Talk:Seanchan

message: During the time of the Trolloc Wars, the peoples of Seanchan used Portal Stones to reach alternate worlds and return with such creatures as grolm, torm, lopar, corlm, raken, and to'raken. Integrating these creatures into their armies, the people of Seanchan were able to drive back the Trollocs.
This paragraph seems to be causing problems as evidenced by the above question. In addition to that question, if these events happened a thousand years before Hawkwing sent his army across the ocean, how could they have been Seanchan? Did the Trolloc War even affect the Seanchan continent? I'm tempted to remove the paragraph. --TheParanoidOne 17:15, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: the continant the seanchan hale from is called seanchan, therefor technicaly everyone who lived ther, even those before the army was sent across the sea and founded the seanchan that we know presently in the books, could be cal seanchan--gooseneck 22:20, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You seem to be talking about the natives of Seanchan but the paragraph is talking about the people of the Westlands (hence 'Trolloc War'). --TheParanoidOne 05:22, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Trolloc Wars affected Seanchan too, as Seanchan has a Blight.
*Yeah but there weren't any Trollocs there's only Draghker it's called the lesser blight for a reason. The trollocs were exterminated sometime after the war of power before the Trolloc Wars. Jamhaw 18:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual accuracy 

message: Shouldn't therebe something abouyt which Seanchan animals correspond to real-life animals? I know for a fact that the "s'redit" (i think?) is an elephant. And I'm sure some of the others are real animals too. I'd to it myself, but I'm not sure which are which.
:besides the s'redit(sp?) non of the seanchan animals really have real life counterparts, they may porhaps have multiple draws, but they don't really have a lone real world name. unless someone can find a three eyed cat lizard that is large enough to ride, that is. but feel free to put down what you think is what and the community can judge what fits best. best of luck.--Manwithbrisk 16:17, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seanchan animals 

message: what good is puting the ipa pronounciations if few people know how to use them
maybe i am the last person on earth who doesn't get ipa, but something in the back of my brain is saying that i'm not
oppps forgot to sign--Manwithbrisk 17:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ipa 

message: *Leave - Why merge the two Torms together, they're not the same! —Preceding unsigned comment added by  (talk • contribs) 
*Support - I'm fine with the merging into Seanchan thing. Randfan 02:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: when did jordan say that?
someone needs to get a refence on that
just tossing a fact tag on it doesn't make it true--Manwithbrisk 22:35, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He says it here, at the bottom of this page: http://linuxmafia.com/jordan/3_sources/3.14_countries.html. I always assumed he was joking. On the other hand, the lands of the Seanchan do have parallels with the Americas (a new land to the west, colonised by "Europe", eventually becomes more powerful than "Europe"). 58.7.115.223 13:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TEXAN DRAWL??? 

message: links to the wrong "torm" as of now.  There is a torm article describing the wot beast, but not the one linked.Polkapolkapoker 23:44, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Torm link 

message: In the series, these worlds reached via the portal stones are described as worlds that "might have been," or as reflections of the "real" world if events had occurred differently.  Therefore, "alternate" is the proper word. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Polkapolkapoker (talk • contribs) 23:09, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Alternate" vs "other" word choice for portal stones. 

message: The article List of seanchan animals only has the torm, so I merged it here. "Geography and natural features" is not a good heading, but I couldn't think of a better one. Tocharianne 18:36, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh gee, now I see there are lots of animal pages but for someone the List redirected only to torm. Anyway, I would propose that they all be merged. Tocharianne 18:39, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why?  They all have a reasonable amount of information describing each on their own pages.  It would just clog up this page.  They are subsidiary to the main points of the page.Polkapolkapoker 22:09, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Torm merge 

message: I have eliminated the section that asserts that Seanchan share many of the characteristics of East Asians, since that does not seem to me to be the case at all.  Rather, Seanchans drink Kaf (coffee), appear in boxy ships (probably referencing early Chinese and Japanese impressions of European "Men o' War" ships), and are named after a British imperial general, and are understood (according to Jordan) to speak with a "Texan Drawl." See the other discussion on that one.  Remember, a history buff like Jordan would have understood that the "New World" of the Americas was a site understood to contain endless strange and exotic animals.  I am therefore inclined to argue that the Seanchans are a kind of culturally "pan-hellenic" imperial projection from afar.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arcumbran (talk • contribs) 05:13, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seanchan as Asian?