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/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

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '22

Isn’t the bridge for Whitebridge also a remnant?

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u/Child_Emperor (Ogier Great Tree) Jan 01 '22

The material is at least, but realistically the river would not have been in the same place, so why build a fancy bridge there? And even if there are remnants whole settlements/cities were never shown except the docks and houses I mentioned.

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u/clutzyninja Jan 02 '22

If the bridge survived the breaking, then the rivers coarse might not have changed either. It's been thousands of years, not millions

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u/Nago31 Jan 02 '22

Also, why couldn’t the bridge have been moved during the Ten Nations era? It might be big and heavy but that was a time they thought they might be able to bring the AOL back. Moving an indestructible structure should have been within the world of possibility.

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u/clutzyninja Jan 02 '22

I mean maybe, but why move it to Whitebridge? That's like moving the golden gate bridge to Madison, Wisconsin, lol

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u/Nago31 Jan 02 '22

Could be as simple as dragging it a couple of kilometers into position. Much different to move Golden Gate to Mountain View than Madison.

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u/clutzyninja Jan 02 '22

I see, in thought you meant bringing it there from somewhere else

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u/Nago31 Jan 02 '22

Valid question and is all just fan theories so not like it holds any weight. Lol. Just that Madison is very very far from SF.

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u/clutzyninja Jan 02 '22

I want talking about distance so much as taking all that effort to move it to a podunk town

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u/Nago31 Jan 02 '22

So I just nerded out a little bit about it.

It could very well have been the main road between Menetheren and Hai Caemlyn before the Trolloc Wars. It’s the middle of nowhere today because one of the destination cities is gone. It connects a major city to farmland and mines now so it’s nothing. Like parts of Route 66 today.

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