I used chat gpt to correct mistakes because I am not a native Ebglish speaker - I hope it does not break the rules.
My theory is that, a very long time ago, a group of people were offered immortality in exchange for sacrificing seven children. These children were meant to know only darkness and pain. The hidden part of the deal was that an entity planned to merge a monster world with the human world, but the OG people didn’t know that.
They created the seven children and raised them in caves, isolating them from everything except suffering. Then came the ritual sacrifice.
Tabitha and Jade—two of the fourteen parents (there where 14 parents as we have seen their representation in cave painting - 2 on one side, 12 on other)—tried to back out at the last moment. However, the other villagers stopped them. I believe that although there were 14 parents the deal was for whole village.
Something went wrong during the ritual. Instead of completing successfully, it created the “From” dimension—a place between worlds. Both monsters and humans (maybe just their souls?) became trapped there.
That brings us to the present story.
I think Julie will try to save Jim and begin “story-walking” further and further through time. She’ll realize that once a story is told, it can’t be changed. But then she’ll have a breakthrough: maybe she can change THE STORY that was originally TOLD to the children.
She’ll go all the way back to the beginning and discover that she was actually the one telling those children a story. So she can tell them anything. But she is smarter now, she knows that she have to tell them what happened but she can give the story any ending she wants.
Those children, who had only ever known darkness and cruelty, would hear about something completely different through her story—hope, love, and friendship. Imo the ritual needed them not to know about such things. That would break the ritual. The entity needed children who knew only suffering to bring about eternal darkness, but Julie’s story changes that.
So Julie ends up telling them the story—the story of From, everything that happens, including the fact that the heroes fail many times. She’ll also incorporate elements from the Crommanacle book, since it’s already in her mind.
The ritual made children able to create reality. That is why there are so many weird things in From. That is why it was so important that they only know darkness and suffering things.
I don’t think Julie survives this. The Man in Yellow (or whatever the main entity truly is) will be surprised. It believed the ritual failed but assumed it resulted in ongoing cycle that always ends the same way.
This time, though, things change - because Julie told it that way.
The group will reach the Lake of Tears and carry out whatever final act Julie described to the children as the ending. I believe the townfolks will somehow resurrect the children—maybe not physically, but at least their souls—and also other people who died in From (in first episode Ethan claims that faires can bring people back to life in the Lake of Tears).
In the end, everyone will pass together through the Lake of Tears into the afterlife. With the monsters defeated, the children’s “magic” will make hopes stronger. Something symbolic—like Boyd’s boat—will appear, and they’ll all sail together into the afterlife.
The “From” world will finally disappear.
I also think the show’s main mystery won’t be overly complicated. The pacing is slow and focused heavily on relationships, so the core idea is probably something we’ve already been shown. Elements like the Lake of Tears and the idea that everything is a story have been there since Season 1.
What do you think about it?