The Dreaming Ones

==Summary==
The Dreaming Ones are eldritch entities who are kept in sustained sleep by the Immaculate Machine. It is unknown how the Gaia Engine put them to sleep, but even in their slumber, they are capable of influencing all of reality, even being used by the Machine to reset reality at least four times. They are responsible for unleashing the spreading corruption known as the Filth, which has been responsible for many atrocities across history, like the biblical plagues and the Black Death. With every reset of an Age the Engines are less and less efficient at keeping them asleep, and it is only a matter of time before they devour all of existence with their endless hunger.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least 
Name: The Dreaming Ones, The Dreamers, Sleepers, Sun-Eaters, Lucids, Outer Ones, They Who Sleep, Aten
Origin: The Secret World
Gender: Inapplicable
Age: Inapplicable
Classification: Eldritch Abominations
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Type 1), Higher-Dimensional Existence (The Dreamers exist on hundreds of higher dimensions)Legends: The FilthLegends: Filth Guardians, Large Size (Type 10), Acausality (Type 4 - The Dreamers exist outside of timeMission: Into the Fold, superior to the Hive who are beyond time themselvesLegends: The Sinking CityLegends: RevenantsLegends: 1712 FireLegends: Ak'abLegends: Ginpachi ParkLegends: Wabanaki, and their dream, the Filth, which spreads across higher temporal dimensionsMission: Where the Little Ones Go), Reality Warping (The Dreamers alter reality as they sleep, shaping the cosmos. The Gaia Engines have reset reality four times by subtly directing their dreams), Dream Manipulation, Subjective Reality (The Dreaming Ones see reality and dreams as interchangeable. The Filth manifestations are their attempt at mimicry of folklore and reality. Even retroactively changing the legend through their dreams. Even dreaming a whole dimension called the Red Sargassum Dream.)Legends: Draug LeadersMission: Confrontations and RevelationsLegends: Filth and NatureLegends: Filth and HumansMission: The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn, Conceptual Manipulation (Type 3), Corruption (Types 1 and 2), Mind Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Types 2 and 3), Reactive Evolution , Soul Manipulation (The Filth is a living meme, it corrupts absolutely the environment, the body and soul, and even their minds, turning victims completely mad), Space-Time Manipulation (The Dreamers feed on quantum foam and spread their corruption along the spine of timeMoons of Madness. The Filth is even corrupting AgarthaMission: I Walk Into Empty which is the intersection of all space-timeLegends: Agartha), Smoke Manipulation (The Filth corruption took the form of a fog in Kingsmouth raising the Draug), Necromancy (The fog also brought with it the dead as zombiesLegends: Zombies and the mummies raised by AtenLegends: Mummies), Fungus Manipulation (The Filth also took the interpretation of a fungus corrupting the wild life and nature alike) and BFR (They can forcefully bring someone in their dream dimension and kick them outMission: Dawning of an Endless Night. With a mere thought they can vanish someone from one place to anotherMission: Black Sun, Red Sand)
Attack Potency: At least Hyperverse level (The Dreamers' Filth spreads and corrupts across hundreds of dimensions, they are able to perceive higher planes of existence, the Filth corrupted humans even grow appendages in higher dimensions, unable to be perceived. The dreams of the Sleepers alter and shape all of reality, perceiving the universe in slumber, through an obsidian mirror. The Immaculate Machine managed to subtly pivot the sleeping Dreamers in order to reset reality at least four times.. If they were to awaken all of reality would be devouredLegends: Dark Agartha)
Speed: Immeasurable (The Filth corrupts and spreads through the fourth dimension and beyond, existing outside time like the Bees. They perceive time like a flat circle on a patri dish poking with gigantic fingers)
Lifting Strength: Immeasurable
Striking Strength: Hyperverse level
Durability: Hyperverse level
Stamina: Unknown
Range: Hyperversal (They dream the Filth spreading through hundreds of dimensions)
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: They are eldritch beings beyond human comprehension, possessing deep knowledge and secrets past the skin of eternity. Even through just their dreams they are able to manipulate and shape all of reality, their true motives and nature unknowable to all. Through dreams they have managed to influence, and are responsible, for many of the world's great minds like Socrates, Nietzsche and James Joyce
Weaknesses: Kept perpetually asleep by the Gaia Engines, through with each new Age they are closer to awakening.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*The Filth: The Filth has gone by many names, Sumerians called it the Eater. In Babylon they named it Nergal's Rot. Dead tongues dubbed it the Devouring Plague, the Zero Point Pathogen, the Dark Homunculus, the Blackworm Jism. It is abstractIssue 10 Comic, information taking the shape of oil, sometimes sometimes vapour, invisible waves, pollution, roiling black storms, a viral rhyme. It corrupts the minds of all that experience it, starting in the mind and eroding self-perception, the more of the Sleepers' perception it's absorbed the harder it is to remember their human self. It spreads by sound, physical contact, airborne, writings on a wall, even if you escape a Filth corrupted and hide behind a door they things they say will cause you to pass out or consider opening your veins. Its corruption is absolute affecting both body and soulMission: The Filth, the filth corrupted change shape to an oily boneless mass, growing bodily weapons, some even growing appendages in higher unperceivable dimensions. It's corruption can change depending on the Dreamers' interpretation, sometimes it appears as a fog raising the dead, poisoning and choking all who enterLegends: The Fog , or a spreading fungus infection corrupting nature. In Tokyo it corrupted the cyborgs and eventually evolved to corrupt all the technology like the machines and dronesMission: Elements of ControlMission: Law of SalvagesKurt Kuszczak Dialogue. However, the Filth isn't only a superficial virus, it is metaphysical as much as it is physical. It is anti-information, a meme, it works on ideasLegends: Breach of the First Wall, it trickles down hundreds of dimensions floating on quantum foam.
==Gallery==
TheUnutterableLurker.jpg|See the Unutterable Lurker. Tremble at its cyclopean scope. This is the Sun-Eaters at their most lucid, the purest form of their avatars, guided by their titanic wills. Its vast maw is a prelude to their limitless hunger. It devours whatever it destroys, ravenous forever. It is the hunger dreams of the Sleepers, anticipating their feast upon waking.
FilthArt.jpg|When the Dreaming Ones dream of living things, those living things bend and twist to their interpretations. The pathogen spreads, not just in the minds of humanity, but into nature. That is a distinction only you make, sweetling, nature and you. It's all the same to the Filth. It's all the same to us, actually.
FilthArt2.jpg|It starts as an odd tick. Maybe your neighbour starts speaking gibberish, small bouts of word salad. Then the black tar explodes from every orifice, covering them in nightmare. They chase you. Even if you escape, even if you hide behind a sturdy door, the things they say cause you to vomit or pass out or consider opening your veins. Well…not you, sweetling. We protect you. We scar your mind with the right patterns.
AtenSunGod.jpg|"With your light burn away all hateful things! Don't resist. Our bodies are unworthy of the majesty. See how your radiance burns my skin. I am blessed! I too feared Aten. So wrong, I was very wrong. I give you my eyes, and I see! I see! It is beautiful!"
DreamersJohn.jpg|"I am the pirate signal. Let me in. I am the word virus. Let me in. I am the ear worm. Let me in. I am the brain pathogen grammar. I am the dreamers' dream. I am what I am. Let me in - let me in - let me in - let me in. Let me in!" -John
==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
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