Let's play a game: Save the Ancients!

[SannaR]

And here I thought the OP was asking us players if there was a way the Ancients could be saved via what we know from what we see in game. Last time I checked those types of questions were asking for speculation.

Speaking of another subject that's been brought up. The 8UC was 200 years after the rejoining happened by the time they pulled the trigger on something they didn't know would succeed let alone what the result would be for those who remained. There was still a lot of fighting happening and the land hadn't shown signs of recovery yet from the effects of Black Rose. The plan also hadn't gotten much popularity until its scope was to try and save the WoL. Even with Midgardsormr waking up you still had Elidibus, Emet-Selch and an obeying Fandaniel to contend with. The places we do know that probably weren't affected by Black Rose being Sharlyean, Thavnir, Meracydia, and Tural. One of those places has been described more than once as a literal hell hole.

Course these things aren't really meant to be looked at so closely. As problems like these equate to wondering how exactly there's so many dark friends at the start of WoT. Whose going around recruiting them and then keeping such a network running. Even with some of the Forsaken being able to influence the world from time to time the world is one inhabited by humans for the most part. Heck there's even somehow a dark friends that knew the series chosen one had been reborn and that people were looking for them months after the "foretelling" (it was more of a this event is happening right now) had only been heard by four people.

Though probably not as egregious of a problem as say finding Jet in a container that's in a game happening prior to its invention or in one that is in a place the player is told hasn't had anyone inside of it for over 200 years.