Nemoi
Loremaster (a.k.a. of the Dreaming Veil)
Planar Scholar of Oakvein, Seer of Shifting Realms
“Dreams are the echoes of other worlds. To walk them is to listen for the silence between stars.”
— Nemoi, to a Gnarley Ranger who wandered into a dream he could not wake from
The Dream-Walker of Oakvein
Among the six Loremasters who guide the spiritual and arcane heart of Clan Enlanefel, Nemoi is the most reclusive and intellectually curious. A wood elf wizard of the fifteenth circle, Nemoi is best known for his deep study of oneiromancy (dream-magic), the Feywild, and the Outer Planes, particularly as they intersect with the mortal world through ancient elven myth and leyline dreaming.
He rarely leaves his sanctum within Oakvein’s Aetherlight Spire, where he catalogues planar intersections, conjures mental simulations, and charts dream-gates that flicker open only when the moon wanes into shadow. He is perhaps the least physically imposing of the Loremasters—but in matters of planar geometry, fey law, or the whispered patterns of prophetic dreaming, Nemoi is unmatched.
Appearance and Presence
Nemoi is lithe and pale, even for a wood elf, his complexion touched by too many years spent under starlight and crystal chandeliers rather than sunlight. His long hair is shadow-blonde, and his eyes—one silver, the other a deep violet—gleam with the distant glow of dream-realms. He moves with quiet hesitation, as if unsure whether he is still in the waking world.
- Class: Wizard 15 (School of Conjuration / Dream & Planar Lore emphasis)
- Eyes: Heterochromic—silver (Sehanine-touched), violet (a Feywild mark)
- Aesthetic: Draped in layered, muted robes of midnight blue and umbral grey, etched with constellations in mithril thread
- Aura: Air around him smells faintly of lavender, star-metal, and old parchment
Role in Clan Enlanefel
Nemoi holds the post of Planar Lorekeeper among the Loremasters of Oakvein. His role is to maintain the astral charts, Feywild maps, and dream-gate records hidden deep within the tree-city’s arcane vaults. He also advises on prophetic dream interpretation, particularly when moon phases align with leyline surges—events the Enlanefel treat with spiritual reverence.
- Title: Loremaster of the Dreaming Veil
- Duties: Maintaining planar maps, analyzing prophetic dreams, stabilizing magical anomalies
- Seat of Study: The Aetherlight Spire, a slender chamber of crystal and vine-wood grown from Oakvein’s highest western branch
- Apprentices: None formally, but his lessons are whispered in lucid dreams to those he deems ready
Background and History
Nemoi was born beneath the Moonarch of Sehanine, a rare planar phenomenon that left him touched by the arcane resonance of both dream and twilight. As a youth, he vanished for three years into the Feywild, returning with a Fey name no one could pronounce and a thousand starlit sketches of places that did not exist—yet.
Over the centuries, he has studied in Celene’s Infinite Scroll Archives, the Feyspire of Starhaven, and once spent five years trapped within a dream-loop battling an astral parasite. He claims to have met a slumbering archfey, debated a modron mathematician, and walked a causeway between the Plane of Dreams and Elysium.
- Childhood: Marked by planar anomalies; frequently lucid dreaming
- Disappearance: Vanished into the Feywild for 3 years at age 76
- Known Feats:
- Escaped a Quori dream-trap
- Translated the Codex of Breaths, a tome that only appears in dreams
- Identified a fading dream-gate beneath Nulb long before cultists arrived
Personality and Motivation
Nemoi is polite but distracted, often pausing mid-sentence to chase a half-formed thought. He is not cold, but his kindness is quiet—measured in soft guidance and the occasional cryptic question rather than overt warmth. He distrusts clear answers and reveres ambiguity.
- Disposition: Reflective, curious, ethereal, and slightly unnerving
- Speech: Tends to speak in metaphors, dreamspeak, and unanswered questions
- Drives: To understand how dreams shape magic, and how the Feywild and Outer Planes pull on the mortal realm
- Fear: That a tear in the planar fabric may allow something older than the gods to re-enter the waking world
Magic and Arcane Aptitude
Nemoi is a master of dream conjuration, portal stabilization, and Fey pact lore. His spells favor summoning, manipulation of perception, and planar resonance. He is capable of drawing creatures and concepts from dreams, and often sleeps deliberately to seek knowledge.
- Signature Spells:
- Dream, Plane Shift, Teleportation Circle, Simulacrum, Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion
- Major Image, Summon Fey, Mirror Image, Arcane Eye
- Unique Abilities:
- Oneiric Step – Once per long rest, teleport via dream to a known bed or sacred glade
- Fey Threadweave – Craft illusions using sounds and sensations from memories or dreams
- Starbind Familiar – His familiar, a translucent owl named Hishmael, is bound between realms and can exist simultaneously in two planes
Political and Social Ties
Nemoi is the least political of the Loremasters, but he is quietly influential. His friendship with Faeluneth is long-standing—they often commune during solstice dream-rituals. Naerion values Nemoi’s insights on planar magic, though they frequently debate methodology.
- The Fey Grand Court of Celene: Honored guest among the Court of Falling Leaves and Mistlords of Iymrith Vale
- Celene: Known to Onselven and the Queen’s Seers as “the Lucid Seeker”
- Other Factions:
- Verbobonc: Viewed as magically disruptive; he avoids cities altogether
- Druids of the Gnarley Forest: Occasionally consults Synriel on planar bleed effects
Relationships with the Other Loremasters
Faeluneth Larethil — The Moon-Seer
Nemoi shares a mystical rapport with Faeluneth. Both are attuned to the unseen layers of existence—Faeluneth through divine prophecy, Nemoi through dream and planar resonance. Their conversations are often wordless, conducted in shared silences and glances across dream-altar circles. He trusts her more than any other, for she sees as he sees: beyond.
- Shared Values: Mystery, prophecy, planar rhythm, elven transcendence
- Contrasts: Faeluneth walks the divine stars; Nemoi traces their echoes through dream
- Interaction: They often meditate together during eclipses and solstice dreamfolds
Synriel — Stone and Grove-Walker
Synriel is rooted where Nemoi is drifting, and the two represent opposite polarities of power—earth and ether. While their perspectives often clash, they maintain a strange respect. Synriel keeps Nemoi’s thoughts grounded, and Nemoi warns her of forces too subtle for soil to sense. During planar surges or dream-bleeds into the forest, they stand as equal guardians.
- Shared Interests: Faerie politics, elemental anomalies, planar bleed
- Tensions: Nemoi dreams of the sky; Synriel listens to the earth
- Interaction: Cooperative during fey events or moon-thinned borderwalks
Naerion — The Wandwright of Theory and Form
Naerion and Nemoi are the most closely aligned in arcane pursuits. Their friendship is cerebral—rooted in shared fascination with planar law, magical architecture, and the metaphysics of enchantment. Nemoi dreams the theories; Naerion refines them into artefacts. Still, Nemoi is often frustrated by Naerion’s obsession with structure over mystery.
- Shared Values: Arcane pursuit, extraplanar geometry, Feywild intersections
- Contrasts: Naerion builds; Nemoi intuits
- Interaction: Regular magical correspondence; co-authored the Ritual of the Waking Sigil
Lian — Voice of Eternal Memory
Nemoi views Lian as the conscience of the council—a necessary anchor. Their philosophies differ: Lian preserves the old; Nemoi explores the possible. Yet both serve the spirit of the elves, one through history, the other through dreaming futures. Nemoi has a quiet respect for Lian’s caution, and Lian treats Nemoi’s strange warnings with grave attention.
- Shared Interests: Spiritual continuity, elven soul theory, extraplanar ethics
- Tensions: Tradition vs. transformation
- Interaction: They often discuss the memory of Arvandor in dreams and visions
Avinor — Historian of Collapse
Nemoi approaches Avinor with wary fascination. Avinor is the chronicler of things Nemoi would rather see buried in dream—yet he respects Avinor’s vigilance. Where Nemoi sees dreams of possible futures, Avinor sees echoes of ancient disasters. They occasionally exchange research on cultic dreams and Vecnan dream-fragments, but their trust is cautious.
- Shared Interests: Cult dream-patterns, planar summoning, Flannae sigils
- Tensions: Nemoi prefers ambiguity; Avinor prefers sharp historical lines
- Interaction: Useful collaboration when dream-signs mirror historical recurrence
Current Concerns (576 CY)
Nemoi has begun noticing unstable dream-threads converging on the Wild Verge. More concerning, he has recorded dream-beasts appearing in the real world—spectral echoes that should not physically exist. He believes Elemental Evil magic may be corrupting the Plane of Dreams itself, causing it to rupture into waking reality.
- Warning Signs:
- Trees whispering names in languages no elf has spoken in millennia
- Dreamers waking with identical visions of a spiral moon bleeding shadow
- Fey crossing over involuntarily, “dragged by hooks of silence”
- Active Projects:
- Sealing a fraying dream-gate beneath a forgotten shrine in the Welkwood
- Recovering a celestial mirror used to stabilize planar echoes
Key Details for Dungeon Masters
- Loremaster Nemoi
- Race/Class: Wood Elf Wizard 15 (Dream & Planar Lore)
- Alignment: Neutral Good
- Age: 481
- Residence: Aetherlight Spire, Oakvein
- Role: Planar and Fey expert, NPC oracle or quest-giver, prophetic advisor
- Specialties: Dreams, Feywild, Outer Planes, conjuration, planar anomalies
- Adventure Hook: Nemoi requests the party retrieve a dream-locked gem from the ruins of an elven ruin now submerged beneath time—and tethered to the Plane of Shadow
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