Subject: Re: [FFML] [Teaser][SM/WoT] The Dragon And The Moon
From: Nightman
Date: 9/21/1998, 10:07 PM
To: "Ranma Al'Thor" <ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
CC: ffml@fanfic.com

Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

will likely be ripped up and plunged into darkness & chaos again,
yaddayaddayadda. Surely some of the extant world will survive -- my

Didn't happen last time and the civilization of the Second Age was far
more developed and integrated than that of the Third Age.  Depending on
how lucky the Dark One is, I wouldn't be surprised if civilization totally
crumbled.

Actually, I think a more developed and integrated society is MORE
vulnerable to collapse. And we *don't* know for absolute certainty that
no small cities or villages survived that period and then vanished in
subsequent centuries. There's so much history lost that it *could* have
happened that way. I'm just saying that I don't think you should take
such a sweeping generality and apply it as a standard.

Anyway, as I figure it, the Age of Legends ended with a lot of
civilization still in place, when the Bore was sealed.  The Breaking
occurred at the beginning of the new cycle, at the hands of the mad Aes
Sedai. If the 117 most powerful guys hadn't been struck mad immediately,
there might have been a real chance for the cataclysm to be staved off. 

I believe the manga posits that the Earth freezes over in the interval
between Stars and Crystal Tokyo.

Well, at Anime North Andrea Doolan was talking about this. Apparently
the whole big freeze is an anime only invention and *does not* happen in
the manga. Which explains how the final manga could end the way it did
(sort of anticlimactially) -- if you exclude the deep freeze thing,
there wasn't anything left undone and the story could conclude. I don't
have the R manga myself, but she seemed a very credible person to me. 

Nightman