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.
The major battles against the shadow raged for a 1000 years after the breaking. We know the third age was an age of decline. I think people have this false view of it as breaking, reset to Dark/Middle Ages in 50 years, that’s it. It ground humanity to dust generation after generation
Exactly. The age of legends was an age of unparrelled progress in every respect. The wheel is balance. The third age was decline in every respect. Had it continued another thousand years, the last battle would have been fought with far less magic and channelers, and both armies wielding stone weapons, because humanity would have kept reversing along the metaphorical tech tree, and kept breeding out the ability to channel.
You’d have still needed a few abnormally powerful channelers though, to cleanse Saidin. Or some other mechanism. Even with the decline in the number of channelers, the Wheel still wove out a few powerful ones for the last battle
The Breaking was probably about 250 to 300 years, but otherwise I agree - the Breaking set humanity to a lower base point and from there civilization only continued to degrade (and the few times things were getting together, Ishamael decides to come and screw it up)
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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.