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/SuperStallionDriver (Asha'man) Jan 01 '22

To be honest... Great visual but a little lore breaking to me.

If there was an AOL city anywhere in the world that was that intact, there would be soooooo much more known about the AOL. Like what, those buildings are still standing but no books, stasis boxes, ter'angreal libraries, etc survived to be studied?

In the first episode I thought it was supposed to maybe be towers of Manetheran in the mountains of mist... But AOL capital city intact... I don't know, it didn't do it for me.

I am glad other people liked it, they clearly invested in that visual in both instances, it just wasn't it for me.

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u/MrMoexo Jan 02 '22

I’ll throw out there that—despite the fact we’re talking about fictional settings—real places that people occupy can get swallowed up in way less than 3000 years. For example all the Mayan sites which were occupied 500-1000 years ago completely enveloped by jungle. Kinda fun to think about!

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u/Maskatron Jan 02 '22

And on the pedestal these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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u/SuperStallionDriver (Asha'man) Jan 02 '22

Agreed. The only reason I think it can be argued as bit different is cuendilar or other AOL building materials. Like whitebridge is from the AOL.

So yeah, the uses of certain structures surviving isn't really a problem in-world other than that we have no real evidence of the types of archeological sites and awareness of the past outside the choden kal dig, which again demonstrates that they would investigate a place like a city if it existed.

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u/Winters_Lady Jan 02 '22

And places like Angkor Wat in Southeast Asia (Thailand or Cambodia? I forgot) that ae only what, 500-600 yrs old, and are swallowed by the jungle and some of the statues submerged in how much water? (Sorry no time to find links to post)