I have a theory about Slayer and Padan Fain (Amol Spoilers)

Dont read this if you haven't read the last book!

Ok I have been thinking almost non stop about this awesome series since I finished AMOL. One aspect that I loved was the duality, every fan will know what I mean. I very recently came to the conclusion that Moridin was in fact the anti-dragon, the equal and opposite to Rand, reborn as endlessly as Rand is, to face him again and again. I felt so dumb for not realising this before AMOL.

Anyway here's my new theory. In the early books Moiraine or someone comments on how unusual it was for there to be three Taveren. Mat and Perrin are kind of wild cards, unknown entities that the pattern had placed there for a reason to be seen in time. So for there to be a duality, in my mind there needed to be two other 'wild cards' for the shadow.

So what makes Fain and Slayer 'wild cards'? Well Fain is an anomaly even to the Dark One, a powerfully 'evil' character that has no allegiance to the Dark one or anyone at all. completely unique in his powers, almost unstoppable.

Slayer to me was also an anomaly. A non source user with natural ability inside a forgotten world of dreams, a man with a sort of split personality psychosis who serves the Shadow for no greater pleasure than to hunt and kill.

The pattern, or the Creator maybe, had Mat and Perrin become the opposite of their rival 'wild card'. I'll explain: to me The creator represents good and the DO represents evil, but what did Padan Fain represent? He may have performed evil acts, but his first person narratives made him seem more like he was insane, madness incarnate. Unpredictable. In short I think he represented chaos, outside of simple evil motivations like greed or power. So chaos, or random destruction is a hard concept to have an opposite to, some might say 'order' but I think it could be random Luck, things going right for no discernible reason. Mat is arguably luck made flesh.

I remember thinking it was anticlimactic the way Mat killed Fain, especially when they really didnt have much to do with each other for most of the series, it didnt feel like a conclusion of anything. But really, it was LUCKY that mat killed him or fain may have killed Rand. Mat and Fain were actually both linked by the Dagger in a very deep way.

So Perrin is a different story. For his duality with slayer I would simply suggest looking at it as hunter and prey. The slayer of wolves hunting the ultimate prey, Young Bull. With the conclusion of the old cliche "the hunter has become the prey" Perrin turns the table on Slayer in a big way. Look at the other similarities: Perrin is torn between two worlds, the Wolf and the human, struggling to remain human, fighting to both protect his friends and loved ones but also fighting to protect the wolves. It's like he's two people. Slayer is psychotically stuck in two worlds as 'Lord Luc' and Slayer, preferring to be Slayer, not really wanting to be Luc (that's how I took his section of AMOL anyway).

Anyway, that's my theory. Any thoughts?