The Book of the Dreamer

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[Very few of these tomes are made, as if the effort was simply too much for the author. Looking inside the oddly well-made leather exterior, the reason for such is easily discovered. The handwriting of much of the tome seems forced and unnatural, as if a terrible scribe had attempted to correct his technique in a single night. Still, copies can occasionally be found, usually in the Priory, upon Sir Belisarius' old stand in the Mistlocke Square, or the library in the Curio Shoppe.]

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The Book of the Dreamer




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For Brother Desjardins.
Return safely from the Dreamer's Breath someday Brother.

Written by:
Dreamer-Guide-the-Faithful
Footman Walt the "Tanner"
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This be for the sake of those like Walt, who need guidance. A gift from one once lost, now set upon the right path by his betters.

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Revelation

 
 In the beginning there  were the Three and they was as One, a Divine Three. The Risen, the  Unbroken and the Dead. None greater, none lesser, all equal, all as One,  yet Three for as men are born, they live, they die and then they's go  to Paradise should they's be Faithful.
 
 Yet in the beginning there was Three.
 
 But as the Child  struggles to understand the desires and commands of the parent, so too  did the Children of the Unbroken struggle to understand what their  Creators and Gods desired. The Three did nay want to spoil their  Children, for as a Child cannot grow to become a Man while pampered by  his parents, so too could the Children nay reach their potential should  the Three direct them too closely.
 
 And from the desires and  needs of the Three came the One to aid the Three in their Holy works.  And so did the Dreamer come into existence, and he said to the Three,  â€œKnow that I shall act as youse messenger, youse faithful Herald. I  shall be both rod and praise to youse Children, so that they might  struggle, learn, and strive to become like they's Creators.”
 
 The Three were pleased,  and the Dreamer began his Blessed Rest. And as he rested so came the  Breath which blessed the Holy Isle of Creation where the Three created  their Children. Yet, it was too late for some of the Children, and these  wayward sons and daughters fled Chalsembyr, rather than to face up to  their Sin and seek Redemption.
 
 To those what remained  the Breath delivered the Visions, Divine messages of the Three. Of  things what were. What might be. What won't be. And what never were. So  did the Brethren Votarient begin to emerge and become a boon unto the  Children of the Three, for as the Visions held the power of the Divine,  so too were they too much for most of the Children. The Brethren sought  to guide and aid those what weren't that skilled with understanding the  Visions.  
 
 Yet, some of those what  were confused by the Visions turned nay to the Brethren, but to those  what defied the Will of the Three, claiming that the Three were not One,  but separate and nay Three at all. As the Unbroken demands Mercy  towards the Children, the Brethren begged their wayward Brothers and  Sisters to renounce their new-found Sin. Yet, it was nay to be. And so  were the Heterodox cast out from Chalsembyr and the Dreamer denied them  His Breath, and so they was lost, Children separated from the Three.
 
 So did Ages pass, and the  Dreamer passed on to the Children the wisdom and commands of the Three.  Yet, it shall nay last. For as the Visions have shown the Children, the  End is coming.
 
 The Dreamer shall Awaken,  the Children shall be seperated from the Three, and only the Faithful  of the Numinous Order of Brethren Votarient shall stand between the  Apocalypse of Man and the End.

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The Dreamer's Breath

 
 Know, reader of me words,  that the Dreamer's Breath, the Mist, is not something to take lightly,  to mock, or ignore. It is the Dreamer's Breath what shields the land  from the Witch H'bala's touch. Those from the mainland what claim it is a  force of evil do nay understand what it is. It is the teachings of the  Three, lessons given through the Dreamer. As with all lessons in life,  some are pleasant, some are unpleasant. Yet the Three only mean the best  for their Children. For what sort of father spares their child the belt  when doing otherwise will make their children grow up poorly? A bad one  that's what.
 
 In the Dreamer's Breath  one will face many things. Divine revelation. Visions of the End. Things  what have happened, what might have happened, what will happen and what  never happened. Youse will see things that youse won't believe. Youse  will think youse saw things that youse didn't. Maybe youse did out of  the corner of youse eye. Maybe nay.
 
 And then there be the Nightmares. Nightmares of the Dreamer and the Children of the Three.
 
 While Walt ain't be able  to reveal much about Visions and revelations, mainly because he ain't as  learned as his Brothers and Sisters, he can talk about the Nightmares,  since he has faced them many times before.
 
 The Nightmares are nay  evil, they are nay monsters, they are however lessons. Violent, brutal  and tough lessons. Failure to understand the lesson sent to youse by the  Three can end in death or injury. Yet know that the Three and One show  mercy to those what are willing to learn and remain Faithful in their  struggles.
 
 In the past Walt has  ventured forth into the Dreamer's Breath with others nay of his Order. A  Claver and a Watcher were his companions that day as the lesson from  the Three began. Our fears appeared and took form and shape and so it  were that we's bravely battled... until the worst of our fears grew from  the Dreamer's Breath.  
 
 Then was the Claver  claimed by her magics, turned back on her by the Nightmare. For in her  greed and her sort's arrogance they think to supplant the Divine Three's  place in ruling the Children.
 
 Then was the Watcher  claimed, for although he were a brave and noble sort he lacked faith in  the Three and as such he broke under the pressure, and the Nightmare  claimed him.
 
 Then there was Walt. He  yelled defiance, he yelled praise to the Three and One, while the  Nightmare tried to sway him from the Divine Three. He lacked the magics  of the Claver, and the strength of arms of the Watcher. Yet, as has been  foretold time and time again, Faith shall shield the Children from the  End. And Faith shielded him from the Nightmare.
 
 Defeated, the Nightmare  dispersed. Yet, the Watcher and Claver still lived, only robbed of their  memories of their trial by the Three. For a broken, frightened man can  nay learn to hold fast to their Faith in the Three in the face of the  End. They was shown Mercy by the Dreamer's Breath, in the hope that in  the future they might learn as Children should.
 
 Learn so that they's be prepared for the coming Apocalypse.

So's take heed reader. The greatest challenges the Dreamer's Breath  grants youse ain't out of some evil or sadism, but love. Love from the  Three and One that youse might find strength and resolve to fight  against the End.


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