KKC Theory WikiHow Old Holly Came to Be
“Ancient tale of a tree-man's making”
Description§
How Old Holly Came to Be is an old story telling of the origin of Old Holly, a tree given living form. In it, an unnamed Lady meets a man who plays her music and departs with him, returning alone and weeping; all the while a tree watches her and comes to love her. Together they fight off a horde of shaped birdmen led by an evil shadow-thing, which Old Holly drives into the earth with a spear of living green and burns away.
Relationships§
- Depicts Shaping — uses the word 'turn' in place of 'shape', evoking the shaping magic
Established facts§
- Tells how Old Holly, a tree, came to take living form
- Features an unnamed Lady whose songs work magic and make trees dance
- Old Holly bends his boughs to bring forth a spear of living green, its blade as bright as berry-blood
- With the spear he slays an evil shadow-thing that leads a horde of shaped birdmen
- Uses the word 'turn' in place of 'shape'
Theories that reference this§
- fringe Auri Is the Moon, Not Princess Ariel or Lyra pop 185
- fringe Felurian and Auri Are Two Broken Halves of Lyra, Divided in the Creation War pop 144
- fringe Lyra Is the Moon, and Temerant's Myths Are Distorted Retellings of Her Story pop 112
- fringe Lyra Is the Moon, and Temerant's Myths Are Distorted Retellings of Her Story pop 112
- fringe Cinder Did the Cthaeh a 'Bad Turn' by Using the Breaking Way Against It pop 58
- fringe The Cthaeh's Truths Follow a Tetralemma, So Kvothe's Story Need Not Be Tragedy pop 58
- fringe Kvothe Cannot Die Because the Story Retells the Myth of Baldr pop 53