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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 5941386" data-attributes="member: 11697">Is two years too late to be answering a question? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />I don't know how I missed this the first time that you posted it, but here's some details on the Dreamer / Dream Reaver (I've described her with both titles).The Dreamer does in fact have a full name, but since I never used her much and never got around to posted a piece of fiction revolving around her, she was one of several of the Demented that I never developed much. And thus, she only has a title rather than a full name.I did name her at some point, because she played a roll very late in my second Planescape campaign, but for the life of me I can't find it in my notes, so it's probably something that I wrote down by hand as a notation in the printed out campaign notes for the several sessions that plot arc took to go through.She's one of the few baern to actually have a distinct gender - being outwardly female- while most of them are pretty androgenous. She doesn't have any "siblings" among the Demented (such as Harishek ap Thulkesh and Daru ib Shamiq being described as "brothers") though I considered giving her a sibling that didn't fall among the 13 Demented (the otherwise undescribed Asudj ap Shaelloth who I toyed with giving a formative role in creating the shadow fiends in the Abyss).I implied in my campaign that she either created the Night Hags of the Waste outright, or experimented upon hordelings on a pretty massive scale, and ultimately elevated one of them to a higher station and unique form, and this hordeling would later become the night hag goddess Cegilune. As far as servitors, the Dreamer actually tends to use self-mutilated and blind night hags rather than yugoloths, and it's hinted that she does so not out of love for her wayward creations, but contempt towards what they began as and their pretensions and/or ignorance otherwise.I've described members of the Demented as choosing individual unique yugoloths and inhabiting them like metaphysical parasites (be the 'loth willing or not). The Dreamer was harbored within the flesh/soul of Larsdana ap Neut, the architect of the Tower of the Arcanaloths/Tower Arcane in Gehenna (elsewhere described as the Witch Queen of Gehenna and Magistrix of the First Furnace). I described this in a short piece I wrote years ago called 'The Dreamer and the Fiend', which was in the short-lived Knowledge Arcana webzine that was published on the WotC forums in late 3.x (edited by Penny Williams at the time, but I don't know precisely what official capacity that was and thus if it's to be considered in any way canon for the concepts involved here, but I'd err on no).</blockquote>

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