Glossary • Beings • Ia ~ Iz
Iva Zera {EE-vah ZARE-ah}
hume of Avay
Traveling bard and flautist born on Avay, collector and inventor of sounds and tempos able to induce, disrupt, maintain, or otherwise transform most forms of dreaming - and, for that matter, transform most forms of dreaming into most forms of waking. Author of multiple guidebooks, research collections, stories, and musical scores, including:
The Parabolas of Sleep: A New Geometry of Dreaming
Multilinear: The Many Dimensions of Dream
Roundabout the Dream Spheres
Pararealms
Not the sort to plainly explain their own work to any body or being. Zera has dreamed on - and dreamed of - more planets than many another dreaming being. When we say Zera is 'traveling', it does mean even at this moment, both physically and metaphysically. Zera went somewhere to dream new dreams, we have yet to find out were or when he will return. If at all.
As included at the beginning of his masterwork The Parabolas of Sleep, here is Zera's own personal affirmation of life and dreaming:
“We are children of inner meaning made outer being.
What is this day that will be the day?
One on which we must strive to be awake.
Speak of the newhewn day.
Speak from the heart,
for you are the living light
and within you dwell the dreams which do not sleep.”