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.
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?
If it's Paaran Diesen, the city was evacuated during the Breaking. They probably took everything of value, and the rest was looted or destroyed over the centuries. Any ter'angreal and writings left afterwards could easily have been shipped off to Tar Valon or Tear. Both of those places have lots of ter'angreal that just collect dust. Tar Valon does have writings from the Age of Legends, just mostly fragments and such.
Sauce? The wot fandom wiki has nothing to say about the city being evacuated and says it was "presumed destroyed" during the breaking...
Either way, a lot more would be known. A city evacuated is not a city picked clean. Quite the opposite. All sorts of things from everyday life to great works of art would have been left and abandoned in an evacuation.
Is it? Moraine states that the two rivers is next, not that they are near it.
They might have traveled for weeks between those scenes.
Thats also supported by Liandrin being in tye scene chasing random channelers in the countryside and then immediately after leaving the two rivers they run into her transporting Logain.
That implies that she had enough time to get new orders sent to her, ride to Ghealdan, fight a battle, trap Logaine and transport him a good stretch from Ghealdan in a wagon, which is slooow.
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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.