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Great Rumbler... - Laser Link - 18th July 2004
Is that mountain in your sig Dragonmount? It looks strangely familiar...
Great Rumbler... - Great Rumbler - 19th July 2004
I don't think it is. I swiped it from some website a long time ago and then cropped it down some.
Here's the full image:
Great Rumbler... - Laser Link - 19th July 2004
Bummer. You still can't see the peak. It sill reminds me of this images, as if it's the same 3D model of Dragonmount, but a different viewpoint.
<img src="http://www.ashaman.net/images/tarvalon.jpg">
I don't think it is, but it does look kinda similar. What do you think?
Great Rumbler... - A Black Falcon - 19th July 2004
You're right, those are strangely similar, but not quite...
More importantly, that map is really cool!
Great Rumbler... - Dark Lord Neo - 19th July 2004
Dragonmount?
Great Rumbler... - A Black Falcon - 19th July 2004
WoT!
Great Rumbler... - OB1 - 19th July 2004
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Great Rumbler... - Great Rumbler - 19th July 2004
That pic you posted, LL, is pretty awesome. Although I think Tar Valon should be a bit bigger.
Great Rumbler... - Laser Link - 19th July 2004
Yeah, most of the CG WOT pics I've found aren't that great, but I love this one. It really fits the image I always had in my mind of how Tar Valon would look.
OB1, read the Wheel of Time (starting with book 1, The Eye of the World)! It's awesome! GR and ABF and Weltall and I can't all be wrong, can we?
Great Rumbler... - Great Rumbler - 20th July 2004
Quote:GR and ABF and Weltall and I can't all be wrong, can we?
Of course not.
Great Rumbler... - A Black Falcon - 20th July 2004
The problem with that Tar Valon, I'd say, is the towers... I'd think that the white tower would be way taller than the others, and I didn't remember reading that Tar Valon had a lot of tall spires... it might, though. Do you know? And yeah, the city seems a bit small, but if it's a medieval world that's possible because how big is the population anyway? The cities might not be THAT huge... still seems a bit small though.
The villages across the bridges definitely should be larger, though. And was the city that close to the Dragonmount?
Great Rumbler... - Laser Link - 20th July 2004
I think Tar Valon has a lot of spires, but none come even close to the White Tower, so this pic is a little wrong on that point. Some of those others are almost as tall as the White Tower in the pic.
<img src="http://www.nucleus.com/~dalen/maps/tarvalonmap.gif">
This is the map from The Great Hunt. The biggest thing I can find is that Dragonmount is too close, but it makes it more dramatic.
I always hoped the Asha'man would hollow out Dragonmount and make the Black Tower in there, because not only would it be so cool to have them live in a mountain, but it would really anger all those prissy Aes Sedai who treat Tar Valon like some sacred place, and it would be representative of how women are stronger in Water but men are stronger in Earth and Fire, and it would be like going full circle for LTT. And again, it would be so freaking cool to live inside a mountain, even though it is (probably) a volcano! But it looks like the Black Tower in Andor is becoming pretty permanent, and I have a feeling the Asha'man are not going to last too much longer anyway. Taim is driving them to their own civil war, and their only real purpose is for Tarmon Gai'don. I'm sure some will survive, but I think they will become Aes Sedai (like in the Age of Legends) or at least join with the Aes Sedai on some level and live in Tar Valon again. They will not be a completely seperate group composed entirely of male channellers opposed to Aes Sedai.
Great Rumbler... - Sacred Jellybean - 20th July 2004
Quote:GR and ABF and Weltall and I can't all be wrong, can we?
*tries to think of a counter-example*
*head explodes while trying to remember any other time that many posters in TC have agreed on something*
Great Rumbler... - EdenMaster - 20th July 2004
That's a good point. We're lucky if two of us agree. When three or more agree, the universe is liable to implode.
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Yep, there it goes.
Great Rumbler... - A Black Falcon - 21st July 2004
Hmm... Taim seems to have a lot of them on his side. And Rand doesn't seem to care much, which makes the outcome less predictable. And there are a LOT of them... if Taim stays in control I don't see them merging with the White Tower for sure. But he's got to go down at some point... :) Then things will hopefully change for the better for them. A merger with the White Tower is definitely the best goal.