Rand was told in what amounts to personal prophecy that to live you must die when he asked the aelfinn how he could survive the last battle.
Mat cauthon prophecy.
Prophecy that when the right hand falters and the left hand strays the world comes to the crossroads of twilight and everything is finely balanced possible sources for this character s name.
Instead of being armed with prophecy and ta veren destiny mat s rescue mission is armed with folklore lessons from a children s game and pure luck.
According to prophecy mat will give up half the light of the world to save the world and in egwene al vere s dreams has been seen to place his eye on a balance scale.
The children of the light there are a lot of men coming on horses.
Of tear has fallen and war breaks over the nations of the land.
Mat cauthon jul 20 17 at 11 34 now i might be unpopular for saying this but i don t believe neville was ever important in that respect.
Tuon concludes the marriage ceremony that mat started once mat fulfills the prophecy spoken by a damane on her voyage across the aryth ocean.
Fortunately mat is the luckiest man alive.
This prophecy has been repeated several times throughout the saga.
Prophecy that fortune rides high with mat who makes the ravens fly and steals the moons prophecy that mat the fox marries the raven in the last days.
Vol 3 egwene dreams of mat placing his own left eye on a balance scale.
And he holds the sword that cannot be the aiel have come over the dragonwall to his call.
Who better to take them on than the wheel s trickster figure.
He can wield the one power.
Jendai prophecy of the coramoor.
Vol 4 p 253 pb the aelfin predicted that mat will this could easily be a referral to the future loss of his left eye.
I see the prophecy as being about harry and only harry because whatever entity is behind prophecies it knew what snape heard and how voldy would react to hearing it.
Odin was half blind giving up his eye for knowledge.