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Gnoman posted:Most of that 100k army was explicitly locally recruited troops. That's how the local Great Captain was able to do as much damage as he did - he disguised his forces as local Seanchan formations. Found this as a kinda sourced article: http://13depository.blogspot.com/20...20and%20Altara.
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Well this Seeker questioning Bethamin is shady as gently caress
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Feb 17, 2022 02:28
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goethe.cx posted:Well this Seeker questioning Bethamin is shady as gently caress He really really is.
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Gnoman posted:The way the Seanchan fleet is described makes it seem huge, but not insanely so. The colonists are probably in the thousands, not tens or hundreds of thousands, which is still a really, really big settlement wave. Most of the initial colonization of the Americas was with groups of around 100-200, and there were about 150,000 convicts transported to Australia in the century or so the system was set up. Ebou Dar was filled to bursting with them unloading colonists, and that was with a continuous stream of them having already left the city. There's no way there were just a few thousand colonists.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Ebou Dar was filled to bursting with them unloading colonists, and that was with a continuous stream of them having already left the city. There's no way there were just a few thousand colonists. Supposedly the Forerunners(Turok, then Suroth) were 500 ships. The actual Return(Galgan) was thousands of ships, they had been gearing up for years. The link I posted has RJ's notes saying they could do 1000 people a ship.
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Jaxyon posted:Supposedly the Forerunners(Turok, then Suroth) were 500 ships. A thousand passengers. Plus 200-300 crew.
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Feb 17, 2022 17:23
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My rear end said that sounded high, but apparently there were ships with that capicity in the 1500s.
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Feb 17, 2022 23:11
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Well, hell. That puts my napkin math way short - I was basing it on the famous colony ships that were apparently an order of magnitude smaller.
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https://www.tor.com/2022/02/09/the-wheel-of-time-from-a-geological-perspective/ Neat article from a geologist about the geology of Randland
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goethe.cx posted:https://www.tor.com/2022/02/09/the-wheel-of-time-from-a-geological-perspective/ This is awesome
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Fascinating read!
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Feb 18, 2022 01:35
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So Rand is in Far Madding stalking Rochaid when this happens: “Suddenly a wave of dizziness hit him, a murky face filling his vision for an instant, and he staggered against a passerby.” It’s happened once before this point where he gets dizzy and sees a face Is this him starting to merge with Moridin from crossing the streams?
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Hexel posted:So Rand is in Far Madding stalking Rochaid when this happens: Yep!
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Hexel posted:So Rand is in Far Madding stalking Rochaid when this happens: Its either that or the earliest we see Rand/Mat/Perrin starting to get visions of each other.
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Zore posted:Its either that or the earliest we see Rand/Mat/Perrin starting to get visions of each other. Nah they’ve been doing that for a couple books now, I’m in Winter’s Heart, this dizziness with the murky face is separate and distinct from the swirling colors Rand/Mat/Perrin shiz
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“And later still, Moridin had said, “Kill him if you must, but above all, bring everything in his possession to me. That will redeem your previous transgressions.” The man said he “one of the Chosen, and no one was mad enough to make that claim unless it was true, yet he seemed to think al’Thor’s belongings more important than his death, the killing incidental and not really necessary.” What does Moridin want with Rand’s belongings? The Choedan Kal access keys?
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Feb 18, 2022 02:54
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Hexel posted:“And later still, Moridin had said, “Kill him if you must, but above all, bring everything in his possession to me. That will redeem your previous transgressions.” The man said he “one of the Chosen, and no one was mad enough to make that claim unless it was true, yet he seemed to think al’Thor’s belongings more important than his death, the killing incidental and not really necessary.” The seals to the Dark One’s prison?
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Hexel posted:“And later still, Moridin had said, “Kill him if you must, but above all, bring everything in his possession to me. That will redeem your previous transgressions.” The man said he “one of the Chosen, and no one was mad enough to make that claim unless it was true, yet he seemed to think al’Thor’s belongings more important than his death, the killing incidental and not really necessary.” Seals, I think, they all thought he had the seals or someone near to him did.
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Feb 18, 2022 02:56
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Man nobody has mentioned the seals since Moiraine. I can’t even remember how many he has. Isn’t it like 3-4 with 3 seals broken and one missing?
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And who is this that’s sending Isam/Luc to try and kill Nynaeve and Lan? Demandred? “The pair sleeping in this room will sleep forever,” Luc said, “but the man was bald, the woman gray.” “A pity,” the man said, and the voice seemed to melt in Luc’s ears. He would not be able to recognize it if he heard it without the disguise. The man had to be one of the Chosen. Few save the Chosen knew how to reach him”
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Hexel posted:Man nobody has mentioned the seals since Moiraine. I can’t even remember how many he has. Isn’t it like 3-4 with 3 seals broken and one missing? 4 seals broken - 1 from the Eye - 2 from Falme (one the Seanchan guy had originally, one the Seanchan took from Domon) - 1 Nynaeve + crew found in Tanchico, originally intact but broken by the time they got to Salidar 3 unbroken - 1 found in the Tear storehouse by Moiraine - 1 found in Rhuidean after Rand's battle with Asmodean - 1 given to Rand by Taim It is interesting - the seals feel like such a major plot point early on, but all 7 are accounted for by the start of book 6.
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Hexel posted:
Those and also the Seals, probably.
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Hexel posted:And who is this that’s sending Isam/Luc to try and kill Nynaeve and Lan? Demandred? It’s Rand and Min. Luc mentions wanting to kill his “nephew and the wench.” Even if it were from Isam’s POV, Lan is Isam’s cousin. I’m assuming Demandred ordered it, because he also told Kisman to kill Rand.
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I found a family tree to sort me out  
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And that's why Rand was so worried until clearing up just how far that first horizontal line really goes.
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Hexel posted:I found a family tree to sort me out so the dotted line from the casilain to Trakand/Mantear is...1000 years of people
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:It was an Amazon X-Ray: "Moiraine utilized ter'angreal in her room to open a gateway to a hut in the the (sic) Fingers of the Dragon Delta, where she met with Siuan Sanche, the Amyrlin Seat". This is a great example of the show doing things badly, or at least in a way that makes no sense. Non book readers: "Magic painting, okey dokey" Book readers: "What the hell was THAT?" Then we get different answers on what the hell that was from the cast, the X-Ray, etc. It would have made a lot more sense to show Moiraine sitting down and closing her eyes, then whoosh into a dream world or something, than this out of nowhere physical teleporter gizmo. *grumble*
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Yea, they messed up that ter'angreal thing. I just assumed that they're doing away with the whole "going into t'a'r physically is PURE EVIL" from the books because it literally never comes to anything in the books at all ever. So why put it in?
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One of the VFX studios that worked on S1 shared a proof reel of some of the VFX sequences. At the end when the seanchan show up, the sul’dam start whipping the damane to make them channel. Obviously that didn’t make it into the final product but could that be the maximum gut punch reaction Rafe said they want in S2? Do yall think they’ll have women getting whipped in S2?  https://www.instagram.com/tv/CaDKVA5pFHV/?utm_medium=copy_link
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Hexel posted:One of the VFX studios that worked on S1 shared a proof reel of some of the VFX sequences. At the end when the seanchan show up, the sul’dam start whipping the damane to make them channel. Obviously that didn’t make it into the final product but could that be the maximum gut punch reaction Rafe said they want in S2? Do yall think they’ll have women getting whipped in S2? I suppose that because we can't see the mental impulses directing the damane to channel, that whips might be a good way to show how coercive the sul'dam/damane relationship is
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CainFortea posted:Yea, they messed up that ter'angreal thing. I just assumed that they're doing away with the whole "going into t'a'r physically is PURE EVIL" from the books because it literally never comes to anything in the books at all ever. So why put it in? Even if you wanted to explicitly keep that all you'd have to do is wait a few seasons and have a Wise One horrified to learn that a couple of Aes Sedai were physically entering t'a'r' for booty calls. It's not like anyone in the Tower knew much of the rules about dreaming at the start of the series.
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Another VFX company released a breakdown of their work on the Wheel of Time. It turns out the weaves of the one power in the show were originally supposed to be colored based on their element but somebody made a deliberate artistic decision to just have them all white  And the latest word on the street is don't expect S2 until Q2 2023. https://www.cinesite.com/the-wheel-of-time-2/ Hexel fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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I've been looking through the /r/WoT subreddit and there are some great posts. For example, somebody listening to the audiobooks who didn't realize that Domani and damane were different until book 11
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Man Crossroads of Twilight is a real slog. It's taking me forever to get through this. Just got to the part where Egwane is thinking Rand is compelling a bunch of sisters because they're working for him, but she seems to have forgotten about him being the most powerful ta'veren of the age???? Also why have they not sent a single sister to have a chat with him? It's been months since they've discovered traveling. I really don't care about any of the stuff going on in this book and I want to see the reaction to cleansing the male half.
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lmaoExcerpts from Mat's 4th Age Diary posted:1 June
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Is there any canonical reason why Far Madding is more uptight than any other Randland city? They got more protection than any other with their fake stedding ter’angreal yet they still got a million guards everywhere and are so suspicious of outsiders 
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Hexel posted:Is there any canonical reason why Far Madding is more uptight than any other Randland city? They got more protection than any other with their fake stedding ter’angreal yet they still got a million guards everywhere and are so suspicious of outsiders The ter'angreal remove the threat of violence from channelers, so they probably figured, why not remove the threat of violence from anyone at all if possible? I don't think that's spelled out, though.
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Hexel posted:Another VFX company released a breakdown of their work on the Wheel of Time. It turns out the weaves of the one power in the show were originally supposed to be colored based on their element but somebody made a deliberate artistic decision to just have them all white I KNEW IT. It was one of the most jarring graphical elements for me. Of *course* the streams have to have different colours.
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