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These are fantastic maps, thanks! I hope the show's interest inspires some more high quality ones like we got for Game of Thrones.
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It makes sense if Jordan was strong armed into it. "Fine, here, here's your stupid map." "It's boring though" "You didn't specify you wanted it interesting!"
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Dec 8, 2021 00:26
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Omnomnomnivore posted:I like WoT but I've always found the "big rectangle" map to be a little lazy. You can use the breaking to hand-wave it, I guess. Some ancient mad male Aes Sedai was trying to draw a map and went "This would be so much easier if the lines on the edge were straight..."
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Dec 8, 2021 00:27
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Always convenient when your fantasy world happens to be the exact aspect ratio of a legal pad.
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Dec 8, 2021 00:29
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I kind of like the image of some guy standing on air* a hundred miles up, trying to get an overview, spending years going around moving this mountain five feet to the right, dragging this coastline out, sinking this city full of ten million innocents because it doesn't match my artistic vision Light burn it! (*yes I know you can't do this with the power)
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Dec 8, 2021 00:30
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He should've just gotten an atlas and draw random squiggles all over it and handed those in as the maps imo.
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Dec 8, 2021 00:31
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Oh and one thing that's in the behind the scenes feature where that map comes from there's a board with the various national designs on it and Seanchen is one of them. Heck yesss The map probably wouldn't have a separate area marked for Falme/Toman Head if we weren't going there.
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Dec 8, 2021 00:53
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:(*yes I know you can't do this with the power) Yes, but you could open a Gateway in the air a hundred miles up and get a view (let's just ignore the pressure differential, since the book Gateways do the same thing).
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Dec 8, 2021 01:31
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Aaaaah I really don't like that bit. It's so ratfic.
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Dec 8, 2021 01:32
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Also someone ELSE can hold you up with air. Also did anyone in the books try and like, stand on a door and then lift the door?
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Dec 8, 2021 01:42
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In the AoL they still had actual flying cars when the breaking started, so it's not like your crazy mapmaker would need to contrive himself a ride.
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Dec 8, 2021 01:46
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I still find it weird that the AoL had insane magitech up to and including a literal flying research city but the weapons they fight with are largely the Power and ...swords because fencing was the big sport I guess.
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Dec 8, 2021 01:51
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Swords weren't the main thing they used, they were toys for rich people, basically. Soldiers used whatever a Shocklance is.
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Dec 8, 2021 01:54
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This owns, love to see cast members convert to being readers but it's even better to see degenerate lifer fans like us in the cast.
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Dec 8, 2021 01:56
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Gwaihir posted:Swords weren't the main thing they used, they were toys for rich people, basically. Soldiers used whatever a Shocklance is. Probably some sort of ion gun.
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Dec 8, 2021 02:00
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CainFortea posted:Also someone ELSE can hold you up with air. More than that; Elayne channeled her own platform of Air when she did the tightrope trick to join the circus.
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Dec 8, 2021 02:06
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rocketrobot posted:Probably some sort of ion gun. Yeah there was like a 200 year leadup between the breaching of the Sharom and the War of Power. People went from "wait, swords are weapons?" to laser cannon type poo poo etc.
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Dec 8, 2021 02:16
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I assumed that the tightrope act was more like building a structure out of air that could support her. She still had to climb up there herself.
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Dec 8, 2021 02:19
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CainFortea posted:Also someone ELSE can hold you up with air. I think they did this to Egwene for one of her amyrlin speeches.
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Dec 8, 2021 02:19
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There you go flying is just a tandem activity now
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Dec 8, 2021 02:21
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aparmenideanmonad posted:This owns, love to see cast members convert to being readers but it's even better to see degenerate lifer fans like us in the cast. Hell yeah, go Uno.
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Dec 8, 2021 02:21
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withak posted:I assumed that the tightrope act was more like building a structure out of air that could support her. She still had to climb up there herself. Yeah, Rand builds a staircase/platform he can walk on at one point. Had some weird rules to it to, like one inch over a certain length and the whole thing collapsed. You can support your own weight, but movement and getting there is a separate thing. rocketrobot posted:Probably some sort of ion gun. At some point one of the Forsaken talks about them like they had different settings and one of them could stun people, so I always assumed just a giant tazer/lightning gun. Gully Foyle posted:Yes, but you could open a Gateway in the air a hundred miles up and get a view (let's just ignore the pressure differential, since the book Gateways do the same thing). Shield of air over the gateway, and you could just ignore the pressure differential. One of the Aes Sedai even says she can or actually does that to prevent people from seeing it.
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Dec 8, 2021 02:27
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Jedit posted:More than that; Elayne channeled her own platform of Air when she did the tightrope trick to join the circus. Rand also made his own (st)aircase over the water when he went to Bargain with the Sea Folk.
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Dec 8, 2021 02:38
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Just want to say again that I’m beyond hyped that this show is actually happening. They can change as much as they want as long as when we get to the episode titled Tarman Gai’don I’m just as crazy excited as I was when I got to that chapter in the books. And how many episodes do we think Tarman Gai’don will take? 3… maybe 4?
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Dec 8, 2021 03:05
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th3t00t posted:Just want to say again that I’m beyond hyped that this show is actually happening. They can change as much as they want as long as when we get to the episode titled Tarman Gai’don I’m just as crazy excited as I was when I got to that chapter in the books. It was called The Last Battle.
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Dec 8, 2021 03:10
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th3t00t posted:Just want to say again that I’m beyond hyped that this show is actually happening. They can change as much as they want as long as when we get to the episode titled Tarman Gai’don I’m just as crazy excited as I was when I got to that chapter in the books. I bet they will make it the entire final season, with adding a bunch of stuff that was in the background to it.
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Dec 8, 2021 03:19
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Gwaihir posted:Swords weren't the main thing they used, they were toys for rich people, basically. Soldiers used whatever a Shocklance is. Makes you wonder what the Dark used. Sounds like you had Trollocs in modern battle armor packing heat!
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Dec 8, 2021 03:27
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jng2058 posted:Makes you wonder what the Dark used. Sounds like you had Trollocs in modern battle armor packing heat! Probably just swords and stuff after too many dumb trollocs mowed down their squad because haha pewpewpew haha
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Dec 8, 2021 03:49
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jng2058 posted:Makes you wonder what the Dark used. Sounds like you had Trollocs in modern battle armor packing heat! For some reason I just always pictured it as the shadow using Trollocs as purely human wave troops, a literal "clog their guns with our bodies" type deal. Realistically there had to be people on the shadow's side using the same arms the light did, otherwise the war would have been pretty short. That, and at first trollocs didn't exist. It was purely human vs human until Aginor got his experiments to work.
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Dec 8, 2021 03:51
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Omnomnomnivore posted:I like WoT but I've always found the "big rectangle" map to be a little lazy. You can use the breaking to hand-wave it, I guess. It's probably the worst map of any major franchise I can think of, just totally phoned in. It's kind of funny for a series with so much worldbuilding.
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Dec 8, 2021 03:53
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Sinteres posted:It's probably the worst map of any major franchise I can think of, just totally phoned in. It's kind of funny for a series with so much worldbuilding. ahem, westeros, essos, sothryos, planetos
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Dec 8, 2021 03:55
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Barreft posted:ahem, westeros, essos, sothryos, planetos Those are awful names, but the actual landmass of Westeros at least is way more aesthetically a map than WoT's thumb map.
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Sinteres posted:Those are awful names, but the actual landmass of Westeros at least is way more aesthetically a map than WoT's thumb map. I was responding to the totally phoned in, which is exactly what Westeros is.
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Dec 8, 2021 04:09
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isn't westeros just barely-altered great britain
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eke out posted:isn't westeros just barely-altered great britain Yes. It's England piled on top of upside down Ireland. EDIT: the Wall is just Hadrian's Wall.
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eke out posted:isn't westeros just barely-altered great britain 
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i'm listening to the audiobooks again and just got past egwene's testing, and she comes out screaming is there all there is for me, abandoning him and betraying him over and over again? no. it's not. 
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I just want more Logain. He, Nynaeve and Moiraine are by far the stars of the show so far imo I want to say Mat as well, but we're losing him so. :/
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Dec 8, 2021 04:20
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Reading a Crown of Swords and I'm getting tired of new Aes Sedai showing up and just being like " Obviously my way is the right way". Also Rand and Min finally hook up , just got to that part.
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Barreft posted:I just want more Logain. He, Nynaeve and Moiraine are by far the stars of the show so far imo Thom, too.
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