Post by Tony on Apr 25, 2004 12:22:07 GMT -5
I thought this was interesting. It is found on page 372 in the soft cover edition of Fires of Heaven.
High on the other side, so far up that he was not sure he was seeing what he thought, just below the snow line, stood something even stranger. Something that made the first monument of a few thousand years a commonplace. He could have sworn it was the remnants of shattered buildings, shining grey against the darker mountain, and stranger still, what appered to be a dock of the same material, as for ships, slanting drunkenly down the mountain. If he was not imagening it, that had to date back to before the Breaking. The face of the world had been changed utterly in those years. This could have been an ocean's floor, before. He would have to ask Asmodean. Even if he had had the time, he did not think he would want to try reaching that altitude to find out for himself.
Then when Rand asks Asmodean on page 384 mid-paragraph on the second to the last paragraph,
"What do yo know about those ruins up near the snow line? They must come from the Age of Legends."
Asmodean did not even glance at the mountain. "This world is very changed from the world I . . . went to sleep in." He sounded weary, and he shivered slightly. "What I know of what lies where, I have learned since waking." The mournful sounds of "The March of Death" rose from his harp. "That could be what is left of the city where I was born, for all I know. Shorelle was a port."
I find that very interesting.
High on the other side, so far up that he was not sure he was seeing what he thought, just below the snow line, stood something even stranger. Something that made the first monument of a few thousand years a commonplace. He could have sworn it was the remnants of shattered buildings, shining grey against the darker mountain, and stranger still, what appered to be a dock of the same material, as for ships, slanting drunkenly down the mountain. If he was not imagening it, that had to date back to before the Breaking. The face of the world had been changed utterly in those years. This could have been an ocean's floor, before. He would have to ask Asmodean. Even if he had had the time, he did not think he would want to try reaching that altitude to find out for himself.
Then when Rand asks Asmodean on page 384 mid-paragraph on the second to the last paragraph,
"What do yo know about those ruins up near the snow line? They must come from the Age of Legends."
Asmodean did not even glance at the mountain. "This world is very changed from the world I . . . went to sleep in." He sounded weary, and he shivered slightly. "What I know of what lies where, I have learned since waking." The mournful sounds of "The March of Death" rose from his harp. "That could be what is left of the city where I was born, for all I know. Shorelle was a port."
I find that very interesting.
