its rambles #3 except i dont feel like i got good rambles in me rn oh well here we go
Nemo is a dream scholar and adventurer, known as a "Sleepwalker". He explores the dream realm for his own research and curiosity, but also professionally. A Lot of information can be gleaned by the exploration of a person's subconscious -- helpful in memory recall, psychotherapy, and prophecy -- and on Sornieth, which is completely saturated with magic, that subconscious actually does create a physical plane that can be explored. Dreams are temporary, fragmented planes, held together in a vast and hazy extraplanar network, and they are haunted by at least three distinct entities that Nemo must deal with almost every time he enters the realm: Mimsy, the avatar of good dreams and restful slumber; Bleak, the avatar of nightmare and insomnia; and Hocus, the avatar of surrealism and silliness. They appear to him as dragons usually, although of course they can be anything. Nemo is not entirely sure about whether or not they are able to get out onto the material plane, but he suspects that they can. Especially Hocus. It's very possible, however, that it's the very act of exploring Dream that has created these entities and the dangers of the realm. Some argue that this kind of tampering is what led to the downfall of the Second Age civilization, and "sleepwalking" is generally seen as needlessly reckless (not to mention invasive).
