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 The Slumbering Woad is the primary way that mortals can enter into the Dreaming. In order to do so they must find places connected to the Dreaming: places ripe with folk tales, ancient grottos, places that invoke the whimsy of childrens' stories told by the bedside. Mapping the Woad is an impossibility, for it is always changing and labyrinthine. There are rumors of portals directly into the Dreaming, but if these exist, they are fiercely guarded by powerful archfey or mortal mages, and are almost never used.
-The Woad itself is sentient, but not in the way many people read sentience. It rejects all mind affecting magics that many try to interact with it, and will react negatively to someone trying to force control of it in any way. The Woad functions much like that of a construct, with two primary goals in mind.
+The Woad itself is sentient, but not in the way many people read sentience. It rejects all mind-affecting magics that many try to interact with it, and will react negatively to someone trying to force control of it in any way. The Woad's purpose is to act as a barrier between the mortal world and the Dreaming.
-First, is to dissuade residents of other planes from entering. It would rather have the visitors turn back before entering The Dreaming, and freely lets them leave at this point. The second motive of the Slumbering Woad is to forcefully prevent all denizens of The Dreaming from leaving, including travelers. It reacts violently to anyone who enters it from the side of The Dreaming, and will hold nothing back to prevent their escape.
+Simple travelers and those with benevolent intentions will rarely have problems navigating the Woad; it has the ability to sense intentions, and will let these sorts through. Sometimes, it is even possible to accidentally slip beyond the veil and past the Woad, ending up in the Dreaming on accident.
+Those seeking to cross over and cause harm to the other realm, though, will have to find some way around it - as it takes great care to turn around and reject these people.
 The Woad usually accomplishes this goal by splitting up parties traveling together, to weaken individual wills. Once this is done, it shows travelers visions and dreams of their greatest hopes or deepest fears, in the hope that they will turn back.
-It is said that a particular item is required to pass through the Woad, referred to simply as the //Lantern of Dreaming.// Without light from this lantern, the Woad is completely dark - no mundane or magical sources of light work here, and non-sight-based methods of navigation such as echolocation or tremorsense get turned around. Hopeful travelers must guard their Lantern of Dreaming carefully to ensure it never goes out.
+It is said that a particular item is required to pass through the Woad against its will, referred to simply as the //Lantern of Dreaming.// Without light from this lantern, the Woad is completely dark - no mundane or magical sources of light work here, and non-sight-based methods of navigation such as echolocation or tremorsense get turned around. Hopeful travelers must guard their Lantern of Dreaming carefully to ensure it never goes out.
 ===== Locations =====
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 A location on the edge of Ti’wath and Parasoma. Near a river of flowing dreams, the fortress is a large castle made of an obsidian black stone, and towers high into the sky. Located within is only a single denizen of The Dreaming, an entity known as ‘The Lost One’. It appears to grant protection to those who show respect, keeping them from becoming lost in the memories contained within the castle's walls.
-Records of The Dreaming show that the entity has been around since antiquity, but its purpose has been more shrouded than the castle. For people who enter the fortress, they might find the entry hall and guest chambers rather empty, but as time passes, they slowly start to become more aware and attuned to the atmosphere. Voices can be heard, conversations and laughter. Spirits or hallucinations can be seen moving about the place, going about daily lives, echoes of times that have passed. They seem to be full of emotion; happy, joyous, angry, sad, jealous... but they never interact with those who pass through.
+Records of The Dreaming show that the Lost One has been around since antiquity, but its purpose has been more shrouded than the castle. For people who enter the fortress, they might find the entry hall and guest chambers rather empty, but as time passes, they slowly start to become more aware and attuned to the atmosphere. Voices can be heard, conversations and laughter. Spirits or hallucinations can be seen moving about the place, going about daily lives, echoes of times that have passed. They seem to be full of emotion; happy, joyous, angry, sad, jealous... but they never interact with those who pass through.
 ==== Haralwa ====
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 === The Pillars ===
-Massive towerlike structures, each one guarded by hosts of celestial beings. Legend has it that within the pillars lie the dreams of the gods. There is one pillar for each of the Fourteen, and within each pillar is a labyrinth of traps and guardians that hold the treasures that the gods have unknowingly created. The guardians fight viciously to protect the Pillars, and few - if any - have ever made it inside.
+Massive towerlike structures, each one guarded by hosts of celestial beings. Legend has it that within the pillars lie the dreams of the gods. There is one pillar for each of the [[:gods|Fourteen,]] and within each pillar is a labyrinth of traps and guardians, which hold treasures that the gods have unknowingly created. The guardians fight viciously to protect the Pillars, and few - if any - have ever made it inside.
 === Sapphire's Dial ===
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 === Castle Rotwood ===
-An ancient castle built from the nightmares of being trapped and caged. The castle is alive and is a malicious being, and its grounds are infested with traps and monsters that delight in games of cat and mouse. Legends say that the castle’s heart is a shard of the First Dream, and the legend inspires many foolish Dreamt to seek out the center of the castle.
+An ancient castle built from nightmares of being trapped and caged. The castle is alive and is a malicious being, and its grounds are infested with traps and monsters that delight in games of cat and mouse. Legends say that the castle’s heart is a shard of the First Dream, and the legend inspires many foolish Dreamt to seek out the center of the castle.
 ==== Concordia ====
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 === Spring Court ===
-Known for their festivities, and some of the most extravagant amongst Dreamt. Those of the Spring Court love to play tricks on and fool the steadfast and solemn. They are associated with the element of earth, and make their home in a place known as the //Shadowmarr Woods,// a perfectly triangular forest in the midst of a large windswept plain - there is no proper Spring capital, but the town of //Sindili// is where the Spring throne sits. They have become quite isolationist recently. **NOTE: Please contact Noah Kauffman (@bluekid, Discord) if you would like to run anything related to the Spring Court.**
+Known for their festivities, and some of the most extravagant amongst Dreamt. Those of the Spring Court love to play tricks on and fool the steadfast and solemn. They are associated with the element of earth, and make their home in a place known as the //Shadowmarr Woods,// a perfectly triangular forest in the midst of a large windswept plain - there is no proper Spring capital, but the town of //Sindili// is where the Spring throne sits. They have become quite isolationist recently.
+**NOTE: Please contact Noah Kauffman (@bluekid, Discord) if you would like to run anything related to the Spring Court.**
 === Summer Court ===