: Croaker was held captive by the Lady in the White Rose
: Alric was held captive by the Deceiver
: Nothing to do with Myth but... The Tree at the center of
: the Plain of Fear dreams of all those creatures, and
: the Plain itself.
: In Pathways, the Dreaming God dreamed of the Pyramind,
: and all the monsters/creatures within it
The Dreaming God's a Lovecraftian conception. ("In his great house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming.") The prevalence in fantasy and sci-fi of powerful beings who dream reality can be traced back to Lovecraft and Dunsany, although of course they were influenced by earlier religious and mythological sources.
--SiliconDream
