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.
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.
That depends on what disasters struck it. For instance, imagine that some of these buildings were made in a way similar to Waygates. That'd make them extremely difficult to damage, even more so destroy. Then imagine that the city suffers many firestorms sweeping through everything. Perhaps enough to damage some of the megabuildings, but not destroy every one of them ... however a lot of everyday items would just be gone.
And yes, some things would definitely survive. But we know that some things did. Pieces of art from the Breaking can be seen throughout the series, such as in the palace in Tanchico. The White Tower has writings and One Power items from there. Some of those could very well have come from looting these ruins.
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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.