"Dreams are more than fleeting illusions. They are the soul’s dark reflection, a window into desires we dare not face, fears we cannot escape, and potential we have long buried. When you dream, Desdemona, you are not wandering through random thoughts—you are staring down your own truth.

  Dreams reveal what the old kings feared and queendoms used to flourish or fail. Their legacies. Their bloodlines. Their fears. But they can not survive without you, even if the waking world has kept you too fearful or uncertain to pursue it. Dreams are mirrors, prophecies showing the raw, untamed essence of what we are—they are made of scars, of desires, of the darkness within us all.

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  See. Seek. Protect.

  To turn away from them is to condemn yourself to certain ruin, but to embrace them is to surrender your waking soul for all eternity."

  -Echoes from the Dreamless, lost journal , origin unknown.