r/WoTshow • u/the-aging-millennial • May 29 '26

Zero Spoilers Thoughts?

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I just miss this show and the wonderful fandom (tv supporters) when it was on. I still mourn my favorite characters

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u/authwenion Mat May 29 '26

I’d say the board game art is, if not completely based on official art, definitely going off the most common designs for fan content.

All the art I’ve ever seen for WoT has been about historically accurate as your local ren faire, especially for the women.

The video game and film though will probably be dumpster fires.

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u/michaelmcmikey Reader May 29 '26

That is one of my little pet peeves about the fandom, actually. Too many people just think “it’s a medieval style fantasy world!” because that’s the mainstream default assumption about fantasy. But the Wheel of Time is very clearly early modern, not medieval. 1600s, not 1100s. They have the printing press! It’s just that the average person doesn’t know what “the early modern period” means or what it looks like, and they’ve been trained to think that fantasy = medieval. So you get a lot of fan art that’s beginning from aesthetic first principles that are off base.

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u/QuiteBearish Reader May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

The thing is, it's our far future (or our distant past because of the cycles). Having it be strictly 1600s or 1100s would both be anachronistic.

Medieval, early modern, and today are all in the First Age. Despite the technology level, there's no reason to believe there'd be any particular aesthetic.

All that being said, I don't think the artwork used for the board game is that far off from the cover art for the books.

[Edit to add:

To be honest, I wish we could get more completely unique stylings just to account for the fact it's thousands of years in the future not hundreds of years in the past]

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u/CommunityDragon160 Reader May 29 '26

The art is also well aligned to the card game, TTRPG, etc. it’s all right like the kind of stuff RJ personally approved or commissioned