CygnusTheSwan

What they say about talents in the above comment by The Sovereign is more accurate to how the book describes talents. Perrin's wolf ability was a lost talent. Mat's luck likely is a talent. He has past life memories of Manetheren in book 3 when he is healed from the dagger, so this could have triggered the talent much like when Perrin's manifests. These things are separate from what he gets in Rhuidean for his eye. His Odin scene in the story. I would say RJ's magic is much harder as a system than people realize. His story comes through the limited perspectives of character's with partial information and sometimes the wrong information. RJ was a master at close, limited POVs.