[Center][h2][color=f6989d]Aethel[/color][/h2][/center]

Having long left Mish and his spiritual companion long behind, Aethel had decided to travel the world a little bit before heading back home to their tree. As far as what generally happened when deities decided to go for a walk across the land, it was actually a rather tame affair; Sure some of the local sentient mortals would never get answers to why the animals nearby their homes decided to randomly either flee in what was clearly terror, suffer a temporary catatonic state or actively find the fastest method they could to end their own lives on mass, but such things made for interesting stories. 

It had been as they had been prancing through a forest glade when Aethel came across a sight that hadn't been seen since they first came into being on the Palace Grounds. Granted, it was a circle of different shaped mushrooms rather then the beautiful cascade of flowers that heralded their birth, but as the equine deity stared at it the circle started to give them ideas. They could have easily just blessed the random site and moved on, leaving it for the locals to deal with and most likely forgetting about it soon after making blessing it... but the seed of an idea in Aethel's mind had not only taken root, but proved to be a rather big idea that required following a few different branches before the true scale could be properly appreciated. 

It was true that Aethel was fickle and easily distracted at times. Even as they followed the plan for the mushroom circle to the end, the knowledge that it was going to take so much energy that they would likely have to return home and have another sleep had caused their thoughts to branch off into how they might be able to make the act of sleeping more entertaining and interesting for not just themselves, but for everything else as well. Both ideas had their merits, but they would only have enough power to really put one of them into effect at this time. 

Deciding that chance might help resolve the dilemma of which project to invest their time and effort into, Aethel calmly walked over to a nearby mushroom that wasn't apart of the circle and pulled its top of, taking a few seconds with the hands of their humanoid form to reshape it into a disc in which one side was the off white of the top of the mushroom and the other was the dark brown of the underneath. Now that there was a flat disc with easily different sides, Aethel flipped it into the air before catching it again... and again... and a third time to complete the best out of three result.

White. Dark Brown. White. 

By the rules they had thought up in their head, that meant that the original idea of what to do with the mushroom circle (and other circles like it) had won out... but the more they thought about it, the more that the second, newer idea appealed to their heart. It also didn't hurt that of the two, it was the one more likely to be noticed and respected by their siblings and praise was always nice. So disregarding the results of the disc and casting it aside, Aethel mentally went 'stuff it' and clapped their hands together as they closed their eyes and focused on a surprisingly big project. 

Coming to the conclusion that the mind of the individual sleeping would be the best suited to, on a deeper level, decide how best to entertain itself and thus all they needed to do was give it the tools to do so was rather simple. The logistics of exactly [i]how[/i] to parcel out this gift was a lot harder. The original idea of just going around and giving it to every individual encountered was discarded fairly quickly because it was both time consuming and boring. Aethel didn't want to put [i]that[/i] much effort into this after all. 

Bouncing around a few ideas of how to make things work in a timely manner that would cover the most beings in the process, Aethel discarded several ideas... before they found one that they liked. Instead of going out and giving every individual creature the improvement to better enjoy the act of sleeping,, they would create a singular mental landscape in which all things that could sleep would enter whenever they did so; A mental ocean filled with nothing but bubbles, with each bubble being an individual who was asleep at the time, their mind creating the means of entertainment within for the benefit of itself. An ocean filled bubble isolated from the physical world filled with bubbles filled with whatever the mind of the dreamer within came up with.

And so, Aethel poured their energy into it and made it so. There was no noticeable difference made to the world, but deity and mortal alike would feel... something change. As if something that had always existed had come into existence and [i]because[/i] it had come into existence, it had now [i]always[/i] existed. Mortals of course would likely dismiss this as merely a strange and silly thought that made no sense while even some deities would follow suit... but the Monarch would almost certainly have a grasp on the new situation.   

Having brought the ability to dream to the world, Aethel walked over to the circle of mushrooms and laid down in the middle of it to have a well deserved nap... after a brief flick of their tail to ensure that said nap wouldn't be disturbed anytime soon.


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After having 'helped' Mish, Aethel went for a largely event-less walk in the world (well... event-less compared to most divine wanderings). Coming across a circle of mushrooms that reminded them of the circle of flowers that served as the point of their creation, Aethel considered doing something with it and things like it... but soon grew sidetracked by another idea that sprung up. Flipping a mushroom a few times to try and break the stalemate of which idea to invest the time and resources into at this stage, the results proved in favor of the original idea which Aethel took under advisement... before promptly going 'stuff it' and working on the second one. 

Taking inspiration from the ocean of their departed sister, Aethel created a purely mental 'ocean' completely separate from physical reality in which all entities that can sleep will slip into when they do so, appearing within the 'ocean' as a bubble protected and isolated from the influence of other dreamers. The contents of the bubble (IE, the dream) are created from the individuals own deeper mind under the belief that it would know the best way to entertain itself. 

An interesting quirk of the 'Ocean of Dreams' is that due to its existence as a purely mental construct devoid of physical laws, it is a timeless creation; It exists outside the standard flow and influence of time, meaning that despite the fact that it had only just been brought into existence properly, entities (and people) that existed [i]before[/i] the Ocean of Dreams was properly created lived their lives connected to it and thus had dreams and nightmares.  

Aethel then laid down in the middle of the mushroom circle to have a sleep and enjoy what they've created.
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Spent 3 to create the purely mental construct of 'The Ocean of Dreams', thus allowing all entities from the Monarch of All to the lowest lifeform that can sleep to have dreams and nightmares. 

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