David Eddings Universe Theory

Hello people's. It's time for some more David Eddings. Here it goes.

So Eddings wrote four fantasy universes before his death in 2009. Recently I finished the third, The Redemption of Althalus. Now as I was reading this third fantasy universe I realized that although occasionally the characters have hinted to knowing that the world is round they have never contemplated the idea of sailing the other way from the west coast of their continent to the east coast to the other, it's just always been from east coast to west coast. Now it would seem obvious that the human characters would just think that the ocean between the west and east coasts would be wider and also unexplored compared the regular route. Even if the humans didn't think about traveling the other direction you would think that all of the gods in these books would know this. However, in most of these series at one point or another through some kind of magic, characters have not "noticed" something important or have only had that important thing come to them through a trigger, for instance in The Mallorean when Garion is looking through The Secrets to find actual prophecy he doesn't have to actually read the words, he just has to turn pages until the correct words jump at him and he notices them and in the same series a splotch on a piece of paper magically irritates people so much that they don't look at it and realize that it's actually many words over top of each other. Also in the Elenium the goddess Aphrael will sometimes cause people to not notice her and the party she is with, she's not actually invisible she has just forced those people to not notice them. This got me thinking about the potential that these four universes are not separate; the land that the characters inhabit just lay in the oceans that for some reason the characters never bothered to try and cross. The being that put this magic on all of the mortals and gods would be something of boundless power exceeding all of the gods, Bhelliom and Klæl, and even the two battling destinies in The Belgariad/Mallorean. This gave me the idea that once every group of characters had completed their original purpose, for the Garion books defeat the dark destiny, for the Sparhawk books defeating Klæl etc., that the mental barriers would be dropped and all of the sudden the magically inclined characters would "hear" the new kinds of magic and new gods suddenly available to them and they would all be part of a final grand battle.

So that's my idea that joins all of David Eddings' fantasy universes. Bye.


- By Ashton