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The eight dream princes and princesses are the most powerful of all dreamers. They have existed entirely in dreams for ages, and have built themselves empires of dream worlds. Their dreaming scores are 100 or more, and they are also masters of dream magic with almost as high scores. Many of the Wanderers have become servants of the dream princes, more or less voluntarily.
The realms of the dream princes lie close to Vortex, where it is easy to create new dreams from the chaotic torrent of images. The eight principalities extend from the chaotic center toward those parts of the dream worlds closest to our reality, and they have an inner logic and meaning. Each of them consists of hundreds of dreams that flow into each other.
The proximity to Vortex has affected the dream princes. All of them have become more or less insane from living in the chaotic border areas. Perhaps, a long time ago, their realms were fantastic and beautiful. Now, they consist more and more of twisted nightmares and insane hallucinations.
The dream princes are involved in a long and bitter struggle for power over Vortex. Anyone who controls the source of dreams has power over all the dream worlds. No one has managed to control Vortex, but all fear that someone else will make himself master of dreams. thus, they always struggle and attempt to cut off each others' channels to Vortex. Madness has made them paranoid and unable to trust each other. If they can, they always try to damage each others' dream worlds.
All the dream princes have connections in our world. Some of the stle between them is fought with human chessmen in the waking world. The dream princes can enter our world when they please, but it is uncommon that they do so. More often, they send their servants who may be wanderers or ordinary dreamers. There are permanent portals between the waking world and the realms of the dream princes in some places.
The oldest dream prince, Hammad al-Sufi, has created worlds of stone, worlds of glass; nightmares follow his commands.
Deride Aristides
Her dreams come to us from the 24th century, a claustrophobic future pressing back to the past of our dreams.
Aaron Greenberg
Insanely orderly dreamworlds, filled with endless repetition and alien bureaucracy.
Friedrich Koepfel
An occultist builds his shrine to the occult in the lands of sleep; walk into a Tarot card....
Nikolai Makarov
Church-bells and crying statues abound in the dreams of this 16th century monk; sometimes Binah incorporates this easy tool in her plans.
Samara Nyeme
Her dreams are all African nightmares of cursed villages and cities with insane inhabitants, famine, disasters, and interminablecivil wars, dark gods who despoil everything in their path.
Nicolette Pasteur
From a sickbed, Pasteur dreamed this universe of feverish despair, from a child's eyes.
Caren Birchlime
Nightmarish, drug-sodden visions from the youngest of the dream princes.