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.
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?
Deep cut Wheel of Time nerd question: in the Fired of Heaven, Min notes that her reading re: Siuan and Bryne staying together is only her second conditional reading. What was her first?
@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:
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?
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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?