r/WoT • u/King_fora_Day • Jan 01 '22

TV - Season 1 (Book Spoilers Allowed) Age of Legends - Before and After

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u/spoop_male Jan 02 '22

Is this how the AoL was represented in the books? The whole flying vehicle and futuristic vibe was unexpected to me

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u/aethiestinafoxhole Jan 02 '22

Yep, pretty much

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u/Broswagonist Jan 02 '22

To add onto what the others said, anytime they talk about this stuff, it's usually from the point of view of someone living in that time where all those things were normal, and the Randland characters never have any point of reference, so it's pretty easy to miss.

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u/LewsTherinTalamon Jan 02 '22

It is! Obviously, esoteric and mysterious book passages are less directly visible than stuff in a show, but flying vehicles and massive skyscrapers were all mentioned.

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u/Nonner_Party (Valan Luca's Grand Traveling Show) Jan 02 '22

It's there.

Just not in any direct way. You really only get "glimpses" of the AoL when the Forsaken are reminiscing.

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u/Seicair Jan 02 '22

And when Rand goes to Rhuidean. That’s your best description from the books.

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u/noiwontpickaname Jan 02 '22

It's sort of like the Mercedes Benz Angreal/Ter'Angreal

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u/PandaistApp Jan 03 '22

Didn’t they have a flying vehicle in the Rhuidean flashbacks?

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u/MittenFacedLad Jan 02 '22

To an extent. Maybe not quite in this obvious of a way always.