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How big are the Choedan Kal?


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The Choedan Kal are two large statues that are the focus of the One Power in the Wheel of Time series, both of which were mostly buried. Is there any specifications on their heights? Every wiki I've found says "massive" but did they ever give anything more specific, or relate it's height to anything in the surrounding area? Like "It was as tall as the nearby trees" or "a finger was each a man tall"?










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  • Fixed, was going to say destroyed but not sure if that’s correct

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  • Gah two good answers that give detailed and concise information, I don't know which one to pick :(

    – CBredlow
    23 hours ago






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    Since we've got two quite different results, I think both answers should elaborate a bit on the assumptions used to get there. (Working on that for my answer now.) Then you can decide which set of assumptions you think is more realistic.

    – Rand al'Thor
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The Choedan Kal are two large statues that are the focus of the One Power in the Wheel of Time series, both of which were mostly buried. Is there any specifications on their heights? Every wiki I've found says "massive" but did they ever give anything more specific, or relate it's height to anything in the surrounding area? Like "It was as tall as the nearby trees" or "a finger was each a man tall"?










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  • Fixed, was going to say destroyed but not sure if that’s correct

    – CBredlow
    yesterday











  • Guess I was editing at the same moment :-)

    – Rand al'Thor
    yesterday











  • Gah two good answers that give detailed and concise information, I don't know which one to pick :(

    – CBredlow
    23 hours ago






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    Since we've got two quite different results, I think both answers should elaborate a bit on the assumptions used to get there. (Working on that for my answer now.) Then you can decide which set of assumptions you think is more realistic.

    – Rand al'Thor
    23 hours ago














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The Choedan Kal are two large statues that are the focus of the One Power in the Wheel of Time series, both of which were mostly buried. Is there any specifications on their heights? Every wiki I've found says "massive" but did they ever give anything more specific, or relate it's height to anything in the surrounding area? Like "It was as tall as the nearby trees" or "a finger was each a man tall"?










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The Choedan Kal are two large statues that are the focus of the One Power in the Wheel of Time series, both of which were mostly buried. Is there any specifications on their heights? Every wiki I've found says "massive" but did they ever give anything more specific, or relate it's height to anything in the surrounding area? Like "It was as tall as the nearby trees" or "a finger was each a man tall"?







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  • Fixed, was going to say destroyed but not sure if that’s correct

    – CBredlow
    yesterday











  • Guess I was editing at the same moment :-)

    – Rand al'Thor
    yesterday











  • Gah two good answers that give detailed and concise information, I don't know which one to pick :(

    – CBredlow
    23 hours ago






  • 1





    Since we've got two quite different results, I think both answers should elaborate a bit on the assumptions used to get there. (Working on that for my answer now.) Then you can decide which set of assumptions you think is more realistic.

    – Rand al'Thor
    23 hours ago



















  • Fixed, was going to say destroyed but not sure if that’s correct

    – CBredlow
    yesterday











  • Guess I was editing at the same moment :-)

    – Rand al'Thor
    yesterday











  • Gah two good answers that give detailed and concise information, I don't know which one to pick :(

    – CBredlow
    23 hours ago






  • 1





    Since we've got two quite different results, I think both answers should elaborate a bit on the assumptions used to get there. (Working on that for my answer now.) Then you can decide which set of assumptions you think is more realistic.

    – Rand al'Thor
    23 hours ago

















Fixed, was going to say destroyed but not sure if that’s correct

– CBredlow
yesterday





Fixed, was going to say destroyed but not sure if that’s correct

– CBredlow
yesterday













Guess I was editing at the same moment :-)

– Rand al'Thor
yesterday





Guess I was editing at the same moment :-)

– Rand al'Thor
yesterday













Gah two good answers that give detailed and concise information, I don't know which one to pick :(

– CBredlow
23 hours ago





Gah two good answers that give detailed and concise information, I don't know which one to pick :(

– CBredlow
23 hours ago




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Since we've got two quite different results, I think both answers should elaborate a bit on the assumptions used to get there. (Working on that for my answer now.) Then you can decide which set of assumptions you think is more realistic.

– Rand al'Thor
23 hours ago





Since we've got two quite different results, I think both answers should elaborate a bit on the assumptions used to get there. (Working on that for my answer now.) Then you can decide which set of assumptions you think is more realistic.

– Rand al'Thor
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I wasn't able to find a total height in the book, but we do have a measurement to work with.




Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand
holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last
sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball—he was sure not
so much as a scratch marred its surface—at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been
uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the
dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and
knowledge. -The Great Hunt



Length, units of: 10 inches = 3 hands = 1 foot; 3 feet = 1 pace; 2
paces = 1 span; 1000 spans = 1 mile; 4 miles = 1 league. - Appendix




The average US male has a hand length of about 7.5 inches(19cm), and a height of 70 inches(178cm).



With some guess work on how long the hand is vs the sphere itself, math blah blah blah.



If the length of the hand is 60 Wheel of Time feet (20 paces at 1 pace = 3 Wheel of Time feet) using our average proportioned US male ratio,



the Choedan Kal stood at about 560 Wheel of Time Feet or converted from Wheel of Time measurements 467 US Feet(142 meter).



As a basis for my assumption that the hand is about the same diameter as the orb here is the official cover for Winters Heart. As Muru states in a comment, The access Ter'angreal (which is what it appears we see in the book cover) are identical but miniature of the large Sa'angreal.



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  • It would really help if you could provide SI approximations for your measurements...

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    23 hours ago











  • @DavidW will do, robert jordan used US measurements in his appendix so ill have to add in the conversions for you other folk :P

    – Himarm
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm +1 for the units he used, but if you gave me SI that'd be awesome too.

    – CBredlow
    23 hours ago











  • "1 pace = 3 feet" - the standard figure I found was 30 inches or 2.5 feet.

    – Rand al'Thor
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm Thank you. Some of us speak the language, but not exactly the same. :) (Wasn't there a quote along the lines of "divided by a common language?" :)

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The best place to check is Book 2, Chapter 20, when Rand first sees the male Choedan Kal statue. At this point neither Rand nor we the readers know what it is, or even the words Choedan Kal - it's just a big statue to us, and for that reason it's described in more detail than later.




His eyes on the reflection, he was surprised when Red suddenly stopped. On the point of urging the bay on, he realized that they stood on the edge of a clay precipice, above a huge excavation. Most of the hill had been dug away to a depth of easily a hundred paces. Certainly more than one hill had vanished, and maybe some farmers' fields, for the hole was at least ten times as wide as it was deep. The far side appeared to have been packed hard to a ramp. There were men on the bottom, a dozen of them, getting a fire started; down there, night was already descending. Here and there among them armor turned the light, and swords swung at their sides. He hardly glanced at them.



Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball — he was sure not so much as a scratch marred its surface — at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and knowledge.




The statue's hand is holding a ball which is twenty paces (around 600 inches or 50 feet) in diameter. Now we don't know exactly how big the ball is compared to the hand, but I'm assuming the hand is firmly clasping the ball, something like this (non-canonical) picture:



image



At a rough estimation, I guess I could comfortably hold a ball perhaps 4-5 inches in diameter like this. That would make the statue around 120-150 times life size, assuming it's proportional. So the statue is, at a very rough estimate:



around 250 metres high.






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    Perhaps another approach: the excavation is 100+ paces (250+ ft, 75+ m) deep and all they've uncovered so far is its head and a hand. Assuming that the head/hand weren't buried too deeply underground, that easily puts the statue on the same scale as the largest statues in our world, if not larger. TL;DR it's huge, even by our standards.

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  • Aren't the keys miniature versions of the statues? If so, they ball would be much bigger going by the cover of Winter's Heart: i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/…

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I wasn't able to find a total height in the book, but we do have a measurement to work with.




Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand
holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last
sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball—he was sure not
so much as a scratch marred its surface—at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been
uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the
dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and
knowledge. -The Great Hunt



Length, units of: 10 inches = 3 hands = 1 foot; 3 feet = 1 pace; 2
paces = 1 span; 1000 spans = 1 mile; 4 miles = 1 league. - Appendix




The average US male has a hand length of about 7.5 inches(19cm), and a height of 70 inches(178cm).



With some guess work on how long the hand is vs the sphere itself, math blah blah blah.



If the length of the hand is 60 Wheel of Time feet (20 paces at 1 pace = 3 Wheel of Time feet) using our average proportioned US male ratio,



the Choedan Kal stood at about 560 Wheel of Time Feet or converted from Wheel of Time measurements 467 US Feet(142 meter).



As a basis for my assumption that the hand is about the same diameter as the orb here is the official cover for Winters Heart. As Muru states in a comment, The access Ter'angreal (which is what it appears we see in the book cover) are identical but miniature of the large Sa'angreal.



enter image description here






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  • It would really help if you could provide SI approximations for your measurements...

    – DavidW
    23 hours ago











  • @DavidW will do, robert jordan used US measurements in his appendix so ill have to add in the conversions for you other folk :P

    – Himarm
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm +1 for the units he used, but if you gave me SI that'd be awesome too.

    – CBredlow
    23 hours ago











  • "1 pace = 3 feet" - the standard figure I found was 30 inches or 2.5 feet.

    – Rand al'Thor
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm Thank you. Some of us speak the language, but not exactly the same. :) (Wasn't there a quote along the lines of "divided by a common language?" :)

    – DavidW
    23 hours ago
















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I wasn't able to find a total height in the book, but we do have a measurement to work with.




Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand
holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last
sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball—he was sure not
so much as a scratch marred its surface—at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been
uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the
dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and
knowledge. -The Great Hunt



Length, units of: 10 inches = 3 hands = 1 foot; 3 feet = 1 pace; 2
paces = 1 span; 1000 spans = 1 mile; 4 miles = 1 league. - Appendix




The average US male has a hand length of about 7.5 inches(19cm), and a height of 70 inches(178cm).



With some guess work on how long the hand is vs the sphere itself, math blah blah blah.



If the length of the hand is 60 Wheel of Time feet (20 paces at 1 pace = 3 Wheel of Time feet) using our average proportioned US male ratio,



the Choedan Kal stood at about 560 Wheel of Time Feet or converted from Wheel of Time measurements 467 US Feet(142 meter).



As a basis for my assumption that the hand is about the same diameter as the orb here is the official cover for Winters Heart. As Muru states in a comment, The access Ter'angreal (which is what it appears we see in the book cover) are identical but miniature of the large Sa'angreal.



enter image description here






share|improve this answer




























  • It would really help if you could provide SI approximations for your measurements...

    – DavidW
    23 hours ago











  • @DavidW will do, robert jordan used US measurements in his appendix so ill have to add in the conversions for you other folk :P

    – Himarm
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm +1 for the units he used, but if you gave me SI that'd be awesome too.

    – CBredlow
    23 hours ago











  • "1 pace = 3 feet" - the standard figure I found was 30 inches or 2.5 feet.

    – Rand al'Thor
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm Thank you. Some of us speak the language, but not exactly the same. :) (Wasn't there a quote along the lines of "divided by a common language?" :)

    – DavidW
    23 hours ago














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I wasn't able to find a total height in the book, but we do have a measurement to work with.




Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand
holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last
sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball—he was sure not
so much as a scratch marred its surface—at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been
uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the
dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and
knowledge. -The Great Hunt



Length, units of: 10 inches = 3 hands = 1 foot; 3 feet = 1 pace; 2
paces = 1 span; 1000 spans = 1 mile; 4 miles = 1 league. - Appendix




The average US male has a hand length of about 7.5 inches(19cm), and a height of 70 inches(178cm).



With some guess work on how long the hand is vs the sphere itself, math blah blah blah.



If the length of the hand is 60 Wheel of Time feet (20 paces at 1 pace = 3 Wheel of Time feet) using our average proportioned US male ratio,



the Choedan Kal stood at about 560 Wheel of Time Feet or converted from Wheel of Time measurements 467 US Feet(142 meter).



As a basis for my assumption that the hand is about the same diameter as the orb here is the official cover for Winters Heart. As Muru states in a comment, The access Ter'angreal (which is what it appears we see in the book cover) are identical but miniature of the large Sa'angreal.



enter image description here






share|improve this answer















I wasn't able to find a total height in the book, but we do have a measurement to work with.




Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand
holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last
sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball—he was sure not
so much as a scratch marred its surface—at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been
uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the
dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and
knowledge. -The Great Hunt



Length, units of: 10 inches = 3 hands = 1 foot; 3 feet = 1 pace; 2
paces = 1 span; 1000 spans = 1 mile; 4 miles = 1 league. - Appendix




The average US male has a hand length of about 7.5 inches(19cm), and a height of 70 inches(178cm).



With some guess work on how long the hand is vs the sphere itself, math blah blah blah.



If the length of the hand is 60 Wheel of Time feet (20 paces at 1 pace = 3 Wheel of Time feet) using our average proportioned US male ratio,



the Choedan Kal stood at about 560 Wheel of Time Feet or converted from Wheel of Time measurements 467 US Feet(142 meter).



As a basis for my assumption that the hand is about the same diameter as the orb here is the official cover for Winters Heart. As Muru states in a comment, The access Ter'angreal (which is what it appears we see in the book cover) are identical but miniature of the large Sa'angreal.



enter image description here







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  • It would really help if you could provide SI approximations for your measurements...

    – DavidW
    23 hours ago











  • @DavidW will do, robert jordan used US measurements in his appendix so ill have to add in the conversions for you other folk :P

    – Himarm
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm +1 for the units he used, but if you gave me SI that'd be awesome too.

    – CBredlow
    23 hours ago











  • "1 pace = 3 feet" - the standard figure I found was 30 inches or 2.5 feet.

    – Rand al'Thor
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm Thank you. Some of us speak the language, but not exactly the same. :) (Wasn't there a quote along the lines of "divided by a common language?" :)

    – DavidW
    23 hours ago



















  • It would really help if you could provide SI approximations for your measurements...

    – DavidW
    23 hours ago











  • @DavidW will do, robert jordan used US measurements in his appendix so ill have to add in the conversions for you other folk :P

    – Himarm
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm +1 for the units he used, but if you gave me SI that'd be awesome too.

    – CBredlow
    23 hours ago











  • "1 pace = 3 feet" - the standard figure I found was 30 inches or 2.5 feet.

    – Rand al'Thor
    23 hours ago











  • @Himarm Thank you. Some of us speak the language, but not exactly the same. :) (Wasn't there a quote along the lines of "divided by a common language?" :)

    – DavidW
    23 hours ago

















It would really help if you could provide SI approximations for your measurements...

– DavidW
23 hours ago





It would really help if you could provide SI approximations for your measurements...

– DavidW
23 hours ago













@DavidW will do, robert jordan used US measurements in his appendix so ill have to add in the conversions for you other folk :P

– Himarm
23 hours ago





@DavidW will do, robert jordan used US measurements in his appendix so ill have to add in the conversions for you other folk :P

– Himarm
23 hours ago













@Himarm +1 for the units he used, but if you gave me SI that'd be awesome too.

– CBredlow
23 hours ago





@Himarm +1 for the units he used, but if you gave me SI that'd be awesome too.

– CBredlow
23 hours ago













"1 pace = 3 feet" - the standard figure I found was 30 inches or 2.5 feet.

– Rand al'Thor
23 hours ago





"1 pace = 3 feet" - the standard figure I found was 30 inches or 2.5 feet.

– Rand al'Thor
23 hours ago













@Himarm Thank you. Some of us speak the language, but not exactly the same. :) (Wasn't there a quote along the lines of "divided by a common language?" :)

– DavidW
23 hours ago





@Himarm Thank you. Some of us speak the language, but not exactly the same. :) (Wasn't there a quote along the lines of "divided by a common language?" :)

– DavidW
23 hours ago













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The best place to check is Book 2, Chapter 20, when Rand first sees the male Choedan Kal statue. At this point neither Rand nor we the readers know what it is, or even the words Choedan Kal - it's just a big statue to us, and for that reason it's described in more detail than later.




His eyes on the reflection, he was surprised when Red suddenly stopped. On the point of urging the bay on, he realized that they stood on the edge of a clay precipice, above a huge excavation. Most of the hill had been dug away to a depth of easily a hundred paces. Certainly more than one hill had vanished, and maybe some farmers' fields, for the hole was at least ten times as wide as it was deep. The far side appeared to have been packed hard to a ramp. There were men on the bottom, a dozen of them, getting a fire started; down there, night was already descending. Here and there among them armor turned the light, and swords swung at their sides. He hardly glanced at them.



Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball — he was sure not so much as a scratch marred its surface — at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and knowledge.




The statue's hand is holding a ball which is twenty paces (around 600 inches or 50 feet) in diameter. Now we don't know exactly how big the ball is compared to the hand, but I'm assuming the hand is firmly clasping the ball, something like this (non-canonical) picture:



image



At a rough estimation, I guess I could comfortably hold a ball perhaps 4-5 inches in diameter like this. That would make the statue around 120-150 times life size, assuming it's proportional. So the statue is, at a very rough estimate:



around 250 metres high.






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    Perhaps another approach: the excavation is 100+ paces (250+ ft, 75+ m) deep and all they've uncovered so far is its head and a hand. Assuming that the head/hand weren't buried too deeply underground, that easily puts the statue on the same scale as the largest statues in our world, if not larger. TL;DR it's huge, even by our standards.

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  • Aren't the keys miniature versions of the statues? If so, they ball would be much bigger going by the cover of Winter's Heart: i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/…

    – muru
    15 hours ago
















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The best place to check is Book 2, Chapter 20, when Rand first sees the male Choedan Kal statue. At this point neither Rand nor we the readers know what it is, or even the words Choedan Kal - it's just a big statue to us, and for that reason it's described in more detail than later.




His eyes on the reflection, he was surprised when Red suddenly stopped. On the point of urging the bay on, he realized that they stood on the edge of a clay precipice, above a huge excavation. Most of the hill had been dug away to a depth of easily a hundred paces. Certainly more than one hill had vanished, and maybe some farmers' fields, for the hole was at least ten times as wide as it was deep. The far side appeared to have been packed hard to a ramp. There were men on the bottom, a dozen of them, getting a fire started; down there, night was already descending. Here and there among them armor turned the light, and swords swung at their sides. He hardly glanced at them.



Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball — he was sure not so much as a scratch marred its surface — at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and knowledge.




The statue's hand is holding a ball which is twenty paces (around 600 inches or 50 feet) in diameter. Now we don't know exactly how big the ball is compared to the hand, but I'm assuming the hand is firmly clasping the ball, something like this (non-canonical) picture:



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At a rough estimation, I guess I could comfortably hold a ball perhaps 4-5 inches in diameter like this. That would make the statue around 120-150 times life size, assuming it's proportional. So the statue is, at a very rough estimate:



around 250 metres high.






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    Perhaps another approach: the excavation is 100+ paces (250+ ft, 75+ m) deep and all they've uncovered so far is its head and a hand. Assuming that the head/hand weren't buried too deeply underground, that easily puts the statue on the same scale as the largest statues in our world, if not larger. TL;DR it's huge, even by our standards.

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  • Aren't the keys miniature versions of the statues? If so, they ball would be much bigger going by the cover of Winter's Heart: i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/…

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The best place to check is Book 2, Chapter 20, when Rand first sees the male Choedan Kal statue. At this point neither Rand nor we the readers know what it is, or even the words Choedan Kal - it's just a big statue to us, and for that reason it's described in more detail than later.




His eyes on the reflection, he was surprised when Red suddenly stopped. On the point of urging the bay on, he realized that they stood on the edge of a clay precipice, above a huge excavation. Most of the hill had been dug away to a depth of easily a hundred paces. Certainly more than one hill had vanished, and maybe some farmers' fields, for the hole was at least ten times as wide as it was deep. The far side appeared to have been packed hard to a ramp. There were men on the bottom, a dozen of them, getting a fire started; down there, night was already descending. Here and there among them armor turned the light, and swords swung at their sides. He hardly glanced at them.



Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball — he was sure not so much as a scratch marred its surface — at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and knowledge.




The statue's hand is holding a ball which is twenty paces (around 600 inches or 50 feet) in diameter. Now we don't know exactly how big the ball is compared to the hand, but I'm assuming the hand is firmly clasping the ball, something like this (non-canonical) picture:



image



At a rough estimation, I guess I could comfortably hold a ball perhaps 4-5 inches in diameter like this. That would make the statue around 120-150 times life size, assuming it's proportional. So the statue is, at a very rough estimate:



around 250 metres high.






share|improve this answer















The best place to check is Book 2, Chapter 20, when Rand first sees the male Choedan Kal statue. At this point neither Rand nor we the readers know what it is, or even the words Choedan Kal - it's just a big statue to us, and for that reason it's described in more detail than later.




His eyes on the reflection, he was surprised when Red suddenly stopped. On the point of urging the bay on, he realized that they stood on the edge of a clay precipice, above a huge excavation. Most of the hill had been dug away to a depth of easily a hundred paces. Certainly more than one hill had vanished, and maybe some farmers' fields, for the hole was at least ten times as wide as it was deep. The far side appeared to have been packed hard to a ramp. There were men on the bottom, a dozen of them, getting a fire started; down there, night was already descending. Here and there among them armor turned the light, and swords swung at their sides. He hardly glanced at them.



Out of the clay at the bottom of the pit slanted a gigantic stone hand holding a crystal sphere, and it was this that shone with the last sunlight. Rand gaped at the size of it, a smooth ball — he was sure not so much as a scratch marred its surface — at least twenty paces through.



Some distance away from the hand, a stone face in proportion had been uncovered. A bearded man's face, it thrust out of the soil with the dignity of vast years; the broad features seemed to hold wisdom and knowledge.




The statue's hand is holding a ball which is twenty paces (around 600 inches or 50 feet) in diameter. Now we don't know exactly how big the ball is compared to the hand, but I'm assuming the hand is firmly clasping the ball, something like this (non-canonical) picture:



image



At a rough estimation, I guess I could comfortably hold a ball perhaps 4-5 inches in diameter like this. That would make the statue around 120-150 times life size, assuming it's proportional. So the statue is, at a very rough estimate:



around 250 metres high.







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  • 1





    Perhaps another approach: the excavation is 100+ paces (250+ ft, 75+ m) deep and all they've uncovered so far is its head and a hand. Assuming that the head/hand weren't buried too deeply underground, that easily puts the statue on the same scale as the largest statues in our world, if not larger. TL;DR it's huge, even by our standards.

    – duskwuff
    16 hours ago













  • Aren't the keys miniature versions of the statues? If so, they ball would be much bigger going by the cover of Winter's Heart: i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/…

    – muru
    15 hours ago














  • 1





    Perhaps another approach: the excavation is 100+ paces (250+ ft, 75+ m) deep and all they've uncovered so far is its head and a hand. Assuming that the head/hand weren't buried too deeply underground, that easily puts the statue on the same scale as the largest statues in our world, if not larger. TL;DR it's huge, even by our standards.

    – duskwuff
    16 hours ago













  • Aren't the keys miniature versions of the statues? If so, they ball would be much bigger going by the cover of Winter's Heart: i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/…

    – muru
    15 hours ago








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Perhaps another approach: the excavation is 100+ paces (250+ ft, 75+ m) deep and all they've uncovered so far is its head and a hand. Assuming that the head/hand weren't buried too deeply underground, that easily puts the statue on the same scale as the largest statues in our world, if not larger. TL;DR it's huge, even by our standards.

– duskwuff
16 hours ago







Perhaps another approach: the excavation is 100+ paces (250+ ft, 75+ m) deep and all they've uncovered so far is its head and a hand. Assuming that the head/hand weren't buried too deeply underground, that easily puts the statue on the same scale as the largest statues in our world, if not larger. TL;DR it's huge, even by our standards.

– duskwuff
16 hours ago















Aren't the keys miniature versions of the statues? If so, they ball would be much bigger going by the cover of Winter's Heart: i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/…

– muru
15 hours ago





Aren't the keys miniature versions of the statues? If so, they ball would be much bigger going by the cover of Winter's Heart: i0.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/…

– muru
15 hours ago


















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