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It doesn't have to be logical... scooter Send a noteboard - 20/08/2010 11:50:17 PM
It's a fictional story about a place that never existed where people use magic. RJ didn't have to give us the 'rules' that he did about how his system works, but I suppose it was important to him to sketch a general outline for folks. Now people want to test his work against rigorous rules of scientific and logical reasoning? As if it HAS to make perfect sense or something to be any good?

I think what he gave us is plenty enough of explanation. Society was fragmented, channelers even more so. There was literally a THOUSAND years of everybody doing anything they could to survive until the next day! It didn't leave a lot of time for school. I find it completely believable that all sorts of knowledge would be lost during that time.

There is virtually nothing left from the Age of Legends, nothing. No books, no machines, no government. Only scraps and bits of information were ever found. Oral history was the only means of passing information on to later generations, and that was sketchy at best as we've seen. Not a single book was ever found in its entirety, only pieces of manuscripts and parts of pages. Even if there were entire libraries filled with nothing but books about the Power and various weaves, none would have survived any better than any other library. And considering that we've been given glimpses of the AoL which show that books were probably stored in some way similar to what we would call 'electronically' (re: Ebou Dar ter'angreal cache), the mechanism to reach this information would be lost.

I have no problem with this aspect of the story at all. It wouldn't have been the same story otherwise, and I'm very happy with it the way it is now.
Scooter

Slave to Detail...Damned Purist
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How were all these amazing weaves 'lost' ? - 20/08/2010 04:33:43 AM 1626 Views
Ishamael may have had a hand in that... - 20/08/2010 04:45:39 AM 999 Views
Agreed. - 20/08/2010 10:01:37 AM 900 Views
Lost Weaves - 20/08/2010 01:43:25 PM 966 Views
Re: Lost Weaves *NM* - 20/08/2010 01:45:30 PM 485 Views
Not logical - 20/08/2010 01:50:32 PM 963 Views
Re: Not logical - 20/08/2010 03:22:04 PM 795 Views
All I'm saying, is that Travelling would STILL be a very usefull survival tool during the Breaking.. - 20/08/2010 03:44:59 PM 920 Views
All good points also. - 20/08/2010 03:48:49 PM 1262 Views
Re: Not logical - 20/08/2010 03:45:55 PM 754 Views
Re: Not logical - 21/08/2010 04:20:41 AM 680 Views
you may have hit onto something with your last statement - 21/08/2010 05:06:59 PM 774 Views
Re: you may have hit onto something with your last statement - 23/08/2010 05:09:06 PM 688 Views
I don't think that creating cuendillar and 'angreals was common knowledge. - 20/08/2010 05:06:20 PM 785 Views
The need to learn a location to travel - 20/08/2010 05:58:48 PM 729 Views
They could use Rand's trick from TGS. - 21/08/2010 01:06:33 AM 691 Views
My only theory... - 20/08/2010 06:02:14 PM 732 Views
The Strongest Died seems like a pretty valid theory to me... - 20/08/2010 06:14:29 PM 889 Views
Maybe Aes Sedai treated weaves like Intellectual Property - 20/08/2010 09:49:12 PM 718 Views
Trademark? Patent? Or Copyright? =P *NM* - 20/08/2010 10:19:36 PM 327 Views
It doesn't have to be logical... - 20/08/2010 11:50:17 PM 859 Views
Idea? - 21/08/2010 12:47:52 AM 648 Views
But they weren't too weak - 21/08/2010 02:48:43 AM 724 Views
That's because most of the major people in WoT are powerful channelers. - 21/08/2010 04:13:04 AM 723 Views
How can you "write a weave down"? - 21/08/2010 04:54:28 PM 769 Views
How did Moiraine learn balefire then? *NM* - 21/08/2010 05:04:27 PM 1009 Views
figured it out on her own, don't forget that Nyn used it too against the Fades in TDR. *NM* - 21/08/2010 05:12:15 PM 361 Views
That's a stretch - Moiraine never demonstrated any creative talent with the OP... - 21/08/2010 06:15:01 PM 710 Views
OK, I'll buy Vandene teaching it, but not learning it from a written description *NM* - 21/08/2010 06:35:46 PM 365 Views
I myself can't buy Vandene teaching that weave to any Sister - 24/08/2010 04:06:26 PM 741 Views
Me neither... - 24/08/2010 05:50:24 PM 783 Views
Mispost.. *NM* - 25/08/2010 02:51:02 PM 426 Views
I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP - 24/08/2010 03:31:06 PM 732 Views
Re: I disagree - Moiraine's wilder tricks show that she is quite creative with the OP - 24/08/2010 05:32:11 PM 1060 Views
But... - 24/08/2010 06:40:39 PM 699 Views
When did she use that? *NM* - 25/08/2010 09:34:31 AM 346 Views
We know of her trick with stones and light from 'New Spring' IIRC - 25/08/2010 02:40:26 PM 864 Views
Elayne did use Moiraine's coin trick. - 25/08/2010 06:09:27 PM 828 Views
Likely from Vandene - 21/08/2010 05:58:31 PM 1067 Views
Something no one else is mentioning... that I saw... - 21/08/2010 07:15:49 PM 827 Views
one thing i've noticed - 23/08/2010 06:37:48 PM 738 Views
Simple: none were necessary for survival in Stone Age barbarism. - 23/08/2010 09:12:40 PM 725 Views

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