Cha Faile
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Cha Faile
@TwoMovement
Wheel of Time refugee. Eager about the Dresden Files show. We have Toe.
The Slog Katılım Ağustos 2019
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I greatly appreciate Sanderson finishing The Wheel of Time, and he did better than anyone alive could have, but he cannot operate this world without Jordan's notes.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Brandon Sanderson shuts the door permanently on returning to the Wheel of Time, and uses a Lord of the Rings metaphor to explain why. "I am not Frodo, I was Sam. I carried the ring for a time when Frodo couldn't, but then I needed to give the ring back because it was not my duty, my burden, or my task to continue holding it." Did Sanderson make the right call letting this world end, or did fans deserve more?
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The well is dry. Time for Light No Fire.
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@Amys_theWise_1 I think I remember entire artifacts disappearing at the Panarch's palace with the arm thick weave from that rod, but your explanation works for that too. Fixtures/buildings sit on the land and are more permanent:
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@TwoMovement It's the issue of permanance in the Pattern, as solids have stability of presence & organics do not. Thus, balefire is easy against permanant fixtures. Think structural foundation. Organics? threads inside the foundational structure. The whole thread is burned, not foundation.
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Help Wheel of Time nerds: When balefire hits a person or an object, the whole person or object is ripped from the Pattern. When it hits a pillar or wall, it leaves a hole the size of the balefire stream. Why doesn't it eliminate the entire wall or pillars or even the building?
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@ChareenSeiaDoon Point taken but I think Mashadar might be as plural as it is singular.
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@whiskeyandmagic That makes more sense because it's different materials. But why would a stone cup and a stone pillar be treated differently?
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@TwoMovement Kind of like how if you open a gateway in the same spot as another gateway it just moves over and opens next to it. But if you open a gateway next to a wall it just slices through the wall as it opens.
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@whiskeyandmagic I figured they were different ways of saying the same thing. I can't think of a circumstance where balefire has hit a being or personal property and not eliminated the entire thing.
As a lawyer, I like to think balefire is capable of distinguishing real property, incl. fixtures.
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@TwoMovement It might just be the mechanics of the weave. When Moiraine weaves it it's a bar of basically white hot lava. One of the Forsaken weave it like a wave of white hot fire. Other places say flash of white fire bright as day. Maybe that makes the difference. Just thinking.
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@ChareenSeiaDoon I know the building of which you speak and assume it was just a really, really big stream. I don't remember a person who is only partially destroyed by balefire but am fine with spoilers as I'm on reread 4.
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@TwoMovement Dont think its ever explained but it does destroy an entire building in its entirety once and 1 creature (entity?) survives a balefire blast.
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@TwoMovement Portal Stones predate the Age of Legends so they either were created or discovered during the 1st Age, which is where channeling was discovered. At the end of this Age we advance enough to have a nuclear war then out of necessity we find the Power/Stones, which --> the 2nd Age.
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@whiskeyandmagic I guess it's possible there's channeling later in the First Age, but that doesn't seem like it belongs in the First Age. You wouldn't need interplanetary travel though. The portal stones simply wouldn't exist in 2026 in the First Age.
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@TwoMovement From what I understand we are in the First Age, you and me. So somewhere at the end of this age someone discovers the One Power and channels for the first time. But if we are already traveling to moons in this Age, it seems like it would be normal in the Second Age, too.
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Just thank God it isn't Amazon. I will never forgive them for the Wheel of Time.
Dexerto@Dexerto
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@whiskeyandmagic Moggy was Second Age, right? I wouldn't be surprised if Second Age people were interplanetary but I would be surprised if channeling happened in the First Age. Seems like the sort of thing that would start a new age.
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@TwoMovement Moghedien mentions Traveling to other planets/worlds so likely channeling was discovered or rediscovered in the First Age and Portal Stones made their way to Earth then. The first channelers either created them or figured out how to utilize the One Power to make them work.
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@WhitecloaksO I think we'd notice and comment on super old stones with symbols on them. They'd probably throw off our views on the development of mankind.
However, it is possible that the stones all happen to be deep underwater at the moment. We wouldn't necessarily know about them then.
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You are mostly correct. That's what the last part of my post was about.
But in defense of the theory: You're thinking finitely.
There is no 0th age. There is some other cycle's 5th (or 6th or 7th) age.
If the age we're witnessing in the book is the 3rd age of the 100th cycle, the portal stones were made in the equivalent of the 2nd (or 4th) age in the 995th cycle.
As far as where they are now? IDK, there's a shit ton of random ass rocks vaguely in the shape of pillars hanging about. If you can't channel, they're just some rocks with some weird symbols.
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@TamAlThor3 Oh no I meant how did First Age/modern day Earth people that built the portal stones use them without the power? I found it puzzling that they were created before the Age of Legends in a pre-Power age.
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@TwoMovement Some still possess the knowledge. Ogier? Aes Sedai? While presumed "lost", I'm sure there are some. Probably Dark Friends and Forsaken. But, there are most likely others. And very likely, they don't know what the knowledge they possess can do...
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@WhitecloaksO I think it's just a mistake. RJ knew the First Age was now and the Second Age was the Age of Legends in Eye of the World. And if they were made in a negative/0th age, where are they now?
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In universe answer: Portal Stones weren't made in the First Age. They were made "before the second age".
Some dude a bunch of cycles ago made them and they've just happened to live through a bunch of ages and cycles unlike most other things.
Actual answer: the world building wasn't done in TGH
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