This is my main gripe with Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. I’m loving it and I’m nearly through it but so much of the story ends up effectively operating around the fact that a lot of the main characters don’t know what is going on with each other. Yes, it’s a fantasy ‘medieval’ world, but it’s a world with magic and techniques are clearly available that could provide very fast, if not instantaneous transmission of messages. Magical ways but also non magical ways - e.g. horses to carry messages or homing pigeons. This isn’t just characters not knowing on what’s going on with each other over the space of a book but multiple books. Stuff has happened to main characters that others don’t find out about for like 6 books. And these are some of the longest books I’ve read so it’s literally 3-4 thousand words of narrative covering a year of time and they haven’t found out about pretty significant plot changes for their friends.
This is my main gripe with Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. I’m loving it and I’m nearly through it but so much of the story ends up effectively operating around the fact that a lot of the main characters don’t know what is going on with each other. Yes, it’s a fantasy ‘medieval’ world, but it’s a world with magic and techniques are clearly available that could provide very fast, if not instantaneous transmission of messages. Magical ways but also non magical ways - e.g. horses to carry messages or homing pigeons. This isn’t just characters not knowing on what’s going on with each other over the space of a book but multiple books. Stuff has happened to main characters that others don’t find out about for like 6 books. And these are some of the longest books I’ve read so it’s literally 3-4 thousand words of narrative covering a year of time and they haven’t found out about pretty significant plot changes for their friends.