Will the GLOTD Destroy the Pattern?

[Red Hand Man]

The realist in me says NO, but I want to say YES. Are there major fantasy series where the doomsday outcome has occurred?

[Byzantine279]

Due to the original plan having outliers that occurred after the LB it seems unlikely.

[Suttree]

The realist in me says NO, but I want to say YES. Are there major fantasy series where the doomsday outcome has occurred?

 

Jacqueline Carey Banewreaker does and the resolution in Joe Abercrombie's world looks like it could be shaping up(at the least we have little idea where the true evil lies) in that direction...

[Tyzack]

Rand might...see the current lead post on theoryland.

[mydnyte]

We have had the answer since the first paragraph of book one, and it has been repeated to us in every book...

 

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

[mydnyte]

The realist in me says NO, but I want to say YES. Are there major fantasy series where the doomsday outcome has occurred?

 

read the Dark Tower ...that ending was doomsday (or Groundhog day depending on your opinion) imho ...what a letdown it was. :(

[Suttree]

We have had the answer since the first paragraph of book one, and it has been repeated to us in every book...

 

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

 

I don't think it will happen but you're answer isn't really relevant.

 

 

Barnes and Noble chat 11 November 1997

 

 

Brandon from Mission Viejo: Mr. Jordan, it's fairly common knowledge that the Dark One was bound by the Creator outside of the Pattern at the moment of creation. Would it then be safe to assume, after concepts brought to light in the new release, that the world before the opening of the prison never knew true evil? If so, then was each Age before the opening of the Age of Legends different facets of some utopia? As well, without major conflict between good and evil, what caused ages to pass? Thanks.

RJ: Given that time is cyclic, you must assume that there is a time when the prison that holds the Dark One is whole and unbroken. There is a time when a hole is drilled into that prison and it is thus open to that degree. And there is a time when the opening has been patched in a makeshift manner. But following this line, the cyclic nature of time means that we have at some time in the future inevitably a whole and unbroken prison again. Unless, of course, the Dark One breaks free, in which case all bets are off -- kick over the table and run for the window.