u/FadedDanny2

It is actually pretty damn difficult not gonna lie

Not sure how to tag, but want to encourage full discourse sooo

Anyway, every so often I'll comment the source on various posts to share it, as someone once did for me. I remember going in depth about theories on the ages, and a debated point was nuclear fire ending the first age, or if it developed naturally into the discovery of the power or by some other chaotic, climactic event.

**Well, low and behold, here are direct notes from RJ himself, and a snipped of the absolute plethora of notes available to view.**

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The only things we know about the First Age are that it had space travel and appeared to have ended with nuclear war:

The First Age ended when fire rained from the heavens. The flesh of men melted, and those who did not melt were charred like coals. Plagues, boils and sores roamed the world and famine, yet to eat or drink often meant death, for waters and fruits that once were wholesome now slew at the eating. Even the air or the dust could slay. The wind could bring death. Rivers filled with dead fish and birds fell from the sky. Invisible vapours from the land that slew. Noxious fumes that corroded men’s flesh.

Man stretched forth his hands to the heavens, and seized the stars, and called them his own. For his presumption man was purged of his greatness, purged of knowledge and abilities, reduced to an animal to begin again the climb to the Light…

- Robert Jordan, Notes from White Goddess Part 2

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A prominent author of he blog is Linda Taglieri, one of the foremost researchers and archivists who extensively studied his unreleased working notes.

Anyway, that was one of my favourite snippets.

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