On Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 6:50:54 PM UTC-7, Chris Barrera wrote:

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Maybe that was all the whole point of it.
No one in Randland knew they existed except the Sea Folk, and even
they didn't interact with them all that much.
And they passed away.
The readers of the books were able to read very little of them, to learn about them and know them.
And they passed away.
The author, Jordan, wrote very little of them, and wrote them to pass away
in order to see how everyone would, or should, react.
A whole people no one knew hardly anything about passes away, and the rest
of the freakin' universe didn't know or give a damn.

The Sea Folk certainly cared! They were reduced to weeping heaps!

The Sea Folk claimed that the Ayamar had long ago asked them for protection from pirates and brigands, and that the Sea Folk still owed them protection. The Sea Folk leader wanted to send ships to all their islands to search for survivors. I wonder
what the Ayamar did for the Sea Folk to evoke such devotion?

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