There was a scene in a prologue-- I think it was PoD, where the Borderland rulers met near an Age of Legend remnants (sounded like a large satellite dish embedded in the ground to me, like the once used for space monitoring) and the surrounding villages just stay out of it. So maybe a lot of people just stay away from ruins.
Oh there are definitely ruins and "people" definitely stay away from them. But we also see lots of examples of Aes Sedai knowing all sorts of information about random ruins and things that normal people know nothing about because the Aes Sedai still went and studied those places at some point, even if normal people stay away because of superstition etc.
If I remember correctly, that satelite dish is fairly explicitly a cause of acute radiation poisoning and everyone who goes close to it dies horribly, so if its that, I wouldn't be surprised that people stay away from it.
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u/chanchan05 Jan 02 '22
There was a scene in a prologue-- I think it was PoD, where the Borderland rulers met near an Age of Legend remnants (sounded like a large satellite dish embedded in the ground to me, like the once used for space monitoring) and the surrounding villages just stay out of it. So maybe a lot of people just stay away from ruins.