User blog:Niellepuffs/(Pheilan) Beyond the borders

The concept of the Mists as a catch-all term for what is beyond mortal understanding looks more and more likely with each passing day. The Asura claim to know what their Box is, what its purpose is (adventure), but why? And how?

The intentions and substance of the human gods must not be explained. If it were, they would lose any claim to divinity. So of course they must have stepped over the threshold of the Mists when arriving in Arah.

The actions of the Norn spirits, the animals ability to influence the mortals around them cannot be understood, so they too must exist within the mists of incomprehensibility.

And the Dream? Perhaps. But the Dream is something different. The roots of the Pale Tree physically extend throughout Tyria, and their sensory experiences have a measurable effect on her seedlings. This is not at all irrational. Our connections to these experiences, to each other, our brothers and sisters, are physical, easy to understand, at least the why if not the how, and thus we have no need of Mists to describe what we know in our minds.

No matter how unreal things seem to be, her touch always moves within reality in undeniable ways.