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Hi everyone!
I am searching for (in context of my project Beyond (see artthread)
Literature, artwork, Designs, movies (architecture… though I am sure that does not exist) etc etc that are basing on the idea of:your emotion, your soul, your idea projected into a living being, a symbol, a creature, a thing with a name. Something that interacts with its “owner” perhaps on a mental level. Or made up stories with characters that represent the autor in different ways of thinking or different past influences.
Up to a point something similar to split personality only… not as crazy.Something similar like Daemons in The Golden Compass (though I am more looking more for personal and hence invisible ones) or furry personas (which I cannot take as I need something with a name and preferably “published”). I need this for text we have to write on your projekt. They want us to find similar existant samples. I am kind of blank right now and I do not only want to have the Golden Compass as a reference because its a really bad timing with the movie doing… pretty bad in Switzerland (I’ll anyhow refer to the books but right now there are posters everywhere and not many here know it was a book).
Any suggestions, names, links very welcome… I currently only see in pixels with my 3 hour sleep brain…
Not to mention I grew up making up fairy tales and arts for myself, hence I believe you fantasy lovers here may have actually more chances of knowing more than me.thanks in advance 🙂
greets
Aky
The Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey feature the *White Spirit Horses* that bond with their riders…
Oh, gosh… All I can think of are “familiars” (I believe the author of The Golden Compass actually used the whole idea of familiars as a base for the Daemons). I think they’re most common in western Europe mythology, probably originating from England. They were believed to serve their owners as servants, companions, spies and such, and they also granted special abilities to their owners.
But that’s really all I know, and I am not even sure if this helps at all… Since it’s maybe too similar to the Daemons in The Golden Compass and it’s got perhaps way too much to do with witchcraft.
But if I come up with anything else, I’ll make sure to tell you.the myth of familiars, it is rather common, but very varying between continents, like religion, some think that all religion is based on the same ideaology, but with different accents,
familiars are bound to their people, like you can read in the golden compass, and their life will fade if they are seperated
Dryads are bound to their oaks, they will perish if they travel too far from their trees, for too long, I think that you could see them in “the cronicles of narnia”
there are anchient Icelandic myths about wisards or clerics binding deamons in their service, risking their souls of course, unless they are so cunning that they can cheat them
then there are always “the followers” or “spirit guides” I don’t know the words for that phenomenon, still believed to follow humanity and guide them through life
guardian angels
spirit animals
you could always compare myths 😀
Anne McCaffery’s Dragons! The Dragons of Pern!
They hatch and select a human to bond to. They have a telepathic connection for the life of the Human Rider and Dragon. If a Rider dies the Dragon commits sucicide by going “between” and if the Dragon dies the rider either commits suicide or they basically go nuts, some manage to live normal lives.
Dragon Riders mate with the Riders of the Dragon’s mate. So a Weyr Leader is the Rider of the Bronze Dragon who mates with the Golden Queen and her Rider, who is the Weyr woman.
It gets very complicated…but it is a perfect example of a symbiotic relationship between a human and another creature. There are also Watchweyr’s in the Pern novels and they have a bond with their humans also.
Ohh, almost forgot about Fire Lizards, the Dragon’s ancestors….you MUST read the books!
PM me with questions. I have every single Anne McCaffery novel and I have been a fan of hers since I was a teenager. I can probably answer any question you have about PERN, or look it up!!!!
Her books are the perfect example and she has been writing since the 1960’s!
Okay, got one for you. There is a trilogy of fantasy books by Gael Baudino: Dragonsword, Dragonslayer, and Dragon Death. The premise is a fantasy world was created accidentally by a man who tried to commit suicide and didn’t succeed, but in the process somehow splintered off a fragment of his psyche which became the world. Through the trilogy the worldlet undergoes some fascinating changes as the man who created it–but doesn’t realize that he is essentially its god figure–reluctantly brings a woman to that world; she doesn’t agree with his misogynistic, war-games POV and her influences alter things. The man eventually figures out his role as god figure, and sacrifices himself to save that world. The woman becomes the new god figure, but her own personal demons promptly manifest and force her to deal with them. Et cetera. Although they’re not spectacular books, they’re a decent read and dovetail beautifully with what you’ve described. They’re available cheap as used books via Amazon. 🙂 Hope this helps!
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