Darkelve
04-29-2006, 05:41 PM
I think titles are very important... and here goes my attempt to explain the main title of the game: Dreamfall.
1. When the little girl makes Zoë FALL through the ice and into Arcadia, that could be described IMO as a Dream-fall.
We already know about:
- The Twin worlds: Stark and Arcadia
- The Divide
- The Winter
- The Storytime
Now some of these might actually be the same, e.g. it's quite possible that the Divide = The Winter. However, we CAN be sure that there are *at least* three different 'worlds':
- Stark
- The Divide
- Arcadia
What shifters do is to physically be in one place, then create a portal *directly* to the other world, thus 'bridging' The Divide. Brian is not a shifter, so the ONLY way for him to go to Arcadia is to pass through the Divide.
Dreams are sort of the "glue" which hold these twin worlds together. Now I don't have a clue f the Storytime is the same as that, or encompasses it all.
My inclination is that -somehow- "The Storytime = The Divide = The Winter"
Now Zoë is a whole other matter. When she dreams, she ends up with her 'spirit' or her 'soul' (for lack of a better word) in the storytime/divide. Imagining for a while that the Storytime/Divide lies *above* the twin worlds, one could get to Arcadia or Stark 'simply' by creating a temporary 'hole' between The Divide and one of the Worlds.
The reason why Zoë can walk around "body-less" in The Winter and Arcadia is because the laws of nature are much less etched-in-stone there.
So just like Cortez or the White Dragon could help April open a shift, Faith can help Zoë to get to Arcadia. As we saw, Zoë litterally "falls" from her dream, hence: Dreamfall.
And while being in a coma prevents Zoë from helping out in Stark, IMO she will absolutely be able to help out in either The Winter or Arcadia.
2. The falling of Dreams
Firstly, dreams are falling into the wrong hands. Why and how, I don't know. I am certainly inclined that, in Stark, it has to do with the Dreamnet and in Arcadia, it has to do with the magical races being kidnapped. April intuïtively felt those things were dreams and I see no immediate reason to doubt that.
This has also something (heck, probably EVERYTHING) to do with the Undreaming.
Which seems to be some kind of creature which can somehow destroy everything inside Stark and Arcadia because it is 'above' the two and everything in it (by the way anyone speak Chinese/Tibetan?).
Just like Zoë is above the two. The Storytime 'Guardian' probably asked Zoë to tell her story for a reason: to keep those memories into existence. Maybe being a Dreamer she even creates the story this way in this place, and the events will manifest themselves like that. Which is why it is so important that time is circular and the story has the same beginning and ending. In a way, it reminds me an awful lot of the Wheel of Time series, for anyone who has read that.
Well, I realize there are a lot of holes in this theory, but I do think it's a nice start.
1. When the little girl makes Zoë FALL through the ice and into Arcadia, that could be described IMO as a Dream-fall.
We already know about:
- The Twin worlds: Stark and Arcadia
- The Divide
- The Winter
- The Storytime
Now some of these might actually be the same, e.g. it's quite possible that the Divide = The Winter. However, we CAN be sure that there are *at least* three different 'worlds':
- Stark
- The Divide
- Arcadia
What shifters do is to physically be in one place, then create a portal *directly* to the other world, thus 'bridging' The Divide. Brian is not a shifter, so the ONLY way for him to go to Arcadia is to pass through the Divide.
Dreams are sort of the "glue" which hold these twin worlds together. Now I don't have a clue f the Storytime is the same as that, or encompasses it all.
My inclination is that -somehow- "The Storytime = The Divide = The Winter"
Now Zoë is a whole other matter. When she dreams, she ends up with her 'spirit' or her 'soul' (for lack of a better word) in the storytime/divide. Imagining for a while that the Storytime/Divide lies *above* the twin worlds, one could get to Arcadia or Stark 'simply' by creating a temporary 'hole' between The Divide and one of the Worlds.
The reason why Zoë can walk around "body-less" in The Winter and Arcadia is because the laws of nature are much less etched-in-stone there.
So just like Cortez or the White Dragon could help April open a shift, Faith can help Zoë to get to Arcadia. As we saw, Zoë litterally "falls" from her dream, hence: Dreamfall.
And while being in a coma prevents Zoë from helping out in Stark, IMO she will absolutely be able to help out in either The Winter or Arcadia.
2. The falling of Dreams
Firstly, dreams are falling into the wrong hands. Why and how, I don't know. I am certainly inclined that, in Stark, it has to do with the Dreamnet and in Arcadia, it has to do with the magical races being kidnapped. April intuïtively felt those things were dreams and I see no immediate reason to doubt that.
This has also something (heck, probably EVERYTHING) to do with the Undreaming.
Which seems to be some kind of creature which can somehow destroy everything inside Stark and Arcadia because it is 'above' the two and everything in it (by the way anyone speak Chinese/Tibetan?).
Just like Zoë is above the two. The Storytime 'Guardian' probably asked Zoë to tell her story for a reason: to keep those memories into existence. Maybe being a Dreamer she even creates the story this way in this place, and the events will manifest themselves like that. Which is why it is so important that time is circular and the story has the same beginning and ending. In a way, it reminds me an awful lot of the Wheel of Time series, for anyone who has read that.
Well, I realize there are a lot of holes in this theory, but I do think it's a nice start.