Perrin's arguably the least taveren of the lot. Rand is like moving event paradox, and Mat's tavereness is constantly emphasized throughout the series via his luck and the dice rolling.

Well Mat's rolling dices and luck is not tavereness, but more something to be compared to perrins being a Wolfbrother.

But what about Perrin? There's been no real single event to name Perrin as taveren. You could say the whole TR thing was cause of him but that's not the same. Mat and Perrin have always been SAID or IMPLIED to be of equal taveren strength (no quotes, sorry. But its always like Rand first, and then the other two together in my mind at least). Yet, apart from making Alliandre swear fealty to him, I've seen very little tavereness to him. Maybe its there, maybe its not so in-your-face as Rand's rebel-saving-life thing, or Mat's daughter of the sands thing but surely Perrin's not had a taveren moment like that since...forever. I'd like Perrin's stories a lot more if there were a few more awesome you-can't-touch-me moments. It'd help if RJ had emphasized him tavereness more, like he did with the other two. Maybe a little less Perrin-ish modesty and a little 'I'm taveren. Deal.' attitude form hiim would help too.

I would say that namely the reason that they after 2 years fighting control some of the most important armies of Randland, and is generally acknowlegded as good leaders. Not only from Rand's POV but from all who interacts with them. This is what the pattern has given them, and their tavereness is why they are able to pull it off.

Regardless, back to the maintopic. I believe the "Faile-is-captured" event was probably the main reason why I stopped enjoying Perrin as much as I did in the beginning. That event went on for books without major plot events, while a lot happened in Mat's POVs.

I still like Perrin, but I hope he will become a little more Wolfbrother again.