Matrim "Mat" Cauthon is a fictional character in Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time. He is one of the primary protagonists and has moved over the course of the series from his beginnings as a mischievous farm lad into the role of a powerful, shrewd and successful general and commander of armies despite his dissolute and irreverent approach to life. Mat's character development often alludes to the Norse god Odin.
Mat has a wiry body,...
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Matrim "Mat" Cauthon is a fictional character in Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time. He is one of the primary protagonists and has moved over the course of the series from his beginnings as a mischievous farm lad into the role of a powerful, shrewd and successful general and commander of armies despite his dissolute and irreverent approach to life. Mat's character development often alludes to the Norse god Odin.
Mat has a wiry body, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 5'10" (178 cm) and about 165 pounds (as described by Robert Jordan). After the events of The Shadow Rising, Mat has a prominent scar around his neck which he conceals with a scarf, a wide brimmed hat, and a silver foxhead medallion that has the power to protect him from the One Power. During Towers of Midnight, Mat's left eye is ripped out, sacrificing 'half the light of the world, to save the world'.
Mat is known to be a troublemaker. Whenever he and childhood friends Rand al'Thor and Perrin Aybara were...
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