#this all came about because the concept of Tuathaon!Perrin and Cursed!Mat are so dear to me

[toastandjamie]

So I have a bunch of AU’s for WoT because of course I do. But there’s one that’s very close to my heart.

So I love a good what if- and I love rewriting first meetings so throw the Ta’veren boys into different life circumstances so that they meet later instead of growing up together.

Rand’s backstory remains the same with the big caveat that he no longer has his two best friends what a sad and tragic boy, someone should get him friends.

Perrin grew up among the Tuathuan, and discovered his wolfish abilities thanks to Elias when he was fifteen, he’s been staying with Elias ever since but much to his wolf dad’s dismay he still tries very hard to live the way of the leaf. Surely nothing will force him to break that code of conduct though.

Mat grew up in Taren Farie, and developed a reputation for being “cursed”. For whatever reason his Ta’veren bending of chance and luck kicked in early so despite he himself being very lucky it always seems that misfortune occurs around him. After a particularly unfortunate incident when he was fourteen with a bully dying of head trauma from a falling flower pot Mat ran away from home. Hopping from village to village he eventually stumbled upon Shadar Logoth when he was eighteen and after narrowly escaping Mashadar finds himself with a peculiar dagger. Surely him growing sicker and sicker the longer he has the dagger is just a coincidence though.