Dreamweaver

Consider the impossible, but do not get lost in it. That way leads madness and obnsession.

To be a dreamweaver - or infected with the dreamweaver condition, whichever takes your fancy, it to be able to temporarily able to pull things from the The well of possibility into the realm of the waking, through the medium of dreams.

The things brought through from the well are temporary, and the condition itself is a semi- lethal malignancy. Like pulling a muscle, or breaking a toe through stubbing it, the condition is created by banging your desires against the walls of your brain, while dreaming, in such a way that it actively damages your spirit. Those with the condition often are built with the personality that fixates on wanting more than they have, thus the condition often has a much faster lethality in Tyr-born humans.

Along with the ability to manifest dreams, the holder of the condition will experience increasing vertigo, blurred vision, and mild headaches. Apothecaries and witches both can help with these symptoms and the seers also have their own concoctions to eleviate the passage, but without restraint, this is just putting a bandage on a floodbank.

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The next stage will involve muscle aches and fatigue as sleep becomes less productive and an increased hunger through metabolising of nutrients consumed. This is often the stage where the condition is most caught, far too late as the victim seeks medical help, and often starts manifesting larger and more elaborate dreams and cravings into reality.

The final stage is an endless coma, usually ending in the wasting away as the spirit of the dreamweaver is sucked back into the well. With death all things manifested are turned to dust and energy, usually causing minor fires wherever they were.

There have been attempts to slow or even stop the condition, but the most useful help is finding sleep so deadening that the person does not dream and as such does not manifest.

One tragic example of the Dreamweaver was a young woman who had a crush on a friend, who manifested that crush as a dream-person and for all extents and purposes dated the manifested dream-man quite successfully for about a year until instead of communicating, she once again became detatched from her emotions and began a spiral of manifesting until her coma and death.

Lorelai Imagica is one of the leading researchers on the condition. Settling out of the Academy of Natare and in talks with both the witch Agava, and the medical professionals out of the House of the Arcane, Lorelai has been travelling Levis for ancient accounts of the Dreamweaver condition, certain that the past holds the vision for helping the future. With a soothing voice, and a reassuring presence, she has been the person holding the hand of many a victim of the curse, and her name is held with reverance amoung the families and those left behind.

Type

Supernatural