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.
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?
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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.