With the world of Arth established, it's time to get to know our hero, a young man caught between worlds. Life is beautiful when you're young and carefree, but soon the outside world encroaches, and the young man has to determine where he belongs. He has a lot to learn about his true nature, which may be much bigger and more dangerous than he ever imagined, but the question is whether he'll be able to overcome it, or if he'll succumb in the end.
EPISODE 2 RECAP
Eunseom wakes from a dream with a start, screaming for his mother. He startles the men watching him, since as humans, they don't dream. Yeolson, leader of the Wahan tribe (the people that Eunseom has lived with since his mother died), angrily demands to know if Eunseom had a dream.
There's a tribal council to discuss the fact that Eunseom can dream without extensive shaman training. Meanwhile TANYA (Kim Ji-won) is a child of the Azure Comet and is to be their next "great mother," but even she can't dream, so the tribe suspects that Eunseom is stealing Tanya's dreams.
Tanya is Yeolson's daughter, and she's also the girl who found Eunseom and his mother, back when they first came to Iark. She defends Eunseom, saying that dreams don't work that way, but Yeolson still asks Eunseom if he's stealing Tanya's dreams. Eunseom says that it's true he dreams, but repeats that dreams can't be stolen.
He says that the Wahan people don't know what a dream is, so he tells them: "I lie down at night, and it happens while I sleep. Someone suddenly appears, or I end up going somewhere." He says that things happen in dreams without his knowledge, so he can't possibly steal someone else's dream.
He also tells the people that he's been having dreams since before he came to Iark, which is proof that he's not stealing Tanya's dreams. A tribesman says that Eunseom and Tanya were both born when the Azure Comet appeared, but the current great mother, Mother Choseol, says that's not completely true.
Eunseom is also accused of dancing one of Mother Choseol's dances, which can only be done by a great mother. Eunseom looks guilty and says he only saw Mother Choseol dance once, and Tanya tells the people that Eunseom can copy anything he sees, even if he only sees it once. Further, she confesses that he learned it so he could teach it to her, because she's having difficulty.
The people point out that Eunseom is strange in a lot of ways, such as his purple blood and the scales on his back. Tanya continues to insist that Eunseom isn't stealing her dreams, but a hunter accuses him of stealing a horse that they hunted, and Eunseom just shoots a guilty look at Tanya and ducks his head. LOL.
He leads the people to the horse, but just as he's about to incriminate himself, Tanya yelps that Eunseom didn't steal the horse to eat it himself, he hid it here because... but she can't think of anything, so she looks at Eunseom and says, "Tell them." HAHA, his face.
All he can think to say is that he was trying to ride the horse, and now everyone, even Tanya, stares at him like he's gone nuts. LOL, even as he talks, he's thinking, "Does this even make sense??"
After laughing their heads off, the tribe present this as more proof that Eunseom is weird and a thief, and propose that he be banished. Tanya says that sometimes Eunseom's strange ideas are useful, and they have to agree. Yeolson and Mother Choseol decide that Eunseom is to learn to ride the horse before the next full moon, but if he fails, he'll be banished.
Later, Mother Choseol seems troubled, but all she tells Yeolson is that it's something the former great mothers said. They go into his invention workshop, which Yeolson says is his favorite place because he doesn't have to worry about spirits there. They discuss Eunseom, and how Tanya led them to him the day they found him, saying that she sensed someone in the woods.
