Dreamweaver Qael'eth Silvershroud
Dreamweaver Qael'eth Silvershroud (a.k.a. Keeper of the Thread)
Qael'eth Silvershroud is the ethereal and contemplative Dreamweaver of Bywynne, a township nestled in the misted, twilight-veiled reaches of Lustrum. As a Kalashtar, they are bound to a quori spirit of serenity, and have become the heart of the community’s spiritual and subconscious well-being. Through their dream rituals and psychic communion, they help citizens confront trauma, find inner clarity, and navigate the metaphysical realm known as the Reverie. They are a living bridge between waking reality and the hidden truths of the dreamscape.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Slender, graceful, and unusually quiet in movement. Appears untouched by age or time.
Identifying Characteristics
A birthmark shaped like a moth’s wing on their left shoulder; glowing veins around the temples during trance.
Physical quirks
Breathes more shallowly when deep in thought; rarely blinks unless reminded.
Special abilities
- Dreamwalk – Enter others’ dreams, offering aid or extracting knowledge.
- Serenity Aura – Emits a calming psychic field that can ease fear, panic, or rage.
- Echo Reading – Can "read" a place’s psychic residue from significant past emotional events.
- Mindlink – Allows silent communication with any willing creature they can see.
Apparel & Accessories
Long flowing robes of starlace and veiled gossamer.
A circlet known as the Luneveil, containing a psychometric crystal.
Specialized Equipment
Shroudstaff: A whitewood staff that aids in dream projection and psychic stabilization.
Threadsight Lenses: Silver-mirrored lenses that reveal emotional auras and mental echoes.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Qael’eth wandered much of eastern Lustrum during early adulthood, using their talents to ease unrest in remote settlements following outside of the Metropolis. They were called to Bywynne by the town’s leadership council and have since become its spiritual anchor.
Education
Mentored by the Synapse Weavers of Shimmerdeep in dreamwalking, psychic healing, and the reading of soul-threads.
Employment
Spiritual leader and dream mediator of Bywynne; maintains ties with the Astrium Council as a metaphysical advisor.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Developed the “Seven-Step Silencing” technique, now widely used for treating dream-trauma.
Brokered psychic peace with the Echoing Wight of Hollowmere.
Held a community-wide Reverie session that uncovered a hidden Zodiac sleeper agent.
Failures & Embarrassments
Failed to stop the spread of dreamfever in northern Bywynne, leading to three deaths and one permanent mind-loss.
Mental Trauma
Occasionally experiences echoes of others’ nightmares that linger past waking; sometimes loses track of whether they are awake or dreaming.
Intellectual Characteristics
Occasionally experiences echoes of others’ nightmares that linger past waking; sometimes loses track of whether they are awake or dreaming.
Morality & Philosophy
Truth emerges from within, not from above; balance is sacred, and dreams are truths waiting to bloom.
Taboos
Consuming meat; striking another without dream-sign permission; speaking directly to spirits of the dead.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
To maintain harmony between the waking world and the dreamscape, and to protect Bywynne from psychic corruption and forgotten nightmares.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
- Savvy in emotional negotiation, mental healing, prophetic dreaming.
- Inept in physical combat and conventional military tactics.
Likes & Dislikes
- Likes: Incense, still water, quiet conversations, ancient lullabies, old libraries.
- Dislikes: Loud voices, mindless entertainment, alcohol, fire.
Virtues & Personality perks
Patient, insightful, compassionate, composed.
Vices & Personality flaws
Detached, secretive, can seem aloof or otherworldly.
Personality Quirks
Sleeps upright in a trance-like position; keeps a bowl of dream moths as companions.
Hygiene
Meticulously clean, favoring herbal rinses and dream-oils.
Social
Family Ties
Their biological family remains in Shimmerdeep, but they consider the minds of Bywynne their chosen kin.
Social Aptitude
Speaks gently and with poetic cadence; very persuasive in one-on-one conversations.
Mannerisms
Tilts their head slowly when listening, hums when in deep thought, always keeps their hands visible.
Speech
Soft and slow, often speaks in metaphor or layered meaning; voice has a slight echo as if layered with another tone (the voice of their quori spirit).
Wealth & Financial state
Modest; sustains themselves through communal support and astral commissions.
Current Status
Guide Bywynne's citizens through the Year of Fractured Echoes—a period of psychic unrest—and maintain spiritual balance in a region troubled by dream-poisoning and unrest in the Reverie.
Current Location
Species
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Dreamweaver of Bywynne; Whisper-Seer of the Reverie; Counselor of Threads
Age
71
Date of Birth
24th Thundralis 810
Birthplace
Shimmerdeep Refuge - A hidden Kalashtar enclave in the Whispering Alps
Children
Current Residence
A crescent-shaped structure of glassroot and woven reed beside the Temple Lake in central Bywynne.
Sex
Male
Gender
Non-Binary
Eyes
Iridescent silver with a faint inner glow, as if lit by moonlight on still water.
Hair
Flowing and silken white, often partially veiled or braided with memory-charms and silver wire.
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale lavender with a pearlescent sheen; cool to the touch.
Height
6'1"
Weight
148 lbs
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