Gaidal Cain: There is some good points to support the fact that Olver is Gaildal Cain, but I have a more interesting theory. Lets say for a moment that Mat just happens to be Gaidal reborn. How? Well, there are two theories to this. One As mentioned ...

Matrim not only has the memories of the great dead war leaders but is actually them reborn. The wheel only puts new strands in every now and then and Matrim's is not new, just like Rand is the Dragon Reborn!A huge clue is when in the First Book Matri...

Mat is obviously the newest incarnation of a soul spun out by the wheel, time and time again. He may very well be a reborn hero, but who can say he's not any number of them? They weren't all alive at the same time. In a sense, Mat might have met some...

I don't know that Mat isn't a Hero Reborn, but we know that all of his memories can't come from his "Past Lives." This is a fact, because when Asmodean is still playing at bard in book 4, he is singing a song about a Manetheren battle, and Mat's memo...

What about Mat being Lord Aemon reborn ( King of Manetheren ) I am not sure how much bases their is for that other than the fact that he remembers all that about Manetheren but I thought I would just throw that idea out their....

I agree that Mat is a 'Hero Reborn', but not one who was great enough to be ta'veren or sooo renowned to be Bound to the Horn...until now... It was time for the Pattern to use him for a greater purpose to "balance his Karma" to use everything he ever...

Mat is a Hero reborn. He is ta'veren. It's my belief that all ta'veren are bound to the wheel, for the Pattern to spin out where needed. He didn't meet a previous life when he blew the Horn, though. All the Heroes who responded were the ones not curr...

Mat cannot be Hawkwing. He saw Hawkwing at the head of the Heroes after playing the Horn. Probably nobody can meet himself. Gaidal was there as well. I do not remember if the King of Manetheren was. Mat looks very much like King, adventurer and gambl...

I don't believe that Mat is a Hero reborn. Aside from being Ta'veren, Mat's strength comes from the memories that were used to fill the holes in his memory. He asked the people on the other side of the twisted doorway to fill the gaps in his memory a...

Now I agree that Mat is a newcomer, it doesn't rule out the possibility. I mean, time works differently in Tel'aran'rhoid. To Birgitte, Gaidal was reborn just months ago, but Olver must be 12 or 13. Whatever happens, Mat is going to be with the heroe...

Well now if you will recall, Mat was sick in the first book, because of the tainted dagger. After he was healed at the White Tower, he had all these holes in his memory. Every once in a while he remembers some things, for instance that fox faced lady...

I believe that Mat's memories come from many different sources also, and not just randomly, but to serve him at the particular time he needs them. Similar to Rand's ability to remember different flows at the time he needs them, though he has never do...

Ok, Well lets remember that in all the mirror worlds, only three things are the same. The World of Dreams, The Dark One and the Creator. Mat could be a Hawkwing reborn from one of the other worlds. This explains why he dislikes Aes Sedai and Hawkwing...

To all of you who think that Mat is Hawkwing, you are idiots. In a book, I dont remember which, Mat is laying down after a battle and he remembers that he does not like Hawkwing, had a lot of bad memories, and I dont think Mat is the kind of guy to h...

The fox like people on the other side of the redstoneter'angreal aren't nice. Hell, they hung Mat from the neck. I don't think they would then fill his head up with information of great value, like knowing how to fight battles against superior warrio...

Everybody has been assuming that either he is or isn't based on the memories from Finnland. What about all those memories and old blood ravings before the Shadar Logoth dagger (i.e. both Mashadar and the dagger eat memory and kill stuff). I do not th...

Did anyone ever notice how Matt's motto 'It's time to toss the dice' is also Artur Hawkwing's? Even though, I don't think he is Artur Hawkwing. I think that the holes in his memory was filled with bits of other mens lives. In essence he's a bit of ev...

I know what he isn't. He can't be Artur cause they were both present wen mat sounded the horn and he can't be Gaidal Cain because Birgitte said that Cain was ugly and that she always hated him when she first saw him, and thing like comments from Lanf...

Mat was lucky even before he went through the doorway. But he wasn't always a great general. The dagger from Shadar Logoth ate holes in his memory. So after he goes though one doorway and gets his questions answered, he goes through another, not real...

Well if I may step away from the text, I think that it is important to remeber that Robert Jordan was educated at the Citadel, a military school. Mat( as well as the other Two Rivers people) is said to have the "old blood of Manetheren" running stron...