'If I were to extrapolate, then the tree might be consciousness, or maybe souls in particular. Linking it to nature might have been their way to make sense of the unexplainable. And then, imagining it as a forest, it would be connected to all realms inside the 'forest''.
'Then the connection between realms would not be physical, but rather mentally. Or I might be thinking too shallowly and it is actually something far more, like a dimensional ancor of realms and dimensions?'
'Regardless, there is sure to be plenty of glorification and misunderstanding, but I am sure that the basics are true.'
'And that means it was possible to move between the planes! Albeit in restricted ways.'
This was significant because it proved to Eldrian that it might be possible that he was not the first to be going through this. That it might have happened on Earth before and this might also hold the clue to why Earth's mana was so scarce.