The Wheel
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1st Age - Age before the Age of Legends 2nd Age - The Age of Legends 3rd Age - Rand's story takes place 4th Age - Several stories, songs, and marginally accurate accounts of Rand are written 5th Age - Fades into myth 6th Age - Fades into legend 7th Age - We guess this one is ours! So why on earth would we think that we are in the 7th Age when everyone else seems to agree that we are actually in the 1st Age? Well, first of all, just because every one agrees on something doesn't make it so. And second, we've come across some rather convincing ideas that, at the very least, make a good argument for the 7th Age Theory. There are many clues throughout the books that hint our own Age was not far behind the Age of Ledgends. (We hope you will excuse our generalizations as we do not currently have a copy of the books with us, but items cited here will be shortly updated with concrete quotes.) Thom mentions that the oldest stories, to his knowledge, come from the Age before the Age of Ledgends. These stories have vague references to long range weapons that can be interpreted as missles. Some connect the names in these stories with the name of presently exisiting countries like America. Looking into the 3rd Age's past, however, only provides half of the story. As the wheel is round, it makes sense that things occuring in WOT would also appear, if slightly skewed, in our ledgends and myths! There are Odin's ravens, named Thought and Memory. Matt's spear is carved with two Ravens, and the cryptic message inscribed there mentions both thought and memory. Odin also lost an eye in the persuit of knowledge. We've yet to see what giving up half of the light means, but it is quite likely also the loss of an eye. There is our King Arther ledgend, and the pulling of the sword from the stone to name him king. ( More examples are to come as this theory is not yet complete! ) If there are still traces of what occured in the 3rd age in our history, then we cannot be just about to come upon it again! It is much more likely that we are on opposite sides of the wheel, each with vague memories of eachother. Let's also remember that, when the bore was created, no one remembered that the Dark One existed! While we are certainly on the road to forgetting, we are still too aware of a possible presence. More to come! |