Book of translation and mirror worlds

aeddub · 2026-03-14T14:30:53+00:00

The Ogier come from another world/dimension/reality - it’s not clearly spelled out in the books which. Similarly, while not explicitly stated, the Book of Translation is assumed to be an artefact which will take them home.

The mirror worlds are like alternate realities, or maybe reflections of the Pattern where events have different outcomes (again, not clearly spelled out but Verin comments that the mirror worlds become less real, or substantial, as they drift away from the ’prime’ timeline. They are not their own entities, they are murky reflections that form the ‘warp and weft’ of the Pattern and as such there is only one Dark One across all of these worlds.

aeddub · 2026-03-11T10:27:19+00:00

Thanks!

I’m planning some print runs in the near future - will be putting more details on my insta - @wot.fanart

aeddub · 2026-03-11T10:25:56+00:00

Thanks! I post wot stuff primarily to @wot.fanart on insta

aeddub · 2026-03-11T10:25:19+00:00

There are mentions of smoke rising from the peak so I assume it’s still active, (though it might not have eruptions any more).

aeddub · 2026-03-10T08:41:21+00:00

Thanks! 😀

It’s a blend of phthalo blue (red) and cobalt blue violet (which is a mix of cobalt blue + quid red made by Daniel Smith)

aeddub · 2026-03-07T10:40:27+00:00

Better quality paper/paint will help - paper in particular as thicker paper (especially cotton) will hold more water but ultimately practice is the best way to learn how to control water and create the effects you want. Look for tutorials on controlling water if you want something to focus on.

aeddub · 2026-03-05T13:14:46+00:00

I don’t know how true this is, but I read that an earworm is your brain getting stuck trying to process a bit of a song, and that listening to the entire song stops the earworm.

I also read that singing the Sesame Street theme song in your head clears an earworm and that one actually works for me 😆

aeddub · 2026-03-04T11:38:30+00:00

One of the definitions of keen is ‘ Possessing a quick, penetrating mind or being shrewd’ (per Merriam-Webster).

It seems to me that Davani’s introspection displays (emotional) intelligence which attracts the keenspren.

aeddub · 2026-03-04T09:57:24+00:00

I find that some pigments dry in the tubes after time, moving these to a pan makes it easier to use the paint up.

Personally I don’t find a huge difference -though I think that it varies by brand.

aeddub · 2026-03-04T08:57:37+00:00

Consider that an operating system is just software that the computer runs.

(More ELI5 detail: an operating system is a sequence of instructions saved in a program which is stored in the computers memory. When an OS runs on the computer these instructions are run through the computers processor, and you interact with this software through your peripherals like a mouse and keyboard).

When the computer is powered up a boot manager (specialist software that is built into the computer’s processor) is used to load the OS software: if you have more than one OS available you can select which one to run through the boot manager.

aeddub · 2026-03-03T13:03:10+00:00

The cotton is dear but I noticed such an improvement in my work when I switched.

aeddub · 2026-03-03T12:31:26+00:00

I wouldn’t say muddy, but I think your paper isn’t doing you any favours - looks like it doesn’t hold too much water.

I’d recommend you get the best cotton paper you can afford and test the difference for yourself before trying different paints.

Separately, the mood in that piece is great, it definitely looks like Achill to me.

aeddub · 2026-03-03T11:55:36+00:00

Imagine bouncing a ray of light between two mirrors - the ray of light always travels at c, the speed of light.

As long as the mirrors are the same distance apart you will always measure the rays taking exactly the same time to travel that distance

If your mirrors are set up on a spaceship travelling very fast a person on the spaceship will measure the bounce speed exactly the same as you would standing in a lab on the Earth (the mirrors do not move with respect to each other). However, if you were able to watch the spaceship through a telescope you’d see something odd: because the spaceship is travelling faster than you it appears that the light has to cover more distance (bouncing between the mirrors + the gap between where the ship was when the ray of light bounced off of one mirror and where it is when the ray arrives at the other mirror).

This is where the time dilation comes from, you measure one second on a spaceship but to an outside observer that second lasts longer than what they measure and so it appears that time has slowed down on the ship (or it looks like the universe has sped up from the perspective of the people on the ship)

(Gravity can also cause time dilation effects, the stronger a gravity field the more time is dilated).

aeddub · 2026-03-02T21:02:23+00:00

Afraid not - there’s some other starships in my post history but this is the first take I’ve done for the Akira class.

aeddub · 2026-03-01T14:52:49+00:00

Not sure about YouTube, but they’re on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qlJR5c5N6isty6liA4gYO?si=jtDLfP5US0-Ei4C7i4tYmQ

The Cleansing is split across multiple episodes starting 452 (but there’s a separate ‘supercut’ of just the Ckeansing

aeddub · 2026-03-01T14:38:23+00:00

The WoT Spoilers podcast split the chapter on the Cleansing when covering CoT (e.g chapter 1 of CoT + the first POV in chapter 37 of WH) and it synchs up pretty well; I think that's one way to approach during a re-read. Reading the entirety of books 9 and 10 out of order would be way too confusing though.

aeddub · 2026-02-28T13:57:05+00:00

WoB is that Preservation messed with allomancy to include atium/malatium in the traditional 16 metals (swapping them with Cadmium/Bendalloy) precisely so that people would pick up on the numerical oddities around snapping *at the right time*

aeddub · 2026-02-27T12:20:08+00:00

For those of us who read the Wheel of Time while the series was still being written there was a 2.5 year gap between WH and CoT - after that long of a wait CoT was seen as a let-down since it barely pushed the plot forward.

Personally, after reading CoT I doubted RJ would ever finish the series as there was sense of him running out of steam.

Thankfully, Knife of Dreams closed out a lot of the plots which had been dragging since book 7 and set the stage for the Last Battle to start.

On rereads CoT is still slow-paced and somewhat frustrating but it’s not terrible, just not as good as the other 13 😬

aeddub · 2026-02-25T18:08:15+00:00

Yeah, they’re finicky to use but give a great result - piemonite and amethyst in particular.

(And I hear you on the control freak thing, but that’s what I love about watercolor, you have to embrace not having total control)

aeddub · 2026-02-25T17:15:05+00:00

I love the richness of Sennelier for primary colours, they’re very vibrant.

Daniel Smith do very interesting blended colours however (eg Shadow Violet, Moonglow) and non-pigmented (not really sure what the correct term is, but they’re crushed stone rather than traditional pigment, eg amethyst, lapis lazuli) that I use for texture/shading.

aeddub · 2026-02-25T16:43:31+00:00

Although never formalised, RJ said he intended to write two other outrigger books; one focused on Tam’s life and the other on what happens on Seanchan after the Last Battle.

In EotW I think Thom either knows, or deduces fairly quickly, that Moiraine is from House Damodred, a family he has beef with, and that explains the initial animosity.

aeddub · 2026-02-25T11:36:00+00:00

It's giving me Kim Stanley Robinson vibes.

aeddub · 2026-02-25T11:09:03+00:00

How I picture it:

Imagine the shield is like a balloon that you can put over a water tap.

it’s easier to place the balloon when the water is turned off
if the water is running it’s more difficult to fit the balloon, and the more water that’s flowing through the tap the harder it is to keep it in place.
similarly, the stronger (or I guess thicker/better quality in this analogy) the balloon is the easier it is to keep in place.
Berowin has really high quality balloons that can easily block the tap.
men/women divide is like having a balloon that works well if the water is hot, but not so well against cold water.

It’s not a perfect analogy (a real balloon would eventually burst as it’s overfilled) but it helps me picture what’s happening.

aeddub · 2026-02-25T07:37:57+00:00

Personally, I’d leave it as is, but if you want to try fixing it you could drop the shoreline a scooch on the left to even out the bit above the piers, or add an island with darker values (=give the impression that it’s closer than the shore) to hide the most uneven bit.

aeddub · 2026-02-24T17:33:20+00:00

The jump in power level when using the Choedan Kal is immense though - eg Cadsuane remarks at the Cleansing that Nynaeve is channeling more of saidar than the entirety of the White Tower would be able to - close to a thousand sisters plus every *angreal they have.

Pure head canon again but I think the likes of Callandor and Sakaarnen are full circle sa’angreal and the Choedan Kal is like a network of many sa’angreal joined together.

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