Timewaster's Guide Archive

Quote from: douglas on March 11, 2009, 04:17:54 PM

Before Rhuidean Mat had a smattering of the Old Tongue and a few not-quite-actual memories that popped up on occasion, and all of it was from "the Old blood", possibly from ancestors and not necessarily his own past lives.  After Rhuidean, all his memories from the Finns were just memories they happened to have on hand from various assorted people they'd had contact with.  The common thread between Mat and the people those memories come from is contact with the Finns, not rebirth or blood.  Heck, it's mentioned a few times that he actually has memories from opposite sides of the same battle in some cases.

That reminds me of one of the most chilling scenes in the series. Where Mat comes to the conclusion that, since he has various memories of "himself" actually dying, the Finns actually can see through his eyes at all times. Very creepy.

Do we know for certain that Mat's memories are actually other peoples? I just thought that he was going out of his way to come up with an explanation for having a bunch of memories that he can't account for, since Mat has always been the type to run from problems when he could. Did RJ say for certain?

When do the books mention that he had memories from people on two sides of a battle?