Beatrice Chambers

## Beatrice ChambersLady of Mists

> In my experience, it never does well to dwell on dreams, they'll end up just disappointing you.
>
> - Beatrice

**Beatrice Catherine Chambers**, formerly known as **Lady Beatrice Chambers** is a magic user and immortal human who has been acquainted with Morpheus, Dream of the Endless throughout the centuries.

## History

### Early Life

Beatrice was born the first child and only daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Chambers, the Earl and Countess of Wells on 23 February 1574. Until the birth of her brother nine years later, the Chambers family believed that the Earldom that had been bestowed on the family would die out as Beatrice couldn't inherit the title.

Her mother died of sepsis a few days after delivering Beatrice's brother, the future Earl of Wells. Later in 1589, her father died, leaving Beatrice to be the one to raise her brother and run the estate which she lived on. She was very beloved by the people in her village they they took to calling her Lady of Highgrove.

### Meeting Dream and becoming a Magic User

In 1589, a few months before the death of her father, Beatrice accompanied him to a meeting he was having with Sir Robert Gadling and met Gadling's mysterious stranger. After this meeting she would not see the stranger until she was 20 years old and entered his realm at night.

In 1590, just a year after the death of her father, Beatrice starts learning magic—specifically having to do with healing—and secretly starts making money off of it to keep the estate running in shape.

### Visiting *the Dreaming* and Changes in the Waking World

In 1594, Beatrice entered The Dreaming for the first time, catching the attention of Morpheus who she doesn't recognize at first. Though Morpheus doesn't tell her who he is, Beatrice does everything she can in the Waking World to find out. She continues to enter the dreaming at night and wanders the world, eventually making friends with some of its inhabitants like Cain and Abel and eventually learning about Morpheus and the Endless. Morpheus does his best to not acknowledge her continued presence in the Dreaming.

In fall of the same year, Morpheus finally acknowledges Beatrice’s presence in the Dreaming. He finds her in Fiddler’s Green and they talk for a while. The next time she enters the Dreaming, she addresses Morpheus as *Lord Morpheus*. When Dream tells her that she does not have to be so formal, she teases that she is a woman of nobility and would never disrespect anyone’s titles. Morpheus hides his amusement.

In the next few years, Beatrice continues to visit the Dreaming at night while things change in the Waking World. In 1601, after her brother turns 18, she steps back from running the estate and lets her brother do it. She continues to reject any suitors, wanting to focus on things she enjoys now that she has some more freedom. In 1603, when Death offers her immortality, Beatrice accepts.

William eventually marries his wife Lady Alice Gavell and in the following years they have children.

### Forced Exile and Life as an Immortal

By 1612, people start to realize that Beatrice hasn't aged a day since she was 29. Beatrice confesses everything to her brother. He is notably angry and yells that she's going to get burned at the stake for being a witch. Beatrice realizes she'll have to retreat into hiding, but reassures her brother that she'll be okay and that she wishes them well. The couple then name their next child, Lady Beatrice Grace Chambers, after her.

Beatrice stays in hiding, only coming out of hiding disguised and under her longtime pseudonym, *Lady of Mists*. She exchanges letters back and forth with her brother, addressing the letters formally with her brother's titles and signing them with another pseudonym: Tamsin Beaumont.

In 1639, William, dies peacefully in his sleep at the age of 55. In The Dreaming, Morpheus allows Beatrice to wish him goodbye before Death takes him and in lieu of her brother’s death, Beatrice continues sending letters to her family.

Beatrice continues to live in forced exile but is summoned countless times throughout the years as the *Lady of Mists* to heal many sick and wounded people.

In 1689, Beatrice meets Morpheus in the waking world for the first time since they first met back in 1589.

Throughout the 1700s, Beatrice travels to other countries, getting by with earnings from her magic work. In 1746, Beatrice learns that the title of the Earl of Wells was stripped from her family and dissolved. She aids her remaining family by buying and gifting them a smaller cottage house in Oxfordshire.

While many things happen in the waking world, Beatrice continues to visit the Dreaming every night, helping Lucienne in the library and keeping Morpheus company.

After staying in England from the end of the 1700s to the early 1800s, by 1837, Beatrice goes traveling once more, basking in the glory of life. She breaks plenty of hearts along the way—something which Dream points out on more than one occasion.

In 1889, she catches up with her longtime friend, Hob Gadling, who recently had a falling out with the Dream King. Beatrice doesn't bring the matter up after Dream gets angry with her for mentioning it.

### Meeting and Losing Christopher

Sometime in the early 1900s, Beatrice meets Medical student and fellow magic user, Christopher Grey. As lovers, the two score tickets on the *RMS Titanic* maiden voyage. The first class passengers wonder about these mysterious strangers who they all know nothing about.

On April 14, the *Titanic* hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and starts to sink. Knowing she can't possibly die, Beatrice looks for a way to save Christopher from the sinking ship as the two had long term plans for when they reached America. Despite her protests, Beatrice is forced on a lifeboat and brought into the sea, leaving her lover behind. She becomes hysterical when she finds his frostbitten body floating in the sea.

When she enters the Dreaming later, she avoids Morpheus, but he finds her and asks her what’s wrong. She doesn’t tell him and instead, leaves the Dreaming completely. She doesn't return for 6 months. When she does return, she finally tells Morpheus what transpired and the Dream King comforts her.

### The Imprisonment of Dream and WWI

In November of 1914, WWI has been going on for a few months. Seeing the wounded coming home, Beatrice offers up her previous home, Highgrove Manor that she had purchased back in 1785 as a convalescent home. The local physician is put in charge of the hospital, but Beatrice works as a nurse and helps the soldiers with letter writing and such. Though he doesn’t visit the waking world himself, Dream watches Beatrice heal soldiers with magic through his raven, Jessamy. Beatrice continues to visit the Dreaming.

In 1915, Beatrice sees Death again and they talk.

In June 1916, before Morpheus leaves the Dreaming, Beatrice plucks up the courage to make an advance finally on Dream and the two almost kiss but are interrupted by Lucienne. Morpheus promises to return and goes to hunt for The Corinthian.

The next night, when Beatrice enters the Dreaming to talk to Morpheus, Lucienne informs her that he is still not back. She seems worried, but Lucienne assures her that he would be back. When he doesn't return in the next few days, Beatrice goes on a quest in the waking world to find Dream, but due to the magic imprisoning Morpheus, she can’t help him.

Beatrice continues to look for Morpheus, using up any free time she has to do so.

### Severing herself from *the Dreaming*, WWII and Meeting Desire of the Endless

When WWII starts, Beatrice continues to look for Morpheus while working as a nurse in a field hospital, using magic to help those that come in.

On her birthday in 1940, Beatrice gets yanked out of the Waking World to Desire's chambers. Beatrice meets Desire for the first time and after seeing the Endless true form, Desire manifests themself into the object of her desire, Morpheus. Desire then teases Beatrice about said attraction to Desire’s brother. They then ask how long she hopes to wait for Dream and that it’s a slippery slope to be on. Before Beatrice gets tossed back to the real world, Desire wishes her a Happy Birthday with a sultry laugh.

In 1960, Beatrice pursues another lead, but it goes nowhere. She finally has had enough by 1966, and Lucienne tries to calm Beatrice down, but Beatrice loudly proclaims that she can't live in dreams anymore, leaving Lucienne speechless. She later steals a spell book and severs herself from the dreaming. This is the last magic she does. She swears to herself that if Morpheus ever returned, she would not utter his name.

### Life Without Magic

Throughout the rest of the 1900s and into the 2000s, Beatrice lives her life as best as she can, distracting herself from the life she once had. She continues to check in on Hob and some other friends she's made over the years, taking odd jobs here and there, but no longer counting on magic to do them.

By 2012, Beatrice settles back into her childhood home, Highgrove Manor, leading people in the village to speculate who this stranger is that shares the name of the famous family that had once owned it. Beatrice also becomes acquainted with Johanna Constantine, telling her about herself and Beatrice’s connection to the Constantine Family.

Throughout the 2010s, Beatrice has a lot of changes happen in her life. She gets a job teaching Literature at Cambridge University where she meets James Clarke and in a few years, starts seeing him. She also meets and confides her secret to her new friend Amber Bennett.

### Present Day

Because she had severed herself from the Dreaming, Beatrice doesn't know right away that the Dream Lord had returned. She instead, uses small clues to pick up on the fact.

Two years later, Beatrice sits down with Amber and they catch each other up on what has been happening in their lives. Amber notes that it seems like something is off with Beatrice and she waves it away, not telling Amber that Morpheus—her mystery man to Amber—has returned.

Beatrice starts to find more things that remind her of the Dream King and yells for the universe to stop patronizing her. She continues on with her life and her boyfriend, trying to forget about Morpheus and the feelings she's kept buried. When James starts telling Beatrice that he has been having nightmares—without the details of those dreams—Beatrice gets suspicious.

When Beatrice is attacked she breaks her promise to not utter his name and finally calls on Morpheus who comes to rescue her. She confesses that she's known about him watching her through his raven for a while now. She then yells at him and slaps him across the face―much to Morpheus's surprise. Once she’s finished she tells him she hates him for leaving her, then kisses him.

## Physical Appearance

Beatrice is a slim, tall woman with brown hair and brown eyes. Though she is over 400 years old, she still has the youthful appearance from when she turned 29.

She wears whatever wardrobe is in the style of the time period she is living in.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Healing Powers:** Most of Beatrice's magical learning has been in the healing arts. She worked as a nurse in WWI and WWII, using her magic abilities whenever she could.
* **Immortality:** When she was 29 years old, Death granted her immortality. She has lived for over 4 centuries and hasn't aged beyond 29.

## Relationships

### Romantic

#### Leopold Constantine

Leopold Constantine is the son of Lady Johanna Constantine. He had an unreciprocated crush on Beatrice, but was also a fierce protector and friend to her.

#### Christopher Grey

Christopher "Kit" Grey was a doctor, magic user and former lover of Beatrice.

It is not known when he and Beatrice met, but we know they met through mutual friends in the magic community.

Beatrice and Kit scored tickets on the Titanic by sheer luck and they had been planning on going to New York as Kit got a teaching position at Columbia University in New York. It was the first time in 300 years that Beatrice had ever thought of settling down with anyone.

They rode the ship as first class passengers, though they weren't known by the other elite born on the ship and were gossiped about and treated as outsiders. The couple didn't care and dwelled in the grandeur of the ship and lifestyle.

When they started filling the lifeboats with women and children first, Beatrice was shoved on a lifeboat, despite her protests. She knew she couldn't die and wanted to stay on the ship with Kit, hoping she could save him as well. No one cared that she wanted to stay and kept her on the lifeboat, leaving Kit behind.

While on the lifeboat she berated the staffer who was manning the boat to go back and look for survivors. Beatrice became hysterical when she found Kit's frostbitten body floating amongst the other dead.

She ended up having to tell Kit's family what happened and the family chased her out of their home, yelling that it should've been her.

After the disaster, Beatrice couldn't face any boat travel for a while and she had a hard time telling anyone about it. It took her six months to tell Dream and she couldn't get through the story without weeping.

#### James Clarke

Beatrice and James met each other as colleagues at the University of Cambridge. They both are literature professors though he has a fascination with Ancient Texts and Medieval Literature while Beatrice teaches Contemporary Literature.

Though having dated for almost two and a half years, James admits that there is still so much he doesn't know about her. She doesn't tell him her secret—that she is actually an immortal being and has lived for over 400 years.

#### Dream

Dream met Beatrice when she was only fifteen years old during his centennial meeting with Hob Gadling. They didn't meet again until 1594 when Beatrice entered the Dreaming for the first time.

They continued meeting in the Dreaming, Beatrice helping Lucienne in the Library every so often. Beatrice continues to wander the world of the dreaming, eventually making friends with some of its inhabitants like Cain and Abel and learning about Morpheus and The Endless.

On June 10, 1916, Beatrice is in The Dreaming with Morpheus when he talks about having to apprehend The Corinthian and how draining his duties can be. He confesses that that is why he enjoys her meeting him in the Dreaming all the time. The two almost kiss―initiated by Beatrice, but are interrupted by Lucienne. Morpheus didn't come back, having been captured and imprisoned by Roderick Burgess.

A century later, Morpheus asks Lucienne for the book of her dreams in the library. Confused about her dreams ending 50 years after his imprisonment, he turns to Lucienne for answers. She sums up Beatrice's life during the last century. After some prompting by Morpheus, she tells him that Beatrice has taken a lover. Curious (and with some jealousy) he sends Matthew to the waking world to spy on her. He does this for a few weeks, watching her live her life with her friends and lover. He contemplates leaving her be, but continues watching her―saying that he's doing it to protect her.

When Beatrice is attacked she finally calls on Morpheus who comes to rescue her. She confesses that she's known about him watching her through his raven for a while now. She then yells at him and slaps him across the face―much to Morpheus's surprise. Once she's finished she tells him she hates him for leaving her, then kisses him.

## Notes

* Though she is the first born, as a female she could not inherit the title from her father so the Earldom was passed down to her younger brother William.
	+ She was known as **Lady Beatrice Chambers** for some time as she is the daughter of the Earl of Wells and it is hers by right for life as it is a courtesy title.