Aright, lemme c now...
Kalamadea's post on dreams gave me some moderately interesting ideas about a new leveller theory.
I saw his theory about what might happen if someone were to learn all of the forty-nine dreams, the part about the person becoming an incarnation of Wyrd, and it got me thinking... Obviously nobody's ever learned all of the dreams, and I started postulating that mb, just mb, learning a dream would cause the learner to start on the road toward Hero-dom, but only if the learner had the right kind of potential.
But since the 49 dreams are all just small pieces of Wyrd's One Dream, it could be that they are imperfect - flawed. That really got my attention, and therefore, it could be that the dreams try to push the learner towards becoming that god-like incarnation, only, since the dreams are incomplete and imperfect by themselves, they eventually start corrupting the person who has learned them, unless, of course, they were able to learn each and every one.
Of course, there's only ever one Hero and one Leveller, while at any one time, there's generally a couple dozen or so people who are capable of using dreams. That made me think that the amount of power that a dream gives to the person is actually completely dependent on that person's potential. It could be, provided that the dreams actually do have instructions written down somewhere, could be written in the common tongue, it's just that since so few people have the kind of necessary potential, that the dreams didn't allot any power at all to anyone without the potential.
But I digress. The assorted avatara and sorcerers and other magic-wielding people of the Myth-world who are capable of using dreams other than those who eventually become Heroes, and later Levellers, are probably under the same influence - first a push towards absolute good, followed by corruption towards Leveller-brand evil - only to a lesser degree, just as their potential is less than that of the Hero/Levellers.
You can find examples of this everywhere -
-Connacht
-Myrdred
-Damas (it's possible he learned some sort of dream - perhaps it is what he used to keep himself alive, while mutilating himself at the same time)
-The Watcher (if he was ever good to begin with)
-Tireces
-Shiver
-Mazzarin (admittedly, it wasn't his idea, but...)
-Sinis (well - all the shades, actually)
etc.
So what do you think? Do I have a somewhat supportable theory? Does it even make sense? Should I have my hands cut off for ever typing such blasphemy? =)
Doom.
