Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-204.169.134.11-20130910155846/@comment-9212235-20150325222356

Where is Akavir? The future. But not like time traveling future future (but still kind of is). It's like a future that can't quite be seen but we're really really trying anyway. That's one reason it's so hard to get to/defeat. Water is memory and traveling over the ocean is like traveling through the memories (past and present) of the universe (including outside of this dream). TES has a ton of west = past, east = future symbolism.

Akavir is the next Dream. Best theory that connects it IMO is that Akavir of the Aurbis is the memory echo of what the next dream might be because Anu can't quite see it but still does, so it's hazy, mysterious, backwards, and upside down. Akavir is "mysterious" because we literally can't quite see what it is. We only get glimpses.