[SG Faire: The Ogier] WoT Architecture?

[Loreina]

As Ogier, we also take great interest in building. Have you ever seen a building in real that made you go "Hey! That looks like the White Tower!" or "Wow! That's just how I pictured the bridge in _______ in WoT!" ?

 

Well, here's your opportunity to share that with the rest of us. I'm starting with the CN tower in Canada. When I think of the White Tower, what I see is very similar to it.

 

 

 

How about you?

[Loreina]

*lolz* Clearly, we have no architecture fans here...

 

How about engineering? The Sunshine Skyway Bridge looks like it could have been built by Ogier, as does the Millau Viaduct, awesome soaring structures that they are. Millau

 

 

Or do you favor a more ornate style like the Rialto Bridge for an Ogier-built bridge?

 

WoT Bridge

[Moon Sedai]

 

This is at Rice university in Houston, Texas.

To me, it looks like the Great Library of Cairhein, or perhaps any number of WoT Libraries.

[Red2111]

i'm more of a nature landscape person rather than man made archutecture person.

 

 

 

 

the above are pics of Mt.Washington in Oregon (not my pics, i've never been) and is what i picture Dragonmount to look like.

[Loreina]

Oooo, yes, that does look like a WoT Library, Ahmoondah!

 

 

Ah, Red, I love that picture! It does look like it could be Dragonmount. I have never visualized the whole mountain before. When I read about it, it appears to me as isolated places on the mountain, some mostly barren, some even glassy in places, like the volcanic craters of Hawaii. Pahoehoe

[Moon Sedai]

I only noticed when I posted it that in the right side of the photo is my buddy's head. Stupid jerk got in the way of a good picture.

 

And that is an impressive landscape.

 

 

 

 

[Red2111]

thanks guys!! Lor, with Dragonmount, i always pictured it to be similar to that, a really tall mountain with a jagged peak and smaller hills surrounding it as a rebound from the mountain raising up. it's also told to us in the books that its grass land mostly around the base of the mountain, so you'd just have to erase the trees with your minds eye

 

 

heres also how i pictured the Steddings to be

 

 

 

 

its a picture from the Redwood Forest in CA. again, not mine, but i'd love to go one year!!

[Moon Sedai]

Red- I picture the same thing for Ogier Steddings!

 

 

[Loreina]

Lolz! I didn't know that was someone's head; I just thought it was something hanging on the wall! But now that you've pointed it out, I can see that it is. But it is still a nice picture, and a lovely memory too I bet.

 

 

O Yes! The redwoods! I've been to them, and they are one reason for the word 'awesome'. When the books mention the Stedding or sung wood, I always think of redwood, or large cedars because of their fragrance, the cedars of Lebanon for example, but larger.

[Caramoore]

Three-fold land maybe..

[jemron]

This is how I imagine the Aiel Waste:

 

I go here with my family almost every year and there are some places that are just beautiful. Capitol Reef, UT.

[Loreina]

Yes, jemron, I see something very like that for the Holds. And Rword's picture could be one of the towns of the Three-Fold Land, where the Trading Caravans stop for trade and supplies. *nods*

[Red2111]

Rword, i think you might be right on how their houses would look!

 

 

see this is how i pictured the Waste to look like. i never pictured a desert, becuase Jordan never describes loads of sand, just a hot oven baked earth. so Death Valley, CA is what always comes to mind

 

 

 

 

this woudl be more near the edge of the waste, like the area Rand & Co travel through to exit the waste as their following the Shaido.

[Loreina]

I never got around to visiting Death Valley when I was living in California.

I like that picture *nods* with the 'Spine' in the background.

 

Anyone have any ideas about the Blight?

[Moon Sedai]

I always picture the Blight looking similar to death Valley, actually. Except for the occasional ruined building, tower, or whatever.

 

 

[Loreina]

I see the Blight as a grossly polluted and discolored Atchafalaya type area, with seriously dangerous critters ready to attack you on all sides. *shivers* atchafalaya

[Moon Sedai]

ugg. Atchafalaya. *shudders8 I dob't even need to click the link to know what you're talking about.

 

Ever time I have to drive across I-10 through there, I pray to the gods that I don't get in an accident and that the bridge stays secure,

[Samuraiflip05]

Does anyone have any opinions of what real life cities, might reflect an influence on a Randland city.

 

Do the Ebou Dar lattice windows reflect a real-life city? Are the domes and spires of Arhidol inspired by Russian architecture? Do Aiel strongholds portray life for the Southwestern Native Americans? Anyone? Anyone? ;)

[Arc]

Yeah, the Anasazi a.k.a. Pueblo-builders culture of the Colorado plateau build some settlements which might look like Aiel Strongholds. This is the famous Cliff palace in the Mesa Verde.

 

 

But I did imagine the strongholds to be build more up against both steep cliff/canyon sides like this, instead of in an abri open to the elements.

 

.. oow, the URL didn't do the job, no nice canyon picture then I guess

[Moon Sedai]

I can see that for the Aiel houses.

 

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[Red2111]

looks like Cold Rocks Hold to me, atleast the outskirts of it!!

 

 

as for the blight, RJ describes it as a place of rotting ripe plants that burst froma gaze. i can't think of anything like that tbh, though i do think a swamp would be close to the Blight in smell. where is that place located that you posted a picture of? i live off of I10 but in Mississippi; if it's in LA, i might persuade bubba to go there so we can check it out *grins*

[Arc]

looks like Cold Rocks Hold to me, atleast the outskirts of it!!

 

 

as for the blight, RJ describes it as a place of rotting ripe plants that burst froma gaze. i can't think of anything like that tbh, though i do think a swamp would be close to the Blight in smell. where is that place located that you posted a picture of? i live off of I10 but in Mississippi; if it's in LA, i might persuade bubba to go there so we can check it out *grins*

 

It's an archaeological site located in the Mesa Verde National park, somewhere along the border between Colorado and Utah if I recall correctly, Don't remember the exact location though. I'm sure you could find their website. It's is a great place to go, throw in all your persuasiveness i'd say :).

[Loreina]

Red, the Atchafalaya area I spoke of is in Louisiana. As Ahmoondah says, I-10 Interstate goes through it, certainly a tribute to highway engineering. It spans miles of alligator and snake infested swamp *shudders*, but it is beautiful in its wildness. It is home to the Cajun alligator hunters that I have seen on TV, too.

 

Wow! Arc, I have never seen that picture. I know only a bit about the Anasazi/Pueblo Indians, but that particular example really does look like it could be Cold Rocks Hold. Awesome!

[Red2111]

huh, i've been as far as New orleans & Baton Rouge but don't recall goign through that. there is a swamp right on the state line that spans a few miles, but not near as creepy as that pic

[Moon Sedai]

Ohh.. shudders about the Atchafalya Basin

 

It's actual a marvel of modern engineering too.

 

The mississippi River "wants" to flow there instead of its current path, but the US Army corp of Engineers built a series of stuff to keep the Mississippi river from moving.