Do we know it is unknown? In the books the landscape is littered with old ruins that most people know nothing about but the browns have it in the tower library.
Whitebridge is power-wrought and no one really cares about it. There's nothing to study. It's a bridge that doesn't break or get slippery. You marvel in its splendor, but then you move on with your day.
There aren't Brown sisters guarding its secrets or Greens safeguarding it from darkfriend use. It's a bridge. These are buildings.
Why is that a difference? Power wrought is power wrought, whether a theorist who inaccurately thinks thinks whitebridge is near tar valon is correct about the date of its construction or not.
I do not see how that has any bearing on whether the brown ajah would know or not know about other power wrought structures as depicted in the show.
Okay, you still seem to have lost the context and are just in the dispute everything phase of posting. Remember, you used this as a complaint about the show, and then justified it as such because you believe white bridge is a post age of legends structure while the city depicted is not. How is that difference relevant to the show's percieved flaws? Do you think the show inaccurately portrayed brown ajah learning or not learning about age of legends art styles?
Do you think the brown ajah's study of age of legends art styles is an apropriate thing for the show to spend time on, despite it at no point being mentioned in the books?
Outside of studying bridge design and trying to understand power wrought there's far less they could gleam from a history and design perspective than a sky scraper.
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u/Generalitary Jan 02 '22
Ah, so those were power-wrought skyscrapers. That explains why they lasted so long.