Session 36: The Dreamless Sleeper
Afternoon, 8th Low Summer, 498 CE
Revana, Sanglant and Ekhart were in the Chamber of Darkness with
Elden
and the Sleeper.
Elden, as a Dreamer, was able to enter the Dreamworld.
The party asked him to send them them there, which he agreed to.
After a short, out-of-body experience, the party arrived at in the Dreamworld.
The place they arrive was very barren, stretching in darkness in all directions though they appear to be walking on a sea of water.
In the distance, they spied a figure laying on the ground, asleep.
They moved closer and inspected the body, which Revana confirmed to be Maya, the current Sleeper of the elves.
Living buried in her chest was a small spirit of some kind.
It called itself “Hifnos,” and identified itself as a Darkness spirit.
Ekhart's theories of there being an 8th element were confirmed.
The party asked Hifnos some questions about who or what it was.
It said that it was a darkness spirit, which are spirits born with no desire of their own.
He was told to sleep by the elves, so he lives in the spirit of any elf that comes to the Dreamworld, keeping the Sleeper in a dreamless slumber.
He also said that if a darkness spirit wanted to destroy the world, it would probably have been told to do so.
Revana attempted to meditate and reach out to whatever forces she could reach in this place.
While meditating she felt two forces, one being a force similar to Terra that she had reached out to before.
The other feeling similar to Terra, but darker.
She reached out into the Darkness to see what was there, perhaps to find the sickness that the Elves claimed to be infecting Terra.
While reaching out, she felt her spirit being thrown through the Darkness, being pulled by something unknown to her.
Suddenly she came upon an elf, a woman who seemed to know Revana by her spirit, and told her she was her mother.
Revana returned and told the party about the Darkness and her mother.
Sang suddenly felt a connection to the Darkness through Revana similar to the one he had with the Faerealm through Ekhart.
The party was pulled back from the Dreamworld by Elden, where Revana asked about her mother.
Elden told them that he would tell them everything.
They left the Chamber of Dreams and returned to the Tower of the Moon.
The party began to ask Elden about Revana's mother.
Elden revealed that he was Revana's father, and that he and Revana's mother, Nya.
Nya had a plan to use a Darkness Spirit (or Forest Spirit as the elves called them) to travel directly to Terra.
When the other elves found out her plan, but before they could do anything about her, Nya stole a forest spirit from the Reliquary, and escaped.
Elden decided to not tell Rev about her mother and raise her as his pupil.
The party also asked about the nature of the Darkness Spirits.
Elden didn't seem to have any information about what the Darkness was or what Darkness spirits were.
He said that all the animated trees of the Loridael had Forest Spirits inside them.
The Forest Spirits were kept by the Circle of the Land druids, in a place called the Reliquary.
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