David Hero

David Hero (Hero of Dreams) is a dreamer, a character created by Brian Lumley. He was an artist who had odd snatches of memory that seem to come from another world - the world of dreams. When Hero first met his friend Eldin the Wanderer in Dreamlands, and then encountered him again in Edinburgh, they died in a car accident in the waking world and both ended up in Dreamlands together as adventurers and sellswords, with only vague memories of the waking world.
== Biography ==
In his waking world life, David was a fairly successful artist who worked on illustrations for science fiction books. He was academically qualified, but his tutors commented that he was "much too much of a dreamer" or "given to flights of fancy totally removed from his studies". He was a man "born out of tune, and perhaps out of place". He could well picture himself as a swashbuckling privateer on the Spanish Main, or an explorer of strange horizons on distant worlds - but never as an executive in some sprawling tower-block of offices on 20th century Earth.
David was living in his flat in Edinburgh and painting his dreamscapes when he met Professor Leonard Dingle, an eccentric psychologist specializing on human dreams and regarded as "Scotland's foremost expert on the hidden worlds of the mind". During his popular lecture at Granby Halls, Professor Dingle mentions Gerhard Schrach and his dream universe, which David immediately recognizes as Dreamlands, which he himself visits.
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