Robert Jordan

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" and about 165 pounds . 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 caught out of line, Mat was frequently the impetus behind it .
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Perrin t'Bashere Aybara, or Goldeneyes, is one of the main characters of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy The Wheel of Time. Character is largely based on Slavic god Perun. In addition to the name similarity Perrin's choice of weapons include the axe, hammer, and bow. Perrin also shares Perun's... association to wolves; Perrin can even talk to wolves Perrin is stocky with massive thick arms and shoulders of a blacksmith. He has curly brown hair. His eyes were dark brown, although about halfway through the first book they became golden. He is about 6'1" or 6'2" and about 235 to 240 pounds . Starting out as inexperienced, Perrin has grown greatly into his skills as a warrior and, despite his misgivings, a leader. He is often quiet, taking time to think things over and process them which sometimes gives him the appearance of being slow-witted when in truth, he thinks very thoroughly. He is kind-hearted and does not stomach the games or duplicity of others. Ironically, nobles and generals used to playing political games assume Perrin's frankness or long consideration are masks for his true thoughts and actions, unaware he is speaking what he truly believes.
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Elyas Machera is a fictional character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. Early in his life, Elyas Machera was a Warder to the Aes Sedai Rina Hafden. He also trained Lan Mandragoran to be a Warder. It is unknown right now how it occurred, but Elyas became a Wolfbrother at some point and had to... abandon the Aes Sedai he is bonded to. Elyas, like all Wolfbrothers is able to talk to and communicate with wolves, but unlike other Wolfbrothers such as Perrin Aybara he lives with wolves, shunning human kind. Soon after discovering his ability, he was hunted by the Red Ajah who believed that he was channeling to communicate with the wolves. He was forced to kill a couple of Warders who chased him in a wood, the trauma of which scarred him as he dislikes killing warders, for obvious reasons. After Perrin and Egwene escape from Shadar Logoth they meet up with Elyas, who informs Perrin of his ability to speak to wolves. Currently, Elyas helped Perrin free his wife Faile from the Shaido Aiel. His wolf name is Long Tooth, which is a reference to the long knife he wields.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,... Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature there from 1945 to 1959. He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972. After his death, Tolkien's son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings.
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