Category:Seven Soldiers Locations

From Barbelith

I'd love to have some sort of graphic here -- a chart diagramming a "spatial" relationship between the various locations, if that's possible.

There's some speculation that the "world" of the Sheeda is just a larger version of our own -- that they're the power of 8 to our power of 4 (or 6, or 7). Colds are colder, hots are hotter, history is more historical, and time is more intensely present. Or something like that. All the worlds in 7S are nested inside one another like Russian dolls.

Stone K. - I say the Sheeda realm is as above the DCU as the DCU is above our world/Qwrk (or
whatever) as presented in JLA: CLASSIFIED. Beings from the higher realms prey on those from lower
realms. Worlds within worlds within worlds, and there's imagination in all of them - but as a
seperate realm? Hmmmm... I dunno.

Chad - I'm thinking like matryoshka universes - Russian nesting doll realities. The DCU
surrounds baby universe Qwewq, and we know from Classified that Qwewq is grittier, less strong,
less symbolic, less imaginal than the universe it lives in. Perhaps Justin is from a universe that
envelops the DCU - where everything is MORE symbolic, MORE strong, MORE clear and defined...
We see that the Sheeda Queen is an amalgam of the Wicked Witch, vampires, evil stepmothers, et
al... and that she fights a Proto-Arthur and an Atlantean like Camelot worldwide civilization.

Maybe Justin didn't so much as fall "forward in time" as fall into a universe less complex and less
aged than his own.

The movement between worlds is a movement between orders of being, or between levels of complexity -- Zatanna moving across parallel dimensions would be an obvious example, but Jake Jordan's descent into the weirdness under New York -- the simplified, adventure-writ-large world beneath the complexities of the modern city -- would also be the same kind of transit, just in a different direction.

Notice, also the numerical progression: The Sheeda are organized in 8s (riding spiders, or Spyders as the case may be), facing heroes in sets of 7, who are questing after items that all seem to be 6-sided figures (the Foundation Stone, all those magic dice).

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