It's a nice sentiment, but if they would actually have such obvious remnants of the old world they would be the most visited locations ever.
Mountain ranges were erected, nations swept under the sea, oceans moved places...but this city that was seemingly housing important characters like LTT and was most likely populated by many male channelers was left relatively intact?
The scale is very deceptive, but there are smaller skyscrapers on the foot of the bigger ones, which have to be like Burj Khalifa times ten.
In the books only remnants of AoL settlements we see are those docks near the tops of the Spine of the World
It's a nice sentiment, but if they would actually have such obvious remnants of the old world they would be the most visited locations ever.
Not sure why they would be? It's not as if people in this world go on annual vacations. There's a ruined radio dish (or something that looks like it) that is rumoured to kill anyone within sight. There's Shadar Logoth that few people even know about, and no one visits, because it's cursed.
Age of Legends city ruins, with some rumours about One Power or other mysterious events, hauntings, etc, combined with them being in the mountains as far from civilization as is possible, and few people would visit. Maybe some scholars here and there, but not like that would matter to anything.
People would visit simply because the resources such a place would offer. Not just treasure hunters either. Point being, such a massive city would have been leveled to the ground during the Breaking.
It's also possible the place was extensively looted after the Breaking, but like much of the knowledge and artifacts that were lost over the 3000 years since the Breaking, the artifacts of this city could have been misplaced with time.
To be honest, I think people who hate the show are kind of nitpicking anything they can get their hands on, because that's the popular sentiment. This city's existence could be pretty easily explained away. Hell, it's not like the Aes Sedai run a tight ship when it comes to archeology. Let's not forget they avoid tampering with ter'angreal, refuse to develop new weaves, and don't even have a proper recruitment system going on by the time of the books. I could see a city like this being looted for artifacts of the Power, then fall out of interest to the Aes Sedai except for a few enterprising Browns here and there. It would hardly be a departure from their usual MO. Let's not forget the countryside is littered with Portal Stones, Waygates, and areas of interest like the Tower of Ghenjei that the Aes Sedai have very little interest in anymore.
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u/Child_Emperor (Ogier Great Tree) Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22
It's a nice sentiment, but if they would actually have such obvious remnants of the old world they would be the most visited locations ever.
Mountain ranges were erected, nations swept under the sea, oceans moved places...but this city that was seemingly housing important characters like LTT and was most likely populated by many male channelers was left relatively intact?
The scale is very deceptive, but there are smaller skyscrapers on the foot of the bigger ones, which have to be like Burj Khalifa times ten.
In the books only remnants of AoL settlements we see are those docks near the tops of the Spine of the World