Dream Builders

The Dream Builders were a Symposium active in Ancient Greece — specifically, in the third century BC.

Background

A group focused on trailblazing, the Dream Builders were known to respond to dangers by rushing in headlong. Much like the Dusk Court, they did not expect to survive for very long, instead expecting to build a legacy others would follow.

Their primary work was in collecting dream shards from the Hedge, so as to gift them to mortals, be they the downtrodden (who receive gifts of hope) or the cruel (who receive nightmares). Artists and architects received the greatest dreams, so as to facilitate their creation.

Given their fascination with the act of creation, these changelings were fascinated with Prometheans, and readily introduced themselves to such specimens, offering guidance into the Hedge.

Legends among the Children of Orpheus indicate a number of possible origins: Orpheus himself, whom they claim traveled east to Nineveh to learn to capture dreams; a group of changelings who received the Great Bargain from a long-forgotten sister of Anubis; and a Wizened prophet, Eresjkigal, whose dreams showed a future of Arcadia in ashes.

Bargain

The Orphic Lost have made a Bargain with the Lady of Life Beyond Death, who, in exchange for providing succor to the helpless and punishment to the wicked, grants the Lost the Mantle of Dreams and Righteousness.

Organization

Though a single symposium, the Dream Builders are divided into three separate factions: Marvels, who collect and shape dream shards; Navigators, who specialize in traveling the Hedge and guiding others through it; and the Scriveners, a new faction of former Marvels who focus on collecting dreams necessary to maintain the Great Bargain.

Associated Power

Mantle

Changelings under the auspice of this Symposium gain the benefit of the Mantle of Dreams and Righteousness, which provides them bonuses to coercion, encouragement, navigation and manipulations of dreams, and other such subjects.

References

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