Timeline for What is the "Breaking of the World" in "The Wheel of Time"?
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| Oct 8, 2017 at 2:33 | comment | added | Andrew Hows | Fair enough. I sort of put Myrdraal and trollocs into the natural hazard category, when they're not directed by the shadow. The ancestors of the Aiel seemed to have more issues with other humans being dicks than they did with shadowspawn. | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 1:42 | comment | added | gowenfawr | @AndrewHows in The Shadow Rising, Adan son of Jonai son of Coumin is told by Ogier that 'in the north' "The Blighted Lands have grown southward, and there are Myrddraal and Trollocs." Adan's wife has grey hair and he has young children, so let's say he's in his 30s. And his grandfather Coumin was young when the Companions sealed the Bore. So the forces of the Dark One were enough of a problem to remark upon three generations into the Breaking. | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 1:24 | comment | added | gowenfawr | @AndrewHows, my recollection was that the trollocs and dreadlords remained problems after the Forsaken were imprisoned, but perhaps I was thinking forward to the Trolloc Wars rather than the Breaking... so, good point, not sure. | |
| Oct 6, 2017 at 7:35 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | . . . dogs and cats living together . . . | |
| Oct 6, 2017 at 7:21 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | Also the weather was completely out of whack, you never knew if you'd need to bring a light jacket or a warm one. | |
| Oct 6, 2017 at 2:28 | comment | added | user31178 | And death. Lots of death. | |
| Oct 6, 2017 at 1:07 | comment | added | Andrew Hows | Not sure about point 4. If you're going by the notion of "evil" in the books (related to the Dark One and his servants) the Actual Evil happened during the War of Power, being perpetrated by the Forsaken. Imprisoning the Forsaken in the bore marked the end of the War of Power, and the start of the Breaking - but events during the breaking were caused by insanity, and peoples' inherent evil, rather than the supernatural evil of the Dark One and his forces. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 19:53 | vote | accept | Bojan | ||
| Oct 5, 2017 at 19:26 | comment | added | JMac | Also worth noting that along with that came extreme regression of knowledge. They lost countless technologies and knowledge of both the One Power, and of many feats in general. The more you read, the more references to the Age of Legends you find; that aren't understood by people in the current age. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 16:08 | history | answered | gowenfawr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |