The Creation War/Shaping/Dreaming as related to Aboriginal Australian "Everywhen"
I've been on a time dilation/time oddity kick.
Taborlin the Great/Other Stories existing in a parallel time stream
I thought the Aboriginal Idea of the "Everywhen" coined by Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner could have some relation to the dreaming/other parralell oddities of time dilation in addition to the Fae's fairly straightforward one.
It would also explain for the Cthaeh 'sees" all futures. It's actually able to tap into the "Everywhen". It experiences them all at once?
It exists outside of Linear time?
"Everywhen" also explains how the Fae, exists in night, day, etc. All times at once.
The beginning of creation was "The Dreamtime"
From AI to help me organize my thoughts:
In the Dreamtime, ancestral spirit beings walked a flat, featureless earth and "shaped" reality, turning their actions**,** songs**, and** battles into the physical landscape.
In The Kingkiller Chronicle**, the ancient world before the split was populated by "Knowers" and "Shapers".**
- The Act of Dreaming: Felurian explicitly calls the ancient Shapers "proud dreamers".(this is true i checked it)
- Waking the World: Just like the Dreamtime ancestors who woke the world from darkness, the Shapers looked at a world that was a "nameless void" spun by Aleph and began creating things in terms of absolute mastery. They did not just live in the world; their powerful minds dreamed new realities into physical existence.
The Dreamtime even explains Singers....who sang things into creation.
More from AI for organization:
The Creation War: A Fracture in the "Everywhen"
The Dreaming relies on absolute balance, where the landscape, laws, and spirits are intertwined and unchanging. In Temerant, the Creation War was sparked because that cosmic balance was violently shattered.
- Stealing the Moon: Iax was not satisfied with just making a parallel Fae; he stole a piece of the Moon's name to pull her back and forth between the mortal world and the Fae.
- The Crack in Reality: This act fractured the smooth, singular world of the old "Knowers". By forcing a piece of the mortal world into their crafted "Everywhen," the Shapers caused a cosmic imbalance that resulted in a war lasting centuries, culminating in the Battle of Blac of Drossen Tor and the splitting of the universe.
Finally, the Cthaeh:
The Cthaeh and the Omniscient Future
In the Dreaming, ancestral forces continue to live in secret places, watching over the world and influencing the present. In the Fae, this is represented in a dark, twisted way by the Cthaeh.
The Cthaeh sits in a giant tree and can see all branches of the future perfectly. Because it sees the past, present, and future simultaneously, the Cthaeh acts as a malicious agent of the Everywhen. It exists outside of linear time, using its total perspective to say exactly the right words to mortals (like Iax before the Creation War, Lanre before his betrayal, and eventually Kvothe) to cause maximum damage.
Edit: Also "man-mothers" also supposedly have a connection to aboriginal australian beliefs.