Silencia Roamadred
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We know that Tel'aran'rhiod is the world of dreams and we also know that across all of the Multiversal patterns, there exists only one Creator, one Dark One and one Tel'aran'rhiod. Essentially the world of dreams is the manifestation of consciousness, which is why you need to sleep to enter it - with the exception of entering the realm of consciousness physically.
So I imagine a layered cake, for arguments sake the Dark One the base. The next layer would be Tel'aran'rhiod and then at the top of the cake we have the Multiversal Pattern. When Lanfear created the Bore, it was due to her "drilling" through Tel'aran'rhiod, and into the Dark Ones prison.
Ishamael (someone whose words I think we can hold some weight to - even if his nihilistic philosophies are proven to be wrong) says something to the effect of Shayol Ghul being no closer to the Bore physically than anywhere else, but that the thinness of the Pattern at Shayol Ghul allows the Dark One to seep through Tel'aran'rhiod.
So my theory here (no doubt not original at all and inspired my many other far more intelligent WoT readers than me) is that Lanfear created the Bore as a metaphysical hole in reality, a hole in consciousness and will.
This ties in with the theme of the Dark One being an agent of Free Will, of Chaos, that the world that exists in WoT is a the physical world where Tel'aran'rhiod acts as a mechanism to tie consciousness to the World of Flesh, hence entering in the Flesh is evil because it removes one degree of separation to Chaos. We also know that whatever research Lanfear was engages in at Collam Daam it is likely to revolve around her expertise and penchant towards the World of Dreams.
Any thoughts?
So I imagine a layered cake, for arguments sake the Dark One the base. The next layer would be Tel'aran'rhiod and then at the top of the cake we have the Multiversal Pattern. When Lanfear created the Bore, it was due to her "drilling" through Tel'aran'rhiod, and into the Dark Ones prison.
Ishamael (someone whose words I think we can hold some weight to - even if his nihilistic philosophies are proven to be wrong) says something to the effect of Shayol Ghul being no closer to the Bore physically than anywhere else, but that the thinness of the Pattern at Shayol Ghul allows the Dark One to seep through Tel'aran'rhiod.
So my theory here (no doubt not original at all and inspired my many other far more intelligent WoT readers than me) is that Lanfear created the Bore as a metaphysical hole in reality, a hole in consciousness and will.
This ties in with the theme of the Dark One being an agent of Free Will, of Chaos, that the world that exists in WoT is a the physical world where Tel'aran'rhiod acts as a mechanism to tie consciousness to the World of Flesh, hence entering in the Flesh is evil because it removes one degree of separation to Chaos. We also know that whatever research Lanfear was engages in at Collam Daam it is likely to revolve around her expertise and penchant towards the World of Dreams.
Any thoughts?