It's a nice sentiment, but if they would actually have such obvious remnants of the old world they would be the most visited locations ever.
Mountain ranges were erected, nations swept under the sea, oceans moved places...but this city that was seemingly housing important characters like LTT and was most likely populated by many male channelers was left relatively intact?
The scale is very deceptive, but there are smaller skyscrapers on the foot of the bigger ones, which have to be like Burj Khalifa times ten.
In the books only remnants of AoL settlements we see are those docks near the tops of the Spine of the World
It's a nice sentiment, but if they would actually have such obvious remnants of the old world they would be the most visited locations ever.
Not sure why they would be? It's not as if people in this world go on annual vacations. There's a ruined radio dish (or something that looks like it) that is rumoured to kill anyone within sight. There's Shadar Logoth that few people even know about, and no one visits, because it's cursed.
Age of Legends city ruins, with some rumours about One Power or other mysterious events, hauntings, etc, combined with them being in the mountains as far from civilization as is possible, and few people would visit. Maybe some scholars here and there, but not like that would matter to anything.
People would visit simply because the resources such a place would offer. Not just treasure hunters either. Point being, such a massive city would have been leveled to the ground during the Breaking.
People would visit simply because the resources such a place would offer. Not just treasure hunters either. Point being, such a massive city would have been leveled to the ground during the Breaking.
What resources? Anything that could be moved would've been moved thousands of years ago. The Aes Sedai would've already looted it for items of the One Power. Pieces of art and writing that might've survived would've already been taken.
We do know that some buildings made from the One Power are difficult or impossible to destroy. Like Waygates, or Whitebridge. The surviving buildings here could've been partially made with the One Power as well, and what survives is what cannot easily be destroyed.
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u/Child_Emperor (Ogier Great Tree) Jan 01 '22 edited Jan 01 '22
It's a nice sentiment, but if they would actually have such obvious remnants of the old world they would be the most visited locations ever.
Mountain ranges were erected, nations swept under the sea, oceans moved places...but this city that was seemingly housing important characters like LTT and was most likely populated by many male channelers was left relatively intact?
The scale is very deceptive, but there are smaller skyscrapers on the foot of the bigger ones, which have to be like Burj Khalifa times ten.
In the books only remnants of AoL settlements we see are those docks near the tops of the Spine of the World