by JLAF » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:14 pm
Now, this is just a theory mind you, but could The Way in fact be a planet? Anyway, here me out...
There was a theory, an old one, where the rolling mists are just the ocean. The evidence being what "M20" Man said and that when mist condenses it becomes water. In this theory, the ocean slowly destroys and erodes old paths at the start of The Way, while people make new ones and the end.
If this were true, people might end up warning the same portions of The Way, generations later. What I mean is, if you go all The Way around a planet, you’ll end up where you started. Perhaps in the world of The Way the would planet is traveled over many generations, but by the time they get back to where they started, the knowledge that people have been here has been lost, so it is assumed that this is a new area.
The “Way Posts” and citadels are the only things still remaining from back when a stretch was traveled last, because they are so strong. (I have yet to find out why that is though.)
The peaces of evidence that I can find to support this theory are that Rhue remembers the End of The Way, the lost city is under Estrana, and some of Dirk’s and Sacrifa’s ramblings.
If Rhue remembers the End of The Way (in his memory of the Landorin Massacre), that may mean he absorbed an aura a LONG time ago that traveled through that area. It couldn’t have been someone who went to the End of The Way, and then came back to be killed by Rhue, because The Way ended where you fight Strata after killing Lyrra; That is, until a little before you arrived. (I think the quote was “The End of The Way WAS where you’re standing.”) This means that any people Rhue absorbed who had been to the End of The Way, wouldn’t have seen the End of The Way used in his memories.
The fact that the lost city is below Estrana is highly suspicious. We know that it is under the real Estrana because Sacrifa remembers it from before he was killed. Assuming that it is Janwen (which is what the “Man in Red” makes it seem like), you would think that the Guided would choose a different area for their town. However, if Estrana was created after a trip around the world, the Guided very well might not know it was Janwen.
As for Dirk’s and Sacrifa’s ramblings, it goes like this: Dirk says his friend was killed because he found out the truth about the End of The Way, which disproved the Guided. If the End of The Way was based on people making bridges/digging tunnels etc., this would go against the idea of the rolling mist, and maybe even the purpose. Sacrifa says that the End of The Way doesn’t exist in The Way you think it does, or something like that. (This is after he says it’s a creation of Tetzel... I’ll get the exact quote when I get back home.) This could be referring to the End of The Way being as far as man kind can go at the moment. Also, Sacrifa says that Tetzel was trying to slow everyone down with the rumors of the PS. Maybe he just wanted to slow them down until the Guided finished digging the tunnel you go through to get to the new end of The Way, because the Guided are really the ones making the bridges and such now.
Any thoughts, discredits, or anything else would be nice.
PS. Please tell me no one’s said this before.