im confused too, for now, i think freya is in old world and aran is in new world. i also think that there are years between them? and the forest separates the past and future? this is so intriguing
I think they are both from the present. There are two places; the old and new world. The old world is where the MC is and where the princess is and all that. The new world is where the red haired dude is. The MC kinda teleports from the old world to the new world when she dreams. The MC thinks that the new world (yk when she dreams) is the past because the ML has the same face and name as the “hero” from the past. My guess is that the ML is the hero’s descendant. So don’t be confused w the present or past or future bc everything is taking place at the same timeline. Oh and the forest is the place separating the two.
Old world: MC, Princess, Temple, Priests, Ect.
New World: ML, all of ML attendants
The Captain is from the new world and went to chase sorcerers that fleed from the old world to the new. It was in the forest where she met the MC.
Right now the MC is in another kingdom within the old world. She grew up in one kingdom, the one where the king found her and where she was a preist in training. Once the princess married to a prince from another kingdom, she went w her.
I actually think at first that the captain is from the new world but i got confused to past and future thank u so much for this and for taking your time to write this! im so invested now
Thank you for explaining this!! What tripped me up a lot was the fact that she kept thinking it’s the past whenever she travels to the new world. And the author calling it new world and old world really doesn’t help. Makes it seem like the past and present.
Made me confused too. Yet how can captain meet MC so easily at the so called old world, while MC needs to be complicated & change appearance. Besides thinking the new world is the past of her old world , sounds weird to me.
In irl history, when the americas were discovered, it was called the new world while Europe, Africa, and Asia were called the old world. My prior knowledge of this led me to assume that the “new/old” didn’t reference a timeline or past/present, but were just names.
The story also hints to the MC’s true appearance being the purple hair/eyes. She apparently wishes to be “not noticable”, which results in her unconsciously changing her appearance to brown hair/ eyes. There was one chapter where she kinda wished to have purple hair/eyes for a sec and it changed in the mirror, but then it went away when she was like “I want to be normal and not stand out” or smth like that. I think when she visits the MC, she is using her spirit or would or smth that shows her true appearance, hence the purple.
The MC is also seeing him through the dreams with some sort of method, it can’t be teleportation because in the carriage ride, her body didn’t disappear. So I’m guessing her aperiance in the new world is some sort of spirit or soul of hers that is powered by her magic (because remember she has a cooldown of how often she can visit based on her mana capacity or wtv).
And the captain physically traveled from the new to the old world, so that’s why it’s less complicated for her. She isnt traveling w her soul, using up mana like our MC is. I think of it like flying somewhere vs FaceTiming.
Someone needs to explain this new kingdom, old kingdom situation. I’m really confused. Which ones past and which ones present or future?? Who’s from what place?