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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.
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