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The Rafeverse isn't a different turning of the Wheel as Rafe and Sanderson have claimed, nor even a Turning in which the Dark One won as some have suggested here (if that had happened, he would have been free in all worlds, at all times), but a Mirror World or World That Might Be.

The distinguishing feature of these Mirror Worlds is that while they are possible worlds, their appearance and sustained existence is improbable in the extreme. Strong women taking down Trollocs with a pocket knife commando-style, while a blademaster can't kill a single one. Globalized cosmolitan age levels of ethnic heterogeneity in podunk villages that haven't received more than a couple of peddlers per year

I was quite skeptical about the show from before the start, what with the decision to make wetlands demographics that of modern day Brooklyn, but still, I thought it would be something semi-decent like The Witcher, not the abomination it actually turned out to be, failing not only as an adaptation but by its own standards.

I would say that the precise moment I realized that was the scene at the beginning of Episode 2 where the Whitecloaks burn the Yellow Aes Sedai to death.

At that point, it became clear Rafe couldn't care less about world consistency at the most fundamental and even metaphysical level. We know that any Aes Sedai would have little trouble with a company of Whitecloaks. The

I was never very happy with this, because the Biocorp scientists in the cryonics pods in Tithonus Labs are some of the very last depositories of advanced scientific knowledge in the UnderRail. Now to be sure, given the state of the world, the chances of anyone coming down and reviving them in the quarter of a century of battery power the complex has left are not very good - but still. And all of this, just to fulfill a pretty banal task (power rerouting).

That said, this brings up another puzzle that I realized just now. The Faceless were so pissed off at the Biocorps scientists that they ended up throwing most of them into the mutagen vats. Why didn't kill or turn off power to the cryogeni