SureAI

Makesin wrote:

I don't disagree with you at all in regards to the parallels between the various nightmares. Yes, they are there and yes, it may mean that even the original nightmares that he Prophet suffered from before their death were created by the High Ones.

But if they were, we are met with the important question of why. Because where I do disagree with you is when you say that the High Ones do things just because they can. They don't. Everything they do (or at least everything we know they do) is done for the purpose of the Cleansing, and the Cleansing itself is done for the purpose of procreation. In this way, the High Ones are in some ways rather primitive, as they are controlled by this primitive urge.

The Emissaries are created so that they can lead humanity towards the Cleansing. The Red Madness is created so that the humanity feels threatened and is susceptible by the Emissaries. But why would they give a small boy of no importance nightmares? Even more importantly, those nightmares most likely began before the fall of the Light-Born, i.e. before the Red Madness and the time of the Cleansing. Especially so if we accept the theory that the Prophet exists only because the Veiled Woman created them, therefore that the High Ones didn't know about the Prophet before the Veiled Woman intervened.

I know I am probably overthinking all this, but nothing happens without a reason, and even less so if my hypothesis is correct and the High Ones are essentially primitive beings. Then everything they do would be controlled by their primitive urges, and some psychological doctrines give us the triade of these urges controlling every living being: The urge to be unharmed, the urge to survive and the urge to procreate.

So, my crackpot theory: Since the High Ones are essentially immortal (their death can only come from the Beacon and they do everything they can to prevent that), their procreation is ensured (and is, interestingly enough, tied to the urge to prevent harm), the only urge left unsatisfied is survival, which for living beings mean thirst and hunger. It may be possible, then, that the High Ones influence nightmares in all humans because they feed on the negative energy created by those nightmares, and without feeding on the nightmares they would slowly lose all their powers. (So, another solution for the Cycle: force humans never to sleep again).

EDIT: I have to say, if the writers confirmed this theory, I'd lose my mind...

That would be my one criticism of Enderal in that as you progress you grow stronger, more powerful. Yet you never use your power to change what is supposed to happen. In the Sky City you are forced to run ,to abandon your ally and let her perish alone instead of fighting off the dragon and flying back or when you are sent to spy on Coarec why not decimate their numbers a bit before getting caught. Maybe that is just how the story should go but I still wish I had more input into which direction it will go.

Raminus wrote:

My favorite quest and the most saddest one in my opinion is A song in the silence...

To Flee

If you chose Calia she would grow to resent you for this decision for she wouldn't have done the same and also the never ending what if talk, you would drift away until she passes and if you had a child it too shall die. Not to mention you will be alone on a flying city with no other humans in sight. You are immortal but you are not a god and humans are social animals. You would become mad or if somehow you do stay sane for hundred thousand or even million years why would the humans of that era follow you. It would probably be the same as with the light-born, they would rebel and kill you because they are human just like past humans. The Black Guardians's speech about ego and arrogance and human weaknesses although on point would not be doable. Humans are humans and though we can reduce evil we cannot eliminate it.