On the Nature of the Dream
- On the Nature of the Dream
- Binds when picked up
- Unique
- "Written by an unnamed dragon. Note: Contains speculation not to be shared with the keepers."
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On the Nature of the Dream is a book found in the Eye of Ysera in the Emerald Dream.
Content
I have spent ages here within the Emerald Dream, exploring its reaches and basking in its tranquility. Yet the more I experience, the more what I perceive seems to be at odds with lessons taught to us by the titan keepers.
Thus I am compelled to share my feelings here. Not to stir discontent. or to claim my theories are immutable truths. but to encourage others to ponder these subjects for themselves.
It has been said that the Dream was created by Keeper Freya, acting on behalf of her patron, Eonar. And yet. I have noticed that the titans' acolytes do not speak of something as "finished" until it has been ordered.
So did they truly create the Dream, or merely discover it, seeing its vibrancy as chaos to which they were compelled to bring structure?
Seeking an answer, I have spoken to many spirits who inhabit the Dream. Dryads, ancients, grove keepers, and others. None of them tell of a titan creating the Dream.
Instead, they speak of the first spirits awakening long ago within its wilds, in lands as beautiful and free as they are today.
(Though I wonder, since time has so little meaning here, whether those born of the Dream truly think in terms of past or present.)
We have also been told that the Dream is a sort of framework for life on Azeroth. And it is true that we can see reflections of our world within the Dream.
Yet while it is clear these realms share a bond, is one a copy of the other? Or might both be reflections, each informing the shape of its counterpart?
Many times I have shrugged off the call of sleep and taken wing to explore the distant reaches of the Dream. The farther I flew, the greater the wonders I beheld.
Life took forms strange and unfamiliar. Bizarre, impossible plants and trees. Creatures unlike any I beheld before.
Perhaps the Dream is bound not only to Azeroth, but to realms not yet discovered. Is it a reflection of those places, too?
At these far reaches, I felt the presence of entities whose power seemed vast and unknowable, akin to the titans themselves.
Had I reached the edges of the Dream where it flows into the Realms of Life? Are they one and the same? Truly, I cannot say, for as waves of joy and contentment washed over me, I could no longer resist the call of sleep.
I awoke back at the Eye of Ysera, wondering if I had experienced a dream within the Dream.
It seems clear that the servants of the titans wish the Dream to stay unchanging--at least, unchanged by any hand but theirs.
Yet the very nature of life is one of change, is it not? Things are born, live, and die, but life itself goes on.
Perhaps life was never meant to be ordered. To be static and unchanging.
The titans' servants do not seem to understand that Life and Death are sisters, bound together in a Great Cycle.
Do they not wish to see this truth? Or is it beyond their fundamental nature to perceive it?
If we dragons see it, then it can only mean that we are touched not just by Life and Order, but other forces as well.
And if dragons are the product of powers great and small being eternally intertwined, then so must all mortals be.
Perhaps Azeroth herself was touched by all these forces. Or could she be their true source?
Some things are beyond knowing. Some things are meant only to be pondered... in dreams.
Patch changes
Patch 10.2.0 (2023-11-07): Added.
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