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Name/Titles: Vael & Nys, Dream, the Dreamers, The Dream King/Queen, The First Children (forgotten by mortals), the Lost Ones (forgotten by mortals). Often mistaken for new Gods by later Pantheons.
Gender (if applicable): One Brother, One Sister. None can recall which is which, as both can change appearance--and often do; including trading their own.
Patronage: Dreams and Stories. Their realm is often called 'the Dreamrealm' by other divine figures, and often 'the dreamlands' or 'nightlands' by most mortals. It is both the most familiar realm to many Gods and mortals (as even Gods dream), and the most unfamilar; few have ever seen the Dreamrealm outside the projections of their own dreaming. It is rumored the Dreamers have a Palace somewhere in the nightlands, but none can say if such a place exists in truth.
Parentage: Vael & Nys are the first children of the first God of the first Pantheon. Primordial, inconceivably ancient, generally detached from all following Pantheons.
Pantheon/Affiliation: Originating from the first Gods, though one (sometimes both) have taken on different names to represent the Dreamrealm in later Pantheons.
Appearance: As the personification of all dreams and stories, the possibilities of their appearances can be endless. However, they typically appear as pale humans with dark features and dark hair. Known for their eyes; a field of white stars in otherwise black eyes, mayhaps representing the Dreamrealm itself.
Centres of Worship/Places of Power:
In the far North where night can last for months, there is the last known temple to Vael & Nys dating from the first men. This terribly isolated temple of milk white stone is tended to by men and women who never speak and wear black robes, a place many come to during their last days and hours to die. There is no other religion or order or temple dedicated to the Dreamers.
The Dreamrealm is their primary place of power, a place nearly every soul from the highest god to the lowest man will visit at least once in their life. Whether they remember it, or not. As the dreamlands are an aspect of the Dreamers themselves, it can change with their will, and it is said a soul can find the most beautiful of dreams, and the most horrific of nightmares within the dreamlands.
Rarely will one of the Dreamers leave their realm; often preferring to communicate with others (both Gods and mortals) within their dreams. As one does not need to be asleep to dream, the Dreamers can be nearly any place at all--and still technically be within the confides of their realm. Never have both of the Dreamers left their realm at the same time, as they firmly believe one must always be present to attend to their sacred and immortal duties. As they have said to gods and men in the past, "When the last dream fades, so ends Creation with it."
Servants, Prominent Followers and Worship Base:
Baxby: One of Creation's first mortal men who went on a quest to find the lost children of the first God in order to bargain for the return to the living of his only child that died in infancy. By the time he found them, every person he'd known had been dead for generations, there had even been a new Pantheon risen, and a new God of the Underworld. Grief stricken, the man begged the Children to let him stay in the dreamlands, where he could see his lost loved ones whenever he pleased. They agreed, on the condition the man assist them with their duties. Whenever a child has a nightmare, it is often Baxby pulling the strings.
Omononatheeta, aka Oma: A spirit from before there was light in Creaton, then begged the Dreamers for access to their 'nightlands' thereafter. The children took pity on Oma, and charged him with representing inanimate objects in dreams. To hear one of the Children tell it, he does a splendid chair.
Daydream: A sentient aspect of the Dreamrealm that has, so far as the Children know, been there nearly as long as they have. Though other Gods in subsequent Pantheons have largely tread upon it's territory, Daydream can still be responsible for the 'muse' that gives a mortal scribe or storyteller their inspiration for some ballad, poem, or song.
Etsel and Grod: Brother and sister known best as a cautionary tell of jealousy and anger during the first age of mortal men. Etsel poisoned Grod, and Grod murderered Etsel, before dying himself from Etsel's poison. Both forget why they did what they did, though both continue to bait and harm the other to this day. Neither knows the other asked the Dreamers to deny the memory of the lover that caused their initial conflict when they entered the dreamlands to begin with. Both are used by the Dreamers as 'runners.'
Psychology:
Both Dreamers are very private, preferring their own company to the company of any others (God or man). Both are fanatically dedicated to their 'responsibilities' within the Dreamrealm. Other than that, they are a true dichotomy: where one is shy, the other bold. Where one is wrought, the other is patient. This is a theme that runs through the near entirity of their personalities. After the eons, however,and their constant mixing in the dreamlands, it can be hard to tell where one ends and the other begins--literally. The personality of one has so rubbed off on the other that they often balance each other out.
Both are known to be infamously slow to forgive a slight, both are known to be paranoid, both are known to be self-centered, and both have at times shown the capacity to be insensitive.
History:
The first children of the first God of the first Pantheon, so begins the tale of the children lost to dreaming upon their birth. Between dreaming and reality, the twins choose dreaming, much to the sorrow of their creator. In their sorrow their creator turned from them, leaving othem only each other to guide them through Creation and to adulthood. It is possible there are no gods more influenced by mankind, as many of their 'life lessons' were learned alongside or literally worth mortal man.
As the original Pantheon slipped away, the Dreamers and their Dreamrealm preserved, only loosely tethered to their original Pantheon by their creator after forsaking the life of a god for the life a dreamer to begin with. As children will do, the Dreamers played a game of presenting themselves (at times individually, at times together) to later Pantheons as entirely new Gods or Goddesses of Dreams and Stories.
Only when Vael fell into the embrace of the current Goddess of Love did the fact that there were two separate Gods of the Dreamrealm become known to the current Pantheon. Though the deception enraged the God King, even he was unable to do much more than summon one of them; and never was he able to summon them 'out in the open', always finding them coming to heed his summons in his thoughts and dreams. In a rare act of empathy, Aroesus would leave the Dreamers to their dreamlands, never actively demanding their presence unless he, quite literally, wanted a bed time story.
It is for this reason that many suspect the Dreamers took their sole preemptive action of the current Pantheon: when Areosus died, the Dreamers allowed his spirit to escape into the dreamlands, where no other Gods or spirits could assail or manipulate his spirit for their own ends. While they risked angering both the plotters behind his downfall, and any opportunist who might look to take advantage of the dead God King (to say nothing of violating the duties of the Underworld), Dream just doesn't seem to care.
Many suspect Dream knows more than he, or she, is willing to admit. As surely the plotters most have dreamed of their plans one day coming to fruition? Regardless, Dream has been impossible to summon...up until recently, when a female Dream appeared in the Court eating grapes and providing condolences to Mysia, and a male Dream appeared in Lymaeus...to take in a play, alone. After these brief appearances, Vael & Nys have become more open to communication, signified by appearing (sometimes even standing out) in the dreams of gods and demi-gods and kings and wisemen alike.
Relationships:
Both admit to 'experimenting' with the other during their earlier years. Vael lusts, Nys crushes. Both currently have 'apples of their eye'. Both have at least one friendship with a current God/Demi-God. With whom and when? I'll fill that in as the roster fills out, I'm sure.
