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Totally agree with you... kinda. The idea of the Rolling Mists myth has been one that I have supported for some time now. I think that this idea of the Mist moving ahead and revealing new items is possibly true... however, that would negate the idea of The End of the Way. After all, if the Mist is always moving forward, the Way ends in a different spot every second, yes?
I do not, however, think that there is Mist coming from behind, swallowing poor unfortunate stragglers. My evidence? Estrana. The fact that a settlement that large could stand for hundreds of years without being engulfed by the Back Mist seems a little fishy. Certainly, if such a Mist existed, it would have covered the city by now.
As for the Way being a Loop, you might have several things to back up your theory there. For example, Rhue (or Jeruh, or whoever) leaves the Landorin Stretch as a child, and continues walking in a particular direction. However, by the end of Episode 5, he's right back where he started? Why? Maybe because the Way, being a loop, forced him to go full-circle both physically and metaphorically.
Sage Of The Wise wrote:Totally agree with you... kinda. The idea of the Rolling Mists myth has been one that I have supported for some time now. I think that this idea of the Mist moving ahead and revealing new items is possibly true... however, that would negate the idea of The End of the Way. After all, if the Mist is always moving forward, the Way ends in a different spot every second, yes?
But it would certainly explain Gaius's claim that the cave used to be the end of the way, a claim you could make of any given spot on the way. Keep in mind that Gaius is the only one that ever names that area as the end of the way, it would be absurd to actually consider it such, seeing how close it is to Estrana, a place that must be many decades old.I do not, however, think that there is Mist coming from behind, swallowing poor unfortunate stragglers. My evidence? Estrana. The fact that a settlement that large could stand for hundreds of years without being engulfed by the Back Mist seems a little fishy. Certainly, if such a Mist existed, it would have covered the city by now.
Well, the way has to be really big. And the portion not covered by the mists(if they exist) itself must be big enough that the area where the game takes place is at least a good hundred years ahead of the mists. This is because like was said, not only does it take a long time for a city like Estrana to be built, no ones even going to bother if they think the mists are coming any time soon. So the existence of Estrana doesn't disprove the mists, but tells us more about the world (or at least the peoples perception of it).As for the Way being a Loop, you might have several things to back up your theory there. For example, Rhue (or Jeruh, or whoever) leaves the Landorin Stretch as a child, and continues walking in a particular direction. However, by the end of Episode 5, he's right back where he started? Why? Maybe because the Way, being a loop, forced him to go full-circle both physically and metaphorically.
The way being a loop is all but a given at this point, because of the evidence you give, but you got it mixed up a little bit. The place Rhue arrives at at the end of EP5 is not Landorin, its the place that was Landorin in Rhue's mind. We see what the real Landorin looked like at the end of EP6. This means that the place Rhue thought was Landorin is from a different memory in his mind, and somehow got mixed with the Landorin one. (Re watch the conversation with Gaius at EP5 now and a few things Gaius says will make a lot more sense now). So Rhue has been there before, but we have no idea when. Given the supposed size of the way, it must have been a long time ago, which adds to the claims that Rhue has been around for a long time. The Way is certainly not a place that can be circled in a decade, if it was, people would certainly have noticed.
Also, to go back on a previous thing you mentioned. You say you believe that the way loops, and you believe their could be mists at the front of the way, but you don't believe there are mists at the back of the way. If the way is looped, and there are mists at the front, then there have to be mists at the back, because they would be the same mist, it would just depend on what side you are on.
So then, was Gauis lying about it being the End of the Way? Or was he right about it being the end once upon a time?
I still don't get your point about Estrana and the Mist... You're saying that the Mist is still a hundred years behind Estrana? ... I still don't follow. Remember also, Estrana was built atop Janwen. Neither city was or has been engulfed in Mist. Even if their existence at one time or another does not disprove the Rolling Mists altogether, I think it at least makes a dent in the idea.
Ah! I see. Alright, that makes it a bit clearer. You're saying that so many people wouldn't believe in it if there wasn't some chance of it being real. Gotcha. That makes sense I suppose. But then again (and I don't want to get into a religious discussion), Scientology and other religions have its share of followers with no real evidence to back their beliefs up with. But that's a faith issue more than anything, so we won't get into that.
I've noticed that Gauis tends to string people along, and almost never answers a question unless its with another question. I'm still wondering, though, why were Rhue and Gauis chasing Jeruh? Was "Rhue" Midian at the time, there to avenge Serena's murder? If so, does that mean that "Rhue" accepted multiple personalities in this order?
Venge > Kura > Midian > Rhue
Sage Of The Wise wrote:Also, Sacrifa says at one point that after Kura killed Kava, Kura pretty much falls off the face of the earth, and the next night all the guided are killed by what is thought to be 'the ghost of Kava'. If that doesn't scream 'Rhue who was Kura killed and became Kava and went on to kill the guided for revenge' I don't know what does. >_>
PsychicK wrote:Just like Sage said, it screams Rhue=Kura and Kava. I wonder which other characters in Dream Estrana could be Rhue's past identities...
Okay. Maybe that's the dialogue I was thinking about. My question is, if a Blood Lyn took in Venge's aura, could it be that Kura/Kava was the Blood Lyn? In other words, could the order be--
Kura/Kava > unknown # of ppl > Venge > unknown # of ppl > Midian > Jeruh/Rhue
Rather than Venge and then Kura/Kava?
There was a guy in a golden cloak who pops up at House of Pnoe, the club, and other locations (he eventually tells you about the Witch's Forest in Dream Estrana). He was so sinister and mysterious, I really expected him to pop up again. Could he have been Kava or Kura?
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