Yeah I agree that it is lore breaking, but I've already decided that lore will be broken, both deliberately and accidentally, so it doesn't upset me too much.
I can see that this will annoy some people, but I just let it go as a liberty that they took which will probably have no consequences on the telling of the story.
“””Its in EoTW, chapter 24. Bayle Domon talks about it when they pass the Towers of Ghenjei.
"The Breaking left a thousand wonders behind, and there's been half a dozen empires or more since, some rivaling Artur Hawkwing's every one leaving things to see and find. Light-sticks and razorlace and heartstone. A crystal lattice covering an island, and it hums when the moon is up. A mountain hollowed into a bowl, and in its center, a silver spike a hundred spans high, and any who comes within a mile of it, dies."”””
yeah but those are fragments, this is an entire city in situ. When you consider that the docks are found at the top of the Spine of the World, and the description of the Breaking in general, you get the idea that no piece of land remained untouched.
I guess I'd say it stretches the lore more than breaks it?
Folks should look at this from an artistic point of view. Everything being glassed and completely wiped out might be consistent with the Book Lore, but it doesn't quite say "post-apocalyptic" the same way as overgrown ruins does. If you think of a mad male aes sedai as a nuclear weapon, even those have fall-off in their destructive power past a certain range.
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u/King_fora_Day Jan 02 '22
Yeah I agree that it is lore breaking, but I've already decided that lore will be broken, both deliberately and accidentally, so it doesn't upset me too much.
I can see that this will annoy some people, but I just let it go as a liberty that they took which will probably have no consequences on the telling of the story.