I’m embarrassed to say that I have encountered this, this particular type of story on multiple occasions… So I got curious, is there a name to this trope?

  • dexa_scantron@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, though clues are few and far between; the

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    museum in Tanchico with the Mercedes hood ornament

    is the biggest clue. From Jordan’s other writings, the

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    First age was our time, then humans created an AI powerful enough to genetically engineer humans to be able to do magic,

    and that led to the Age of Legends.

    • cevn@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Yup. I think there are a few more, on a re read rn and Great Hunt they go to a parallel world where there appear to be Jet contrails and large swatches of burned ground where absolutely nothing will grow - nuclear fallout?

      I hadn’t heard of the AI bit before but it sort of makes sense. sAIdin and sAIdar? No?