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Posted: Jul 24 2004, 04:39 AM
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oh I completely agree with you. Of course I think generally Lews Therin's soul would be the one carrying the Dragon Banner. smile.gif


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Posted: Jul 27 2004, 02:50 PM
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Actually, we know that everybody is reborn. It appears to be taken for granted by the people of the Third Age that all souls are recycled over and over. But it is Heroes who are bound to the pattern that are consistantly spun out to repeat the same story. The Horn binds new Heroes to itself and when blown summons these Heroes from the World of Dreams. The Champions of the Dark are spun out the same as the Heroes of the Light, the Horn is special only in summoning Heroes who haven't been spun out naturally.


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Posted: Jul 27 2004, 06:08 PM
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Only the souls of the Heroes of the Horn wait in Tel'aran'rhiod to be spun out or to be called by the Horn. The rebirth that others experience is more of an afterlife type concept, not a physical rebirth. If the same people are reborn with no knowledge of their previous lives in the same circumstances each time the Wheel cycles, the Pattern would never change, because the people would make the same decisions, having learned nothing from the previous turning of the Wheel, thus for the Pattern to change with each turning, the majority of the people must be spun out for the first time so that the Pattern can change.


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Posted: Jul 30 2004, 12:31 AM
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Right, I think the point is that threads (i.e. souls) are reused by the Pattern. When you die your thread is conserved and reused later...however you are a different person (why you don't make the same decisions)

The Heroes of the Horn are fated to replay the same roles for the most part, reside in the World of Dreams when they are not in the world, etc.

As for Champions of the Dark...Ishamael claims that he has been reborn again and again to serve the same role but remember....that guys is at least half-mad anyway.


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Posted: Aug 11 2004, 06:40 PM
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okay, i may be wrong in this, and i'll have to look in the books again, but aren't the heroes more properly labeled "heroes bound to the wheel"?


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Posted: Aug 11 2004, 08:35 PM
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There have been a few different titles for them, but they all pretty much boil down to Heroes of the Horn.


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Posted: Aug 12 2004, 08:49 AM
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Aleshandre, neither you, nor anyone else who shares your point of wiev on mat and his connection to the pattern and to the horn had gave me one proff of your theory. All you have in reality is mist... If he was already the HoH, wouldn't the heroes greet him, as they did for Rand? And why would Briggite keep away from him in the willage, on the way to Ebou Dar, and for some time in Ebou Dar? I mean, if he was the HoH, she would know him quite well, and wouldn't have to fear of beeing exposed.
My theory offers logical explanation for Mat's thousands of old memories, and I offer one proff, although it's strenght is quite questionable, it's stil more then what I have seen from your side so far. I ask you just to reconsider the fact that I use as a proff: Mat's luck had gone mad, not after he got dagger, not after he was partaily or fully healed from the damge of the dagger, not after he had blown the horn; but after the horn was found at the Eye.
And for Dragon being Hero, here is a fact you overlooked: Dragon is not allways a hero of the Light, and there was never even an implication of HoH being anything but light. And, if I'm not mistaking, Jordan himself said once, I just don't remember where, That the souls of ordinarly people, after death, go to some attachment world of T.A.R.


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Posted: Aug 12 2004, 03:39 PM
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Both Rand and Perrin also experienced an increase in the effects of thier being Ta'veren at the Eye of the World. To say that Mat's increase in luck has nothing to do with being Ta'veren overlooks the fact that Ta'veren affect the world around them in different ways. In the case of Mat, it is primarilly his luck. For Perrin, it is primarilly the way that people take him as a great leader regardless of his experience or even lack thereof. For Rand, important things simply fall into line, while everything else goes haywire. The luck is primarilly a matter of Mat being Ta'veren, not necessarilly having anything to do with the Horn itself. Most of Mat's memories (all of the ones that are his) tell him that he has always been lucky - in every life. Birgitte's avoidance of Mat can be explained by the fact that she knew that no person who is spun out naturally remembers their past lives. That lack of Mat remembering could be what Birgitte feared. Remember though that she ended up drinking with Mat for hours, both speaking entirely in the Old Tongue. That hardly shows continued fear of being discovered.

As I said before, I am using RJ's own construct for proof that Mat is a Hero of the Horn. Further, Mat was addressed by Artur Hawkwing as "Hornsounder", as did the Eelfinn and Aelfinn. Clearly Mat has been the Hornsounder more than once and thus is bound to the Horn. If bound to the Horn, then a Hero of the Horn. We have several items now that demonstrate that Mat can be a HotH in the true sense of the term; 1. Mat has been spun out repeatedly in the pattern. 2. Mat is bound to the Horn by having sounded it. 3. Mat was recognized by atleast 1 Hero of the Horn (probably 2, but since we don't have Birgitte's PoV, we don't know that for certain). 4. Mat has been recognized by the Eelfinn and Aelfinn as the Hornsounder. 5. In each of his previous lives, Mat was a great General and usually one with a grand reputation. You on the other hand are using evidence that can be used either direction as proof of your hypothesis, which uses a construct that was not originated by Robert Jordan. Don't get me wrong, your hypothesis makes sense, but there is no reason to add a new construct, simply to make an hypothesis fit within the novels.


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Posted: Aug 13 2004, 08:47 AM
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sorry doubble post

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Posted: Aug 13 2004, 08:50 AM
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You're just repeating yourself. I still se nothing but mist to support your side of theorie. And, no I did not overlook the fact of him being Ta'veren. But, if you look more clearly, and analyticaly into it, The ta'veren-ism of those tree works in asame way-making things that had nearly no chance of happening happen, and to add just his one bitt, that you 'forgoten', people take both Rand and Mat as great leaders, no less then they do Perrin, but neither Rand, nor Perrin has the amout of Mat's luck. And, by the strenght of Ta'veren, Shouldn't the Rand be the luckiest, if, as by your claim should be, Ta'verenism can raise Ta'verens personal luck.

But, if he was HoH, Briggite would now his character, his core, well enough to know there is no reason to fear from him, as she found out latter, after what both of them went of drinking, and becoming best mates

I just have to notifie you that you should stop acting like a whitecloak, expecting that only your wiev on things is the right one. I'm ready to accept you're side, if I get a strong enough proff, but you would not even stop to think about the possibility of mine having a chance of being the right one.
I'll give you a question to argument about chance of a theorie: is Halennian black spear better soldier than Plythemar Tak-taal?
You don't know, because the answer can be found only in authors head, and nowhere else, but you can theorise and take a guess,and that guess has some chance (50% in this particular case) of being the right one.

"Mat was addressed by Artur Hawkwing as "Hornsounder", as did the Eelfinn and Aelfinn. Clearly Mat has been the Hornsounder more than once and thus is bound to the Horn."
Hawkwing never called him "Hornsounder", Briggite did. And it goes with my theorie as much as with yours.


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Posted: Aug 13 2004, 01:33 PM
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I object to being called a whitecloak. I am not saying that you are evil for disagreeing with me. I am simply pointing out that your theory doesn't really have enough support. You are right, that the answer can only be found in the mind of RJ. You are also right that a Hero of the Horn calling Mat Hornsounder can be used for either side of the arguement. That is exactly my point. The difference between our theories is that I use RJ's construct of Heroes of the Horn and you created a new construct. That being the case, you need more support than I do. Your argument needs to support that there is another construct that spins out "hornsounders" repeatedly, who are not Heroes of the Horn, but people specifically chosen to sound the Horn of Valere. That construct has not been supported in any of your arguements, except that you made a vague refference to a memory of something that Robert Jordan might have said. If he did indeed say it, you will need to find it written somewhere reliable, so that you can provide a citation for it. If my arguements and the evidence that I cited are "mist" then you need to look at your own, because yours have exactly as much substance as mine, but yours lack support for a new construct of Hero of the Pattern - not bound to the Horn of Valere in the same way as the Heroes of the Horn, but destined to sound it. Man, that construct sounds contrived. As I said, either a person is a Hero of the Horn or they are not. There is no inbetween that has any support in the Wheel of Time series or in any other statement that I know of from RJ.


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Posted: Aug 14 2004, 04:10 PM
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I'd like to point out that Mat's memories aren't from past lives. Mat's memories are memories he recived on the other side of the twisted doorway ter'angreal in Rhuidean in order to fill the memories his experience with the SL dagger erased. RJ has said that this will be explained a little more fully in Book 11 as to how he can have memories of dieing when obviously those people did not die in finnland. Check out the question of the week section on the official website for this. His memories can't be reawakened past lives because many of those memories overlap in time frames.

Birgitte avoids Mat because she knows he was at Falme, when Heroes of the Horn are spun out they have absolutly no rememberances of their previous lives, only when they are in Tel'Aran'Rhiod is this so. Birgitte fears Mat will inadvertently blurt something out where others that should not hear would. When Mat makes a few slips with the Old Tongue and they go on their drinking spree she no longer fears because she knows he has just as big of a secret as she does. This situation in no way supports either argument in the debate in my opinion.

As Aleshandre said ALL of the three main Heroes have their Ta'vereness kicked up a notch after the Eye of the World, not just Mat. And really Mat's stuff really kicks into overdrive after his experience in Rhuidean. It is after that that we start to see the dice tumbling in his head, etc.

As for whether the Dragon is always a champion of the Light or not... I think he is. Remember it is only Ishamael who has said the Dragon has sometimes served the Shadow, and Ishamael is a)crazy and b)trying to turn Rand to the dark side at this point. In my opinion if the Dragon ever does go to the Shadow the odds of the Shadow then winning, breaking the Wheel, etc,etc is probably almost guarenteed. Given the Dragon is Ta'veren, and Ta'veren are even more tightly bound by the Wheel than anyone else, it seems contradictory for the Wheel allow something to happen that would increase the liklihood of it's balance being broken. Of course the Wheel does also strive for balance, so perhaps the Dragon going bad on occassion is a balancing factor. Point is it is a philosophical debate that only RJ can answer.

However I still throw my weight behind the argument that Heroes of the Horn are the only ones bound to the Pattern, as Aleshandre said it follows the construct already presented by the book, rather than needing to make up a new one to support a theory.


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Posted: Aug 14 2004, 04:31 PM
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QUOTE (Entropic_existence @ Aug 14 2004, 02:10 PM)
I'd like to point out that Mat's memories aren't from past lives. Mat's memories are memories he recived on the other side of the twisted doorway ter'angreal in Rhuidean in order to fill the memories his experience with the SL dagger erased. RJ has said that this will be explained a little more fully in Book 11 as to how he can have memories of dieing when obviously those people did not die in finnland. Check out the question of the week section on the official website for this. His memories can't be reawakened past lives because many of those memories overlap in time frames.

Actually RJ said in the Tor Question a week for RJ that some of the memories are Mat's from past lives and some are from other people who went through the doorway Ter'angreal. He did mention that both were given him in the Ruidean doorway.


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Posted: Aug 14 2004, 07:00 PM
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"Simple solution often is the wrong one"
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"The most unbelievable things often bear a lot of truth in them"
Can't remember who said that.
These two quotes are guidelines for all of my theories and writings.

NOTE: If anyone was curious, Tak-taal is better, by barely a scratch


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Posted: Aug 17 2004, 03:44 PM
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Those are great for some applications, but when you are talking about logic, which is absolutely necessary for a stable theory, Occum's statement should be applied; shave away unnecessary constructs to find the truth.


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Posted: Aug 17 2004, 09:45 PM
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That's your wiew.

BTW, there is one thing bugging me, and I'd like to hear your oppinions and theories.
I wonder, how come Mat didn't learn anything but perfect horseriding and old tongue speaking from those old memmories of his? I recon, that's because he, since his old man sels them, had a lot of contact with horses, and since he is of an old blood, and a strong one at that, that those two things just stuck on him...
Oh, I orgat about proper greetings, insults and such... but it is an obvious ting to learn off shore


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Posted: Aug 18 2004, 12:05 AM
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You seem to have forgotten that he also became an outstanding general thanks to all the memories of past battles he has in his head. He also knows of the Gholam, which is *very* restricted knowledge.

In fact, the past memories he gets are those of soldiers, so he gets the most benefits from it as he knew next to nothing to war before that. I should say that everything else in the memories is common knowledge (things he already knows), so isn't of any use to him.

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Posted: Aug 18 2004, 10:02 PM
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I haven't forgotten, but, rather than just soldiers, I bellive the memmories belonged to the high-ranking officers and generals... It just went missing in the typing. And the knowledge of Gholam came from Briggite, not the memories.

But, that still doesn't answer my question: How come he didn't learn anything else?
For instance, swordfight? Whatever anyone can tell you, sword is the most common weapon, and therfore, in at least 50% of those memmories he should have known how to fight with it, but there is not even the slightest indication that Mat knows more than one end from the other... And it is war based knowledge that he would benefit, at least somewhat, from


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Posted: Aug 18 2004, 10:59 PM
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QUOTE (Foxhead)
And the knowledge of Gholam came from Briggite, not the memories.


I had forgotten that one. Anyway, this could have been the kind of knowledge the memories would give him.

I think the important point about the memories is that they only manifest when they are needed; before he needs somethings, he doesn't even know he knows it. Perhaps the memories gave him increased swordfight knowledge, but he wouldn't even know before handling a sword in a fight, and even then he could not notice.

In fact, he would certainly notice the additional knowledge if he though he didn't know how to do something and then be able to do it, but for something he already knew how to do (like fighting with a weapon), he could not notice.
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Posted: Aug 19 2004, 04:46 AM
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Perhaps he does know how to use a sword from the memories, however since he hasn't felt the need or desire to pick up a sword, because he doesn't like them, we don't see that knowledge come through.

So yea he became a perfect horsemen, knows the Old Tongue (and incidentally tends to change accents and idioms randomly), knows more about warfare and battle than any of the Great Captains alive....combined because he literally has hundreds of soldiers, lords, and generals memories in his head, assorted court customs from nations all over a thousand years dead and lots of other tidbits that we see now and then. What else do you expect him to dig out of his skull? Like Zinuk said usually something triggers the memories so we aren;t going to see alot of random type things just oop out of nowhere. Even with the warfare stuff he is sually looking at maps or terrain, or thinking about soldiering and such before the memories start to kick in.


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