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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9324416" data-attributes="member: 52734"><p>Aurora, the realm of dreams.</p><p></p><p>This has played a big part in my homebrew campaign of Amberos. Aurora was a playground for the gods, where they could sleep and experiment without it affecting the waking world. However, when the Dark One came to the court of the gods, he invaded their thoughts and dreams, and Aurora's edges drew back, revealing the unnamed Realm of Nightmares.</p><p></p><p>More creation story (or at least, one version...) for the interested [spoiler]</p><p>Harp, the creator god, who had been on a sojourn to discover what had been threatening creation returned to his children, he found the being he had been looking for - the Dark One, and the Dark One had used his influence to create paranoia and suspicion among the gods - most especially against Harp. Harp put his children to sleep to keep them from harm, but the Dark One escaped. Unable to wake his children, Harp left the gods asleep and ventured out once again to hunt down the Dark One.</p><p></p><p>In the god's slumber, they created the elvin race from their daydreams, dragons from their desires and the goblins from their dark thoughts. The gods themselves, in their dreams, begat children - the first humans.</p><p></p><p>Time passed. Eventually, a human and an elf discovered a way to pass back into the real world, arriving on water-shrouded Amberos and its lone mountain - where at its peaks slept the gods themselves. Within the mountain was all of the gods creations that had not been released before their slumber. The two dream children delved into the forbidden mountain and recovered from within objects of great power. In the depths of the mountain they learned the only way to utilize the great power that they found was to bind themselves to mortal world. Without hesitation, the human did so. The elf, wary of the power they found and homesick, did not. They did, however, agree to return to the surface to bid each other farewell on their future travels.</p><p></p><p>However, their dream children's departure from Aurora was eventually discovered, and dragons were sent to recover the wayward children. In the real world, a great battle ensued at the top of the mountain between elf, human and dragon. The home of the sleeping gods was laid waste, the gods themselves still cast sleeping to other realities. The mountain was sundered - releasing the unready creations of the gods into the real world. A rend in the fabric of reality tore open a permanent gate to Aurora, allowing other dream-selves to pass into the real world - including nightmares. The dragons sent to recover the dream children failed to bring back their charges and instead took to hoarding the powerful treasures the dream children had unearthed.</p><p></p><p>Time passed again. Once more the Dark One returned, this time to the real world, to work his evils on its inhabitants and back into the dreamlands. But, as he neared victory, the elves uncovered his plot and sundered the open connection to the dream lands (though cracks and secret passages known only to the elves remain). The Dark One and his allies plans were thrarted, and again he vanished into the gloom. </p><p></p><p>Now, each night mortals sleep and dream, passing through the smallest cracks back into the dreamlands of Aurora or abducted into the Realm of Nightmares. Upon awakening, they are forced to return to the real world they are bound to.</p><p>[/spoiler]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 9324416, member: 52734"] Aurora, the realm of dreams. This has played a big part in my homebrew campaign of Amberos. Aurora was a playground for the gods, where they could sleep and experiment without it affecting the waking world. However, when the Dark One came to the court of the gods, he invaded their thoughts and dreams, and Aurora's edges drew back, revealing the unnamed Realm of Nightmares. More creation story (or at least, one version...) for the interested [spoiler] Harp, the creator god, who had been on a sojourn to discover what had been threatening creation returned to his children, he found the being he had been looking for - the Dark One, and the Dark One had used his influence to create paranoia and suspicion among the gods - most especially against Harp. Harp put his children to sleep to keep them from harm, but the Dark One escaped. Unable to wake his children, Harp left the gods asleep and ventured out once again to hunt down the Dark One. In the god's slumber, they created the elvin race from their daydreams, dragons from their desires and the goblins from their dark thoughts. The gods themselves, in their dreams, begat children - the first humans. Time passed. Eventually, a human and an elf discovered a way to pass back into the real world, arriving on water-shrouded Amberos and its lone mountain - where at its peaks slept the gods themselves. Within the mountain was all of the gods creations that had not been released before their slumber. The two dream children delved into the forbidden mountain and recovered from within objects of great power. In the depths of the mountain they learned the only way to utilize the great power that they found was to bind themselves to mortal world. Without hesitation, the human did so. The elf, wary of the power they found and homesick, did not. They did, however, agree to return to the surface to bid each other farewell on their future travels. However, their dream children's departure from Aurora was eventually discovered, and dragons were sent to recover the wayward children. In the real world, a great battle ensued at the top of the mountain between elf, human and dragon. The home of the sleeping gods was laid waste, the gods themselves still cast sleeping to other realities. The mountain was sundered - releasing the unready creations of the gods into the real world. A rend in the fabric of reality tore open a permanent gate to Aurora, allowing other dream-selves to pass into the real world - including nightmares. The dragons sent to recover the dream children failed to bring back their charges and instead took to hoarding the powerful treasures the dream children had unearthed. Time passed again. Once more the Dark One returned, this time to the real world, to work his evils on its inhabitants and back into the dreamlands. But, as he neared victory, the elves uncovered his plot and sundered the open connection to the dream lands (though cracks and secret passages known only to the elves remain). The Dark One and his allies plans were thrarted, and again he vanished into the gloom. Now, each night mortals sleep and dream, passing through the smallest cracks back into the dreamlands of Aurora or abducted into the Realm of Nightmares. Upon awakening, they are forced to return to the real world they are bound to. [/spoiler] [/QUOTE]
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