Chapter 44: The Phantom World (14)
"There's only one past in this world," Meskles began the story, "I remember myself being the grandfather of the elven queen of The Wiatrski Elven Kingdom, in both the real world and the nightmares."
He was one of the people inflicted with the curse of having conscious dreams in which he was a man of the same status, yet his kingdom and family were in totally different places. Yes, the surrounding and other elven races were the same, yet the further lands expanding over the horizon were different.
Humans of a particular human race were the real prodigies of this world—players.