![]() ![]() Vassily promised Lucien his book back if he was taken to the bedroom of a duke's daughter, the object of his desire. Lucien admitted that he had lost one of his books from the library of dreams, and Vassily was the current owner. Dream noted Lucien sneaking Vassily of the People through the Dreaming. Although their time on Earth was over humanity would remember them through Will's play. Dream told the court of Faerie that this was his payment for all the diversion they'd offered him in the past. Dream and the emissaries of Faerie were the audience for Will's first performance of the play. 1593 Īs part of William Shakespeare's contract with Dream he wrote the first of two plays specifically for the Dream King, A Midsummer's Night Dream. Dream saw Will Shaxberd at the tavern, and promised him unlimited inspiration in writing his plays if Will created new dreams to spur on the minds of men. 1589 ĭream met with Hob Gadling at their tavern, and Hob told Dream life was great now that he'd acquired a fortune. They agreed to meet again in another hundred years. Death would not touch Hob unless he desired it. Dream told him he had not, and that he was simply interested in Hob. 1489 ĭream met with Hob Gadling, who asked if he'd made a deal with the devil to live so long. Dream and Death agreed to make him immortal, and Dream told Hob he'd meet him in the same tavern one hundred years hence. In the tavern they overheard Hob Gadling say that death was a fool's game and that he had no intention of dying. ![]() In the waking world Baghdad transformed from a magic city into a prosperous yet ordinary one, with Raschid and all of the residents unaware of what it once had been, except in legend.ĭeath convinced Dream to visit a tavern to see humanity on their own terms. Dream agreed, and put the dream of Baghdad city of wonders in a bottle. Raschid told Dream that Baghdad had become a city of magic and wonders, but he sensed that it would not last, so he asked Dream to take Baghdad into the Dreaming. Dream disliked being called in such a manner and took away the Globe. Augustus took his advice, and while the gods weren't watching over him he formulated his plan to stop Roman expansion.īaghdad, Haroun al Raschid summoned Dream to the waking world by threatening to unleash the djinns of the Globe of Suleiman. Dream advised him to give up being emperor for one day and disguise himself as a beggar in the streets. He wanted the latter, but was afraid of the Roman gods learning of his plans. Augustus saw two futures for Rome, one in which the whole world would be under Rome's banner and last thousands of years, and another in which the Roman empire would die after a few hundred years. ![]() 6 Īs a favor to the Roman god, Terminus, Dream came to emperor Augustus in a dream. She refused, and out of pride Kai'ckul condemned Nada to Hell. Kai'ckul appeared to her soul and told her he would make her queen of the Dreaming. The next morning Nada's kingdom was destroyed, and she killed herself, knowing she was responsible. They both knew there would be terrible consequences if a mortal fell in love with one of the Endless, but they gave in to their desires, in large part due to the meddling from Desire itself. She fell in love with him, and went to the Dreaming to see him again. The village of Litharge was granted a charter by the Endless and became the new necropolis.ĭream, as Kai'ckul, appeared to Nada, the queen of an African city. The Endless revoked the Necropolis charter, causing it to be destroyed. The Necropolitans had long lost their passion for their job, and didn't know about the Necropolis arrangement with the Endless, so they laughed at them when they asked for Despair's cerements and the book of rituals. When Abel got lonely, Dream commissioned his brother Cain to join him next door as a storyteller in the House of Mystery.Īfter Despair was murdered, Dream and the Endless went to the Necropolis to put her body to rest. He made Abel a storyteller and gave him the House of Secrets to live in. The parents, who predate all other existence, have grown estranged, and care little for the mortal world Dream concerns himself with.ĭream took Abel away from his sister Death, and offered him a place in the Dreaming. The Endless are the children of Time, and Night is the mother of at least Dream. Dream was one of the Endless, personifications of ideas and concepts that were tied to life, and were fated to fulfill their functions until the universe ended and all life disappeared from the cosmos. Dream came into existence once lifeforms capable of dreaming appeared in the universe. ![]()
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