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Temerant Is a Forgotten Earth Colony and Magic Is Lost Technology

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Temerant is an old Earth colony where magic is remnant tech, the Fae is the colony ship, and the Cthaeh is its senile computer.

About: Temerant

Also involves: The Fae, The Cthaeh, Waystone Inn, The Amyr, The Chandrian, Sympathy, Naming

The theory§

This speculative theory recasts the whole setting as science fiction: Temerant is the long-evolved remnant of an Earth colony, and its 'magic'—sympathy and naming—is the decayed remains of forgotten travel and terraforming technology. The Fae realm is identified with the original colony ship, held in some kind of stasis loop that explains why time runs strangely there; waystones are teleporters that grant entry to the ship; the Cthaeh is the ship's computer, gone senile across the ages; and the Amyr, Chandrian, and Fae are descendants of the original crew. It draws explicitly on outside science fiction for inspiration rather than on in-world text, and is offered tentatively, with the admission that it is 'madness' that could perhaps be made to fit with enough effort. It rests on analogy rather than book canon.

Evidence§

  • Temerant is the evolution of an earth colony.The "magic" they have is the remnants of forgotten Tech that was used in the travel & terraforming of the planet after they arrived
    OP's core claim: Temerant is an Earth colony, magic is decayed terraforming tech. — u/monskervator
  • the Fey relm is on the old ship, the Cthae is the ship's computer which has gone senile over the years, and the Amyr / Chandrian /Fey are some of the descendants of the old crew.
    Maps Fae to the ship, Cthaeh to senile computer, factions to crew descendants. — u/monskervator
  • Way stones are the teleports into the old ship, the ship could be held in some kind of stasis loop which is why time gets messed up
    Waystones as teleporters; stasis loop explains Fae's distorted time. — u/monskervator
  • I also keep getting flashes of Forge of God by Greg Bear lol
    OP grounds the idea in outside sci-fi analogy rather than book canon. — u/monskervator
  • Yes, I know that what I have written is madness, but I am pretty certain that if I took the time I could make everything fit.
    OP concedes it is speculative, offered tentatively as fittable madness. — u/monskervator
  • Thinking of the greystones like that reminds me of a bit in Warren Ellis’ Planetary. A sentient dimensional shiftship crash lands on prehistoric earth and jettisons teleportation waystones that look like bits of standing stones.
    Commenter reinforces waystones-as-teleporters via a parallel sci-fi shipwreck. — u/cthaehtouched
  • Looks like you read too much from Mark Lawrence. I don't think P.R. is going in that direction.
    CounterCounter: doubts Rothfuss intends a sci-fi direction for the series. — u/WoodSt_69
  • While previous suggestion was funny, this is just daft..
    CounterCounter: dismisses the theory as baseless. — u/uberdoppel

Tier reasoning§

tier correct: speculative leap, no book support

Source threads§