The Might of Dreams
“We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for,” Mithorden said one day as they rode. “The echoes of our thoughts live on in eternity. If you convince enough people that something is going to happen on Oesha it eventually will. It can be an awful thing. It can be a wonder. The Vyrl dominated the dreams of nations for an age. Through dreams, they conquered Oesha. But your father learned to walk in dreams, to speak to people as they slept. It’s how he overthrew the Vyrl.”
Luthiel nodded. It was a difficult thing to grasp. All dreaming creatures helped shape the future. Her father had used this to overthrow the Vyrl.
“So how do you know when something is going to happen?”
“Signs start appearing in the real world. Things start changing.”
Luthiel decided to hazard a question. “Like what’s happening in the sky?”
Mithorden frowned and was silent for a while. Luthiel rode on beside him quietly thinking the lesson had ended. Finally, the sorcerer spoke up. “In part, I think what’s happening in the sky would happen regardless of dreams. It was a weapon Gorthar made at the beginning. Something that’s part of the way things work. But it would terrify many and so affect Oesha in dreams as well. I think the appearance of Dimlock and Widdershae was made possible by this thing in the sky. People feared it and dreamed of terrors. Eventually, some of it happened. Elwin has managed to hold off the darkness all these years. But she is fighting a deeper darkness. The arrival of more awful things than Dimlock and Widdershae.”
(excerpted from “Luthiel’s Song: The War of Mists”)

May 8th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Great concepts. Haven’t seen them in any fantasy novels and I’ve read hundreds.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Really loved the second book! Can’t wait for III!
May 18th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
how many more books are there?
any i’d like to know when you’d be done with them all.
i’ve heard there’re 7 more books?
May 19th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
We are planning for seven books in all. At this rate, though, it could include one or two more.
May 20th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Yes! Seven! That means it won’t be finished for a long while!
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I love the part just a little further on the facing page where she heals a flutterflur. Beautiful passages.