one thing I am really appreciating about Wheel of Time on this reread is the way in which the world gradually unfolds in this really…natural way. like, you start with this very small sense of things that matches the world of the main characters and their limited scope. and gradually that expands: the POVs expand, the knowledge of the world expands. there’s the Seanchan, and then the Aiel; you learn about the Aes Sedai as a unit and then learn about their divisions and factions and politics. it’s not just about the traveling to Distant Lands and name dropping places: it’s about this building sense of a universe, and the people in that universe.
and it’s a cool way of illustrating, too, the ways in which the characters grow up. how their worlds gradually expand, their understanding of that world grows and changes and shifts. things that are strange become familiar, only to find something else that’s strange, which becomes familiar.Â
idk, it’s just really cool, and a super interesting way of making your worldbuilding overlap with character.
