white sheath means that she is widowed, with no intent of marrying again, a blue sheath that she is widowed but will consider offers. Jewels or glass set into the knife represent children, white for sons and red for daughters. If the children have died, then they are enamelled in black, unless they died in a duel, in which case sons are enamelled in red and daughters in white. Children over sixteen who refuse a duel may have their stones removed, effectively disowning them.

In Ebou Dar, at least, a woman may decide who will have her husband after she dies, to make sure he is in the right hands ({{acos|12}}). Another custom regarding men and women in Altara is pretties. Many young Altaran men and women have a final fling as a pretty, pampered and showered with presents before settling down. This is supposed to be at the choice of the pretty, who is free to leave whenever they wish ({{wh|18}}).
({{loc|48}}).
===Feasts and Festivals===
===Appearance, Clothing and Dress===

Physically, Altarans are known for having dark hair, dark eyes and olive skin, though this is more pronounced in the south, Northerners, such as those from Malden, may appear more like Andorans, being fair and sometimes having blue eyes ({{cot|10}}).

Women often wear pale dresses with snug bodices and full skirts over bright petticoats. Commoners and nobles wear different styles, commoners having narrow deep necklines and nobles having an oval cut out in the bodice, to show off the marriage knife. Ebou Dari men wear long vests, often as brightly colored as a [[Tinker]]'s, worn over pale shirts with white sleeves. The wealthy may add a decorative coat, too small to be worn, slung over the shoulders, held with a chain of silver of gold strung between the lapels. Men and women alike adorn their hands with rings.

Outside of Ebou Dar, the dress may be more modest, with women having very high necklines up to their chin in Jurador. There, both men and women have highly embroidered clothing, the higher their rank, the more elaborate. As with Altarans, most wear a curved duelling knife, though here it is a little less curved than in Ebou Dar ({{cot|29}}). Further away, in Runnien Crossing, men wear short wool coats embroidered with angular scrollwork and dark baggy trousers with knee boots. The women wear colorful dresses with narrow skirts covered in flowers. Rather than curved blades, the majority of people here wear straight knives ({{tpod|8}}).
===Food===
===Expressions===
''Lean back on your knife and let your tongue go free'' is a common Altaran saying. It essentially means that the person who says it will take no insult from what they are told, except if they lie, though the high ranked, such as Tylin do not usually expect to be taken at their word on this. They do however keep to the tradition
===Characters from Altara===

For characters from Altara, see the [[Altaran Character List]].
===Names===
Family names in Altara include:
Adley, Algaran, Anan, Asnobar, Berengari, Darvale, Denal, Elonid, Fearnim, Feir, Furlan, Leich, Mitsobar, Neres, Sarat, Shoran, Sutoman

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Matrim Cauthon

2021-10-14T03:09:57Z

Arinna Katal: /* A Memory of Light */

''Author: Atarah al'Norahn''

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Pronunciation: MAT-rihm CAW-thon

Matrim Cauthon was born in 978 NE, in [[Emond's Field]], [[Andor]], to [[Abell]] and [[Natti Cauthon]]. Other than his parents, his family consists of two younger sisters, [[Bodewhin Cauthon|Bodewhin]] and [[Eldrin Cauthon|Eldrin]].

His best friends from the village are [[Rand al'Thor]] and [[Perrin Aybara]]. In 998 NE Mat and his friends, along with a girl from their villgae [[Egwene al'Vere]], left with [[Moiraine Damodred|Moiraine Sedai]] and her Warder after Trollocs attack and burn the village.

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==General==

===Appearance===
Most women find him appealing, with a wiry body and brown hair and eyes.
===Personality===
Dancing and flirting seem to be two of his favorite past times. He also has quite a bit of a gambling streak, and plays dice often. Many people who see him gambling declare that he seems to have [[the Dark One]]'s own luck. While in Emond's Field his luck was average; he lost as much as he won. After the incident at [[Shadar Logoth]], his luck became rather good. After he was [[Heal]]ed by the [[Aes Sedai]] in [[the White Tower]], it became extraordinary ({{tdr|30}}) .

Another major side to Mat is that of the prankster. In Emond's Field, he was well known for his escapades.

===Condensed Timeline===
*978NE: Mat is born
*998NE: Moiraine and Lan find Mat and his friends in the Two Rivers.

{{Spoiler|the whole series|
*998NE in the spring: Moiraine and Lan find Mat in the Two Rivers on the same day Ishamael directs a Trolloc attack. They flee, with Rand, Perrin, Egwene and Thom.
*998NE: After they hide in the abandoned city of Shadar Logoth, Mat steals a dagger and takes it with him outside of the city walls.
*998NE: Mat and his friends travel from Caemlyn, through the Ways to Fal Dara
*998NE: Mat journeys to the Eye of the World, in the Blight meeting the Green Man and encountering Balthamel and Aginor, who are both killed.
*998NE: After an attack on Fal Dara, Mat looses the dagger and journeys with Rand and Perrin and Shienaran soldiers to get it back
*998NE late fall/winter: Mat gets the dagger back and also sounds the Horn of Valere
*999NE spring: Mat is brought to Tar Valon to be Healed and the link to the dagger be broken
*999NE: Mat travels to Tear to save Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve, where he goes through a redstone ter'angreal where the Aelfinn answer questions for him
*999NE: Mat travels to Rhuidean, where he goes through a redstone ter'angreal where the Eelfinn almost kill him, give him memories of long died soldiers and also a fox head medalion and an ashandarei
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==Mat's Journey==
===The Eye of the World===
Mat's journey, like [[Rand]] and [[Perrin]]'s, begins the day before [[Bel Tine]] when he sees a [[Fade]] and discusses it with Rand. ({{teotw|1}}). Later on the same day, he meets [[Moiraine]], the Aes Sedai who will take him and his friends away from Emond's Field. ({{teotw|2}}). That night, his house is one of the one's targeted when [[Trollocs]] attack Emond's Field. Luckily, he is not injured. ({{teotw|7}}). The next evening, Moiraine and her [[Warder]], [[Lan]], whisk Mat, Perrin, Rand and [[Egwene]] away from Emond's Field and towards a safer place ({{teotw|10}}).

After several days of traveling, Mat and company wind up in [[Baerlon]], where they stay at an inn called [[The Stag and Lion]]. ({{teotw|13}}) His sleep that night is disturbed by dreams of [[Ba'alzamon]], the Dark One, who is after the three boys for a reason that is unknown to them ({{teotw|14}}).

A few incidents occur while the group is in Baerlon; Mat plays pranks on a group of [[Whitecloaks]], shares his dream with Rand (who, incidentally, had the same dream) and Thom, and is, along with the others, shocked by [[Nynaeve]]'s arrival in Baerlon ({{teotw|15}}; {{ch1|16}}). When a fade shows up in Baerlon, Mat and company flee, confronting the Whitecloaks in the process ({{teotw|17}}).

Three days later, they are attacked by Trollocs. The entire group has to fight in order to get away. During the battle, Mat shouts a phrase in [[the Old Tongue]] without knowing it. ''"[[Pronunciation Guide|Carai an Caldazar]]! Carai an Ellisande! Al Ellisande!"'' ("For the honor of the Red Eagle. For the honor of the Rose of the Sun. The Rose of the Sun.") ({{teotw|18}}) They finally reach an abandoned city named [[Shadar Logoth]] ({{teotw|18}}).

Mat, along with Rand and Perrin, leaves the camp in Shadar Logoth to go exploring. They meet a man named [[Mordeth]] who asks for their help before attempting to kill them. As they flee, Mat grabs a [[ruby dagger|dagger]] with a large ruby on the hilt. When they return to the camp, they are told that Lan is out looking for them and scouting the city. When he returns, they learn that there are Trollocs in Shadar Logoth ({{teotw|19}}).

The group decides to leave Shadar Logoth, but [[Mashadar]], the evil mist of the city, is rising with the coming dark. They are all separated, but manage to get out of the city alive. Mat, Rand and [[Thom]] end up jumping aboard a boat named the ''[[Spray]]''. The three of them are dropped off at [[Whitebridge]]. There, they encounter a Fade. Rand and Mat get away, while Thom stays to delay it.

Thinking that Thom is dead, Mat and Rand head off towards [[Caemlyn]]. Along the way, they meet a multitude of [[Darkfriends]] who either try to kill or capture them. During the trip, Mat begins to act strangely; he is often dark and brooding ({{teotw|32}}; {{ch1|33}}).

Finally, Mat and Rand reach Caemlyn and proceed towards an inn named '[[The Queen's Blessing]],' the place that Thom had told them to go if the three of them got separated. Mat shuts himself away in his room and refuses to leave. ({{teotw|35}});{{ch1|36}})

Mat is still in his room when Moiraine, Lan, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve finally arrive in Caemlyn. When Moiraine sees Mat, she is aghast. Although he tries to injure her with the ruby dagger when she touches him, she manages to partially Heal him, bringing him back to his usual self. The others are told that the reason Mat became sick was because the dagger is tainted. She was unable to Heal him enough so as to be able to take the dagger away from him; if he is separated from it before he is fully Healed at the Tower, he will die ({{teotw|41}}; {{ch1|42}}).

Moiraine decides that they all need to go to the [[Eye of the World]]. After speaking with [[Loial]], the [[Ogier]] that Rand met in Caemlyn, she decides that they will use [[the Ways]]. Before leaving Caemlyn, Mat is once again plagued by dreams of Ba'alzamon ({{teotw|43}}).

Mat and company proceed to travel through the Ways. Like everyone else, Mat is spooked out, especially when they are almost caught by ''[[Machin Shin]]''. Never the less, they finally arrive in [[Fal Dara]], [[Shienar]] ({{teotw|44}}; {{ch1|45}}).
Their stay in Fal Dara is relatively short before they set off for [[the Blight]], intent on finding the Eye of the World. ({{teotw|48}}) Finally, after an unpleasant trip through the Blight, they reach the Green Man's garden and are led to the Eye of the World. ({{teotw|49}}) There, the group is faced by two of the Forsaken, [[Aginor]] and [[Balthamel]]. After they are defeated, Mat, along with Loial, Lan and Perrin, enters the Eye of the World. There, they find the Dragon Banner, [[the Horn of Valere]], and one of [[The Seals]] to the Dark One's prison. ({{teotw|50}}; {{ch1|52}}).
After this long ordeal, Mat and the others go back to Fal Dara ({{teotw|53}}).

===The Great Hunt===
Back in Fal Dara, a few things of consequence happen. Mat discovers that, since obtaining the ruby dagger and being partially Healed, his luck has significantly increased. Later, [[Padan Fain]], now a known Darkfriend, steals the Horn of Valere and Mat's ruby dagger ({{tgh|3}}; {{ch2|6}}). Without the dagger, the Aes Sedai won't be able to fully Heal him of its taint. For this reason, the [[Amyrlin Seat]] asks if he will accompany the party that will go to find the two stolen items ({{tgh|7}}; {{tgh|8}}). When they leave, Perrin and Rand accompany them ({{tgh|9}}).

The Hunt for the Horn is relatively uneventful until Mat and Perrin find Rand with the Dragon Banner, which Moiraine had put into his saddlebags. It is then that they learn that Rand is the [[Dragon Reborn]]. After this revelation, they both avoid him ({{tgh|11})). When Rand, Loial and [[Hurin]] are found missing the next morning, Mat and company continue on without them ({{tgh|14}}). Eventually, they end up in the city of [[Cairhien (City)|Cairhien]], where they are reunited with Rand, Loial and Hurin ({{tgh|30}})

When Hurin discovers that the Horn of Valere is in Lord [[Barthanes]]' manor, Mat, Rand and some of the others attend a party there ({{tgh|21}}; {{ch2|32}}). The Horn of Valere, however, is no longer there. Believing that Padan Fain has gone to [[Falme]], they try to go through a [[Waygate]], but encounter Machin Shin. Gathering everyone together, they all head for Stedding Tsofu. They arrive and gain permission from the Ogier Elders to use the Stedding Tsofu Waygate, only to encounter ''Machin Shin'' again ({{tgh|33}}; {{ch2|35}}; {{ch2|36}}). As a last resort, Rand takes them to [[Toman Head]] with the use of a [[Portal Stone]]. They arrive to find that four months have passed ({{tgh|37}}).

Mat, along with Rand, Perrin, Hurin and [[Ingtar]], goes into Falme with the intent of recovering the Horn of Valere and the ruby dagger. They find both items in the house of the [[Seanchan]] Lord [[Turak]], whom Rand kills ({{tgh|45}}). As they leave the city, they are caught between the Seanchan army and the [[Whitecloaks]], with no escape. Mat blows the Horn of Valere, and the Heroes of the Horn ride to their rescue ({{tgh|47}}).

Once everything is finally over, Mat heads to the White Tower to be Healed ({{tgh|49}}).

===The Dragon Reborn===
By the time Mat finally reaches the White Tower, he is very ill. It takes ten Aes Sedai and a powerful ''[[sa'angreal]]'' to Heal him ({{tdr|11}}; {{ch3|18}}).

When Mat awakens, he is thin and weak. He receives visits from [[Lanfear]] in the guise of Selene, who attempts to get him to join her, and then from [[Siuan]] and [[Leane]]. They inform him that he will be staying at the Tower for quite awhile ({{tdr|19}}; {{ch3|20}}).

Tired of being cooped up in his room, Mat goes out for a walk and ends up at the Warder practice field. There, he bets [[Gawyn]] and [[Galad]] that he can beat them both and wins ({{tdr|24}}).

Later on, he is visited by [[Egwene]], [[Elayne]] and [[Nynaeve]]. They talk for a while and come to an agreement. They will give him one of the letters that Siuan gave them to get around easily if he will carry a letter to [[Morgase]] from Elayne. He agrees because it will get him out of Tar Valon ({{tdr|28}}). He leaves the Tower and begins gambling at taverns in the city to make some money for his trip. He ends up making a fortune. After an attempt n his life by a [[Gray Men|gray man]] and Darkfriends, he runs into Thom at an inn named 'The Woman of [[Tanchico]],' and convinces Thom to go to Caemlyn with him ({{tdr|30}}; {{ch3|31}}).

Mat is able to secure passage on a ship using the Amyrlin's letter, but that night he is once again attacked by Darkfriends. They finally arrive safely in Aringill. They decide to stay in the stable of an inn named '[[The Good Queen]]' for the night. There, they save [[Aludra]], an [[Illuminator]], from some men. In return, Aludra gifts Mat with fireworks ({{tdr|32}}; {{ch3|40}}).

On the way to Caemlyn. Mat and Thom are once again attacked by Darkfriends. They kill them and continue on towards Caemlyn ({{tdr|44}}). When they arrive, Mat attempts to deliver Elayne's letter, but the guards won't let him. Later, he remembers how Rand once got into the palace by climbing a wall. He decides to try it out and succeeds. On his way to Morgase, he hears a man telling someone to kill Elayne. After delivering Elayne's letter, he realizes that it was Morgase's lover, Lord [[Gaebril]], and is glad that he didn't say anything ({{tdr|45}}; {{ch3|46}}). Mat and Thom decide to go to Tear to rescue Elayne ({{tdr|47}}). When they reach Tear, Mat uses his luck to find [[Comar]], Gaebril's lackey ({{tdr|49}}).

Because Thom gets sick, Mat takes him to a Wise Woman, [[Ailhuin Guenna|Mother Guenna]], who is able to tell them about Elayne, Egwene and Nynaeve. Mat heads off for [[the Stone of Tear]], where he meets [[Juilin]] and some of the [[Aiel]]. Using the fireworks that Aludra gave him, he blasts a hole in the wall, and Mat and Juilin start looking for the three girls ({{tdr|52}}; {{ch3|54}}). They manage to free the girls; despite the fact that Mat and Juilin risked their lives among the [[Black Ajah]], Elayne, Egwene and Nynaeve do not thank them ({{tdr|55}}).
===The Shadow Rising===
{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|The Stone of Tear is now secure, Mat is playing cards with some Tairen lords. Suddenly, his cards come to life and attack him. He manages to turn them all back into cards. After this, the Tairens all avoid him ({{tsr|2}}).

Later, wanting to escape and not knowing what to do, he goes through the twisted red doorway ''[[ter'angreal]]'' that Egwene told him about. There, he meets the [[Aelfinn]], who tell him four things.
1) If he doesn't go to [[Rhuidean]], he will die.
2) He is destined to marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons.
3) He will die and live again.
4) He will have to give up half the light of the world to save the world.
({{tsr|15}})

When everyone is ready to leave for the [[Aiel Waste]], Rand transports himself, Mat and the others using a Portal Stone ({{tsr|22}})) When Rand requests of the Aiel [[Wise Ones]] to go to Rhuidean, Mat asks if he can accompany him, and the Wise Ones concede ({{tsr|23}}).

In Rhuidean, Mat finds another twisted red doorway ''ter'angreal''. Little does he know that the [[Eelfinn]], unlike the Aelfinn, do not answer questions, but grant wishes. When they don't answer his questions, he angrily begins demanding things of them. He tells them that he wants the holes in his memory to be filled, that he wants to be free of Aes Sedai channeling, and that he wants to go back to Rhuidean. When Rand finds him, Mat is hanging from Avendesora with a spear bearing a curved blade and a [[foxhead medallion]]. He has also gained fluency in the Old Tongue ({{tsr|24}}; {{ch4|26}}).

After returning from Rhuidean, Mat accompanies Rand and the Aiel to [[Imre Stand]], and then to [[Cold Rocks Hold]], participating in battles against Trollocs along the way ({{tsr|36}}; {{ch4|37}}; {{ch4|48}}; {{ch4|49}}; {{ch4|50}}). He also accompanies Rand to [[Alcair Dal]] ({{tsr|57}}; {{ch4|58}}). }}
===The Fires of Heaven===
{{Spoiler|[[The Fires of Heaven]]|Since Rhuidean is now open to everyone, Mat and the others, as well as the Aiel, have moved in. While Mat is out on the streets, he meets [[Melindhra]], a [[Shaido]] [[Maiden of the Spear]] who has chosen to follow Rand ({{tfoh|3}}). Later, when they are in bed together, [[Darkhounds]] attack; however, no one is killed ({{tfoh|6}}).

They are soon on the move again. Mat accompanies Rand and the Aiel to [[Jangai Pass]] and the town of [[Taien]], which has been destroyed. Later, when they are camped, they are attacked by Trollocs. Both Mat and Melindhra join the fight ({{tfoh|20}}; {{ch5|21}}; {{ch5|22}}.

After reaching [[Cairhien (Nation)|Cairhien]], Mat decides that he is going to leave Rand and the others ({{tfoh|23}}; {{ch5|42}}). When he goes to tell Rand, he ends up discussing battle plans with Lan ({{tfoh|42}}). However, despite his intentions to leave, the next day's planned battle against the Shaido prevents him from escaping. When he can't get away, he notices that the Shaido have set an unexpected trap. He goes to warn the Tairens and Cairhienin soldiers, and ends up leading them throughout the battle {{tfoh|43}}; {{ch5|44}}). During said battle, Mat encounters Couladin, the leader of the Shaido, and kills him ({{tfoh|45}}). [[Talmanes]] and [[Nalesean]], the Tairen and Cairhienin leaders of the soldiers that Mat led, end up swearing fealty to him ({{tfoh|45}}).

After returning to Cairhien, Mat learns that Melindhra is really a Darkfriend when she tries to kill him, but he ends up killing her instead ({{tfoh|51}})The next morning, Mat is present when Lanfear attacks Rand, Egwene and Aviendha, but he is not injured ({{tfoh|52}}). Later, however, he is killed during Rand's attack on Rahvin in Caemlyn, but is brought back to life when Rand [[balefire]]s Rahvin ({{tfoh|54}}); {{ch5|55}}). }}
===Lord of Chaos===
{{Spoiler|[[Lord of Chaos]]|Some time later as Mat leads his newly found army, [[the Band of the Red Hand]], towards Tear, there is another assassination attempt on his life, this time by a group of Aiel ({{loc|22}}). Later, Rand asks Mat to go to [[Salidar]] in order to find Elayne, who is now Queen of Andor as Morgase is presumed to be dead. Mat agrees, and Aviendha accompanies him ({{loc|23}}). When he arrives in Salidar with the Band of the Red Hand, he gets the shock of his life when he learns that Egwene is the rebel's Amyrlin. Several days later, he is enlisted to go to [[Ebou Dar]] with Elayne and Nynaeve ({{loc|38}}; {{ch6|44}}). During the trip to Ebou Dar, Mat is pestered by Elayne, Nynaeve, and [[Vandene]] and [[Adeleas]], the two Aes Sedai who are accompanying them ({{loc|23}}).

Once in Ebou Dar, Mat opts not to stay in the palace, but randomly chooses an inn named '[[The Wandering Woman]].' Over the next little while, he spends his time attempting to keep track of Elayne and Nynaeve, wandering around the city, and going to festivals with [[Beslan]], Queen [[Tylin]]'s son. Tylin seems to be interested in him ({{loc|52}}; {{acos|14}}; {{ch7|16}}). }}
===A Crown of Swords===
{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|Mat is attacked a couple more times in Ebou Dar, and meets [[Birgitte]] ({{acos|17}}; {{ch7|21}}).

After a long wait, Mat finally gets his thanks from Nynaeve and Elayne for rescuing them in Tear. They then enlist his help in finding [[the Bowl of the Winds]], and he moves into [[the Tarasin Palace]] with them. Unfortunately for Mat, this brings him into Tylin's path, and she claims him for her own ({{acos|22}}; {{ch7|28}}; {{ch7|29}}).

Mat finally finds the hiding place of the Bowl of the Winds, and accompanies Nynaeve, Elayne, Aviendha, Birgitte, Lan and the Kin into [[the Rahad]] to get it. There, two Black sisters and the ''[[gholam]]'' attack them ({{acos|31}}; {{ch7|37}}; {{ch7|38}}). All the women leave Ebou Dar with the Bowl of the Winds and Mat, Thom, Juilin and Olver are accidentally left behind when the Seanchan attack Ebou Dar. He is injured when a wall topples onto him ({{acos|39}}). }}
===The Path of Daggers===
{{Spoiler|[[The Path of Daggers]]|Mat spends the book recuperating. }}
===Winter's Heart===
{{Spoiler|[[Winter's Heart]]|While still in Ebou Dar, Mat meets Aludra the Illuminator again, and spends quite a bit of time with her. He is also attacked by the ''gholam'' again. It is then that he meets [[Noal Charin]], an old man, who helps him ({{wh|15}}; {{ch9|16}}). Upon returning to the Tarasin Palace, he meets [[Tuon]], though he does not know that she is the Daughter of the Nine Moons ({{wh|17}}).

By this time, Mat wants nothing more than to get away from Ebou Dar, Tylin and the Seanchan. With this in mind, he begins moving his belongings back to The Wandering Woman inn. On one of these trips, he gets himself into an even worse circumstance. [[Setalle Anan]], the owner, has been aiding [[Joline]] Sedai so as not to let her be caught by the Seanchan. Mat ends up agreeing to help her get out of the city. Upon returning to the Tarasin Palace, Mat visits Teslyn Sedai in the ''damane'' quarters and adds both [[Teslyn]] and [[Edesina]] to the list of Aes Sedai escapees. Mat, Thom and Juilin begin to forming a plan, but are unable to get it to work without ''[[sul'dam]]''. When Mat meets [[Egeanin]] and [[Bayle Domon]], who want to hire the three men, their problems are solved. Egeanin pulls some strings to make the escape possible ({{wh|18}}; {{ch9|19}}; {{ch9|29}}).

The next night, the plan is put into action. Mat goes up to the ''[[damane]]'' kennels and ends up freeing one of the [[Sea Folk]] [[Windfinders]]. When he returns to Tylin's room, he is surprised to find her there, as she was supposed to be away. He ends up, with her permission, tying her up and leaving her under the bed so that no one thinks that she helped him. As he reaches the stable yard, he runs into Tuon. It is then that he learns that she is the Daughter of the Nine Moons. Shocked, he says three times that she is his wife, not realizing that he has thus completed his half of the Seanchan marriage ceremony. They end up taking Tuon and [[Selucia]], her maid, with them ({{wh|30}}; {{ch9|31}}). }}
===Crossroads of Twilight===
{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|Once the group is out of Ebou Dar, they take refuge in [[Valan Luca]]'s circus ({{cot|1}}). Over the next little while, as they travel towards [[Lugard]], [[Murandy]], Mat courts Tuon. At one point, [[Renna]], one of the ''sul'dam'', attempts to escape and Mat is forced to kill her ({{cot|2}}; {{ch10|3}}; {{ch10|28}}; {{ch10|29}}). }}
===Knife of Dreams===
{{Spoiler|[[Knife of Dreams]]|The morning after Renna’s death, the dice begin rolling in Mat’s head. Mat attempts to convince Luca to leave Jurador, but Luca insists on staying for at least two more days. Mat goes into Jurador, where he visits various stables in the town before finally buying a razor for Tuon. When he returns to Luca’s show, he goes to Tuon’s wagon, where he finds Tuon with Selucia, Setalle, Noal, and Olver. He calls Tuon “Precious,” telling her that if she is to call him by a “pet name,” he will do the same to her. She decides to take it as a game, although Mat does not know what the rules are. While they are talking, Juilin arrives to let Mat know that Seanchan soldiers have come to Jurador ({{kod|6}}).

Mat sends Olver and Noal off to warn the others about the Seanchan, and when Tuon asks if he isn’t going to leave anyone to keep her from escaping, he reminds her that she has given her word not to escape; she graces him with a smile. He goes to the Aes Sedai’s wagon, and is angry when he can sense channeling inside. He enters and when he begins to question them about what they are doing, Joline smacks him. In return, Mat puts Joline over his knee and spanks her. The Aes Sedai all try to stop him, but his foxhead medallion protects him. He learns that the channeling was because of an altercation between the Aes Sedai and the former ''sul’dam''. When he finally leaves the wagon, Blaeric and Fen question him over what happened, since they could sense something through their bond to Joline, but Mat tells them to ask her instead ({{kod|7}}).

Luca decides to leave Jurador early after all, and they depart the next morning. As they travel, Mat thinks about what to do regarding Tuon. In midafternoon, they reach the village of [[Runnien Crossing]] and Luca stops to set up his show. That night, Mat finds Aludra and tells her that he has figured out why she wants bellfounders: to make lofting tubes. Aludra tells him of her plans to make Dragons, a weapon that can launch explosives over two miles’ distance. Mat asks her to come with him when he eventually leaves Luca’s show, telling her that Rand will arrange to have her Dragons made—and that if Rand will not, Mat will himself. Aludra agrees. Mat thinks that the dice in his head are quieter, now, but he can still hear them ({{kod|8}}).

The next day, Domon and Leilwin get married, so Mat moves into a separate tent to give them privacy. Luca’s show progresses slowly across Altara, never moving more than four leagues in a day and often stopping at towns and villages. Mat dines with Tuon every day. She questions him about Rand and the Horn of Valere, although she does not know that Mat knows Rand or that Mat sounded the Horn ({{kod|8}}).

As they travel over the next several days, Joline and Edesina repeatedly try to learn more about Mat’s foxhead ''ter’angreal''. They discover that while they cannot channel directly at him, they can throw things at him with the One Power. Setalle asks Mat privately if she can see the ter’angreal, and he allows her to. He guesses that she was once Aes Sedai, and Setalle as much as admits it. She tells Mat that if he will keep her secret, she will keep his secret that he is in love with Tuon; knowledge of this would give Tuon a great advantage over him. Mat agrees ({{kod|9}}).

Four days after leaving Jurador, Mat gives Tuon the razor, and suddenly the dice in his head are even quieter. He realizes that there had been multiple sets going: one stopped when Aludra agreed to go with him, and another when he gave Tuon the razor, but there is still at least one more set rattling around in his head. Mat then takes Tuon and Selucia out riding. At one point, Tuon and Selucia take off and Mat chases after them. They stop at some ruins that Mat has memories of dying near, and an unwelcome thought occurs to him: in order for him to remember dying so many times, the Eelfinn must create some link to the people they take memories from so that they can continue collecting memories throughout those peoples’ lives. He is disconcerted by the fact that the same might have been done to him. On their way back to Luca’s show, they stop briefly to speak with a group of Tuatha’an who want to make sure that Tuon and Selucia are okay ({{kod|8}}). Leilwin later tells him that for the Seanchan, to give an exotic courting gift is to acknowledge that one is courting someone of a higher station, meaning that giving the razor to Tuon acknowledges that Mat doesn’t “expect to be her equal.” Mat is horrified to learn what he has unknowingly done ({{kod|9}}).

The night after giving Tuon the razor, Mat is having dinner with her when the three Aes Sedai barge in and demand that the Seanchan leave the Westalnds. Tuon responds by placing ''a’dam'' on them, but Mat intervenes and releases them. That night he buries the ''a’dam'' so that they cannot be used again ({{kod|9}}).

The next day Mat and Tuon talk as they ride together. Luca instructs the show to stop at a village in the afternoon, but the village tugs at Mat’s memories and he suddenly realizes that it is a village from the past and all the inhabitants are dead. He shouts to warn a peddler who has just ridden into the village, but as the village begins “melting slowly into the ground,” the peddler is sucked in with it. Everyone with the show is incredibly spooked, and none of Luca’s people want to carry on and cross the field where the village once stood. Luca manages to inspire them with tales of all the cities they will visit, however, and the show continues to move onward. They ride late into the day before stopping again ({{kod|10}}).

Mat does not eat with Tuon that night, since she insists that it is a night for prayer: the dead walking means that Tarmon Gai’don is on its way. He eats alone, but Thom, Noal, Juilin, Amathera, Olver, Domon, and Egeanin all drop by that evening as no one wants to be alone. After Juilin, Amathera, Domon, and Egeanin have left, Mat notices Thom reading the worn letter that he often has with him, and asks about it. Thom offers the letter to Mat, and Mat discovers that it is from Moiraine. In the letter, Moiraine informs Thom that she is still alive and that he, Mat, and one other person might try to rescue her. Mat tells Thom, Noal, and Olver about his experiences with the Eelfinn and Aelfinn and then agrees to help Thom rescue Moiraine. In that moment, the final set of dice stop spinning in his head. ({{kod|10}}).

The next day, Luca’s show stops outside [[Maderin]], although Luca intends for them to move on the next morning. Tuon decides that she wants to see the inside of a hell. Mat is apprehensive, but he and Thom bring Tuon and Selucia into the town and pass the common room at The White Ring off as a hell. While Thom goes off to find what he can learn in the town, Mat, Tuon, and Selucia have a drink. Tuon wants to see Mat’s luck in action, so Mat dices with some of the other patrons. He wins every toss, and people are growing suspicious until he suddenly loses his last toss. Tuon comments on his luck running out, but Mat replies that the loss was actually lucky because it allayed everyone’s suspicions ({{kod|11}}).

While Tuon and Selucia are visiting the toilet, Thom comes back with news that there is a Seanchan army on the Murandian border and that the Seanchan are searching for someone they claim is impersonating Tuon. According to Thom, orders are that she be killed upon being found. Mat begins making plans to leave Luca’s show before they reach the Murandian border. When Tuon and Selcuia return, Mat tells them what he has learned. Tuon thinks that one of her sisters might be trying to have her assassinated. As they are talking, they are attacked by a number of people. Mat shouts at Tuon to run; after the attackers have been dispatched, Tuon announces that she has won their game, as Mat was the first to break and use her real name. Mat recognizes one of the attackers as a merchant he was dicing with at The White Ring. He decides that they need to leave Luca’s show right away ({{kod|11}}).

Mat leaves Luca’s show along with the Redarms, Aludra, Thom, Noal, Olver, Juilin, Amathera, Domon, Leilwin, Tuon, Selucia, Setalle, the Aes Sedai, and the former ''sul’dam''. They ride hard for the Damona Mountains, where Vanin knows a pass that will get them into Murandy. The first day, when they are stopped for lunch at midday, Mat stops Juilin from killing a poisonous snake that isn’t threatening them, and Tuon declares in front of everyone that he may kiss her. Mat suggests that they go for a stroll that evening instead, but Tuon tells him that “By tonight, I may have changed my mind.” He kisses her chastely, but when she challenges him to kiss her properly, he does so. Afterwards, she feels his face and determines that he is feverish from the wounds he sustained during the attack in Maderin. She insists on tending to him, but just then, Vanin rides up with Talmanes, who has brought half the Band to find Mat. Talmanes reveals that the Band has doubled in size, that he has seen many Seanchan camps, and also that the pass through the Damona Mountains has been taken out by a landslide. Mat will have to find another way through ({{kod|25}}).

Mat and the others ride with Talmanes to where he left the Band. The Band is delighted to be reunited with Mat and breaks into a round of “Jak o’ the Shadows.” In the camp, Mat pores over maps of the surrounding area and gathers information on where Seanchan camps are to be found ({{kod|26}}). Over the next several days, Mat plans and leads a series of raids and ambushes against nearby Seanchan camps. He intends to draw the Seanchan out of the Molvaine Gap so that his people can get through into Murandy ({{kod|27}}).

[[Furyk Karede]], who has been searching for Tuon, finally tracks down Mat’s camp. Mat, who is concerned for Tuon’s safety, says that Tuon can go with Karede if she trusts him. In so freeing her to return to Ebou Dar, Mat fulfills a foretelling that [[Lidya]] once had regarding the man Tuon would marry. Tuon completes the marriage ceremony by declaring three times that Mat is her husband. Tuon states that while she does not love Mat, she is marrying to serve the Empire. Just as Tuon is preparing to leave with Karede, Vanin arrives to inform Mat that there are ten thousand Seanchan soldiers nearby; they are searching for Tuon in order to kill her. Mat tells Tuon and Karede to go, but asks Karede to leave him a dozen Deathwatch Guards and some Gardeners ({{kod|36}}).

Using the Deathwatch Guards and Gardeners Karede has left behind, Mat plans a decoy to allow Tuon to escape. They manage to defeat the Seanchan force that is after Tuon, and discover that it was sent by Suroth. Mat learns that he is now Prince of the Ravens through his marriage to Tuon and is not very pleased ({{kod|37}}). }}
===The Gathering Storm===
{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|Tuon reflects on Matrim Cauthon while she holds audience in Ebou Dar. When Lieutenant-General Tylee Khirgan has the actual heads of Trollocs delivered, Tuon realizes that, not only had she felt safe with Mat (or rather, Matrim), but she wonders what other things he had said which she mistakenly discounted, but which were true ({{tgs|19}}).

While riding through the mountains of [[Murandy]], down an old road, probably dating from before [[the Breaking]], Mat rants to Talmanes about women. [[Talmanes]] is perceptive enough to know that Mat's bad temper is owing to his missing of and worry over [[Tuon]], his new wife. Mat, [[Thom]], [[Talmanes]], and several thousand of Mat's usual entourage are riding on their way to [[Caemlyn]], which is about two hundred leagues to the north. Between [[Vanin]] and the new maps, it is determined that they are nearing a village called [[Hinderstap]]. The [[Aes Sedai]], predominantly [[Joline]], approach Mat and make a demand for horses, so they can set off on their own. Mat refuses her terms. Mat gives the Band his directives for the town ({{tgs|20}}).

Mat, [[Thom]], [[Talmanes]], the three [[Aes Sedai]], two warders, and five of the Band's soldiers ride down the road to the village of Hinderstap. Mat notes that [[Thom]] is rereading the letter from [[Moiraine]], and this launches Mat into his own reverie and dread about the [[Tower of Ghenjei]] and the upcoming attempted rescue. This all leads into [[Thom]] and Mat talking and reminiscing about past times, including [[Rand]]. Upon mention of [[Rand]], Mat sees the colors swirl in his head, and he sees Rand and the missing hand, thinking of his shock a few weeks earlier when he had first seen the injury. Reciting the words of an ancient song, relating to the area in which they are currently riding, [[Thom]] begins discussing its history. Mat has an [[Eelfinn]] memory, and there is now no doubt that the ruby dagger still affects him. [[Olver]] and [[Noal]] are discussed, and how the boy intends to follow them to the [[Tower of Ghenjei]]. The town emerges in a green-pastured valley in the mountains, what appears to be a lovely, pastoral scene. Mat sends three of the soldiers with the [[Aes Sedai]] and warders, while Thom goes into one of the inns by himself to gather information. Mat notices that the villagers' clothing have been greatly mended. Barlden, the mayor of Hinderstap, approaches them, informing the visitors of the "Rules." There is a curfew mandating that all outsiders be out of the town by nightfall. Mat, [[Talmanes]], and the remaining two soldiers locate the most decrepit of the three inns, [[The Tipsy Gelding]]. Mat engages the locals and begins gambling, desiring to lose, which he does, noting to himself again the torn and patched state of the clothing, as well as their evident exhaustion. Eventually the mayor enters, believing Mat to be cheating, conventionally cheating, and intervenes. The final stakes for the last throw of the dice are Mat's chest of gold for food and supplies from the villagers. They all go outside, the villagers gathering supplies onto a wagon. Meanwhile, the mayor and a group of men are talking, one of the men gesturing toward Mat, a sheet of paper in his hand. Nightfall is only minutes away. The mayor tosses the last throw of the dice. Mat wins. The mayor and betting villagers go back into The Tipsy Gelding. That is when the screaming begins ({{tgs|27}}).

In raging, crazed frenzy, the villagers of Hinderstap try to kill everyone, each other as well as Mat and his crew. Corpses litter the street. Mat and his three companions mount and ride away from The Tipsy Gelding, fighting their way out of the fray. The entire town has gone mad, including women and children. One of Mat's soldiers is thrown from his saddle and mortally wounded by the villagers. While trying to save the fallen Red Arm, Mat becomes trapped, and [[Thom]], throwing knives, rescues him. Making their way toward the inn where the [[Aes Sedai]] are staying, the five men seem to have left the slaughtering villagers behind. When they reach the nicest of the three inns, they see [[Aes Sedai]] fireballs being thrown from the upper story. Mat, [[Thom]], and [[Talmanes]] make their way stealthily into the inn, using the servants' stairway and reaching the [[Aes Sedai]]. [[Joline]], as usual, initially resists the rescue, [[Edesina]] heals Delarn (the wounded Red Arm), and all thirteen, in addition to two of the inn's serving girls, bound, escape out of the town. They camp north of the town, on the opposite side of Mat's main encampment. Mat sits on a rock outcropping, talking with [[Thom]]. Thom, extracting a folded paper he had taken from a drunken man in the inn he had patronized, shows Mat what is on the paper. It is a drawing of Mat's face, including hat and foxhead medallion. Apparently an outlander woman has been passing around multiple copies of Mat's likeness and offering a reward to anyone who can pinpoint his location. Mat pockets the paper. The bound serving girls suddenly and mysteriously disappear from under the warders' guard. Mat returns to Hinderstap, allowing only Thom to accompany him. As they enter the village, they notice that things, at first glance, appear to be normal--that cannot be normal under the circumstances. Then they begin seeing dead villagers from the night before, walking around. Also, the only blood that shows is Delarn's. The mayor is summoned, takes Mat and [[Thom]] to his house, and begins to tell his story. Several months previously villagers began noticing small things: an isolated broken door, ripped clothing, some shared nightmares. Some of the women started comparing notes and realized that everyone was having the nightmares and that almost no one remembered going to bed at night. Only those who retired early, before sunset, ever remembered going to bed. But oddly, everyone always woke up in their beds the next morning. Any traveler trapped in the village overnight and killed was trapped for good and woke up in one of the vacant beds in the town. Barlden relays that none of them know what happens at night, and when Mat begins to tell him, the mayor forestalls Mat, telling him that they do not want to know. Barlden reiterates the "Rules," no fires and no outsiders after sunset. The villagers cannot leave, nor can they commit suicide. Mat asks about the picture of himself. Barlden tells that the pictures have been spread around nearby villages, by someone in a village about twenty leagues to the northeast, in a town called Trustair. The individual can be found in an inn called [[The Shaken Fist]]. There is another picture, one depicting a burly fellow with a beard, and a note says that he has golden eyes. Mat and [[Thom]] ride out with the chest of gold and the wagon of supplies. Mat leaves the amount of gold for what he thinks would be a fair price and some added silver ({{tgs|28}}).

Striving to evade the mysterious woman who is looking for him, Mat concocts an elaborate and convoluted scheme involving scripts for various members of the Band. [[Talmanes]] refuses to take any of it seriously. Mat checks on various aspects of the camp: the horses, the crossbowmen, and finally [[Aludra]] and her work. [[Aludra]] has been calculating her stores and expected requirements for making her "dragons" and "dragons' eggs." [[Bayle Domon]] and [[Egeanin]] (now calling herself "[[Leilwin]]") are there as well. Mat feels [[Rand]]'s ''[[ta'veren]]'' pull on him, knowing the time for the Last Battle is growing near. [[Olver]] barges into the tent to tell Mat of a woman in camp possessing papers with Mat's picture on them and that he is supposed to tell Mat that she has a "distinctive" face. Mat contemplates Olver's ugliness while going to meet this woman. The woman is the [[Aes Sedai]], [[Verin Mathwin]]. Mat grasps that she is the one who has been passing around likenesses of him and [[Perrin]], and that she has [[Traveling]] ({{tgs|34}}).

[[Rand]], arriving in [[Falme]], remembers when he was last on [[Toman Head]] and thinks of Mat and the ruby dagger. While [[Rand]] meets with [[Tuon]], she mentions "Matrim Cauthon." [[Rand]] and [[Nynaeve]] are more than a little surprised. [[Tuon]] tells of kidnapping, and [[Rand]] defends Mat. [[Tuon]] wonders at such loyalty. Surprisingly, [[Nynaeve]] defends Mat, and more fiercely than [[Rand]] had. [[Rand]] speaks of seeing [[Tuon]] with Mat, referring to the color-swirling visions that he and Mat and [[Perrin]] have of each other. [[Tuon]] believes this is merely a manifestation of the [[Dragon Reborn]]'s madness ({{tgs|35}}).

[[Verin]], her warder, [[Tomas]], Mat, [[Mandevwin]], [[Talmanes]] and [[Thom]] meet in Mat's audience tent. Verin begins her tale. She had started out from the manor house in [[Tear (City)]], intending to [[Travel]] directly to [[Tar Valon]]. She asserts that Mat's ''[[ta'veren]]'' nature kept diverting her off course. Mat detects that Verin uses preconceptions concerning Brown Sisters to deceive people regarding her craftiness, the entire time letting Mat in on the scam. They discuss [[Rand]], his insanity, and that it is not mainly due to the [[One Power]]. Mat is shocked to learn that ''[[saidin]]'' has been cleansed. Verin then resumes her story of how she landed in Trustair. Mat is disconcerted at Verin insisting that, short of [[Rand]], he is the most strongly ''[[ta'veren]]'' person in centuries. Verin warns Mat that he and [[Perrin]] are in grave danger. Verin begins her sly negotiations with Mat. She gives him a sealed letter and specific instructions. At this Mat and Verin sit down to strike a deal. After some initial haggling, they settle on a compromise: Verin will [[Travel]], taking Mat and everyone with him to [[Caemlyn]], and in return Mat will either wait thirty days and discard the letter and be about his business, or he will wait till the tenth day after Verin departs, open her letter and do what it says. He notices that she has more sealed letters in her satchel. Verin uses a ''[[ter'angreal]]'', in the form of a translucent, stone lily, to take everyone to [[Caemlyn]] ({{tgs|36}}). }}
===Towers of Midnight===
{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|Mat, now in Caemlyn and going by the alias of Lord Crimson, sits in a tavern named the Seven-striped Lass stewing over Verin’s letter. After leaving this tavern, he visits two more. In the first tavern, Mat hears of a man whose throat has been ripped out, the blood drained from his body. Mat knows this has to be the ''gholam'', and the dice begin clattering in his head. As he begins to leave, Mat sees a paper being shown, a paper with, he is sure, his picture on it. At the next tavern Thom is performing. Mat tells Thom of the ''gholam'' attack. They discuss plans for the Tower of Ghenjei as they walk back to camp. Teslyn detains him before he can retire for the night; she informs him that she and the other Aes Sedai will be departing for Tar Valon. Surprisingly, perhaps, she thanks him for her rescue. Even more surprisingly, Mat voluntarily offers her horses for the trip. As soon as he enters his tent, he smells it—blood! ({{tom|8}}).

At the scent of the blood, Mat ducks and is immediately attacked. Screaming, “Bloody Murder,” he gathers his ''ashandarei'', slashes the tent, and leaps out, wrenching the foxhead medallion from his neck. Mat goes on the offensive, swinging the foxhead. It is the ''gholam'', and he tells Mat that he has been ordered to kill Thom, Noal, and Tuon if he does not kill Mat tonight. Teslyn enters the fight, using Air to hurl objects at the ''gholam'' since she cannot touch the creature directly with the Power. Terrified that the blood is Olver’s, Mat rushes into the tent finding Lopin, his serving man and a couple of Red Arms dead. Olver has been with Noal, playing Snakes and Foxes. Mat warns Thom and Noal. Joline barges in and asks for horses for the trip to Tar Valon. Mat agrees ({{tom|9}}).

Mat sends Elayne a very irreverent letter which she loves ({{tom|11}}).

The Aes Sedai, warders, former ''sul’dam'', Juilin, Thera, Bayle Domon, and Egeanin leave for Tar Valon. Seta refers to Mat as “Highness.” He tries to reassure them that maybe he can convince Tuon of the validity of channeling. The ''sul’dam'' seem to take his words as a promise to remedy the problem for certain. Mat tells Teslyn to inform the Amyrlin that the White Tower has something of his and that he will be coming to claim it soon. He is referring to the Horn of Valere. Setalle Anan is not departing; she and Mat discuss her former status as an Aes Sedai and concerning her taking care of Olver ({{tom|17}}).

Mat and Thom meet with Elayne in the Palace. Elayne gives Thom official papers absolving him from any crimes and making him court bard of Caemlyn. She and Mat haggle over making the dragons. As part of the bargain, Mat agrees to let Elayne study the foxhead medallion ({{tom|19}}).

Mat is joined in an inn by Noal and Thom to discuss the Tower of Ghenjei. Rumors about Mat abound in Caemlyn. He knows they make him more vulnerable to attack and is proven correct when he is attacked in an alley. The attacker, whom Mat is forced to kill, bears a paper with Mat’s picture on it and gold coin. Mat meets with Birgitte in a tavern to question her about the Tower of Ghenjei. She unsuccessfully tries to dissuade him to abandon this venture ({{tom|22}}).

Mat and Birgitte appear in the dungeon just after Elayne has been injured and healed. Later Mat materializes, peeking around the door of Elayne’s bedroom as she recovers from the dungeon attack, wanting to know if Elayne is decent ({{tom|23}}; {{ch10|24}}).

Aludra gives a demonstration of the prototype dragon for Elayne. Mat is, of course, present ({{tom|29}}).

Mat, playing dice in The Dusty Wheel, knows he is winning without actually being familiar with the game. Once he is recognized, he leaves the tavern. The instant he steps outside, the dice stop. He prepares for what he is sure to come, affixing the foxhead medallion to the ''ashandarei''. Men of the Band help when thugs approach; they hang back when the ''gholam'' appears. Mat and the ''gholam'' engage in combat until Mat lures the creature into a building where one of the Kinswomen has a skimming platform ready. Mat, using medallion copies which Elayne has made, forces the ''gholam'' over the edge and into the void ({{tom|31}}).

Perrin has arrived in Caemlyn by gateway. Mat accosts him with a bagged badger, also warning his friend of their constantly endangered state ({{tom|44}}).

Mat, Perrin, and Thom meet in a tavern, each relaying their stories since they have been parted then discussing the Tower of Ghenjei. Perrin, especially, is fairly stunned by what he hears from the other two ({{tom|47}}).

Perrin has Grady open a gateway from the Traveling ground, depositing Mat, Thom, and Noal near the River Arinelle, the Tower of Ghenjei in view. The three men make their way through the forest to the tower. Thom uses a bronze knife to open a triangular doorway into the tower. The tower has transported them to the realm of the Eelfinn and the Aelfinn. The interior is a maze-like network of shifting rooms and corridors in which they would be thoroughly lost without Mat’s luck and dice ({{tom|53}}).

The three have a number of unpleasant encounters with the Eelfinn, where the men use dice, music, fire, fireworks, and iron, fending off the fox-like creatures as best they can. They enter a room with a black lump in the middle of the floor. Mat recognizes it as the Eelfinn side of the melted stone doorway from Rhuidean. Here they must escape numerous of the creatures until they reach Moiraine in the Chamber of Bonds. She is floating in the air, clothed in mist or steam. Thom is burned as he rescues her. She is unconscious and wearing an odd bracelet. Here Mat must bargain with the Eelfinn—the price has been set: half the light of the world—to save the world. Mat’s left eye. In his bargain, Mat has neglected to include the Aelfinn in the requirement to let them leave the tower. Down one of the corridors, the snake-like Aelfinn appear and begin chase ({{tom|54}}).

After they attempt futilely to escape, Noal chooses to sacrifice himself to save the others. He positions himself in a narrow corridor with the remaining fireworks. Before Mat, Thom and Moiraine leave the old man, he reveals that he is Jain Farstrider. They run and finally reach the room holding the archway leading into the red stone doorway in the Stone of Tear. It has been smashed. They are trapped, and as the Aelfinn move in for the kill, Mat realizes that the ''ashandarei'' is the key to escape this sinister realm. He cuts an inverted triangular opening in the wall, then he and Thom, who is carrying Moiraine, run out of the tower in a flash of white light ({{tom|55}}).

Mat, Thom, and Moiraine sit below the Tower of Ghenjei talking. Mat is shocked when he discovers that Thom and Moiraine have feelings for each other. He leaves them alone, hoping to find Grady’s gateway. While at the Arinelle, he makes a cairn for Noal, kills a rabbit, and finds a nearly new cook pot at the river’s edge, thinking of his luck ({{tom|57}}).

Back in Caemlyn Olver plays Snakes and Foxes with Talmanes. At the final play, Olver wins! There is question about the exact timeline at this moment, but there is some speculation that Olver wins the board game at the exact moment that Mat beats the Snakes and Foxes in real life. Afterward, Olver opens Verin’s letter. It is a warning that Caemlyn is going to be attacked by the Shadow’s forces entering through the abandoned Waygate. Verin thought Mat’s curiosity would have provoked him to open it earlier. She had apparently known nothing about Moiraine and the Tower of Ghenjei. Olver and Talmanes see that Caemlyn is on fire ({{epi13}}). }}
===A Memory of Light===
{{Spoiler|[[A Memory of Light]]|After rescuing Moiraine, Mat travels to Ebou Dar. He manages to get into the city without being recognized, although it is a close call, as Petra is now in the employ of the Seanchan and is one of the guards at the gate. Once inside Ebou Dar, Mat looks for a tavern. He finally enters The Yearly Brawl where he learns that Galgan has hired assassins to kill Tuon. He also learns that all of the soldiers in the city have been instructed to keep an eye out for him ({{amol|11}}). He proceeds to break into the Tarasin Palace, climbing up the outside all the way to Tylin's old rooms. He intends to tell Tuon about Galgan's assassins and then take off to hide from Rand and the Last Battle. When he reaches Tylin’s balcony, he is attacked by Selucia, who has been sleeping in the room as a decoy for Tuon and thinks that Mat might be an assassin. Selucia tells Mat he doesn’t need to worry about Galgan’s assassins, but rather about Krisa’s, as they are from Seanchan while Galgan’s are not. Mat convinces Selucia to tell him that Tuon is in the gardens. Selucia directs him to a secret passageway that will help him get there ({{amol|15}}).

Mat locates Tuon in the gardens, where she is practicing fighting stances. He hides and watches her, pondering whether or not he loves her. A Gray Man arrives to assassinate Tuon, and Mat is able to notice it just in time. He raises a knife to throw at the Gray Man, and Tuon notices Mat at the very same moment. Instinctively trusting him, she looks over her shoulder to see what Mat is aiming his knife at. Mat manages to hit the Gray Man, but the Gray Man still escapes. Still not having noticed the Gray Man, and thinking that Mat is trying to kill Tuon, her Deathwatch Guards tackle him. Tuon orders them to let Mat up and to search for the real assassin. While the Deathwatch Guards search for the Gray Man, Mat and Tuon speak. Tuon approves of his missing eye, claiming that it suits him and that previously he was “too pretty.” She guesses rightly that he lost it trying to rescue someone, and declares she will not be jealous of whomever it was. Tuon commands Mat to teach the Deathwatch Guards how to spot a Gray Man. Tuon then orders the Deathwatch Guards, who have not been able to locate the Gray Man, to “clear out and secure the perimeter” so that she and Mat may spend some time alone. He kisses her and then tells her that he won't be her toy, and she replies that she has “no use for a toy” ({{amol|15}}).

Mat and Tuon sleep together in the gardens and fall asleep there. When Mat wakes up, Musenge is reporting to Tuon that they Grey Man has still not been caught. Mat is aghast because both he and Tuon are naked, but Tuon tells him that she is always guarded by Deathwatch Guards. Musicar approaches them to inform Tuon that they have potentially caught another assassin trying to sneak onto the palace grounds. It turns out to be Rand. Mat is not particularly pleased, especially when Rand reveals that Mat has inadvertently led him to Tuon. Tuon’s damane proceeds to capture both Mat and Rand in flows of air, with Tuon revealing that she stole Mat’s medallion from him while he slept. Mat and Rand bicker a little, both trying to one-up the other with the things they’ve achieved since they last saw each other. Rand then manages to talk Tuon into agreeing to sign the Dragon’s Peace and fight alongside his forces in the Last Battle. Mat backs Rand up, insisting to Tuon that she can trust Rand and that they have to help him. Rand promises that she can keep the lands and damane she’s already captured, but nothing else beyond her borders. Tuon tells Selucia to take the treaty so that she can review and sign it, and then orders Mat to accompany her as they must begin to prepare for the Last Battle. As Mat follows her, he offers one last parting shot at Rand, telling him: “By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning” ({{amol|17}}).

Mat’s new tailor, Nata, arrives and fits him out for new clothing. Mat insists that he only be given military clothing, but the ceremonial warrior garb for those of the Imperial Family is still ostentatious and difficult to maneuver in. Nata tries to have Mat’s old clothing burned, but he balks at this and insists on wearing his old hat with his new ceremonial clothing, even though Nata tells him it looks ridiculous. Mat realizes as they begin to put jewelry on him just how rich he now is. He’s a bit disappointed at this as it will take the fun out of gambling, since he now already has everything he could ever want or need ({{amol|19}}).

Although technically he is not in charge of the Seanchan army, Mat works to get them ready to leave Ebou Dar for the Last Battle. Tuon and General Galgan are both curious to see what he will do. Tuon summons Mat to her and renames him Knotai, which he declares he kind of likes. She also names him Rodbearer of the Seanchan army, meaning that if Galgan falls Mat will succeed him ({{amol|24}}).

Shortly after receiving his new name from Tuon, Mat receives word about Egwene’s army of Aes Sedai being attacked. Tuon wavers for a moment between following the terms of the treaty she has signed and swooping in to claim the Aes Sedai as damane while they are weak. Mat expresses faith that Tuon won’t break her word, and in the end she doesn’t and agrees to go to Egwene’s aid. Mat returns to assembling the army ({{amol|24}}). Tuon and Egwene hold a meeting, and Mat accompanies Tuon. When Egwene reveals to Tuon that she was once captured and trained as a damane, Tuon demands to know why Mat didn’t tell her and is very displeased. Egwene is astounded to find Mat there, and immediately begins to think of ways she can manage to save him from the Seanchan. She bursts out laughing, however, when she learns that Mat and Tuon are married, gloating to Tuon that she has been caught up in a ta’veren’s web. When Egwene and Tuon’s arguing begins to escalate, Mat steps between them and convinces them that they need each other. When Tuon leaves after promising to send some sul’dam and damane to help Egwene, Mat follows her. Before he leaves, Egwene promises to help him get free of the Seanchan after the Last Battle, but Mat says that he doesn’t need her help ({{amol|26}}).

When Min arrives at the Seanchan camp to request that they send cavalry to aid Bryne, she is led to speak to Mat, who is surprised to see her. Mat commands Tylee Khirgan to take her legion to help Bryne, and Galgan approves the order. Mat asks Min if she sees any other viewings around him, and she doesn’t, but she does see one around Galgan: “A dagger rammed through the heart of a raven.” Min assures Mat that it isn’t about him, but Mat is still worried since he is the Prince of Ravens. When Tuon appears shortly afterward, Min slips and reveals to Mat that she sees “A death lily” for Tuon; she speaks too loudly, and the Deathwatch Guards seize her. Mat tells Tuon about Min’s ability, and Tuon names Min her new Soe’feia. Tuon is exceedingly pleased with Mat for the “great gift” he has given her ({{amol|27}}).

Mat gets tired of trying to figure out the battle from maps and decides he’s going to actually go take a look. He pulls out his old clothing, which he had previously bribed some guards to bring him, changes, and prepares to leave. Tuon arrives before he can leave for the battlefield; when Banner-General Courtani acidly tells her where Mat is going, Tuon supports Mat’s decision and pointedly asks why Courtani is waiting around instead of helping Mat. She decides to go with Mat to see the battlefield” ({{amol|28}}). Mat and Tuon are accompanied by many others, including Min and Galgan, when they go to view the battlefield. When Mat spies Tylee Khirgan and her force waiting near the eastern edge of the camp, he asks Tuon and the others to give him 5 minutes. He wants to know why Tylee isn’t engaging in the battle, and she tells him that Bryne ordered them to to wait as a reserve force. Mat can’t see the sense in this, as the battle is not going well. He gives orders for the Seanchan soldiers to deploy against the Sharans, taking command of the First Banner himself. During the fighting, Mat captures one of the Ayyad. After Mat and his troops come out victorious, the Seanchan soldiers are in awe, with one of officers leading a cheer for Mat. Mat accidentally raises him to the low Blood by biting off a broken nail and dropping it at his feet. When Mat returns to Tuon, she is at first displeased, wanting to know why he has endangered himself; Mat insists that he “had to feel the pulse of the battle.” Mat thinks about everything he has seen of the battle and thinks that Bryne must be a Darkfriend, because he seems to be actively trying to lose. He demands full control of the Seanchan forces, and that Min be sent to warn Egwene. Everyone is shocked, but Tuon approves the orders, surprising them even further ({{amol|29}}).

Egwene initially wants to refuse Mat’s request that he be placed in charge of the White Tower army as well. However, when she realizes that the Great Captains are being compulsed, she knows that Mat is the only option because his medallion will keep him safe from compulsion ({{amol|31}}). Now in charge of both the Seanchan and White Tower armies, Mat uses gateways to survey the battle. Demandred has been testing Mat, and Mat has been loosing soldiers. Galgan, however, is exceedingly impressed with how Mat has nonetheless managed to rescue the White Tower army. Mat is concerned about the Sharans sneaking Ayyad into the camp, and so puts a moratorium on channeling so that they’ll be able to sense it if the Ayyad are about to attack ({{amol|32}}).

Mat thinks that they should move their position, and arranges a meeting with Egwene and the Sitters, which is held through an open gateway so that neither Tuon nor Egwene has to visit the other. Mat learns from the Aes Sedai that Bashere and Agelmar were also compulsed, that Ituralde has disappeared, and that the Borderlanders lost the majority of their army. Mat gets the Aes Sedai to bring Elayne in by gateway, and he proposes to her and the others that they all join together for a last stand in an optimal location, as continuing to fight on 4 battlefronts has become unfeasible. They decide on Merrilor, and when Elayne okays the plan, the dice start up in Mat’s head ({{amol|32}}).

All of the armies except the one at Shayol Gul are now at Merrilor preparing for their last stand. They have about a week to prepare. At the end of that week, Mat moves amongst groups of men, showing them how to sharpen stakes for a palisade or how to use a quarterstaff. As he does so, he is actively trying to avoid a group of Deathwatch Guards who are looking for him. He runs into Egwene and at first she thinks he is trying to escape Tuon and the Seanchan; in reality, he is just trying to avoid Tuon because she wants him to judge a trial and has sent the Deathwatch Guards to bring him to her. He doesn’t want to have someone executed. Mat and Egwene discuss the fact that the Horn of Valere is missing; Egwene has people searching for it. Mat asks Egwene to make him a gateway to the Knob, a large rise from which he and the other commanders will be watching the battle. He surveys the battlefield, and he can feel Rand tugging at him; he knows he will have to go north to join Rand soon. Mat and Egwene discuss the battle. Mat says that they can’t win a protracted battle. Egwene says that they just need to to hold their ground until Rand wins, but Mat thinks that even if Rand wins, they’ll still have to destroy the Trolloc army and that they thus need a win on the battlefield as well. The Deathwatch Guards finally catch up to Mat at the Knob, but he doesn’t care, because just then he senses that the Trollocs have arrived sooner than expected. Mat orders that Elayne be told that Mat is about to change the battle plan. He sends everyone running off to deliver messages and tells Egwene to get ready ({{amol|36}}).

Mat doesn’t tell anyone his new battle plan, afraid that the Shadow might use compulsion to discover it. He coordinates all the forces, sending reinforcements to where he needs them. He uses raken to send messages, writing letters that are then attached to lead balls with streamers and dropped to the appropriate spots. Polov Heights is lost early on in the battle. Bryne makes a guess that Mat is trying to bait a trap, and that he wants to throw everything he has at the Trollocs in a battle that will be over in days or hours ({{amol|37}}).

Mat knows there is a spy at the command post because the Shadow’s forces are responding to his moves even before his forces have received their orders. He makes sure to send messages in code, using past incidents and in-jokes to relay orders to Talmanes. He knows he is losing the battle, but is trying to draw Demandred in and is carefully watching for the right time to make his move. He thinks to himself that it is as if he “and Demandred were composing a grand painting,” with each “respond[ing] to the other’s moves with subtle care.” Galad thinks to himself, shortly afterwards, that it is as if he is “watching the Game of Houses on the battlefield itself,” and is impressed by Mat. Demandred thinks that Rand/Lews Therin is disguised as Mat, because Mat is too skilled for someone of this Age ({{amol|37}}).

Elayne tries to persuade Mat to tell her his battle plan in case something happens to him; she weaves a ward against eavesdropping and he tells her about the spy and that he plans to use the spy. He tells her that he is waiting “for that last bet, the one that could win it all,” and that he wants her away from the command post. He sends her and the Andoran troops to the ford to stop the Trollocs from crossing the riverbed ({{amol|37}}).

Mat sends a message to Galad, along with one of the copies Elayne made of his foxhead medallion, and instructs him to kill as many of the Ayyad as he can ({{amol|37}}).

Mat finds himself completely engrossed by the ongoing battle as he tries to out-gamble Demandred. Logain arrives to speak with Mat, wanting to fight Demandred. Mat decides to allow it, although he is not optimistic, because Demandred will need to be dealt with eventually ({{amol|37}}).

The command post is attacked by several Gray Men and a group of Sharan soldiers and Ayyad. The Gray Men attack Mat, and Tuon runs to help him. Tuon is badly injured in the fight. Mat and Min manage to kill all of the Grey Men and Mat gets Tuon out. After the attack on the command post, Mat and Tuon stage a fight in order to trick the spy. He is hoping that Demandred will ignore the Seanchan and thus give Mat an advantage. Tuon accuses him of failing to protect the command post and blames him for the fact that they are losing the battle. They both declare that they are finished with each other, and Tuon commands that her troops withdraw to return to Ebou Dar, where they will prepare for their own battle against the Shadow. After she has left, Mat is worried because Tuon had seemed truly angry; he hopes that he can count on her to come back. He sends Min to watch over her, and she hugs him goodbye and goes. Mat speaks to Karede and a group of Deathwatch Guards; they have been ordered by Tuon to fight the Ayyad as punishment for allowing another assassin to get close to her. He wants Karede and the Deathwatch Guards to join him, since he is going to the front lines anyway. Karede agrees, as long as Mat will stop using Tuon’s old name, since it will be a bad omen. Mat concedes and calls her Fortuona out loud, although he still refers to her as “Tuon” in his head. Mat and the Deathwatch Guards come across Davram and Deira Bashere on the battlefield, and Mat asks if he’s heard anything about Faile. They have not, and Mat is worried about how he can possibly win the Last Battle without the Horn of Valere ({{amol|37}}).

Rand is tugging strongly at Mat, but he resists ({{amol|37}}).

Although he had abandoned them early in the battle, Mat now plans to retake Polov Heights so that he can attack the Shadow’s armies from behind. However, Demandred refuses to abandon the Heights ({{amol|37}}).

Mat has Talmanes, Aludra, and some of the Band hidden away in a cave that can only be reached via gateway. They are repairing the damaged dragons ({{amol|37}}).

Mat is shaken by Egwene’s death, and again shortly after by false reports of Elayne’s death. He gathers together the rest of his forces for one final, desperate stand. He digs out one of Rand’s banners with the ancient Aes Sedai symbol, ordering that it be flown since they are fighting in Rand’s name. Mat knows they can’t win, but he refuses to give up before he’s tried everything. He sends to Mayene for any Healed soldiers who can return to the battle; asks for the remaining Aes Sedai to join him, even though they’re too tired to channel; gives the order for Tuon to come back; and sends a message to Talmanes ({{amol|37}}).

Loial brings news to Mat that Lan has fallen but managed to kill Demandred. Mat feels grief, but tries to force it down as he starts a cry of “Tai’shar Malkier” and leads his troops against the Shadow ({{amol|38}}). As he fights, he suddenly hears Rand’s voice in his head, telling the Dark One that he is wrong. Then Rand’s voice is heard out loud on the battlefield, announcing that Lan is alive. The Horn of Valere sounds, and Mat is astounded, as he had thought he was still the Hornblower. He thinks that his death in Rhuidean must have broken the link. Followed by what is left of the Borderlander army, Mat manages to push through the surrounding Trollocs. He reaches Lan and, with Narishma’s help, manages to get him out from behind the Shadow’s lines. The Heroes of the Horn appear, and Mat learns from Hawkwing that it wasn’t his death at Rhuidean that severed his link to the Horn, but another death (when he was killed by Rahvin, although Hawkwing does not tell Mat this part) ({{amol|39}}).

Mat leads a charge as his plans begin to come together. The Seanchan arrive. Talmanes and Aludra begin firing dragons from their hidden cave, with Neald opening gateways to where they want to strike. Jur Grady releases the river, which had been dammed earlier by the Shadow. And finally, Mat has one more tricks up his sleeve: the people of Hinderstap and a group of soldiers from the Band who have allowed themselves to be caught in the snag in the pattern there and thus cannot die ({{amol|40}}; {{amol|41}}).

Mat fights alongside the Heroes of the Horn. He nervously inquires if he is tied to the Horn of Valere as a Hero, and is relieved when [[Hend]] the Striker assures him that he is not. The forces of the Light overwhelm the remaining Trollocs and Sharans ({{amol|43}}).

When the fighting is finally done, Mat can still feel Rand tugging at him. Mat knows he has to go to Rand because the Last Battle isn’t over. Before he leaves for Shayol Ghul, he asks Hawkwing if he can speak with Tuon and let her know that Mat sent him ({{amol|43}}). He finds Grady with Olver and Neal and asks Grady for a gateway to Shayol Ghul. Grady tells him that gateways to Shayol Ghul don’t work anymore, but that he can take him to a Seanchan patrol camp about a day’s hike away from Shayol Ghul. Olver and Neal go with him, as the Heroes of the Horn will be needed for the fight in the Blight ({{amol|45}}). Once at the Seanchan patrol camp, Mat and Olver are taken by to’raken to Shayol Ghul. Mat sees that there is still fighting going on between Rand’s forces and the Trollocs, and that there are Darkhounds attacking as well. He can sense the presence of both Mashadar and Fain. An arrow from one of the red-veiled Aiel kills Sulaan, the morat’to’raken, and Mat has to land the to’raken himself ({{amol|45}}).

Mat finds Perrin fighting alongside the spirit wolves who have been called by the Horn of Valere. He can see Mashadar making its way towards where Rand still fights the Dark One. Suddenly, a small sliver of Mashadar spears Mat through the chest, and Mat falls off his horse ({{amol|46}}). However, it does not kill him, because Mat is now immune to Mashadar due to his earlier infection by it. Mat kills Fain by stabbing him with the ruby dagger ({{amol|47}}). When the Last Battle is done, the dice stop rolling in his head ({{epi14}}).

With the Last Battle now over, Mat finds Tuon at Merrilor. Everyone in the Seanchan camp is astounded to see him, except for Tuon, who wants to know where he’s been. He has arranged for Aludra to put on a victory fireworks show. Tuon then tells Mat that she is pregnant, and both of them pretend to be relieved and say that they can be done with each other now that Tuon will have an heir ({{epi14}}). }}

==Strengths and Talents==
===Mat's Memories===
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{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|Mat gained memories from around a 1500 year period in history of soldiers who had passed through the redstone doorway located in the [[Stone of Tear]]. This was confirmed in an interview with Robert Jordan, currently hosted on Theoryland. }}

=== The Dice ===
Mat hears dice in his head when an important event is about to occur

{{Spoiler|[[The Dragon Reborn]]|"He could feel the dice tumbling in his head" - After deciding to rescue the girls from the Stone ({{tdr|51}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Fires of Heaven]]|"He had no idea why he had not simply ignored them. Except that his step was lighter and he felt full of vinegar. No wonder, really, leaving tomorrow at last. The dice seemed to be spinning in his head, and there was no knowing what pips would show when they landed. Odd, that. It must be Melindhra worrying him. Yes. He would definitely leave early, and as quietly as a mouse tiptoeing on feathers" ({{tfoh|42}}).

"That should bring the Shaido in right enough, especially if Couladin was leading. If Couladin really was leading, if he thought Rand was with the pikes, if the pikes could hold until the horse arrived... A lot of ifs. Mat could hear those dice rolling in his head again. This was the biggest gamble he had ever taken in his life. He wondered how long it was until nightfall; a man should be able to make his way out in the night. He wished those dice would get out of his head, or else fall so he knew what they showed. Scowling into the rain, he booted [[Pips]] on down the hillside." ({{tfoh|44}}).

Reducing the platform by one outer ring of square stones, he turned. Bael was waiting out there in what seemed a huge square doorway into daylight with the steps beyond. At his side, Pevin looked no more perturbed by what he saw than the Aiel chief, which was to say not at all. Pevin would carry that banner wherever Rand went, even [[Shayol Ghul|the Pit of Doom]], and never blink. Mat shoved back his hat to scratch his head, then jerked it low again, muttering something about dice in his head. (On the way to face Rahvin; {{tfoh|54}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Lord of Chaos]]|"The largest palace he had seen yet filled one entire side of the square, all domes and spires and colonnades three and four stories above the ground. The other three sides mixed great houses with inns and shops, each as white as the next. A statue of a woman in flowing robes, taller than an Ogier, stood on an even taller pedestal in the middle of the square, one arm raised to point south toward the sea. There were only a handful of people walking across the pale paving stones, and no wonder in that heat. A few were eating their midday meal on the lowest step of the pedestal, and pigeons and seagulls flocked about fighting for scraps. It was a picture of tranquility. Mat did not understand why he suddenly felt the dice rolling in his head." ({{loc|47}}).

The stately innkeeper introduced herself as Setalle Anan, though her hazel eyes had never been born in Ebou Dar. "Good my Lords... " Large gold hoops in her ears swayed as she bowed her head equally to Mat and Nalesean. "... may The Wandering Woman offer you her humble accommodation?"

She was pretty despite a touch of gray in her hair, but Mat watched her eyes. She wore a marriage knife hanging from a close-fitting necklace, the hilt set with red and white stones nestling in her generous cleavage, and she also had one of those curving knives in her belt. Still, he could not help grinning. "Mistress Anan, I feel like I've come home."

The odd thing was, the dice had stopped rolling in his head ({{loc|47}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|"Thank you ... " Mat gave a start. The fellow was gone, swallowed up in the crowd. Strange, but he had looked familiar. Maybe another long-dead acquaintance drifting out of those old memories. Maybe... It hit him like an Illuminator's nightflower exploding inside his head. A white-haired man with a hooked nose. That old man had been at the Silver Circuit, standing not far from the woman who had just gone into Carridin's rented palace. Turning his hat in his hands, he frowned uneasily at the palace. The Mire never held a bog like this one. He could feel the dice tumbling in his head suddenly, and that was always a bad sign ({{acos|14}}).

Normally, displays of wealth made Mat feel comfortable. For one thing, where there was money, some might stick to his fingers. This time he felt impatient, more so by the step. And anxious. The last time he had felt the dice rolling so hard in his head was just before he found himself with three hundred of the Band, a thousand of Gaebril's White Lions on a ridge to his front and another thousand coming hard up the road behind him, when all he had been trying to do was ride away from the entire mess. That time he had avoided the chop by the grace of other men's memories and more luck than he had a right to. The dice almost always meant danger, and something else he had not figured out yet. The prospect of having his skull cracked was not enough, and once or twice there had been no possibility of such, yet the upcoming likelihood of Mat Cauthon dead in some spectacular fashion seemed the most usual cause. Unlikely, maybe, in the Tarasin Palace, but unlikely did not make the dice go away. He was going to leave his message, grab Nynaeve and Elayne by the scruff of the neck if he had an opportunity, give them a talking-to that made their ears glow, and then get out ({{acos|16}}).

Mat wanted to back away; even Teslyn stood close enough to be almost touching him. Instead he put on his most insolent grin. It had always landed him in trouble back home, but it seemed appropriate. Those dice in his head could have nothing to do with this pair, or they would have stopped spinning. And he did have the medallion. "They see pretty well, I'd say." Nynaeve badly needed to be snatched down a peg or six, and Elayne even more, but he was not about to stand by and listen to this woman talk Nynaeve down. If that meant defending Elayne too, so be it "Maybe you should abandon your nonsense." Joline's smile vanished, but Teslyn replaced it with one of her own, a razored smile ({{acos|16}}).

"Majesty," he said, sweeping his hat wide in a bow and flourishing an imaginary cloak, "by your summons do I come." Imposing or not, it was hard to keep his eyes away from the not small lace-trimmed oval where her white-sheathed marriage-knife hung. A very nicely rounded sight indeed, yet the more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least. White-sheathed; but he already knew she was a widow. Not that it mattered. He would as soon tangle himself with that [[Mili Skane|fox-faced Darkfriend]] as with a queen. Not looking at all was difficult, but he managed. Most likely she would call guards rather than draw the gem-encrusted dagger thrust behind a woven-gold belt to match the collar her marriage knife hung from. Maybe that was why the dice were still rolling in his head. The possibility of an encounter with the headsman would set them spinning if anything did ({{acos|16}}).

Tall triple-arched windows opening onto a wrought-iron balcony admitted a sea breeze that was surprisingly pleasant, if not exactly cool, yet Mat felt hotter than in the street, and it had nothing to do with her stare. Deyeniye, dyu ninte concion ca'lyet ye. That was what he had said. The bloody Old Tongue popping out of his mouth again without him knowing it. He had thought he had that little bother under control. No telling when those bloody dice would stop or for what. Best to keep his eyes to himself and his mouth shut as much as possible. "I thank you, Majesty." He made very sure of those words ({{acos|16}}).

"You are Lord Mat Cauthon?" There was just a hint of question in the title. Her eyes minded him more than ever of an eagle's. A queen could not like someone coming to her pretending to be a lord.

"Just Mat Cauthon." Something told him she would hear a lie. Besides, letting people think he was a lord was just a ruse, one he would rather have managed without. In Ebou Dar you could find a duel any time you turned around, but few challenged lords except other lords. As it was, in the last month he had cracked a number of heads, bloodied four men and run half a mile to escape a woman. Tylin's stare made him nervous. And those dice still rattled about in his skull. He wanted out of there. "If you'll tell me where to leave the letter, Majesty...?" ({{acos|16}}).

She nodded calmly, hazel eyes serene. Men knifed in her inn did not ruffle her feathers. "They insisted on carrying it up themselves. Their stock, so they claimed. They took the room just before you came in. For a few hours, they said, to sleep before traveling on toward Nor Chasen." That was a small village on the coast to the east, but it was unlikely they would have told the truth. Her tone implied as much. She frowned at the dead men as though wishing she could shake them alive to answer questions. "They were picky about the room, though. The pale-haired man was in charge. He turned down the first three he was offered, then accepted this, that was meant for a single servant. I thought he was being stingy with a coin."
"Even a thief can be tightfisted," Mat said absently. This could have qualified to start those dice rolling in his head ... a head that would have been cracked open for sure without the luck of that fellow stepping on the one board in the whole inn that would squeak ... but the bloody things were still tumbling. He did not like it ({{acos|17}}).

Mat frowned after her. A gilded woman? In his room? The chest of gold rested now in a small hollow beneath the kitchen floor, in front of one of the stoves, but the dice in his head drummed like thunder suddenly ({{acos|21}}).

He nodded before he thought Other men's memories told him Tovans were a stark and disapproving people, abstemious to the point of pain; at least they had been, a thousand years gone and more. He was not sure whether to laugh or groan. On the one hand, a chance to talk with Birgitte ... Birgitte! he doubted he would ever get over the shock ... but on the other, he doubted he would be able to hear the music downstairs for the noise of those dice rattling in his skull. She must be a key to it, somehow. A man with any brains would climb out the window right now. "A pitcher or two sounds fine to me," he told her ({{acos|21}}).

"I won't shout at you," Nynaeve shouted. "And all the rest, too. I promise, you... you...!" She gobbled on the edge of swallowing her tongue as she realized she could not call him one of the names he warranted without breaking the promise already. And yet, the effect of her shout was most gratifying.

With a cry, he shuddered and dropped the cloth, clutched his head with both hands. His eyes bulged. "Flaming dice," he whimpered, or something very like. It suddenly struck Elayne that he would be a very good source of pithy language. Stablemen and the like always seemed to scrape their tongues clean the moment they saw her. Of course, she had promised herself to civilize him, to make him useful to Rand, but that need not interfere too much with his language. In fact, she realized there was a good deal she had not promised not to do. Pointing that out should settle Nynaeve considerably ({{acos|21}}).

Mat knew he was in trouble from the day he moved into the Tarasin Palace. He could have refused. Just because the flaming dice started or stopped did not mean he had to do anything; usually when they stopped spinning, it was too late not to do something. The problem was, he wanted to know why. Before very many days, he wished he had taken his curiosity by the throat and throttled it ({{acos|28}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|Nobody slipped a note under his door that night. Nobody rattled the lock. He began to think things might turn for the better. Tomorrow was the Festival of Birds. From what he had heard of the costumes some people wore, men and women both, it might be possible Tylin would find herself a new duckling to chase after. Somebody might come out of that bloody house across from the Rose of the Eldar and hand him the bloody Bowl of the Winds. Things just had to turn for the better.

When he woke for his third morning in the Tarasin Palace, the dice were rolling in his head ({{acos|28}}).

Waking to the dice, Mat considered going back to sleep until they went away, but at last he got up feeling grumpy. As if he did not have more than enough on his plate already. He chased Nerim away and dressed himself, eating the last of the bread and cheese from the night before while he did, then went to check on Olver. The boy flashed between bursts of yanking on his clothes in a hurry to be out and stopping entirely with boot or shirt in hand to spout dozens of questions that Mat answered with half a mind. No, they would not go racing today, and never mind the rich races at the Circuit of Heaven, north of the city. Maybe they could go see the menagerie. Yes, Mat would buy him a feathered mask for the festival. If he ever got dressed. That sent him into a flurry.

What really occupied Mat's thoughts were those bloody dice. Why had they started up again? He still did not know why they had before! ({{acos|29}}).

It was too much. The woman hounded him, tried to starve him; now she locked them in together like... like he did not know what. Lambkin! Those bloody dice were bouncing around in his skull. Besides, he had important business to see to. The dice had never had anything to do with finding something, but... He reached her in two long strides, seized her arm, and began fumbling in her belt for the keys. "I don't have bloody time for ... " His breath froze as the sharp point of her dagger beneath his chin shut his mouth and drove him right up onto his toes ({{acos|29}}).

"If I'm not back by tomorrow," Mat shouted back absently over his shoulder, "tell them they'll have to find it for themselves!" He walked on after the woman in a daze, not hearing if Nalesean or Beslan shouted again. The man knew! He remembered once thinking that Beslan and his mother were both mad. They were worse! All of Ebou Dar was mad! He was hardly aware of the dice still spinning inside his skull ({{acos|29}}).

Snatching off his hat, Mat considered throwing it down and jumping on it. Women! He should have known better than to expect sympathy. He would like to throttle the bloody Daughter-Heir. And Nynaeve, too, on general principle. Except, of course, that he could not. He had made promises. And those dice were still using his skull for a dice cup. And one of the Forsaken might be around somewhere. Settling the hat squarely back on his head, he marched down the landing, brushed past the Wise Women and caught up to Elayne. She was still trying to fight down giggles, but every time she cut her eyes his way, the color in her cheeks renewed itself and so did the giggles ({{acos|38}}).

Her tone was so mild that Elayne must have passed on the truth about Tylin, but if anything, that only soured his mood further. He did not want anyone to know. Bloody useless! But those dice were still rattling around in his head. "Maybe Moghedien likes back doors," he said dryly. Something cluttered in the dark end of the hall, and one of the men with Harnan cursed loudly about rats({{acos|38}}).

"We are bloody well getting out of here now," Mat said again later, and this time there was argument. There had been argument for the past half-hour, near enough. Outside, the sun was past its noon peak. The trade winds cut the heat a little; stiff yellow curtains fastened over the tall windows bulged and snapped at gusts. Three hours back in the Tarasin Palace, the dice still bouncing in his head, and he wanted to kick something. Or somebody. He tugged at the scarf tied around his neck; it felt as though the rope that had given him the scar under that scarf was back and tightening slowly. "Love of the Light, are you all blind? Or just deaf?" ({{acos|39}}).

The ''sul'dam'' apparently was not satisfied. The foxhead went cool again, and from behind another roar hammered him to the pavement, pavement that jumped up to meet him. Through the ringing in his ears, he heard masonry groan. Above him, the white-plastered brick wall began leaning outward.

"What happened to my bloody luck?" he shouted. He had time for that. And just time to realize, as brick and timbers crashed down on him, that the dice in his head had just stopped dead ({{acos|39}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Winter's Heart]]|Mat groaned. It was not his leg, this time, or the fact that every man in Ebou Dar seemed to be choosing the bosom they rested their heads on except for Mat Cauthon. Those bloody dice had just started tumbling in his head again. Something bad was coming his way. Something very bad ({{wh|15}}).

"I think I can do better for you than that," Mat told him, but the rest of what he had been going to say died on his tongue. The dice were still spinning in his head, he realized. He had managed to forget them with the ''gholam'' trying to kill him, but they were still bouncing, still waiting to land. If they were warning of something worse than the ''gholam'', he did not want to know. Only, he would. There was no doubt of that. He would, when it was too late ({{wh|16}}).

Light, he wished those bloody dice in his head would just stop and get it over with! No, that was a lie. Since he had finally realized what they meant, he had never wanted the dice to stop ({{wh|17}}).

Flinging open the doors of Tylin's apartments, Mat strode in, sailed his hat across the width of the room and stopped dead, his mouth hanging open and everything he had planned to say frozen on his tongue. His hat hit the carpets and rolled, he did not see where. A gust of wind rattled the tall triple-arched windows that led out onto a long, screened balcony overlooking the Mol Hara.

Tylin turned in a chair carved to look like gilded bamboo and stared at him over her golden wine cup. Waves of glossy black hair touched with gray at the temples framed a beautiful face with the eyes of a bird of prey, and not one best pleased at the moment. Inconsequential things seemed to leap at him. She kicked her crossed leg slightly, rippling layered green and white petticoats. Pale green lace trimmed the oval opening in her gown that half exposed her full breasts, where the jeweled hilt of her marriage knife dangled. She was not alone. Suroth sat facing her, frowning into her winecup and tapping long fingernails on the arm of her chair, a pretty enough woman despite her hair being shaved to that long crest, except that she made Tylin seem a rabbit by comparison. Two of those fingernails on each hand were lacquered blue. Seated at her side was a little girl, of all things, also in an elaborately flowered robe over pleated white skirts, but with a sheer veil covering her entire head - it seemed to be shaved completely! - and wearing a fortune in rubies. Even in a state of shock, he noticed rubies and gold. A slender woman, nearly as dark as her stark black gown and tall even had she been Aiel, stood behind the girl's chair with her arms folded and ill-concealed impatience. Her wavy back hair was short, but not shaved at all, so she was neither of the Blood nor ''so'jhin''. Imperiously beautiful, she put Tylin and Suroth both in the shade. He noticed beautiful women, too, even when he did feel hit in the head with a hammer.

It was not the presence of Suroth or the strangers that jerked him to a halt, though. The dice had stopped, landing with a thunder that made his skull ring. That had never happened before. He stood there waiting for one of the Forsaken to leap out of the flames in the marble fireplace, or the earth to swallow the palace beneath him.

"You aren't listening to me, pigeon," Tylin cooed in dangerous tones. "I said, take yourself down to the kitchens and have a pastry until I have time for you. Have a bath while you're about it." Her dark eyes glittered. "We will discuss your mud later."

In a daze, he ran it through again in his head. He had walked into the room, the dice had stopped, and nothing had happened. Nothing!

"This man has been set upon," the tiny, veiled figure said, rising. Her tone turned cold as the wind outside. "You told me the streets were safe, Suroth! I am displeased."

Something had to happen! It already should have! Something always happened when the dice stopped ({{wh|17}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|The Dice stop rolling when Tuon promises not to escape as long as he keeps his promises ({{cot|3}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|The dice stop rolling when Tuon smiles at Mat ({{cot|28}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Knife of Dreams]]]|There are three sets of dice rolling around in Mat's head at the same time around the morning after [[Renna]]'s death. The first stops Aludra agrees to accompany him when he leaves Luca's show ({{kod|8}}); the second stops when he gives Tuon the razor as a courting gift ({{kod|8}}); and the third stops when he agrees to help Thom rescue Moiraine ({{kod|10}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|As the mayor of Hinderstap leaves Mat and his group, and after apprising them of the "Rules," he is joined by some burly men casually carrying axes. They fall into step with the mayor, and all walk together in the same direction as though nothing is untoward. It is then that the dice start rattling in Mat's head. He decides to ignore them ({{tgs|27}}).

Moments before the sun sets behind the clouds, while Mat gambles with the villagers, he tells [[Talmanes]] that they are staying. At this the dice stop rattling in his head ({{tgs|27}}). [[Category:New Articles]] }}

{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|The dice begin rattling in the Dead Man's Breath when Mat hears of a man drained of blood ({{tom|8}}).

Later on, during Mat's stay in Caemlyn, the dice stop when Mat leaves The Dusty Wheel. The ''gholam'' appears shortly afterward ({{tom|31}}). }}

==Relationships with other Characters==

{{Spoiler|the whole series|The relationship between Mat and Rand starts off as that of best friends. During their early years, Mat and Rand pulled a lot of pranks on people in Emond's Field and just generally had a good time together. Once Mat learns that Rand is the Dragon Reborn, he becomes very cautious and uncomfortable, and tries to avoid him. He eventually accepts the fact and maintains his friendship with Rand. Rand considers Mat one of the few people that he can still trust.

As with Rand, Mat and Perrin were good friends back when they lived in the Two Rivers. As the series progresses, they understandably become a bit distant as their paths don't cross all that much; however, they are still bound by the bonds of friendship and the fact that they both came from the Two Rivers. Either one would most likely help the other any way possible.

Egwene, Nynaeve, and Elayne often treat Mat as if he is a foolish child. Nonetheless, he comes through for them time and time again, displaying a great deal of loyalty to all three.

Mat doesn't have the best of relationships with Aes Sedai, mainly because he has a hard time trusting them. A lot of this comes from his memories of past lives. He appears to think well of Aes Sedai such as Moiraine and Teslyn, though he does seem to put a limit to the extent to which he will trust even them.

Throughout the series, Thom and Juilin become friends of Mat's. He meets Thom in 'The Eye of the World' in Emond's Field, and Juilin in 'The Dragon Reborn' when he goes to rescue Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve from the Stone of Tear. Later, they are with him in Ebou Dar and help him plan to get Joline, Teslyn and Edesina out of the city. In 'The Eye of the World,' Thom fights a Fade to buy Rand and Mat time to escape; he often tries to protect all three of the Emond's Field boys since he wasn't able to save his own nephew from Aes Sedai.

Mat's relationship with Tuon gets off to a very rocky start. The first time that they meet, Tuon wishes to buy him. She calls him 'Toy', even though he tries many times to get her to call him by his real name. In ''Winter's Heart'', he learns that she is the Daughter of the Nine Moons, his fated wife, and accidentally performs his half of the Seanchan marriage ceremony. In ''Crossroads of Twilight,'' he begins to court her. Mat thinks that Tuon is pretty, if on the thin side. In ''A Knife of Dreams,'' Tuon performs her half of the marriage ceremony. Mat is in love with Tuon, and although Tuon claims not to be in love with him, she is both fond and possessive of him.

Talmanes is fond of Mat and respects him a great deal, considering his commander to be inspiring. Mat has made Talmanes consider common folk in a different light. When he thinks he is going to die during the battle for Caemlyn, Talmanes wishes he had spent more time taunting Mat ({{prol14}}). Egwene thinks that Talmanes appears to be "precisely the type of man" Mat needs to have around him ({{amol|1}}).}}

==Viewings and Dreams==

"And the other one ... a red eagle, an eye on a balance scale, a dagger with a ruby, a horn, and a laughing face." ([[Min]]'s viewing of Mat; {{teotw|15}}).

"You know I've read you, Egwene. I don't understand most of it - I almost never do - but I see things I am sure link you to Rand, and Perrin, and Mat, and - yes, even Galad, the light help you for a fool. How can any of that happen if the Seanchan take you off across the ocean?" (Min to Egwene; {{tgh|42}}).

"Mat, placing his own left eye on a balance scale. Mat, hanging by his neck from a tree limb. There had been a dream of Mat and Seanchan, too, but she was willing to dismiss that as a nightmare. It had to have been just a nightmare. Just like the one about Mat speaking the Old Tongue. That had to come from what she had heard during his Healing." (Egwene's Dream; {{tdr|25}}).

"There had been dreams of Mat, too. Of Mat with dice spinning 'round him - she felt she knew where that one came from - of Mat being followed by a man who was not there - she still did not understand that; there was a man following, or maybe more than one, but in some way there was no one there - of Mat riding desperately toward something unseen in the distance that he had to reach, and Mat with a woman who seemed to be tossing fireworks about. An Illuminator, she assumed, but that made no more sense than anything else." (Egwene's dream; {{tdr|37}}).

"Mat, rattling a dice cup. His opponent stared at Mat with eyes of fire. Mat did not seem to see the man, but Perrin knew him." (Perrin's Dream; {{tdr|43}}).

"What did it mean that Mat was dicing with the Dark One, and why did he keep shouting, "I am coming!" and why did she think in the dream that he was shouting at her?" (Egwene's dream; {{tdr|48}}).

{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|"Mat wrestling with a Seanchan woman who tied an invisible leash to him." (Egwene's dream; ({{tsr|11}}).

"Mat, standing where a road forked ahead of him. He flipped a coin, started down one branch, and suddenly was wearing a wide brimmed hat and walking with a staff bearing a short sword blade." (Perrin's Dream; ({{tsr|28}}).

"Mat stood naked and bound, snarling; an odd spear with a black shaft had been thrust across his back behind his elbows, and a silver medallion, a foxhead, hung on his chest." (Perrin's dream; ({{tsr|53}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Fires of Heaven]]|"Mat throwing dice with blood streaming down his face, the wide brim of his hat pulled low so she could not see his wound, while Thom Merrilin put his hand into a fire to draw out the small blue stone that now dangled on Moiraine's forehead." (Egwene's Dream; {{tfoh|15}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Lord of Chaos]]|"Mat spoke strange words she almost understood ... the Old Tongue, she thought ... and two ravens alighted on his shoulders, claws sinking through his coat into the flesh beneath. He seemed no more aware of them than Perrin had been of the hawk and falcon, yet defiance passed across his face, and then grim acceptance. In another a woman, face shrouded in shadow, beckoned him toward great danger; Egwene did not know what, only that it was monstrous." (Egwene's Dream; {{loc|15}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|"Mat sat on a night-shrouded hilltop, watching a grand Illuminator's display of fireworks, and suddenly his hand shot up, seized one of those bursting lights in the sky. Arrows of fire flashed from his clenched fist, and a sense of dread filled her. Men would die because of this. The world would change. But the world was changing; it always changed." (Egwene's Dream; {{acos|10}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Path of Daggers]]|"Mat, weighing two Aes Sedai on a huge set of balance scales, and on his decision depended¦.She could not say what; something vast; the world, perhaps. There had been other dreams, most tinged with suffering. Recently, all of her dreams about Mat were pale and full of pain, like shadows cast by nightmares, almost as though Mat himself were not quite real. That made her afraid for him, left behind in Ebou Dar, and gave her agonies of grief for sending him there, not to mention poor old Thom Merrilin." (Egwene's Dream; {{tpod|15}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|"Mat stood on a village green, playing at bowls. The thatch-roofed houses were vague, in the manner of dreams - sometimes the roofs were slate; sometimes the houses seemed of stone, sometimes wood - but he was sharp and clear, dressed in a fine green coat and that wide-brimmed hat, just as he had been the day he rode into Salidar. There was not another human being in sight. Rubbing the ball between his hands, he took a short run and casually rolled it across the smooth grass. All nine pins fell, scattered as if they had been kicked. Mat turned and picked up another ball, and the pins were back upright. No, there was a fresh set of pins. The old still lay where they had fallen. He hurled the ball again, a lazy underhanded bowl. And Egwene wanted to scream. The pins were not turned pieces of wood. They were men, standing there watching the ball roll toward them. None moved until the ball sent them flying. Mat turned to pick up another ball, and there were more new pins, new men, standing in orderly formation among the men lying sprawled on the ground as if dead. No, they were dead. Unconcerned, Mat bowled." (Egwene's dream; {{cot|20}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[Knife of Dreams]]|"Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly, for he will marry you and carry you away. Beware the man who remembers Hawkwing's face, for he will marry you and set you free. Beware the man of the red hand, for him you will marry and none other." ([[Lidya]]'s Foretelling to Tuon; {{kod|36}}) }}

==Mat's Escapades==

Most of his life, Mat has been a big prankster, playing all kinds of jokes and often dragging Rand along with him. Mat's mother used to tell him that the Forsaken would come for him if he didn't mend his ways. ({{teotw|1}})

When Mat and Rand are ten years old, [[Cenn Buie]] caught them in his apple trees ({{teotw|3}})

Once, when Mat was ten years old, he tried to cut a firework open to see what was inside, causing an uproar; [[Bran al'Vere]] cuffed him, [[Doral Barran]], the then [[Wisdom]] had switched him and his father strapped him. For a month, no one in Emond's Field would talk to him with the exception of Rand and Perrin ({{tdr|40}}).

Soon after turning thirteen, Mat talked Rand into stealing a jar of apple brandy. Nynaeve found them asleep at Bran al'Vere's table. Their heads were hurting so badly that they didn't even feel the switches she gave them ({{tsr|7}}).

On the day before Bel Tine, Mat covered two of [[Haral Luhhan]]'s dogs with flour. Having told [[Adan al'Caar]], [[Ewin Finngar]] and [[Dag Coplin (2)|Dag Coplin]] that some farms had seen ghost hounds, he set them loose near Dag's house, but they ran straight home. [[Alsbet Luhhan]] had left her door open, so they ran inside and got flour all over the house. ({{teotw|2}})

On the day before Bel Tine, Mat and [[Dav Ayellin|Dav]] caught a badger and planned to let it loose on the Green so that they could watch the girls run. ({{teotw|1}})

==Quotes==
===Quotes about Mat===
{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|"'Welcome, son of battles.'" (The Eelfinn; {{tom2|Chapter 54}})

"'…And the gambler becomes the center of all!...'" (The Eelfinn after they’ve taken Mat’s eye; {{tom2|Chapter 54}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[A Memory of Light]]|“Time he’d spent with Mat made him wish there were more he could offer these people. It was downright strange, the effect Matrim Cauthon had on a person. Talmanes looked at common folk in a very different light now. Perhaps it was because he still didn’t rightly know whether to think of Mat as a lord or not (Talmanes; {{prol14}})

"If Mat were here, he would probably curse a lot, complain as much, then proceed to save them all with some battlefield miracle.” (Talmanes; {{prol14}}) }}

===Quotes by Mat===
"It has to be there at the Last Battle. Nothing says it can't be used before then. Nothing says it can't. (Mat about the Horn of Valere; {{tgh2|Chapter 47}})

"Swords aren't the be-all and end-all, you know. I could do fairly well against either of you, I think, if you had a sword and I had my quarterstaff." (Mat to Gawyn and Galad; {{tdr2|Chapter 24}})

{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|"I have no intention of marrying. And I have no intention of dying, either, whether I am supposed to live again or not. I walk around with holes in my memory, holes in my life, and you stare at me like idiots. If I had my way, I would want those holes filled, but at least answers to my questions might fill some in my future. You have to answer - !) (Mat to the Eelfinn; {{tsr2|Chapter 24}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Fires of Heaven]]|"Everything always changes. The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow." (Mat to Lan; {{tfoh2|Chapter 42}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[Lord of Chaos]]|"Now. When the poor blind fool they've chosen out for their Amyrlin gets here, I will do the talking. She can't be very bright, or they'd never have been able to shove her into the job. Amyrlin Seat for a bloody village in the middle of bloody nowhere. You keep your mouth shut and curtsey for all you're worth, and I'll pull your bacon off the coals again." (Mat to Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve; {{loc2|Chapter 38}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[Winter's Heart]]|"She is my wife. Your bloody Daughter of the Nine Moons is my wife!" (Mat to Egeanin; {{wh2|Chapter 31}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|"Women are like...goats..." (Mat to [[Talmanes]] on broken road; {{tgs2|Chapter 20}})

"I'm not giving up gambling," Mat muttered. "Or drinking." (Mat to [[Talmanes]]; {{tgs2|Chapter 20}})

"The trouble with you, Mat, is that you're actually good at lying, unlike those other two boys." ([[Thom]] to Mat on broken road to Hinderstap; {{tgs2|Chapter 27}})

"Marriage, I guess. Burn me, but I'm not going to stop drinking or gambling." (Mat to [[Thom]], and in the hearing of [[Talmanes]], concerning being married to [[Tuon]]; {{tgs2|Chapter 27}})

"She's not a woman, [[Talmanes]]...she's an [[Aes Sedai]]. Don't think of her as a woman." (Mat to [[Talmanes]] about [[Joline]]; {{tgs2|Chapter 28}})

"You're [[Aes Sedai]]. . .I figured you . . . you know, ''[[saidar]]''ed it." (Mat to [[Verin]] regarding the pictures of him and [[Perrin]]; {{tgs2|Chapter 36}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|"He was a married man, and could not afford to charm her, but he could keep an eye out for his friends." (Mat in the taverns of Caemlyn; {{tom2|Chapter 8}})

"'Of course I am. . .How else is she going to trust that it’s really from me?'" (Mat to Joline about swearing in his letter to Elayne; {{tom2|Chapter 17}})

"'Just because a man marries someone doesn’t mean he suddenly becomes bloody nobility.'" (Mat on not being a nobleman; {{tom2|Chapter 19}})

"'Al dival, al kiserai, al mashi!' For light, glory, and love!"
"'Tai’daishar!' True Blood of Battle!"
"'Carai manshimaya Tylin. Carai an manshimaya Nalesean. Carai an manshimaya ayend’an!' Honor of my blade for Tylin. Honor of my blade for Nalesean. Honor of my blade for the fallen." (Mat’s Old Tongue litany for the fallen dead when fighting the gholam: {{tom2|Chapter 31}})

"'Courage to strengthen, Fire to blind. Music to dazzle. Iron to bind.'" "'And Matrim Cauthon to bloody even the odds.'" (Noal with the rhyme and Mat to finish, as they enter the Tower of Ghenjei; {{tom2|Chapter 53}})

"'But to be bonded to a woman? Isn’t going to happen to Matrim Cauthon.'" (Mat to Thom and Moiraine on being a Warder; {{tom2|Chapter 57}}) }}

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Matrim Cauthon

2021-10-14T03:08:56Z

Arinna Katal: /* A Memory of Light */

''Author: Atarah al'Norahn''

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Pronunciation: MAT-rihm CAW-thon

Matrim Cauthon was born in 978 NE, in [[Emond's Field]], [[Andor]], to [[Abell]] and [[Natti Cauthon]]. Other than his parents, his family consists of two younger sisters, [[Bodewhin Cauthon|Bodewhin]] and [[Eldrin Cauthon|Eldrin]].

His best friends from the village are [[Rand al'Thor]] and [[Perrin Aybara]]. In 998 NE Mat and his friends, along with a girl from their villgae [[Egwene al'Vere]], left with [[Moiraine Damodred|Moiraine Sedai]] and her Warder after Trollocs attack and burn the village.

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==General==

===Appearance===
Most women find him appealing, with a wiry body and brown hair and eyes.
===Personality===
Dancing and flirting seem to be two of his favorite past times. He also has quite a bit of a gambling streak, and plays dice often. Many people who see him gambling declare that he seems to have [[the Dark One]]'s own luck. While in Emond's Field his luck was average; he lost as much as he won. After the incident at [[Shadar Logoth]], his luck became rather good. After he was [[Heal]]ed by the [[Aes Sedai]] in [[the White Tower]], it became extraordinary ({{tdr|30}}) .

Another major side to Mat is that of the prankster. In Emond's Field, he was well known for his escapades.

===Condensed Timeline===
*978NE: Mat is born
*998NE: Moiraine and Lan find Mat and his friends in the Two Rivers.

{{Spoiler|the whole series|
*998NE in the spring: Moiraine and Lan find Mat in the Two Rivers on the same day Ishamael directs a Trolloc attack. They flee, with Rand, Perrin, Egwene and Thom.
*998NE: After they hide in the abandoned city of Shadar Logoth, Mat steals a dagger and takes it with him outside of the city walls.
*998NE: Mat and his friends travel from Caemlyn, through the Ways to Fal Dara
*998NE: Mat journeys to the Eye of the World, in the Blight meeting the Green Man and encountering Balthamel and Aginor, who are both killed.
*998NE: After an attack on Fal Dara, Mat looses the dagger and journeys with Rand and Perrin and Shienaran soldiers to get it back
*998NE late fall/winter: Mat gets the dagger back and also sounds the Horn of Valere
*999NE spring: Mat is brought to Tar Valon to be Healed and the link to the dagger be broken
*999NE: Mat travels to Tear to save Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve, where he goes through a redstone ter'angreal where the Aelfinn answer questions for him
*999NE: Mat travels to Rhuidean, where he goes through a redstone ter'angreal where the Eelfinn almost kill him, give him memories of long died soldiers and also a fox head medalion and an ashandarei
}}

==Mat's Journey==
===The Eye of the World===
Mat's journey, like [[Rand]] and [[Perrin]]'s, begins the day before [[Bel Tine]] when he sees a [[Fade]] and discusses it with Rand. ({{teotw|1}}). Later on the same day, he meets [[Moiraine]], the Aes Sedai who will take him and his friends away from Emond's Field. ({{teotw|2}}). That night, his house is one of the one's targeted when [[Trollocs]] attack Emond's Field. Luckily, he is not injured. ({{teotw|7}}). The next evening, Moiraine and her [[Warder]], [[Lan]], whisk Mat, Perrin, Rand and [[Egwene]] away from Emond's Field and towards a safer place ({{teotw|10}}).

After several days of traveling, Mat and company wind up in [[Baerlon]], where they stay at an inn called [[The Stag and Lion]]. ({{teotw|13}}) His sleep that night is disturbed by dreams of [[Ba'alzamon]], the Dark One, who is after the three boys for a reason that is unknown to them ({{teotw|14}}).

A few incidents occur while the group is in Baerlon; Mat plays pranks on a group of [[Whitecloaks]], shares his dream with Rand (who, incidentally, had the same dream) and Thom, and is, along with the others, shocked by [[Nynaeve]]'s arrival in Baerlon ({{teotw|15}}; {{ch1|16}}). When a fade shows up in Baerlon, Mat and company flee, confronting the Whitecloaks in the process ({{teotw|17}}).

Three days later, they are attacked by Trollocs. The entire group has to fight in order to get away. During the battle, Mat shouts a phrase in [[the Old Tongue]] without knowing it. ''"[[Pronunciation Guide|Carai an Caldazar]]! Carai an Ellisande! Al Ellisande!"'' ("For the honor of the Red Eagle. For the honor of the Rose of the Sun. The Rose of the Sun.") ({{teotw|18}}) They finally reach an abandoned city named [[Shadar Logoth]] ({{teotw|18}}).

Mat, along with Rand and Perrin, leaves the camp in Shadar Logoth to go exploring. They meet a man named [[Mordeth]] who asks for their help before attempting to kill them. As they flee, Mat grabs a [[ruby dagger|dagger]] with a large ruby on the hilt. When they return to the camp, they are told that Lan is out looking for them and scouting the city. When he returns, they learn that there are Trollocs in Shadar Logoth ({{teotw|19}}).

The group decides to leave Shadar Logoth, but [[Mashadar]], the evil mist of the city, is rising with the coming dark. They are all separated, but manage to get out of the city alive. Mat, Rand and [[Thom]] end up jumping aboard a boat named the ''[[Spray]]''. The three of them are dropped off at [[Whitebridge]]. There, they encounter a Fade. Rand and Mat get away, while Thom stays to delay it.

Thinking that Thom is dead, Mat and Rand head off towards [[Caemlyn]]. Along the way, they meet a multitude of [[Darkfriends]] who either try to kill or capture them. During the trip, Mat begins to act strangely; he is often dark and brooding ({{teotw|32}}; {{ch1|33}}).

Finally, Mat and Rand reach Caemlyn and proceed towards an inn named '[[The Queen's Blessing]],' the place that Thom had told them to go if the three of them got separated. Mat shuts himself away in his room and refuses to leave. ({{teotw|35}});{{ch1|36}})

Mat is still in his room when Moiraine, Lan, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve finally arrive in Caemlyn. When Moiraine sees Mat, she is aghast. Although he tries to injure her with the ruby dagger when she touches him, she manages to partially Heal him, bringing him back to his usual self. The others are told that the reason Mat became sick was because the dagger is tainted. She was unable to Heal him enough so as to be able to take the dagger away from him; if he is separated from it before he is fully Healed at the Tower, he will die ({{teotw|41}}; {{ch1|42}}).

Moiraine decides that they all need to go to the [[Eye of the World]]. After speaking with [[Loial]], the [[Ogier]] that Rand met in Caemlyn, she decides that they will use [[the Ways]]. Before leaving Caemlyn, Mat is once again plagued by dreams of Ba'alzamon ({{teotw|43}}).

Mat and company proceed to travel through the Ways. Like everyone else, Mat is spooked out, especially when they are almost caught by ''[[Machin Shin]]''. Never the less, they finally arrive in [[Fal Dara]], [[Shienar]] ({{teotw|44}}; {{ch1|45}}).
Their stay in Fal Dara is relatively short before they set off for [[the Blight]], intent on finding the Eye of the World. ({{teotw|48}}) Finally, after an unpleasant trip through the Blight, they reach the Green Man's garden and are led to the Eye of the World. ({{teotw|49}}) There, the group is faced by two of the Forsaken, [[Aginor]] and [[Balthamel]]. After they are defeated, Mat, along with Loial, Lan and Perrin, enters the Eye of the World. There, they find the Dragon Banner, [[the Horn of Valere]], and one of [[The Seals]] to the Dark One's prison. ({{teotw|50}}; {{ch1|52}}).
After this long ordeal, Mat and the others go back to Fal Dara ({{teotw|53}}).

===The Great Hunt===
Back in Fal Dara, a few things of consequence happen. Mat discovers that, since obtaining the ruby dagger and being partially Healed, his luck has significantly increased. Later, [[Padan Fain]], now a known Darkfriend, steals the Horn of Valere and Mat's ruby dagger ({{tgh|3}}; {{ch2|6}}). Without the dagger, the Aes Sedai won't be able to fully Heal him of its taint. For this reason, the [[Amyrlin Seat]] asks if he will accompany the party that will go to find the two stolen items ({{tgh|7}}; {{tgh|8}}). When they leave, Perrin and Rand accompany them ({{tgh|9}}).

The Hunt for the Horn is relatively uneventful until Mat and Perrin find Rand with the Dragon Banner, which Moiraine had put into his saddlebags. It is then that they learn that Rand is the [[Dragon Reborn]]. After this revelation, they both avoid him ({{tgh|11})). When Rand, Loial and [[Hurin]] are found missing the next morning, Mat and company continue on without them ({{tgh|14}}). Eventually, they end up in the city of [[Cairhien (City)|Cairhien]], where they are reunited with Rand, Loial and Hurin ({{tgh|30}})

When Hurin discovers that the Horn of Valere is in Lord [[Barthanes]]' manor, Mat, Rand and some of the others attend a party there ({{tgh|21}}; {{ch2|32}}). The Horn of Valere, however, is no longer there. Believing that Padan Fain has gone to [[Falme]], they try to go through a [[Waygate]], but encounter Machin Shin. Gathering everyone together, they all head for Stedding Tsofu. They arrive and gain permission from the Ogier Elders to use the Stedding Tsofu Waygate, only to encounter ''Machin Shin'' again ({{tgh|33}}; {{ch2|35}}; {{ch2|36}}). As a last resort, Rand takes them to [[Toman Head]] with the use of a [[Portal Stone]]. They arrive to find that four months have passed ({{tgh|37}}).

Mat, along with Rand, Perrin, Hurin and [[Ingtar]], goes into Falme with the intent of recovering the Horn of Valere and the ruby dagger. They find both items in the house of the [[Seanchan]] Lord [[Turak]], whom Rand kills ({{tgh|45}}). As they leave the city, they are caught between the Seanchan army and the [[Whitecloaks]], with no escape. Mat blows the Horn of Valere, and the Heroes of the Horn ride to their rescue ({{tgh|47}}).

Once everything is finally over, Mat heads to the White Tower to be Healed ({{tgh|49}}).

===The Dragon Reborn===
By the time Mat finally reaches the White Tower, he is very ill. It takes ten Aes Sedai and a powerful ''[[sa'angreal]]'' to Heal him ({{tdr|11}}; {{ch3|18}}).

When Mat awakens, he is thin and weak. He receives visits from [[Lanfear]] in the guise of Selene, who attempts to get him to join her, and then from [[Siuan]] and [[Leane]]. They inform him that he will be staying at the Tower for quite awhile ({{tdr|19}}; {{ch3|20}}).

Tired of being cooped up in his room, Mat goes out for a walk and ends up at the Warder practice field. There, he bets [[Gawyn]] and [[Galad]] that he can beat them both and wins ({{tdr|24}}).

Later on, he is visited by [[Egwene]], [[Elayne]] and [[Nynaeve]]. They talk for a while and come to an agreement. They will give him one of the letters that Siuan gave them to get around easily if he will carry a letter to [[Morgase]] from Elayne. He agrees because it will get him out of Tar Valon ({{tdr|28}}). He leaves the Tower and begins gambling at taverns in the city to make some money for his trip. He ends up making a fortune. After an attempt n his life by a [[Gray Men|gray man]] and Darkfriends, he runs into Thom at an inn named 'The Woman of [[Tanchico]],' and convinces Thom to go to Caemlyn with him ({{tdr|30}}; {{ch3|31}}).

Mat is able to secure passage on a ship using the Amyrlin's letter, but that night he is once again attacked by Darkfriends. They finally arrive safely in Aringill. They decide to stay in the stable of an inn named '[[The Good Queen]]' for the night. There, they save [[Aludra]], an [[Illuminator]], from some men. In return, Aludra gifts Mat with fireworks ({{tdr|32}}; {{ch3|40}}).

On the way to Caemlyn. Mat and Thom are once again attacked by Darkfriends. They kill them and continue on towards Caemlyn ({{tdr|44}}). When they arrive, Mat attempts to deliver Elayne's letter, but the guards won't let him. Later, he remembers how Rand once got into the palace by climbing a wall. He decides to try it out and succeeds. On his way to Morgase, he hears a man telling someone to kill Elayne. After delivering Elayne's letter, he realizes that it was Morgase's lover, Lord [[Gaebril]], and is glad that he didn't say anything ({{tdr|45}}; {{ch3|46}}). Mat and Thom decide to go to Tear to rescue Elayne ({{tdr|47}}). When they reach Tear, Mat uses his luck to find [[Comar]], Gaebril's lackey ({{tdr|49}}).

Because Thom gets sick, Mat takes him to a Wise Woman, [[Ailhuin Guenna|Mother Guenna]], who is able to tell them about Elayne, Egwene and Nynaeve. Mat heads off for [[the Stone of Tear]], where he meets [[Juilin]] and some of the [[Aiel]]. Using the fireworks that Aludra gave him, he blasts a hole in the wall, and Mat and Juilin start looking for the three girls ({{tdr|52}}; {{ch3|54}}). They manage to free the girls; despite the fact that Mat and Juilin risked their lives among the [[Black Ajah]], Elayne, Egwene and Nynaeve do not thank them ({{tdr|55}}).
===The Shadow Rising===
{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|The Stone of Tear is now secure, Mat is playing cards with some Tairen lords. Suddenly, his cards come to life and attack him. He manages to turn them all back into cards. After this, the Tairens all avoid him ({{tsr|2}}).

Later, wanting to escape and not knowing what to do, he goes through the twisted red doorway ''[[ter'angreal]]'' that Egwene told him about. There, he meets the [[Aelfinn]], who tell him four things.
1) If he doesn't go to [[Rhuidean]], he will die.
2) He is destined to marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons.
3) He will die and live again.
4) He will have to give up half the light of the world to save the world.
({{tsr|15}})

When everyone is ready to leave for the [[Aiel Waste]], Rand transports himself, Mat and the others using a Portal Stone ({{tsr|22}})) When Rand requests of the Aiel [[Wise Ones]] to go to Rhuidean, Mat asks if he can accompany him, and the Wise Ones concede ({{tsr|23}}).

In Rhuidean, Mat finds another twisted red doorway ''ter'angreal''. Little does he know that the [[Eelfinn]], unlike the Aelfinn, do not answer questions, but grant wishes. When they don't answer his questions, he angrily begins demanding things of them. He tells them that he wants the holes in his memory to be filled, that he wants to be free of Aes Sedai channeling, and that he wants to go back to Rhuidean. When Rand finds him, Mat is hanging from Avendesora with a spear bearing a curved blade and a [[foxhead medallion]]. He has also gained fluency in the Old Tongue ({{tsr|24}}; {{ch4|26}}).

After returning from Rhuidean, Mat accompanies Rand and the Aiel to [[Imre Stand]], and then to [[Cold Rocks Hold]], participating in battles against Trollocs along the way ({{tsr|36}}; {{ch4|37}}; {{ch4|48}}; {{ch4|49}}; {{ch4|50}}). He also accompanies Rand to [[Alcair Dal]] ({{tsr|57}}; {{ch4|58}}). }}
===The Fires of Heaven===
{{Spoiler|[[The Fires of Heaven]]|Since Rhuidean is now open to everyone, Mat and the others, as well as the Aiel, have moved in. While Mat is out on the streets, he meets [[Melindhra]], a [[Shaido]] [[Maiden of the Spear]] who has chosen to follow Rand ({{tfoh|3}}). Later, when they are in bed together, [[Darkhounds]] attack; however, no one is killed ({{tfoh|6}}).

They are soon on the move again. Mat accompanies Rand and the Aiel to [[Jangai Pass]] and the town of [[Taien]], which has been destroyed. Later, when they are camped, they are attacked by Trollocs. Both Mat and Melindhra join the fight ({{tfoh|20}}; {{ch5|21}}; {{ch5|22}}.

After reaching [[Cairhien (Nation)|Cairhien]], Mat decides that he is going to leave Rand and the others ({{tfoh|23}}; {{ch5|42}}). When he goes to tell Rand, he ends up discussing battle plans with Lan ({{tfoh|42}}). However, despite his intentions to leave, the next day's planned battle against the Shaido prevents him from escaping. When he can't get away, he notices that the Shaido have set an unexpected trap. He goes to warn the Tairens and Cairhienin soldiers, and ends up leading them throughout the battle {{tfoh|43}}; {{ch5|44}}). During said battle, Mat encounters Couladin, the leader of the Shaido, and kills him ({{tfoh|45}}). [[Talmanes]] and [[Nalesean]], the Tairen and Cairhienin leaders of the soldiers that Mat led, end up swearing fealty to him ({{tfoh|45}}).

After returning to Cairhien, Mat learns that Melindhra is really a Darkfriend when she tries to kill him, but he ends up killing her instead ({{tfoh|51}})The next morning, Mat is present when Lanfear attacks Rand, Egwene and Aviendha, but he is not injured ({{tfoh|52}}). Later, however, he is killed during Rand's attack on Rahvin in Caemlyn, but is brought back to life when Rand [[balefire]]s Rahvin ({{tfoh|54}}); {{ch5|55}}). }}
===Lord of Chaos===
{{Spoiler|[[Lord of Chaos]]|Some time later as Mat leads his newly found army, [[the Band of the Red Hand]], towards Tear, there is another assassination attempt on his life, this time by a group of Aiel ({{loc|22}}). Later, Rand asks Mat to go to [[Salidar]] in order to find Elayne, who is now Queen of Andor as Morgase is presumed to be dead. Mat agrees, and Aviendha accompanies him ({{loc|23}}). When he arrives in Salidar with the Band of the Red Hand, he gets the shock of his life when he learns that Egwene is the rebel's Amyrlin. Several days later, he is enlisted to go to [[Ebou Dar]] with Elayne and Nynaeve ({{loc|38}}; {{ch6|44}}). During the trip to Ebou Dar, Mat is pestered by Elayne, Nynaeve, and [[Vandene]] and [[Adeleas]], the two Aes Sedai who are accompanying them ({{loc|23}}).

Once in Ebou Dar, Mat opts not to stay in the palace, but randomly chooses an inn named '[[The Wandering Woman]].' Over the next little while, he spends his time attempting to keep track of Elayne and Nynaeve, wandering around the city, and going to festivals with [[Beslan]], Queen [[Tylin]]'s son. Tylin seems to be interested in him ({{loc|52}}; {{acos|14}}; {{ch7|16}}). }}
===A Crown of Swords===
{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|Mat is attacked a couple more times in Ebou Dar, and meets [[Birgitte]] ({{acos|17}}; {{ch7|21}}).

After a long wait, Mat finally gets his thanks from Nynaeve and Elayne for rescuing them in Tear. They then enlist his help in finding [[the Bowl of the Winds]], and he moves into [[the Tarasin Palace]] with them. Unfortunately for Mat, this brings him into Tylin's path, and she claims him for her own ({{acos|22}}; {{ch7|28}}; {{ch7|29}}).

Mat finally finds the hiding place of the Bowl of the Winds, and accompanies Nynaeve, Elayne, Aviendha, Birgitte, Lan and the Kin into [[the Rahad]] to get it. There, two Black sisters and the ''[[gholam]]'' attack them ({{acos|31}}; {{ch7|37}}; {{ch7|38}}). All the women leave Ebou Dar with the Bowl of the Winds and Mat, Thom, Juilin and Olver are accidentally left behind when the Seanchan attack Ebou Dar. He is injured when a wall topples onto him ({{acos|39}}). }}
===The Path of Daggers===
{{Spoiler|[[The Path of Daggers]]|Mat spends the book recuperating. }}
===Winter's Heart===
{{Spoiler|[[Winter's Heart]]|While still in Ebou Dar, Mat meets Aludra the Illuminator again, and spends quite a bit of time with her. He is also attacked by the ''gholam'' again. It is then that he meets [[Noal Charin]], an old man, who helps him ({{wh|15}}; {{ch9|16}}). Upon returning to the Tarasin Palace, he meets [[Tuon]], though he does not know that she is the Daughter of the Nine Moons ({{wh|17}}).

By this time, Mat wants nothing more than to get away from Ebou Dar, Tylin and the Seanchan. With this in mind, he begins moving his belongings back to The Wandering Woman inn. On one of these trips, he gets himself into an even worse circumstance. [[Setalle Anan]], the owner, has been aiding [[Joline]] Sedai so as not to let her be caught by the Seanchan. Mat ends up agreeing to help her get out of the city. Upon returning to the Tarasin Palace, Mat visits Teslyn Sedai in the ''damane'' quarters and adds both [[Teslyn]] and [[Edesina]] to the list of Aes Sedai escapees. Mat, Thom and Juilin begin to forming a plan, but are unable to get it to work without ''[[sul'dam]]''. When Mat meets [[Egeanin]] and [[Bayle Domon]], who want to hire the three men, their problems are solved. Egeanin pulls some strings to make the escape possible ({{wh|18}}; {{ch9|19}}; {{ch9|29}}).

The next night, the plan is put into action. Mat goes up to the ''[[damane]]'' kennels and ends up freeing one of the [[Sea Folk]] [[Windfinders]]. When he returns to Tylin's room, he is surprised to find her there, as she was supposed to be away. He ends up, with her permission, tying her up and leaving her under the bed so that no one thinks that she helped him. As he reaches the stable yard, he runs into Tuon. It is then that he learns that she is the Daughter of the Nine Moons. Shocked, he says three times that she is his wife, not realizing that he has thus completed his half of the Seanchan marriage ceremony. They end up taking Tuon and [[Selucia]], her maid, with them ({{wh|30}}; {{ch9|31}}). }}
===Crossroads of Twilight===
{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|Once the group is out of Ebou Dar, they take refuge in [[Valan Luca]]'s circus ({{cot|1}}). Over the next little while, as they travel towards [[Lugard]], [[Murandy]], Mat courts Tuon. At one point, [[Renna]], one of the ''sul'dam'', attempts to escape and Mat is forced to kill her ({{cot|2}}; {{ch10|3}}; {{ch10|28}}; {{ch10|29}}). }}
===Knife of Dreams===
{{Spoiler|[[Knife of Dreams]]|The morning after Renna’s death, the dice begin rolling in Mat’s head. Mat attempts to convince Luca to leave Jurador, but Luca insists on staying for at least two more days. Mat goes into Jurador, where he visits various stables in the town before finally buying a razor for Tuon. When he returns to Luca’s show, he goes to Tuon’s wagon, where he finds Tuon with Selucia, Setalle, Noal, and Olver. He calls Tuon “Precious,” telling her that if she is to call him by a “pet name,” he will do the same to her. She decides to take it as a game, although Mat does not know what the rules are. While they are talking, Juilin arrives to let Mat know that Seanchan soldiers have come to Jurador ({{kod|6}}).

Mat sends Olver and Noal off to warn the others about the Seanchan, and when Tuon asks if he isn’t going to leave anyone to keep her from escaping, he reminds her that she has given her word not to escape; she graces him with a smile. He goes to the Aes Sedai’s wagon, and is angry when he can sense channeling inside. He enters and when he begins to question them about what they are doing, Joline smacks him. In return, Mat puts Joline over his knee and spanks her. The Aes Sedai all try to stop him, but his foxhead medallion protects him. He learns that the channeling was because of an altercation between the Aes Sedai and the former ''sul’dam''. When he finally leaves the wagon, Blaeric and Fen question him over what happened, since they could sense something through their bond to Joline, but Mat tells them to ask her instead ({{kod|7}}).

Luca decides to leave Jurador early after all, and they depart the next morning. As they travel, Mat thinks about what to do regarding Tuon. In midafternoon, they reach the village of [[Runnien Crossing]] and Luca stops to set up his show. That night, Mat finds Aludra and tells her that he has figured out why she wants bellfounders: to make lofting tubes. Aludra tells him of her plans to make Dragons, a weapon that can launch explosives over two miles’ distance. Mat asks her to come with him when he eventually leaves Luca’s show, telling her that Rand will arrange to have her Dragons made—and that if Rand will not, Mat will himself. Aludra agrees. Mat thinks that the dice in his head are quieter, now, but he can still hear them ({{kod|8}}).

The next day, Domon and Leilwin get married, so Mat moves into a separate tent to give them privacy. Luca’s show progresses slowly across Altara, never moving more than four leagues in a day and often stopping at towns and villages. Mat dines with Tuon every day. She questions him about Rand and the Horn of Valere, although she does not know that Mat knows Rand or that Mat sounded the Horn ({{kod|8}}).

As they travel over the next several days, Joline and Edesina repeatedly try to learn more about Mat’s foxhead ''ter’angreal''. They discover that while they cannot channel directly at him, they can throw things at him with the One Power. Setalle asks Mat privately if she can see the ter’angreal, and he allows her to. He guesses that she was once Aes Sedai, and Setalle as much as admits it. She tells Mat that if he will keep her secret, she will keep his secret that he is in love with Tuon; knowledge of this would give Tuon a great advantage over him. Mat agrees ({{kod|9}}).

Four days after leaving Jurador, Mat gives Tuon the razor, and suddenly the dice in his head are even quieter. He realizes that there had been multiple sets going: one stopped when Aludra agreed to go with him, and another when he gave Tuon the razor, but there is still at least one more set rattling around in his head. Mat then takes Tuon and Selucia out riding. At one point, Tuon and Selucia take off and Mat chases after them. They stop at some ruins that Mat has memories of dying near, and an unwelcome thought occurs to him: in order for him to remember dying so many times, the Eelfinn must create some link to the people they take memories from so that they can continue collecting memories throughout those peoples’ lives. He is disconcerted by the fact that the same might have been done to him. On their way back to Luca’s show, they stop briefly to speak with a group of Tuatha’an who want to make sure that Tuon and Selucia are okay ({{kod|8}}). Leilwin later tells him that for the Seanchan, to give an exotic courting gift is to acknowledge that one is courting someone of a higher station, meaning that giving the razor to Tuon acknowledges that Mat doesn’t “expect to be her equal.” Mat is horrified to learn what he has unknowingly done ({{kod|9}}).

The night after giving Tuon the razor, Mat is having dinner with her when the three Aes Sedai barge in and demand that the Seanchan leave the Westalnds. Tuon responds by placing ''a’dam'' on them, but Mat intervenes and releases them. That night he buries the ''a’dam'' so that they cannot be used again ({{kod|9}}).

The next day Mat and Tuon talk as they ride together. Luca instructs the show to stop at a village in the afternoon, but the village tugs at Mat’s memories and he suddenly realizes that it is a village from the past and all the inhabitants are dead. He shouts to warn a peddler who has just ridden into the village, but as the village begins “melting slowly into the ground,” the peddler is sucked in with it. Everyone with the show is incredibly spooked, and none of Luca’s people want to carry on and cross the field where the village once stood. Luca manages to inspire them with tales of all the cities they will visit, however, and the show continues to move onward. They ride late into the day before stopping again ({{kod|10}}).

Mat does not eat with Tuon that night, since she insists that it is a night for prayer: the dead walking means that Tarmon Gai’don is on its way. He eats alone, but Thom, Noal, Juilin, Amathera, Olver, Domon, and Egeanin all drop by that evening as no one wants to be alone. After Juilin, Amathera, Domon, and Egeanin have left, Mat notices Thom reading the worn letter that he often has with him, and asks about it. Thom offers the letter to Mat, and Mat discovers that it is from Moiraine. In the letter, Moiraine informs Thom that she is still alive and that he, Mat, and one other person might try to rescue her. Mat tells Thom, Noal, and Olver about his experiences with the Eelfinn and Aelfinn and then agrees to help Thom rescue Moiraine. In that moment, the final set of dice stop spinning in his head. ({{kod|10}}).

The next day, Luca’s show stops outside [[Maderin]], although Luca intends for them to move on the next morning. Tuon decides that she wants to see the inside of a hell. Mat is apprehensive, but he and Thom bring Tuon and Selucia into the town and pass the common room at The White Ring off as a hell. While Thom goes off to find what he can learn in the town, Mat, Tuon, and Selucia have a drink. Tuon wants to see Mat’s luck in action, so Mat dices with some of the other patrons. He wins every toss, and people are growing suspicious until he suddenly loses his last toss. Tuon comments on his luck running out, but Mat replies that the loss was actually lucky because it allayed everyone’s suspicions ({{kod|11}}).

While Tuon and Selucia are visiting the toilet, Thom comes back with news that there is a Seanchan army on the Murandian border and that the Seanchan are searching for someone they claim is impersonating Tuon. According to Thom, orders are that she be killed upon being found. Mat begins making plans to leave Luca’s show before they reach the Murandian border. When Tuon and Selcuia return, Mat tells them what he has learned. Tuon thinks that one of her sisters might be trying to have her assassinated. As they are talking, they are attacked by a number of people. Mat shouts at Tuon to run; after the attackers have been dispatched, Tuon announces that she has won their game, as Mat was the first to break and use her real name. Mat recognizes one of the attackers as a merchant he was dicing with at The White Ring. He decides that they need to leave Luca’s show right away ({{kod|11}}).

Mat leaves Luca’s show along with the Redarms, Aludra, Thom, Noal, Olver, Juilin, Amathera, Domon, Leilwin, Tuon, Selucia, Setalle, the Aes Sedai, and the former ''sul’dam''. They ride hard for the Damona Mountains, where Vanin knows a pass that will get them into Murandy. The first day, when they are stopped for lunch at midday, Mat stops Juilin from killing a poisonous snake that isn’t threatening them, and Tuon declares in front of everyone that he may kiss her. Mat suggests that they go for a stroll that evening instead, but Tuon tells him that “By tonight, I may have changed my mind.” He kisses her chastely, but when she challenges him to kiss her properly, he does so. Afterwards, she feels his face and determines that he is feverish from the wounds he sustained during the attack in Maderin. She insists on tending to him, but just then, Vanin rides up with Talmanes, who has brought half the Band to find Mat. Talmanes reveals that the Band has doubled in size, that he has seen many Seanchan camps, and also that the pass through the Damona Mountains has been taken out by a landslide. Mat will have to find another way through ({{kod|25}}).

Mat and the others ride with Talmanes to where he left the Band. The Band is delighted to be reunited with Mat and breaks into a round of “Jak o’ the Shadows.” In the camp, Mat pores over maps of the surrounding area and gathers information on where Seanchan camps are to be found ({{kod|26}}). Over the next several days, Mat plans and leads a series of raids and ambushes against nearby Seanchan camps. He intends to draw the Seanchan out of the Molvaine Gap so that his people can get through into Murandy ({{kod|27}}).

[[Furyk Karede]], who has been searching for Tuon, finally tracks down Mat’s camp. Mat, who is concerned for Tuon’s safety, says that Tuon can go with Karede if she trusts him. In so freeing her to return to Ebou Dar, Mat fulfills a foretelling that [[Lidya]] once had regarding the man Tuon would marry. Tuon completes the marriage ceremony by declaring three times that Mat is her husband. Tuon states that while she does not love Mat, she is marrying to serve the Empire. Just as Tuon is preparing to leave with Karede, Vanin arrives to inform Mat that there are ten thousand Seanchan soldiers nearby; they are searching for Tuon in order to kill her. Mat tells Tuon and Karede to go, but asks Karede to leave him a dozen Deathwatch Guards and some Gardeners ({{kod|36}}).

Using the Deathwatch Guards and Gardeners Karede has left behind, Mat plans a decoy to allow Tuon to escape. They manage to defeat the Seanchan force that is after Tuon, and discover that it was sent by Suroth. Mat learns that he is now Prince of the Ravens through his marriage to Tuon and is not very pleased ({{kod|37}}). }}
===The Gathering Storm===
{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|Tuon reflects on Matrim Cauthon while she holds audience in Ebou Dar. When Lieutenant-General Tylee Khirgan has the actual heads of Trollocs delivered, Tuon realizes that, not only had she felt safe with Mat (or rather, Matrim), but she wonders what other things he had said which she mistakenly discounted, but which were true ({{tgs|19}}).

While riding through the mountains of [[Murandy]], down an old road, probably dating from before [[the Breaking]], Mat rants to Talmanes about women. [[Talmanes]] is perceptive enough to know that Mat's bad temper is owing to his missing of and worry over [[Tuon]], his new wife. Mat, [[Thom]], [[Talmanes]], and several thousand of Mat's usual entourage are riding on their way to [[Caemlyn]], which is about two hundred leagues to the north. Between [[Vanin]] and the new maps, it is determined that they are nearing a village called [[Hinderstap]]. The [[Aes Sedai]], predominantly [[Joline]], approach Mat and make a demand for horses, so they can set off on their own. Mat refuses her terms. Mat gives the Band his directives for the town ({{tgs|20}}).

Mat, [[Thom]], [[Talmanes]], the three [[Aes Sedai]], two warders, and five of the Band's soldiers ride down the road to the village of Hinderstap. Mat notes that [[Thom]] is rereading the letter from [[Moiraine]], and this launches Mat into his own reverie and dread about the [[Tower of Ghenjei]] and the upcoming attempted rescue. This all leads into [[Thom]] and Mat talking and reminiscing about past times, including [[Rand]]. Upon mention of [[Rand]], Mat sees the colors swirl in his head, and he sees Rand and the missing hand, thinking of his shock a few weeks earlier when he had first seen the injury. Reciting the words of an ancient song, relating to the area in which they are currently riding, [[Thom]] begins discussing its history. Mat has an [[Eelfinn]] memory, and there is now no doubt that the ruby dagger still affects him. [[Olver]] and [[Noal]] are discussed, and how the boy intends to follow them to the [[Tower of Ghenjei]]. The town emerges in a green-pastured valley in the mountains, what appears to be a lovely, pastoral scene. Mat sends three of the soldiers with the [[Aes Sedai]] and warders, while Thom goes into one of the inns by himself to gather information. Mat notices that the villagers' clothing have been greatly mended. Barlden, the mayor of Hinderstap, approaches them, informing the visitors of the "Rules." There is a curfew mandating that all outsiders be out of the town by nightfall. Mat, [[Talmanes]], and the remaining two soldiers locate the most decrepit of the three inns, [[The Tipsy Gelding]]. Mat engages the locals and begins gambling, desiring to lose, which he does, noting to himself again the torn and patched state of the clothing, as well as their evident exhaustion. Eventually the mayor enters, believing Mat to be cheating, conventionally cheating, and intervenes. The final stakes for the last throw of the dice are Mat's chest of gold for food and supplies from the villagers. They all go outside, the villagers gathering supplies onto a wagon. Meanwhile, the mayor and a group of men are talking, one of the men gesturing toward Mat, a sheet of paper in his hand. Nightfall is only minutes away. The mayor tosses the last throw of the dice. Mat wins. The mayor and betting villagers go back into The Tipsy Gelding. That is when the screaming begins ({{tgs|27}}).

In raging, crazed frenzy, the villagers of Hinderstap try to kill everyone, each other as well as Mat and his crew. Corpses litter the street. Mat and his three companions mount and ride away from The Tipsy Gelding, fighting their way out of the fray. The entire town has gone mad, including women and children. One of Mat's soldiers is thrown from his saddle and mortally wounded by the villagers. While trying to save the fallen Red Arm, Mat becomes trapped, and [[Thom]], throwing knives, rescues him. Making their way toward the inn where the [[Aes Sedai]] are staying, the five men seem to have left the slaughtering villagers behind. When they reach the nicest of the three inns, they see [[Aes Sedai]] fireballs being thrown from the upper story. Mat, [[Thom]], and [[Talmanes]] make their way stealthily into the inn, using the servants' stairway and reaching the [[Aes Sedai]]. [[Joline]], as usual, initially resists the rescue, [[Edesina]] heals Delarn (the wounded Red Arm), and all thirteen, in addition to two of the inn's serving girls, bound, escape out of the town. They camp north of the town, on the opposite side of Mat's main encampment. Mat sits on a rock outcropping, talking with [[Thom]]. Thom, extracting a folded paper he had taken from a drunken man in the inn he had patronized, shows Mat what is on the paper. It is a drawing of Mat's face, including hat and foxhead medallion. Apparently an outlander woman has been passing around multiple copies of Mat's likeness and offering a reward to anyone who can pinpoint his location. Mat pockets the paper. The bound serving girls suddenly and mysteriously disappear from under the warders' guard. Mat returns to Hinderstap, allowing only Thom to accompany him. As they enter the village, they notice that things, at first glance, appear to be normal--that cannot be normal under the circumstances. Then they begin seeing dead villagers from the night before, walking around. Also, the only blood that shows is Delarn's. The mayor is summoned, takes Mat and [[Thom]] to his house, and begins to tell his story. Several months previously villagers began noticing small things: an isolated broken door, ripped clothing, some shared nightmares. Some of the women started comparing notes and realized that everyone was having the nightmares and that almost no one remembered going to bed at night. Only those who retired early, before sunset, ever remembered going to bed. But oddly, everyone always woke up in their beds the next morning. Any traveler trapped in the village overnight and killed was trapped for good and woke up in one of the vacant beds in the town. Barlden relays that none of them know what happens at night, and when Mat begins to tell him, the mayor forestalls Mat, telling him that they do not want to know. Barlden reiterates the "Rules," no fires and no outsiders after sunset. The villagers cannot leave, nor can they commit suicide. Mat asks about the picture of himself. Barlden tells that the pictures have been spread around nearby villages, by someone in a village about twenty leagues to the northeast, in a town called Trustair. The individual can be found in an inn called [[The Shaken Fist]]. There is another picture, one depicting a burly fellow with a beard, and a note says that he has golden eyes. Mat and [[Thom]] ride out with the chest of gold and the wagon of supplies. Mat leaves the amount of gold for what he thinks would be a fair price and some added silver ({{tgs|28}}).

Striving to evade the mysterious woman who is looking for him, Mat concocts an elaborate and convoluted scheme involving scripts for various members of the Band. [[Talmanes]] refuses to take any of it seriously. Mat checks on various aspects of the camp: the horses, the crossbowmen, and finally [[Aludra]] and her work. [[Aludra]] has been calculating her stores and expected requirements for making her "dragons" and "dragons' eggs." [[Bayle Domon]] and [[Egeanin]] (now calling herself "[[Leilwin]]") are there as well. Mat feels [[Rand]]'s ''[[ta'veren]]'' pull on him, knowing the time for the Last Battle is growing near. [[Olver]] barges into the tent to tell Mat of a woman in camp possessing papers with Mat's picture on them and that he is supposed to tell Mat that she has a "distinctive" face. Mat contemplates Olver's ugliness while going to meet this woman. The woman is the [[Aes Sedai]], [[Verin Mathwin]]. Mat grasps that she is the one who has been passing around likenesses of him and [[Perrin]], and that she has [[Traveling]] ({{tgs|34}}).

[[Rand]], arriving in [[Falme]], remembers when he was last on [[Toman Head]] and thinks of Mat and the ruby dagger. While [[Rand]] meets with [[Tuon]], she mentions "Matrim Cauthon." [[Rand]] and [[Nynaeve]] are more than a little surprised. [[Tuon]] tells of kidnapping, and [[Rand]] defends Mat. [[Tuon]] wonders at such loyalty. Surprisingly, [[Nynaeve]] defends Mat, and more fiercely than [[Rand]] had. [[Rand]] speaks of seeing [[Tuon]] with Mat, referring to the color-swirling visions that he and Mat and [[Perrin]] have of each other. [[Tuon]] believes this is merely a manifestation of the [[Dragon Reborn]]'s madness ({{tgs|35}}).

[[Verin]], her warder, [[Tomas]], Mat, [[Mandevwin]], [[Talmanes]] and [[Thom]] meet in Mat's audience tent. Verin begins her tale. She had started out from the manor house in [[Tear (City)]], intending to [[Travel]] directly to [[Tar Valon]]. She asserts that Mat's ''[[ta'veren]]'' nature kept diverting her off course. Mat detects that Verin uses preconceptions concerning Brown Sisters to deceive people regarding her craftiness, the entire time letting Mat in on the scam. They discuss [[Rand]], his insanity, and that it is not mainly due to the [[One Power]]. Mat is shocked to learn that ''[[saidin]]'' has been cleansed. Verin then resumes her story of how she landed in Trustair. Mat is disconcerted at Verin insisting that, short of [[Rand]], he is the most strongly ''[[ta'veren]]'' person in centuries. Verin warns Mat that he and [[Perrin]] are in grave danger. Verin begins her sly negotiations with Mat. She gives him a sealed letter and specific instructions. At this Mat and Verin sit down to strike a deal. After some initial haggling, they settle on a compromise: Verin will [[Travel]], taking Mat and everyone with him to [[Caemlyn]], and in return Mat will either wait thirty days and discard the letter and be about his business, or he will wait till the tenth day after Verin departs, open her letter and do what it says. He notices that she has more sealed letters in her satchel. Verin uses a ''[[ter'angreal]]'', in the form of a translucent, stone lily, to take everyone to [[Caemlyn]] ({{tgs|36}}). }}
===Towers of Midnight===
{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|Mat, now in Caemlyn and going by the alias of Lord Crimson, sits in a tavern named the Seven-striped Lass stewing over Verin’s letter. After leaving this tavern, he visits two more. In the first tavern, Mat hears of a man whose throat has been ripped out, the blood drained from his body. Mat knows this has to be the ''gholam'', and the dice begin clattering in his head. As he begins to leave, Mat sees a paper being shown, a paper with, he is sure, his picture on it. At the next tavern Thom is performing. Mat tells Thom of the ''gholam'' attack. They discuss plans for the Tower of Ghenjei as they walk back to camp. Teslyn detains him before he can retire for the night; she informs him that she and the other Aes Sedai will be departing for Tar Valon. Surprisingly, perhaps, she thanks him for her rescue. Even more surprisingly, Mat voluntarily offers her horses for the trip. As soon as he enters his tent, he smells it—blood! ({{tom|8}}).

At the scent of the blood, Mat ducks and is immediately attacked. Screaming, “Bloody Murder,” he gathers his ''ashandarei'', slashes the tent, and leaps out, wrenching the foxhead medallion from his neck. Mat goes on the offensive, swinging the foxhead. It is the ''gholam'', and he tells Mat that he has been ordered to kill Thom, Noal, and Tuon if he does not kill Mat tonight. Teslyn enters the fight, using Air to hurl objects at the ''gholam'' since she cannot touch the creature directly with the Power. Terrified that the blood is Olver’s, Mat rushes into the tent finding Lopin, his serving man and a couple of Red Arms dead. Olver has been with Noal, playing Snakes and Foxes. Mat warns Thom and Noal. Joline barges in and asks for horses for the trip to Tar Valon. Mat agrees ({{tom|9}}).

Mat sends Elayne a very irreverent letter which she loves ({{tom|11}}).

The Aes Sedai, warders, former ''sul’dam'', Juilin, Thera, Bayle Domon, and Egeanin leave for Tar Valon. Seta refers to Mat as “Highness.” He tries to reassure them that maybe he can convince Tuon of the validity of channeling. The ''sul’dam'' seem to take his words as a promise to remedy the problem for certain. Mat tells Teslyn to inform the Amyrlin that the White Tower has something of his and that he will be coming to claim it soon. He is referring to the Horn of Valere. Setalle Anan is not departing; she and Mat discuss her former status as an Aes Sedai and concerning her taking care of Olver ({{tom|17}}).

Mat and Thom meet with Elayne in the Palace. Elayne gives Thom official papers absolving him from any crimes and making him court bard of Caemlyn. She and Mat haggle over making the dragons. As part of the bargain, Mat agrees to let Elayne study the foxhead medallion ({{tom|19}}).

Mat is joined in an inn by Noal and Thom to discuss the Tower of Ghenjei. Rumors about Mat abound in Caemlyn. He knows they make him more vulnerable to attack and is proven correct when he is attacked in an alley. The attacker, whom Mat is forced to kill, bears a paper with Mat’s picture on it and gold coin. Mat meets with Birgitte in a tavern to question her about the Tower of Ghenjei. She unsuccessfully tries to dissuade him to abandon this venture ({{tom|22}}).

Mat and Birgitte appear in the dungeon just after Elayne has been injured and healed. Later Mat materializes, peeking around the door of Elayne’s bedroom as she recovers from the dungeon attack, wanting to know if Elayne is decent ({{tom|23}}; {{ch10|24}}).

Aludra gives a demonstration of the prototype dragon for Elayne. Mat is, of course, present ({{tom|29}}).

Mat, playing dice in The Dusty Wheel, knows he is winning without actually being familiar with the game. Once he is recognized, he leaves the tavern. The instant he steps outside, the dice stop. He prepares for what he is sure to come, affixing the foxhead medallion to the ''ashandarei''. Men of the Band help when thugs approach; they hang back when the ''gholam'' appears. Mat and the ''gholam'' engage in combat until Mat lures the creature into a building where one of the Kinswomen has a skimming platform ready. Mat, using medallion copies which Elayne has made, forces the ''gholam'' over the edge and into the void ({{tom|31}}).

Perrin has arrived in Caemlyn by gateway. Mat accosts him with a bagged badger, also warning his friend of their constantly endangered state ({{tom|44}}).

Mat, Perrin, and Thom meet in a tavern, each relaying their stories since they have been parted then discussing the Tower of Ghenjei. Perrin, especially, is fairly stunned by what he hears from the other two ({{tom|47}}).

Perrin has Grady open a gateway from the Traveling ground, depositing Mat, Thom, and Noal near the River Arinelle, the Tower of Ghenjei in view. The three men make their way through the forest to the tower. Thom uses a bronze knife to open a triangular doorway into the tower. The tower has transported them to the realm of the Eelfinn and the Aelfinn. The interior is a maze-like network of shifting rooms and corridors in which they would be thoroughly lost without Mat’s luck and dice ({{tom|53}}).

The three have a number of unpleasant encounters with the Eelfinn, where the men use dice, music, fire, fireworks, and iron, fending off the fox-like creatures as best they can. They enter a room with a black lump in the middle of the floor. Mat recognizes it as the Eelfinn side of the melted stone doorway from Rhuidean. Here they must escape numerous of the creatures until they reach Moiraine in the Chamber of Bonds. She is floating in the air, clothed in mist or steam. Thom is burned as he rescues her. She is unconscious and wearing an odd bracelet. Here Mat must bargain with the Eelfinn—the price has been set: half the light of the world—to save the world. Mat’s left eye. In his bargain, Mat has neglected to include the Aelfinn in the requirement to let them leave the tower. Down one of the corridors, the snake-like Aelfinn appear and begin chase ({{tom|54}}).

After they attempt futilely to escape, Noal chooses to sacrifice himself to save the others. He positions himself in a narrow corridor with the remaining fireworks. Before Mat, Thom and Moiraine leave the old man, he reveals that he is Jain Farstrider. They run and finally reach the room holding the archway leading into the red stone doorway in the Stone of Tear. It has been smashed. They are trapped, and as the Aelfinn move in for the kill, Mat realizes that the ''ashandarei'' is the key to escape this sinister realm. He cuts an inverted triangular opening in the wall, then he and Thom, who is carrying Moiraine, run out of the tower in a flash of white light ({{tom|55}}).

Mat, Thom, and Moiraine sit below the Tower of Ghenjei talking. Mat is shocked when he discovers that Thom and Moiraine have feelings for each other. He leaves them alone, hoping to find Grady’s gateway. While at the Arinelle, he makes a cairn for Noal, kills a rabbit, and finds a nearly new cook pot at the river’s edge, thinking of his luck ({{tom|57}}).

Back in Caemlyn Olver plays Snakes and Foxes with Talmanes. At the final play, Olver wins! There is question about the exact timeline at this moment, but there is some speculation that Olver wins the board game at the exact moment that Mat beats the Snakes and Foxes in real life. Afterward, Olver opens Verin’s letter. It is a warning that Caemlyn is going to be attacked by the Shadow’s forces entering through the abandoned Waygate. Verin thought Mat’s curiosity would have provoked him to open it earlier. She had apparently known nothing about Moiraine and the Tower of Ghenjei. Olver and Talmanes see that Caemlyn is on fire ({{epi13}}). }}
===A Memory of Light===
{{Spoiler|[[A Memory of Light]]|After rescuing Moiraine, Mat travels to Ebou Dar. He manages to get into the city without being recognized, although it is a close call, as Petra is now in the employ of the Seanchan and is one of the guards at the gate. Once inside Ebou Dar, Mat looks for a tavern. He finally enters The Yearly Brawl where he learns that Galgan has hired assassins to kill Tuon. He also learns that all of the soldiers in the city have been instructed to keep an eye out for him ({{amol|11}}). He proceeds to break into the Tarasin Palace, climbing up the outside all the way to Tylin's old rooms. He intends to tell Tuon about Galgan's assassins and then take off to hide from Rand and the Last Battle. When he reaches Tylin’s balcony, he is attacked by Selucia, who has been sleeping in the room as a decoy for Tuon and thinks that Mat might be an assassin. Selucia tells Mat he doesn’t need to worry about Galgan’s assassins, but rather about Krisa’s, as they are from Seanchan while Galgan’s are not. Mat convinces Selucia to tell him that Tuon is in the gardens. Selucia directs him to a secret passageway that will help him get there ({{amol|15}}).

Mat locates Tuon in the gardens, where she is practicing fighting stances. He hides and watches her, pondering whether or not he loves her. A Gray Man arrives to assassinate Tuon, and Mat is able to notice it just in time. He raises a knife to throw at the Gray Man, and Tuon notices Mat at the very same moment. Instinctively trusting him, she looks over her shoulder to see what Mat is aiming his knife at. Mat manages to hit the Gray Man, but the Gray Man still escapes. Still not having noticed the Gray Man, and thinking that Mat is trying to kill Tuon, her Deathwatch Guards tackle him. Tuon orders them to let Mat up and to search for the real assassin. While the Deathwatch Guards search for the Gray Man, Mat and Tuon speak. Tuon approves of his missing eye, claiming that it suits him and that previously he was “too pretty.” She guesses rightly that he lost it trying to rescue someone, and declares she will not be jealous of whomever it was. Tuon commands Mat to teach the Deathwatch Guards how to spot a Gray Man. Tuon then orders the Deathwatch Guards, who have not been able to locate the Gray Man, to “clear out and secure the perimeter” so that she and Mat may spend some time alone. He kisses her and then tells her that he won't be her toy, and she replies that she has “no use for a toy” ({{amol|15}}).

Mat and Tuon sleep together in the gardens and fall asleep there. When Mat wakes up, Musenge is reporting to Tuon that they Grey Man has still not been caught. Mat is aghast because both he and Tuon are naked, but Tuon tells him that she is always guarded by Deathwatch Guards. Musicar approaches them to inform Tuon that they have potentially caught another assassin trying to sneak onto the palace grounds. It turns out to be Rand. Mat is not particularly pleased, especially when Rand reveals that Mat has inadvertently led him to Tuon. Tuon’s damane proceeds to capture both Mat and Rand in flows of air, with Tuon revealing that she stole Mat’s medallion from him while he slept. Mat and Rand bicker a little, both trying to one-up the other with the things they’ve achieved since they last saw each other. Rand then manages to talk Tuon into agreeing to sign the Dragon’s Peace and fight alongside his forces in the Last Battle. Mat backs Rand up, insisting to Tuon that she can trust Rand and that they have to help him. Rand promises that she can keep the lands and damane she’s already captured, but nothing else beyond her borders. Tuon tells Selucia to take the treaty so that she can review and sign it, and then orders Mat to accompany her as they must begin to prepare for the Last Battle. As Mat follows her, he offers one last parting shot at Rand, telling him: “By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning” ({{amol|17}}).

Mat’s new tailor, Nata, arrives and fits him out for new clothing. Mat insists that he only be given military clothing, but the ceremonial warrior garb for those of the Imperial Family is still ostentatious and difficult to maneuver in. Nata tries to have Mat’s old clothing burned, but he balks at this and insists on wearing his old hat with his new ceremonial clothing, even though Nata tells him it looks ridiculous. Mat realizes as they begin to put jewelry on him just how rich he now is. He’s a bit disappointed at this as it will take the fun out of gambling, since he now already has everything he could ever want or need ({{amol|19}}).

Although technically he is not in charge of the Seanchan army, Mat works to get them ready to leave Ebou Dar for the Last Battle. Tuon and General Galgan are both curious to see what he will do. Tuon summons Mat to her and renames him Knotai, which he declares he kind of likes. She also names him Rodbearer of the Seanchan army, meaning that if Galgan falls Mat will succeed him ({{amol|24}}).

Shortly after receiving his new name from Tuon, Mat receives word about Egwene’s army of Aes Sedai being attacked. Tuon wavers for a moment between following the terms of the treaty she has signed and swooping in to claim the Aes Sedai as damane while they are weak. Mat expresses faith that Tuon won’t break her word, and in the end she doesn’t and agrees to go to Egwene’s aid. Mat returns to assembling the army ({{amol|24}}). Tuon and Egwene hold a meeting, and Mat accompanies Tuon. When Egwene reveals to Tuon that she was once captured and trained as a damane, Tuon demands to know why Mat didn’t tell her and is very displeased. Egwene is astounded to find Mat there, and immediately begins to think of ways she can manage to save him from the Seanchan. She bursts out laughing, however, when she learns that Mat and Tuon are married, gloating to Tuon that she has been caught up in a ta’veren’s web. When Egwene and Tuon’s arguing begins to escalate, Mat steps between them and convinces them that they need each other. When Tuon leaves after promising to send some sul’dam and damane to help Egwene, Mat follows her. Before he leaves, Egwene promises to help him get free of the Seanchan after the Last Battle, but Mat says that he doesn’t need her help ({{amol|26}}).

When Min arrives at the Seanchan camp to request that they send cavalry to aid Bryne, she is led to speak to Mat, who is surprised to see her. Mat commands Tylee Khirgan to take her legion to help Bryne, and Galgan approves the order. Mat asks Min if she sees any other viewings around him, and she doesn’t, but she does see one around Galgan: “A dagger rammed through the heart of a raven.” Min assures Mat that it isn’t about him, but Mat is still worried since he is the Prince of Ravens. When Tuon appears shortly afterward, Min slips and reveals to Mat that she sees “A death lily” for Tuon; she speaks too loudly, and the Deathwatch Guards seize her. Mat tells Tuon about Min’s ability, and Tuon names Min her new Soe’feia. Tuon is exceedingly pleased with Mat for the “great gift” he has given her ({{amol|27}}).

Mat gets tired of trying to figure out the battle from maps and decides he’s going to actually go take a look. He pulls out his old clothing, which he had previously bribed some guards to bring him, changes, and prepares to leave. Tuon arrives before he can leave for the battlefield; when Banner-General Courtani acidly tells her where Mat is going, Tuon supports Mat’s decision and pointedly asks why Courtani is waiting around instead of helping Mat. She decides to go with Mat to see the battlefield” ({{amol|28}}). Mat and Tuon are accompanied by many others, including Min and Galgan, when they go to view the battlefield. When Mat spies Tylee Khirgan and her force waiting near the eastern edge of the camp, he asks Tuon and the others to give him 5 minutes. He wants to know why Tylee isn’t engaging in the battle, and she tells him that Bryne ordered them to to wait as a reserve force. Mat can’t see the sense in this, as the battle is not going well. He gives orders for the Seanchan soldiers to deploy against the Sharans, taking command of the First Banner himself. During the fighting, Mat captures one of the Ayyad. After Mat and his troops come out victorious, the Seanchan soldiers are in awe, with one of officers leading a cheer for Mat. Mat accidentally raises him to the low Blood by biting off a broken nail and dropping it at his feet. When Mat returns to Tuon, she is at first displeased, wanting to know why he has endangered himself; Mat insists that he “had to feel the pulse of the battle.” Mat thinks about everything he has seen of the battle and thinks that Bryne must be a Darkfriend, because he seems to be actively trying to lose. He demands full control of the Seanchan forces, and that Min be sent to warn Egwene. Everyone is shocked, but Tuon approves the orders, surprising them even further ({{amol|29}}).

Egwene initially wants to refuse Mat’s request that he be placed in charge of the White Tower army as well. However, when she realizes that the Great Captains are being compulsed, she knows that Mat is the only option because his medallion will keep him safe from compulsion ({{amol|31}}). Now in charge of both the Seanchan and White Tower armies, Mat uses gateways to survey the battle. Demandred has been testing Mat, and Mat has been loosing soldiers. Galgan, however, is exceedingly impressed with how Mat has nonetheless managed to rescue the White Tower army. Mat is concerned about the Sharans sneaking Ayyad into the camp, and so puts a moratorium on channeling so that they’ll be able to sense it if the Ayyad are about to attack ({{amol|32}}.

Mat thinks that they should move their position, and arranges a meeting with Egwene and the Sitters, which is held through an open gateway so that neither Tuon nor Egwene has to visit the other. Mat learns from the Aes Sedai that Bashere and Agelmar were also compulsed, that Ituralde has disappeared, and that the Borderlanders lost the majority of their army. Mat gets the Aes Sedai to bring Elayne in by gateway, and he proposes to her and the others that they all join together for a last stand in an optimal location, as continuing to fight on 4 battlefronts has become unfeasible. They decide on Merrilor, and when Elayne okays the plan, the dice start up in Mat’s head ({{amol|32}}).

All of the armies except the one at Shayol Gul are now at Merrilor preparing for their last stand. They have about a week to prepare. At the end of that week, Mat moves amongst groups of men, showing them how to sharpen stakes for a palisade or how to use a quarterstaff. As he does so, he is actively trying to avoid a group of Deathwatch Guards who are looking for him. He runs into Egwene and at first she thinks he is trying to escape Tuon and the Seanchan; in reality, he is just trying to avoid Tuon because she wants him to judge a trial and has sent the Deathwatch Guards to bring him to her. He doesn’t want to have someone executed. Mat and Egwene discuss the fact that the Horn of Valere is missing; Egwene has people searching for it. Mat asks Egwene to make him a gateway to the Knob, a large rise from which he and the other commanders will be watching the battle. He surveys the battlefield, and he can feel Rand tugging at him; he knows he will have to go north to join Rand soon. Mat and Egwene discuss the battle. Mat says that they can’t win a protracted battle. Egwene says that they just need to to hold their ground until Rand wins, but Mat thinks that even if Rand wins, they’ll still have to destroy the Trolloc army and that they thus need a win on the battlefield as well. The Deathwatch Guards finally catch up to Mat at the Knob, but he doesn’t care, because just then he senses that the Trollocs have arrived sooner than expected. Mat orders that Elayne be told that Mat is about to change the battle plan. He sends everyone running off to deliver messages and tells Egwene to get ready ({{amol|36}}).

Mat doesn’t tell anyone his new battle plan, afraid that the Shadow might use compulsion to discover it. He coordinates all the forces, sending reinforcements to where he needs them. He uses raken to send messages, writing letters that are then attached to lead balls with streamers and dropped to the appropriate spots. Polov Heights is lost early on in the battle. Bryne makes a guess that Mat is trying to bait a trap, and that he wants to throw everything he has at the Trollocs in a battle that will be over in days or hours ({{amol|37}}).

Mat knows there is a spy at the command post because the Shadow’s forces are responding to his moves even before his forces have received their orders. He makes sure to send messages in code, using past incidents and in-jokes to relay orders to Talmanes. He knows he is losing the battle, but is trying to draw Demandred in and is carefully watching for the right time to make his move. He thinks to himself that it is as if he “and Demandred were composing a grand painting,” with each “respond[ing] to the other’s moves with subtle care.” Galad thinks to himself, shortly afterwards, that it is as if he is “watching the Game of Houses on the battlefield itself,” and is impressed by Mat. Demandred thinks that Rand/Lews Therin is disguised as Mat, because Mat is too skilled for someone of this Age ({{amol|37}}).

Elayne tries to persuade Mat to tell her his battle plan in case something happens to him; she weaves a ward against eavesdropping and he tells her about the spy and that he plans to use the spy. He tells her that he is waiting “for that last bet, the one that could win it all,” and that he wants her away from the command post. He sends her and the Andoran troops to the ford to stop the Trollocs from crossing the riverbed ({{amol|37}}).

Mat sends a message to Galad, along with one of the copies Elayne made of his foxhead medallion, and instructs him to kill as many of the Ayyad as he can ({{amol|37}}).

Mat finds himself completely engrossed by the ongoing battle as he tries to out-gamble Demandred. Logain arrives to speak with Mat, wanting to fight Demandred. Mat decides to allow it, although he is not optimistic, because Demandred will need to be dealt with eventually ({{amol|37}}).

The command post is attacked by several Gray Men and a group of Sharan soldiers and Ayyad. The Gray Men attack Mat, and Tuon runs to help him. Tuon is badly injured in the fight. Mat and Min manage to kill all of the Grey Men and Mat gets Tuon out. After the attack on the command post, Mat and Tuon stage a fight in order to trick the spy. He is hoping that Demandred will ignore the Seanchan and thus give Mat an advantage. Tuon accuses him of failing to protect the command post and blames him for the fact that they are losing the battle. They both declare that they are finished with each other, and Tuon commands that her troops withdraw to return to Ebou Dar, where they will prepare for their own battle against the Shadow. After she has left, Mat is worried because Tuon had seemed truly angry; he hopes that he can count on her to come back. He sends Min to watch over her, and she hugs him goodbye and goes. Mat speaks to Karede and a group of Deathwatch Guards; they have been ordered by Tuon to fight the Ayyad as punishment for allowing another assassin to get close to her. He wants Karede and the Deathwatch Guards to join him, since he is going to the front lines anyway. Karede agrees, as long as Mat will stop using Tuon’s old name, since it will be a bad omen. Mat concedes and calls her Fortuona out loud, although he still refers to her as “Tuon” in his head. Mat and the Deathwatch Guards come across Davram and Deira Bashere on the battlefield, and Mat asks if he’s heard anything about Faile. They have not, and Mat is worried about how he can possibly win the Last Battle without the Horn of Valere ({{amol|37}}).

Rand is tugging strongly at Mat, but he resists ({{amol|37}}).

Although he had abandoned them early in the battle, Mat now plans to retake Polov Heights so that he can attack the Shadow’s armies from behind. However, Demandred refuses to abandon the Heights ({{amol|37}}).

Mat has Talmanes, Aludra, and some of the Band hidden away in a cave that can only be reached via gateway. They are repairing the damaged dragons ({{amol|37}}).

Mat is shaken by Egwene’s death, and again shortly after by false reports of Elayne’s death. He gathers together the rest of his forces for one final, desperate stand. He digs out one of Rand’s banners with the ancient Aes Sedai symbol, ordering that it be flown since they are fighting in Rand’s name. Mat knows they can’t win, but he refuses to give up before he’s tried everything. He sends to Mayene for any Healed soldiers who can return to the battle; asks for the remaining Aes Sedai to join him, even though they’re too tired to channel; gives the order for Tuon to come back; and sends a message to Talmanes ({{amol|37}}).

Loial brings news to Mat that Lan has fallen but managed to kill Demandred. Mat feels grief, but tries to force it down as he starts a cry of “Tai’shar Malkier” and leads his troops against the Shadow ({{amol|38}}). As he fights, he suddenly hears Rand’s voice in his head, telling the Dark One that he is wrong. Then Rand’s voice is heard out loud on the battlefield, announcing that Lan is alive. The Horn of Valere sounds, and Mat is astounded, as he had thought he was still the Hornblower. He thinks that his death in Rhuidean must have broken the link. Followed by what is left of the Borderlander army, Mat manages to push through the surrounding Trollocs. He reaches Lan and, with Narishma’s help, manages to get him out from behind the Shadow’s lines. The Heroes of the Horn appear, and Mat learns from Hawkwing that it wasn’t his death at Rhuidean that severed his link to the Horn, but another death (when he was killed by Rahvin, although Hawkwing does not tell Mat this part) ({{amol|39}}).

Mat leads a charge as his plans begin to come together. The Seanchan arrive. Talmanes and Aludra begin firing dragons from their hidden cave, with Neald opening gateways to where they want to strike. Jur Grady releases the river, which had been dammed earlier by the Shadow. And finally, Mat has one more tricks up his sleeve: the people of Hinderstap and a group of soldiers from the Band who have allowed themselves to be caught in the snag in the pattern there and thus cannot die ({{amol|40}}; {{amol|41}}).

Mat fights alongside the Heroes of the Horn. He nervously inquires if he is tied to the Horn of Valere as a Hero, and is relieved when [[Hend]] the Striker assures him that he is not. The forces of the Light overwhelm the remaining Trollocs and Sharans ({{amol|43}}).

When the fighting is finally done, Mat can still feel Rand tugging at him. Mat knows he has to go to Rand because the Last Battle isn’t over. Before he leaves for Shayol Ghul, he asks Hawkwing if he can speak with Tuon and let her know that Mat sent him ({{amol|43}}). He finds Grady with Olver and Neal and asks Grady for a gateway to Shayol Ghul. Grady tells him that gateways to Shayol Ghul don’t work anymore, but that he can take him to a Seanchan patrol camp about a day’s hike away from Shayol Ghul. Olver and Neal go with him, as the Heroes of the Horn will be needed for the fight in the Blight ({{amol|45}}). Once at the Seanchan patrol camp, Mat and Olver are taken by to’raken to Shayol Ghul. Mat sees that there is still fighting going on between Rand’s forces and the Trollocs, and that there are Darkhounds attacking as well. He can sense the presence of both Mashadar and Fain. An arrow from one of the red-veiled Aiel kills Sulaan, the morat’to’raken, and Mat has to land the to’raken himself ({{amol|45}}).

Mat finds Perrin fighting alongside the spirit wolves who have been called by the Horn of Valere. He can see Mashadar making its way towards where Rand still fights the Dark One. Suddenly, a small sliver of Mashadar spears Mat through the chest, and Mat falls off his horse ({{amol|46}}). However, it does not kill him, because Mat is now immune to Mashadar due to his earlier infection by it. Mat kills Fain by stabbing him with the ruby dagger ({{amol|47}}). When the Last Battle is done, the dice stop rolling in his head ({{epi14}}).

With the Last Battle now over, Mat finds Tuon at Merrilor. Everyone in the Seanchan camp is astounded to see him, except for Tuon, who wants to know where he’s been. He has arranged for Aludra to put on a victory fireworks show. Tuon then tells Mat that she is pregnant, and both of them pretend to be relieved and say that they can be done with each other now that Tuon will have an heir ({{epi14}}). }}

==Strengths and Talents==
===Mat's Memories===
{{Main|Mat's Memories}}
{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|Mat gained memories from around a 1500 year period in history of soldiers who had passed through the redstone doorway located in the [[Stone of Tear]]. This was confirmed in an interview with Robert Jordan, currently hosted on Theoryland. }}

=== The Dice ===
Mat hears dice in his head when an important event is about to occur

{{Spoiler|[[The Dragon Reborn]]|"He could feel the dice tumbling in his head" - After deciding to rescue the girls from the Stone ({{tdr|51}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Fires of Heaven]]|"He had no idea why he had not simply ignored them. Except that his step was lighter and he felt full of vinegar. No wonder, really, leaving tomorrow at last. The dice seemed to be spinning in his head, and there was no knowing what pips would show when they landed. Odd, that. It must be Melindhra worrying him. Yes. He would definitely leave early, and as quietly as a mouse tiptoeing on feathers" ({{tfoh|42}}).

"That should bring the Shaido in right enough, especially if Couladin was leading. If Couladin really was leading, if he thought Rand was with the pikes, if the pikes could hold until the horse arrived... A lot of ifs. Mat could hear those dice rolling in his head again. This was the biggest gamble he had ever taken in his life. He wondered how long it was until nightfall; a man should be able to make his way out in the night. He wished those dice would get out of his head, or else fall so he knew what they showed. Scowling into the rain, he booted [[Pips]] on down the hillside." ({{tfoh|44}}).

Reducing the platform by one outer ring of square stones, he turned. Bael was waiting out there in what seemed a huge square doorway into daylight with the steps beyond. At his side, Pevin looked no more perturbed by what he saw than the Aiel chief, which was to say not at all. Pevin would carry that banner wherever Rand went, even [[Shayol Ghul|the Pit of Doom]], and never blink. Mat shoved back his hat to scratch his head, then jerked it low again, muttering something about dice in his head. (On the way to face Rahvin; {{tfoh|54}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Lord of Chaos]]|"The largest palace he had seen yet filled one entire side of the square, all domes and spires and colonnades three and four stories above the ground. The other three sides mixed great houses with inns and shops, each as white as the next. A statue of a woman in flowing robes, taller than an Ogier, stood on an even taller pedestal in the middle of the square, one arm raised to point south toward the sea. There were only a handful of people walking across the pale paving stones, and no wonder in that heat. A few were eating their midday meal on the lowest step of the pedestal, and pigeons and seagulls flocked about fighting for scraps. It was a picture of tranquility. Mat did not understand why he suddenly felt the dice rolling in his head." ({{loc|47}}).

The stately innkeeper introduced herself as Setalle Anan, though her hazel eyes had never been born in Ebou Dar. "Good my Lords... " Large gold hoops in her ears swayed as she bowed her head equally to Mat and Nalesean. "... may The Wandering Woman offer you her humble accommodation?"

She was pretty despite a touch of gray in her hair, but Mat watched her eyes. She wore a marriage knife hanging from a close-fitting necklace, the hilt set with red and white stones nestling in her generous cleavage, and she also had one of those curving knives in her belt. Still, he could not help grinning. "Mistress Anan, I feel like I've come home."

The odd thing was, the dice had stopped rolling in his head ({{loc|47}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|"Thank you ... " Mat gave a start. The fellow was gone, swallowed up in the crowd. Strange, but he had looked familiar. Maybe another long-dead acquaintance drifting out of those old memories. Maybe... It hit him like an Illuminator's nightflower exploding inside his head. A white-haired man with a hooked nose. That old man had been at the Silver Circuit, standing not far from the woman who had just gone into Carridin's rented palace. Turning his hat in his hands, he frowned uneasily at the palace. The Mire never held a bog like this one. He could feel the dice tumbling in his head suddenly, and that was always a bad sign ({{acos|14}}).

Normally, displays of wealth made Mat feel comfortable. For one thing, where there was money, some might stick to his fingers. This time he felt impatient, more so by the step. And anxious. The last time he had felt the dice rolling so hard in his head was just before he found himself with three hundred of the Band, a thousand of Gaebril's White Lions on a ridge to his front and another thousand coming hard up the road behind him, when all he had been trying to do was ride away from the entire mess. That time he had avoided the chop by the grace of other men's memories and more luck than he had a right to. The dice almost always meant danger, and something else he had not figured out yet. The prospect of having his skull cracked was not enough, and once or twice there had been no possibility of such, yet the upcoming likelihood of Mat Cauthon dead in some spectacular fashion seemed the most usual cause. Unlikely, maybe, in the Tarasin Palace, but unlikely did not make the dice go away. He was going to leave his message, grab Nynaeve and Elayne by the scruff of the neck if he had an opportunity, give them a talking-to that made their ears glow, and then get out ({{acos|16}}).

Mat wanted to back away; even Teslyn stood close enough to be almost touching him. Instead he put on his most insolent grin. It had always landed him in trouble back home, but it seemed appropriate. Those dice in his head could have nothing to do with this pair, or they would have stopped spinning. And he did have the medallion. "They see pretty well, I'd say." Nynaeve badly needed to be snatched down a peg or six, and Elayne even more, but he was not about to stand by and listen to this woman talk Nynaeve down. If that meant defending Elayne too, so be it "Maybe you should abandon your nonsense." Joline's smile vanished, but Teslyn replaced it with one of her own, a razored smile ({{acos|16}}).

"Majesty," he said, sweeping his hat wide in a bow and flourishing an imaginary cloak, "by your summons do I come." Imposing or not, it was hard to keep his eyes away from the not small lace-trimmed oval where her white-sheathed marriage-knife hung. A very nicely rounded sight indeed, yet the more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least. White-sheathed; but he already knew she was a widow. Not that it mattered. He would as soon tangle himself with that [[Mili Skane|fox-faced Darkfriend]] as with a queen. Not looking at all was difficult, but he managed. Most likely she would call guards rather than draw the gem-encrusted dagger thrust behind a woven-gold belt to match the collar her marriage knife hung from. Maybe that was why the dice were still rolling in his head. The possibility of an encounter with the headsman would set them spinning if anything did ({{acos|16}}).

Tall triple-arched windows opening onto a wrought-iron balcony admitted a sea breeze that was surprisingly pleasant, if not exactly cool, yet Mat felt hotter than in the street, and it had nothing to do with her stare. Deyeniye, dyu ninte concion ca'lyet ye. That was what he had said. The bloody Old Tongue popping out of his mouth again without him knowing it. He had thought he had that little bother under control. No telling when those bloody dice would stop or for what. Best to keep his eyes to himself and his mouth shut as much as possible. "I thank you, Majesty." He made very sure of those words ({{acos|16}}).

"You are Lord Mat Cauthon?" There was just a hint of question in the title. Her eyes minded him more than ever of an eagle's. A queen could not like someone coming to her pretending to be a lord.

"Just Mat Cauthon." Something told him she would hear a lie. Besides, letting people think he was a lord was just a ruse, one he would rather have managed without. In Ebou Dar you could find a duel any time you turned around, but few challenged lords except other lords. As it was, in the last month he had cracked a number of heads, bloodied four men and run half a mile to escape a woman. Tylin's stare made him nervous. And those dice still rattled about in his skull. He wanted out of there. "If you'll tell me where to leave the letter, Majesty...?" ({{acos|16}}).

She nodded calmly, hazel eyes serene. Men knifed in her inn did not ruffle her feathers. "They insisted on carrying it up themselves. Their stock, so they claimed. They took the room just before you came in. For a few hours, they said, to sleep before traveling on toward Nor Chasen." That was a small village on the coast to the east, but it was unlikely they would have told the truth. Her tone implied as much. She frowned at the dead men as though wishing she could shake them alive to answer questions. "They were picky about the room, though. The pale-haired man was in charge. He turned down the first three he was offered, then accepted this, that was meant for a single servant. I thought he was being stingy with a coin."
"Even a thief can be tightfisted," Mat said absently. This could have qualified to start those dice rolling in his head ... a head that would have been cracked open for sure without the luck of that fellow stepping on the one board in the whole inn that would squeak ... but the bloody things were still tumbling. He did not like it ({{acos|17}}).

Mat frowned after her. A gilded woman? In his room? The chest of gold rested now in a small hollow beneath the kitchen floor, in front of one of the stoves, but the dice in his head drummed like thunder suddenly ({{acos|21}}).

He nodded before he thought Other men's memories told him Tovans were a stark and disapproving people, abstemious to the point of pain; at least they had been, a thousand years gone and more. He was not sure whether to laugh or groan. On the one hand, a chance to talk with Birgitte ... Birgitte! he doubted he would ever get over the shock ... but on the other, he doubted he would be able to hear the music downstairs for the noise of those dice rattling in his skull. She must be a key to it, somehow. A man with any brains would climb out the window right now. "A pitcher or two sounds fine to me," he told her ({{acos|21}}).

"I won't shout at you," Nynaeve shouted. "And all the rest, too. I promise, you... you...!" She gobbled on the edge of swallowing her tongue as she realized she could not call him one of the names he warranted without breaking the promise already. And yet, the effect of her shout was most gratifying.

With a cry, he shuddered and dropped the cloth, clutched his head with both hands. His eyes bulged. "Flaming dice," he whimpered, or something very like. It suddenly struck Elayne that he would be a very good source of pithy language. Stablemen and the like always seemed to scrape their tongues clean the moment they saw her. Of course, she had promised herself to civilize him, to make him useful to Rand, but that need not interfere too much with his language. In fact, she realized there was a good deal she had not promised not to do. Pointing that out should settle Nynaeve considerably ({{acos|21}}).

Mat knew he was in trouble from the day he moved into the Tarasin Palace. He could have refused. Just because the flaming dice started or stopped did not mean he had to do anything; usually when they stopped spinning, it was too late not to do something. The problem was, he wanted to know why. Before very many days, he wished he had taken his curiosity by the throat and throttled it ({{acos|28}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|Nobody slipped a note under his door that night. Nobody rattled the lock. He began to think things might turn for the better. Tomorrow was the Festival of Birds. From what he had heard of the costumes some people wore, men and women both, it might be possible Tylin would find herself a new duckling to chase after. Somebody might come out of that bloody house across from the Rose of the Eldar and hand him the bloody Bowl of the Winds. Things just had to turn for the better.

When he woke for his third morning in the Tarasin Palace, the dice were rolling in his head ({{acos|28}}).

Waking to the dice, Mat considered going back to sleep until they went away, but at last he got up feeling grumpy. As if he did not have more than enough on his plate already. He chased Nerim away and dressed himself, eating the last of the bread and cheese from the night before while he did, then went to check on Olver. The boy flashed between bursts of yanking on his clothes in a hurry to be out and stopping entirely with boot or shirt in hand to spout dozens of questions that Mat answered with half a mind. No, they would not go racing today, and never mind the rich races at the Circuit of Heaven, north of the city. Maybe they could go see the menagerie. Yes, Mat would buy him a feathered mask for the festival. If he ever got dressed. That sent him into a flurry.

What really occupied Mat's thoughts were those bloody dice. Why had they started up again? He still did not know why they had before! ({{acos|29}}).

It was too much. The woman hounded him, tried to starve him; now she locked them in together like... like he did not know what. Lambkin! Those bloody dice were bouncing around in his skull. Besides, he had important business to see to. The dice had never had anything to do with finding something, but... He reached her in two long strides, seized her arm, and began fumbling in her belt for the keys. "I don't have bloody time for ... " His breath froze as the sharp point of her dagger beneath his chin shut his mouth and drove him right up onto his toes ({{acos|29}}).

"If I'm not back by tomorrow," Mat shouted back absently over his shoulder, "tell them they'll have to find it for themselves!" He walked on after the woman in a daze, not hearing if Nalesean or Beslan shouted again. The man knew! He remembered once thinking that Beslan and his mother were both mad. They were worse! All of Ebou Dar was mad! He was hardly aware of the dice still spinning inside his skull ({{acos|29}}).

Snatching off his hat, Mat considered throwing it down and jumping on it. Women! He should have known better than to expect sympathy. He would like to throttle the bloody Daughter-Heir. And Nynaeve, too, on general principle. Except, of course, that he could not. He had made promises. And those dice were still using his skull for a dice cup. And one of the Forsaken might be around somewhere. Settling the hat squarely back on his head, he marched down the landing, brushed past the Wise Women and caught up to Elayne. She was still trying to fight down giggles, but every time she cut her eyes his way, the color in her cheeks renewed itself and so did the giggles ({{acos|38}}).

Her tone was so mild that Elayne must have passed on the truth about Tylin, but if anything, that only soured his mood further. He did not want anyone to know. Bloody useless! But those dice were still rattling around in his head. "Maybe Moghedien likes back doors," he said dryly. Something cluttered in the dark end of the hall, and one of the men with Harnan cursed loudly about rats({{acos|38}}).

"We are bloody well getting out of here now," Mat said again later, and this time there was argument. There had been argument for the past half-hour, near enough. Outside, the sun was past its noon peak. The trade winds cut the heat a little; stiff yellow curtains fastened over the tall windows bulged and snapped at gusts. Three hours back in the Tarasin Palace, the dice still bouncing in his head, and he wanted to kick something. Or somebody. He tugged at the scarf tied around his neck; it felt as though the rope that had given him the scar under that scarf was back and tightening slowly. "Love of the Light, are you all blind? Or just deaf?" ({{acos|39}}).

The ''sul'dam'' apparently was not satisfied. The foxhead went cool again, and from behind another roar hammered him to the pavement, pavement that jumped up to meet him. Through the ringing in his ears, he heard masonry groan. Above him, the white-plastered brick wall began leaning outward.

"What happened to my bloody luck?" he shouted. He had time for that. And just time to realize, as brick and timbers crashed down on him, that the dice in his head had just stopped dead ({{acos|39}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Winter's Heart]]|Mat groaned. It was not his leg, this time, or the fact that every man in Ebou Dar seemed to be choosing the bosom they rested their heads on except for Mat Cauthon. Those bloody dice had just started tumbling in his head again. Something bad was coming his way. Something very bad ({{wh|15}}).

"I think I can do better for you than that," Mat told him, but the rest of what he had been going to say died on his tongue. The dice were still spinning in his head, he realized. He had managed to forget them with the ''gholam'' trying to kill him, but they were still bouncing, still waiting to land. If they were warning of something worse than the ''gholam'', he did not want to know. Only, he would. There was no doubt of that. He would, when it was too late ({{wh|16}}).

Light, he wished those bloody dice in his head would just stop and get it over with! No, that was a lie. Since he had finally realized what they meant, he had never wanted the dice to stop ({{wh|17}}).

Flinging open the doors of Tylin's apartments, Mat strode in, sailed his hat across the width of the room and stopped dead, his mouth hanging open and everything he had planned to say frozen on his tongue. His hat hit the carpets and rolled, he did not see where. A gust of wind rattled the tall triple-arched windows that led out onto a long, screened balcony overlooking the Mol Hara.

Tylin turned in a chair carved to look like gilded bamboo and stared at him over her golden wine cup. Waves of glossy black hair touched with gray at the temples framed a beautiful face with the eyes of a bird of prey, and not one best pleased at the moment. Inconsequential things seemed to leap at him. She kicked her crossed leg slightly, rippling layered green and white petticoats. Pale green lace trimmed the oval opening in her gown that half exposed her full breasts, where the jeweled hilt of her marriage knife dangled. She was not alone. Suroth sat facing her, frowning into her winecup and tapping long fingernails on the arm of her chair, a pretty enough woman despite her hair being shaved to that long crest, except that she made Tylin seem a rabbit by comparison. Two of those fingernails on each hand were lacquered blue. Seated at her side was a little girl, of all things, also in an elaborately flowered robe over pleated white skirts, but with a sheer veil covering her entire head - it seemed to be shaved completely! - and wearing a fortune in rubies. Even in a state of shock, he noticed rubies and gold. A slender woman, nearly as dark as her stark black gown and tall even had she been Aiel, stood behind the girl's chair with her arms folded and ill-concealed impatience. Her wavy back hair was short, but not shaved at all, so she was neither of the Blood nor ''so'jhin''. Imperiously beautiful, she put Tylin and Suroth both in the shade. He noticed beautiful women, too, even when he did feel hit in the head with a hammer.

It was not the presence of Suroth or the strangers that jerked him to a halt, though. The dice had stopped, landing with a thunder that made his skull ring. That had never happened before. He stood there waiting for one of the Forsaken to leap out of the flames in the marble fireplace, or the earth to swallow the palace beneath him.

"You aren't listening to me, pigeon," Tylin cooed in dangerous tones. "I said, take yourself down to the kitchens and have a pastry until I have time for you. Have a bath while you're about it." Her dark eyes glittered. "We will discuss your mud later."

In a daze, he ran it through again in his head. He had walked into the room, the dice had stopped, and nothing had happened. Nothing!

"This man has been set upon," the tiny, veiled figure said, rising. Her tone turned cold as the wind outside. "You told me the streets were safe, Suroth! I am displeased."

Something had to happen! It already should have! Something always happened when the dice stopped ({{wh|17}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|The Dice stop rolling when Tuon promises not to escape as long as he keeps his promises ({{cot|3}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|The dice stop rolling when Tuon smiles at Mat ({{cot|28}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Knife of Dreams]]]|There are three sets of dice rolling around in Mat's head at the same time around the morning after [[Renna]]'s death. The first stops Aludra agrees to accompany him when he leaves Luca's show ({{kod|8}}); the second stops when he gives Tuon the razor as a courting gift ({{kod|8}}); and the third stops when he agrees to help Thom rescue Moiraine ({{kod|10}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|As the mayor of Hinderstap leaves Mat and his group, and after apprising them of the "Rules," he is joined by some burly men casually carrying axes. They fall into step with the mayor, and all walk together in the same direction as though nothing is untoward. It is then that the dice start rattling in Mat's head. He decides to ignore them ({{tgs|27}}).

Moments before the sun sets behind the clouds, while Mat gambles with the villagers, he tells [[Talmanes]] that they are staying. At this the dice stop rattling in his head ({{tgs|27}}). [[Category:New Articles]] }}

{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|The dice begin rattling in the Dead Man's Breath when Mat hears of a man drained of blood ({{tom|8}}).

Later on, during Mat's stay in Caemlyn, the dice stop when Mat leaves The Dusty Wheel. The ''gholam'' appears shortly afterward ({{tom|31}}). }}

==Relationships with other Characters==

{{Spoiler|the whole series|The relationship between Mat and Rand starts off as that of best friends. During their early years, Mat and Rand pulled a lot of pranks on people in Emond's Field and just generally had a good time together. Once Mat learns that Rand is the Dragon Reborn, he becomes very cautious and uncomfortable, and tries to avoid him. He eventually accepts the fact and maintains his friendship with Rand. Rand considers Mat one of the few people that he can still trust.

As with Rand, Mat and Perrin were good friends back when they lived in the Two Rivers. As the series progresses, they understandably become a bit distant as their paths don't cross all that much; however, they are still bound by the bonds of friendship and the fact that they both came from the Two Rivers. Either one would most likely help the other any way possible.

Egwene, Nynaeve, and Elayne often treat Mat as if he is a foolish child. Nonetheless, he comes through for them time and time again, displaying a great deal of loyalty to all three.

Mat doesn't have the best of relationships with Aes Sedai, mainly because he has a hard time trusting them. A lot of this comes from his memories of past lives. He appears to think well of Aes Sedai such as Moiraine and Teslyn, though he does seem to put a limit to the extent to which he will trust even them.

Throughout the series, Thom and Juilin become friends of Mat's. He meets Thom in 'The Eye of the World' in Emond's Field, and Juilin in 'The Dragon Reborn' when he goes to rescue Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve from the Stone of Tear. Later, they are with him in Ebou Dar and help him plan to get Joline, Teslyn and Edesina out of the city. In 'The Eye of the World,' Thom fights a Fade to buy Rand and Mat time to escape; he often tries to protect all three of the Emond's Field boys since he wasn't able to save his own nephew from Aes Sedai.

Mat's relationship with Tuon gets off to a very rocky start. The first time that they meet, Tuon wishes to buy him. She calls him 'Toy', even though he tries many times to get her to call him by his real name. In ''Winter's Heart'', he learns that she is the Daughter of the Nine Moons, his fated wife, and accidentally performs his half of the Seanchan marriage ceremony. In ''Crossroads of Twilight,'' he begins to court her. Mat thinks that Tuon is pretty, if on the thin side. In ''A Knife of Dreams,'' Tuon performs her half of the marriage ceremony. Mat is in love with Tuon, and although Tuon claims not to be in love with him, she is both fond and possessive of him.

Talmanes is fond of Mat and respects him a great deal, considering his commander to be inspiring. Mat has made Talmanes consider common folk in a different light. When he thinks he is going to die during the battle for Caemlyn, Talmanes wishes he had spent more time taunting Mat ({{prol14}}). Egwene thinks that Talmanes appears to be "precisely the type of man" Mat needs to have around him ({{amol|1}}).}}

==Viewings and Dreams==

"And the other one ... a red eagle, an eye on a balance scale, a dagger with a ruby, a horn, and a laughing face." ([[Min]]'s viewing of Mat; {{teotw|15}}).

"You know I've read you, Egwene. I don't understand most of it - I almost never do - but I see things I am sure link you to Rand, and Perrin, and Mat, and - yes, even Galad, the light help you for a fool. How can any of that happen if the Seanchan take you off across the ocean?" (Min to Egwene; {{tgh|42}}).

"Mat, placing his own left eye on a balance scale. Mat, hanging by his neck from a tree limb. There had been a dream of Mat and Seanchan, too, but she was willing to dismiss that as a nightmare. It had to have been just a nightmare. Just like the one about Mat speaking the Old Tongue. That had to come from what she had heard during his Healing." (Egwene's Dream; {{tdr|25}}).

"There had been dreams of Mat, too. Of Mat with dice spinning 'round him - she felt she knew where that one came from - of Mat being followed by a man who was not there - she still did not understand that; there was a man following, or maybe more than one, but in some way there was no one there - of Mat riding desperately toward something unseen in the distance that he had to reach, and Mat with a woman who seemed to be tossing fireworks about. An Illuminator, she assumed, but that made no more sense than anything else." (Egwene's dream; {{tdr|37}}).

"Mat, rattling a dice cup. His opponent stared at Mat with eyes of fire. Mat did not seem to see the man, but Perrin knew him." (Perrin's Dream; {{tdr|43}}).

"What did it mean that Mat was dicing with the Dark One, and why did he keep shouting, "I am coming!" and why did she think in the dream that he was shouting at her?" (Egwene's dream; {{tdr|48}}).

{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|"Mat wrestling with a Seanchan woman who tied an invisible leash to him." (Egwene's dream; ({{tsr|11}}).

"Mat, standing where a road forked ahead of him. He flipped a coin, started down one branch, and suddenly was wearing a wide brimmed hat and walking with a staff bearing a short sword blade." (Perrin's Dream; ({{tsr|28}}).

"Mat stood naked and bound, snarling; an odd spear with a black shaft had been thrust across his back behind his elbows, and a silver medallion, a foxhead, hung on his chest." (Perrin's dream; ({{tsr|53}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Fires of Heaven]]|"Mat throwing dice with blood streaming down his face, the wide brim of his hat pulled low so she could not see his wound, while Thom Merrilin put his hand into a fire to draw out the small blue stone that now dangled on Moiraine's forehead." (Egwene's Dream; {{tfoh|15}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Lord of Chaos]]|"Mat spoke strange words she almost understood ... the Old Tongue, she thought ... and two ravens alighted on his shoulders, claws sinking through his coat into the flesh beneath. He seemed no more aware of them than Perrin had been of the hawk and falcon, yet defiance passed across his face, and then grim acceptance. In another a woman, face shrouded in shadow, beckoned him toward great danger; Egwene did not know what, only that it was monstrous." (Egwene's Dream; {{loc|15}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[A Crown of Swords]]|"Mat sat on a night-shrouded hilltop, watching a grand Illuminator's display of fireworks, and suddenly his hand shot up, seized one of those bursting lights in the sky. Arrows of fire flashed from his clenched fist, and a sense of dread filled her. Men would die because of this. The world would change. But the world was changing; it always changed." (Egwene's Dream; {{acos|10}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Path of Daggers]]|"Mat, weighing two Aes Sedai on a huge set of balance scales, and on his decision depended¦.She could not say what; something vast; the world, perhaps. There had been other dreams, most tinged with suffering. Recently, all of her dreams about Mat were pale and full of pain, like shadows cast by nightmares, almost as though Mat himself were not quite real. That made her afraid for him, left behind in Ebou Dar, and gave her agonies of grief for sending him there, not to mention poor old Thom Merrilin." (Egwene's Dream; {{tpod|15}}). }}

{{Spoiler|[[Crossroads of Twilight]]|"Mat stood on a village green, playing at bowls. The thatch-roofed houses were vague, in the manner of dreams - sometimes the roofs were slate; sometimes the houses seemed of stone, sometimes wood - but he was sharp and clear, dressed in a fine green coat and that wide-brimmed hat, just as he had been the day he rode into Salidar. There was not another human being in sight. Rubbing the ball between his hands, he took a short run and casually rolled it across the smooth grass. All nine pins fell, scattered as if they had been kicked. Mat turned and picked up another ball, and the pins were back upright. No, there was a fresh set of pins. The old still lay where they had fallen. He hurled the ball again, a lazy underhanded bowl. And Egwene wanted to scream. The pins were not turned pieces of wood. They were men, standing there watching the ball roll toward them. None moved until the ball sent them flying. Mat turned to pick up another ball, and there were more new pins, new men, standing in orderly formation among the men lying sprawled on the ground as if dead. No, they were dead. Unconcerned, Mat bowled." (Egwene's dream; {{cot|20}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[Knife of Dreams]]|"Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly, for he will marry you and carry you away. Beware the man who remembers Hawkwing's face, for he will marry you and set you free. Beware the man of the red hand, for him you will marry and none other." ([[Lidya]]'s Foretelling to Tuon; {{kod|36}}) }}

==Mat's Escapades==

Most of his life, Mat has been a big prankster, playing all kinds of jokes and often dragging Rand along with him. Mat's mother used to tell him that the Forsaken would come for him if he didn't mend his ways. ({{teotw|1}})

When Mat and Rand are ten years old, [[Cenn Buie]] caught them in his apple trees ({{teotw|3}})

Once, when Mat was ten years old, he tried to cut a firework open to see what was inside, causing an uproar; [[Bran al'Vere]] cuffed him, [[Doral Barran]], the then [[Wisdom]] had switched him and his father strapped him. For a month, no one in Emond's Field would talk to him with the exception of Rand and Perrin ({{tdr|40}}).

Soon after turning thirteen, Mat talked Rand into stealing a jar of apple brandy. Nynaeve found them asleep at Bran al'Vere's table. Their heads were hurting so badly that they didn't even feel the switches she gave them ({{tsr|7}}).

On the day before Bel Tine, Mat covered two of [[Haral Luhhan]]'s dogs with flour. Having told [[Adan al'Caar]], [[Ewin Finngar]] and [[Dag Coplin (2)|Dag Coplin]] that some farms had seen ghost hounds, he set them loose near Dag's house, but they ran straight home. [[Alsbet Luhhan]] had left her door open, so they ran inside and got flour all over the house. ({{teotw|2}})

On the day before Bel Tine, Mat and [[Dav Ayellin|Dav]] caught a badger and planned to let it loose on the Green so that they could watch the girls run. ({{teotw|1}})

==Quotes==
===Quotes about Mat===
{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|"'Welcome, son of battles.'" (The Eelfinn; {{tom2|Chapter 54}})

"'…And the gambler becomes the center of all!...'" (The Eelfinn after they’ve taken Mat’s eye; {{tom2|Chapter 54}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[A Memory of Light]]|“Time he’d spent with Mat made him wish there were more he could offer these people. It was downright strange, the effect Matrim Cauthon had on a person. Talmanes looked at common folk in a very different light now. Perhaps it was because he still didn’t rightly know whether to think of Mat as a lord or not (Talmanes; {{prol14}})

"If Mat were here, he would probably curse a lot, complain as much, then proceed to save them all with some battlefield miracle.” (Talmanes; {{prol14}}) }}

===Quotes by Mat===
"It has to be there at the Last Battle. Nothing says it can't be used before then. Nothing says it can't. (Mat about the Horn of Valere; {{tgh2|Chapter 47}})

"Swords aren't the be-all and end-all, you know. I could do fairly well against either of you, I think, if you had a sword and I had my quarterstaff." (Mat to Gawyn and Galad; {{tdr2|Chapter 24}})

{{Spoiler|[[The Shadow Rising]]|"I have no intention of marrying. And I have no intention of dying, either, whether I am supposed to live again or not. I walk around with holes in my memory, holes in my life, and you stare at me like idiots. If I had my way, I would want those holes filled, but at least answers to my questions might fill some in my future. You have to answer - !) (Mat to the Eelfinn; {{tsr2|Chapter 24}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Fires of Heaven]]|"Everything always changes. The best plan lasts until the first arrow leaves the bow." (Mat to Lan; {{tfoh2|Chapter 42}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[Lord of Chaos]]|"Now. When the poor blind fool they've chosen out for their Amyrlin gets here, I will do the talking. She can't be very bright, or they'd never have been able to shove her into the job. Amyrlin Seat for a bloody village in the middle of bloody nowhere. You keep your mouth shut and curtsey for all you're worth, and I'll pull your bacon off the coals again." (Mat to Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve; {{loc2|Chapter 38}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[Winter's Heart]]|"She is my wife. Your bloody Daughter of the Nine Moons is my wife!" (Mat to Egeanin; {{wh2|Chapter 31}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[The Gathering Storm]]|"Women are like...goats..." (Mat to [[Talmanes]] on broken road; {{tgs2|Chapter 20}})

"I'm not giving up gambling," Mat muttered. "Or drinking." (Mat to [[Talmanes]]; {{tgs2|Chapter 20}})

"The trouble with you, Mat, is that you're actually good at lying, unlike those other two boys." ([[Thom]] to Mat on broken road to Hinderstap; {{tgs2|Chapter 27}})

"Marriage, I guess. Burn me, but I'm not going to stop drinking or gambling." (Mat to [[Thom]], and in the hearing of [[Talmanes]], concerning being married to [[Tuon]]; {{tgs2|Chapter 27}})

"She's not a woman, [[Talmanes]]...she's an [[Aes Sedai]]. Don't think of her as a woman." (Mat to [[Talmanes]] about [[Joline]]; {{tgs2|Chapter 28}})

"You're [[Aes Sedai]]. . .I figured you . . . you know, ''[[saidar]]''ed it." (Mat to [[Verin]] regarding the pictures of him and [[Perrin]]; {{tgs2|Chapter 36}}) }}

{{Spoiler|[[Towers of Midnight]]|"He was a married man, and could not afford to charm her, but he could keep an eye out for his friends." (Mat in the taverns of Caemlyn; {{tom2|Chapter 8}})

"'Of course I am. . .How else is she going to trust that it’s really from me?'" (Mat to Joline about swearing in his letter to Elayne; {{tom2|Chapter 17}})

"'Just because a man marries someone doesn’t mean he suddenly becomes bloody nobility.'" (Mat on not being a nobleman; {{tom2|Chapter 19}})

"'Al dival, al kiserai, al mashi!' For light, glory, and love!"
"'Tai’daishar!' True Blood of Battle!"
"'Carai manshimaya Tylin. Carai an manshimaya Nalesean. Carai an manshimaya ayend’an!' Honor of my blade for Tylin. Honor of my blade for Nalesean. Honor of my blade for the fallen." (Mat’s Old Tongue litany for the fallen dead when fighting the gholam: {{tom2|Chapter 31}})

"'Courage to strengthen, Fire to blind. Music to dazzle. Iron to bind.'" "'And Matrim Cauthon to bloody even the odds.'" (Noal with the rhyme and Mat to finish, as they enter the Tower of Ghenjei; {{tom2|Chapter 53}})

"'But to be bonded to a woman? Isn’t going to happen to Matrim Cauthon.'" (Mat to Thom and Moiraine on being a Warder; {{tom2|Chapter 57}}) }}

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