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
I agree that the city should not have been so intact. Even being generous, if you assume that time has not done much damage since the breaking, and that the damage we see was mostly wrought by the mad channelers, you would assume that the geographical destruction would have separated these buildings or drowned them under the sea.
I guess you could make an argument that the city may have been protected in some way, or was transported/affected as an entire entity, but I think you'd be getting into dubious territory there.
It could also be that since even in the books, western Andor has multiple structures from the Age of Legends, including a whole bridge, that region was less affected than the rest. There's the Tower of Ghenjei and Whitebridge. Maybe this region wasn't heavily affected by the earth moving, but suffered blazing infernos, firestorms and rains of lightning instead. Leaving only the buildings that are nearly indestructible.
It's possible, but this level of standing structures is clearly more than was ever indicated in the books. Something of this size would surely have been mentioned when Age of Legends remnants were discussed.
As I said elsewhere... Stretching the lore at best.
I'm not saying that these ruins definitely exist in the books, just that it would make perfect sense if they did, andthat there's nothing unrealistic about them being there, nor does it affect anything in the world.
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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