The Dreamer

In ages long forgotten, in what is now called Lake Nia in Eolda, a structure was built in its shores and inhabited by a coven of seven Night Hags. The resident coven performed horrid rituals and invaded the dreams of mortals, ever hungry for the information and knowledge those dream kept. Through greed and cruelty known only to hags, as well as through a twist of fate created by the goddess Ansephal, the coven now shares a single body known as the Dreamer.

### Treason and Capture of the Elven Maiden

After eons of amassing knowledge from dreams, one of the hags apparently fell in love with a high elf male. She took the form of an elven maiden, wanting to spend time with him and at the same time protecting him from her coven. Eventually they had a child. After the hag gave birth to a baby girl, seemingly a high elf with black hair, she left her lover and also left her daughter in his care, fearing that if the rest of the coven found out they would hurt her family. Along the years she would secretly watch her lover and daughter, ensuring their well being from afar. Time passed and her daughter grew up to be a beautiful elven maiden around her 30th year; a child from the perspective of elves. However, word got out that she had mysterious powers over dreams; no doubt her night hag powers manifesting. The other hags eventually found out about the girl and discovered what had happened. In their fury that claimed them when they learned that their sister kept a potential new hag out of their reach, as well as that she protected her lover instead of killing him as is custom, they ate the traitor hag and her high elf lover. Then they captured the girl and imprisoned her, to be released in about fifteen years when she will transform into a hag as is her nature.

### Infighting and Slight to the Goddess of Darkness

However, her powers were too powerful for a mere fledgling and each hag had the idea to use the girl for their own separate ends. In time they would begin to fight over her to the point that they invoked powers of fell gods to prevail among one another. One such fell god was of course the dark deity Ansephal. The goddess loved the delicious conflict they sown, the chaos and the lies they told one another. However, when each hag realized that she couldn't prevail and that a winner could not be decided, they forsook Ansephal; dismissing her as a weak power with control only of the dark and not over them, as they turned to other resources. That infuriated Ansephal to no end; the goddess was not going to let this offense go unpunished.

### Ansephal's Revenge

As time went by, Ansephal slowly poisoned the minds of each hag, making them obsess over the beauty of the imprisoned elf girl that until recently made them at least a bit uneasy. When Ansephal's corruption wholly overtook them, each hag coveted the maiden's beauty and wanted it for themselves; to possess it and emulate it. By the end, with one final push from Ansephal, they all wanted to somehow possess the maiden's body and claim her powers but most importantly her beauty. All of them searched for ways they could achieve this. The fighting ceaselessly continued about who would possess her; wrecking havoc in their abode and fear among their servants. Then, Ansephal decided to ''grant'' their wish of possession and messed with them one last time: She molded their minds into one consciousness and forced them all into the mind and body of the elf maiden. The mind and personality of the elven maiden ceased to exist, but each hag kept their original mind and thoughts; effectively sharing it with the rest. All of them inhabited the same body at once and each one could hear the others' thoughts unable to silence them as they are of one mind. Ansephal did two more things: she granted their body eternal life and youth, but cursed it into an eternal sleep.

Of course, being night hags in mind and spirit, they had dominion over the dreamscape and could collect dreams and knowledge like before. With their power now combined into one they could also see into the waking world through their mind's eye and also converse telepathically with beings in the waking world. They can never physically move however but can defend themselves through various powerful spells requiring no components, although they would be much more powerful if they were awake. Their servants also protect them and otherwise act as they did before their masters were merged.

### Acceptance of the Unending Dream

Through the ages, these hags have tolerated each other and slowly aligned their minds and accepted their fate, making them much more intelligent and wise than when they were bickering in the same body. Over this time the single body of the elven maiden that the hags inhabit became known as ''the Dreamer'', and ''her'' reputation had spread across the Planes. The conscious of the body that once were the hags adopted that identity although they still talked with '''we'' instead of ''I'' but did not care if others referred to them as she, as that pronoun is correct as well. The Dreamer had gained a vast amount of insight from the dreams she had amassed over the great many years. As such, beings from all over the Planes have sought an audience with the Dreamer and her unending dream, seeking wisdom, answers, and knowledge that only she possesses.

The Dreamer still exists in this day and age, in the same ruins she always was in Lake Nia; the entrance to her sleeping abode shielded by the Border Ethereal. Only those who can find it may earn an audience. Otherwise, in the world of mortals, the Dreamer is considered a myth and her origin and location lost to time.