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LO49

**LO49** is the abbreviation for "Lunar Observatory Forty-Nine". It serves as an important research facility guarded by Awakened and an Ascended commander.

## Location

This very important research installation is located at the southernmost point of Antarctica.

## Research

The research being conducted in this installation is perfectly safe. There are no practical experiments being conducted at the premises.

## Structure

Deeper into the complex is a central dome-like structure.

### Underground

There is a spacious chamber that resembles a lecture hall.

## Facilities

LO49 is a large facility. There is a mess hall where they could eat, relax in one of the recreational lounges, or even visit a small library.

## Members

There are about five hundred scientists and civilian staff members.

## Background

It was a former observatory. Its telescope was dismantled and repurposed as a research facility. There were around a hundred of these observatories built when the Nightmare Spell first appeared, but most of them are now sealed and abandoned.

The first registered or documented case of Nightmare Spell infection occurred in one of the moon settlements. No one really knows where the Spell came from, but many point to Luna as its origin, or at least the point of contact. So, many decades ago, there was a strong desire to study the moon.

As it turned out, looking at the moon for too long can lead to dire consequences. The LO program was canceled after casualties among the researchers, and the observatories were sealed.

## Trivia

* Fourteen hundred people had vanished into thin air.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 874 One Last Mission
2. ↑ Chapter 875 Old Roads
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Chapter 878 VIP
4. ↑ Chapter 876 LO49
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Chapter 877 Disconnected
6. ↑ Chapter 881 Change of Plans
7. ↑ Chapter 900 Don't Look Back
Griffin

* Names
* Status

* Occ

**Griffin** is the music composer for the entire movie called "A Song of Light and Darkness".

## Trivia

* Sunny praised Griffin for being able to make beautiful music.
* Griffin is a cameo for one of the readers from the Discord server.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 476 A Song of Light and Darkness
2. ↑ Chapter 477 Standing Ovation
Queen Bee

Fanart by Catphine

* Names
* Status

**Queen Bee** is an elite duelist in Dreamscape. She is considered to be strong enough to defeat Daoist Saifer and Fool easily.

## Appearance

The lower half of her face was hidden behind an elegant half-mask. Everything about this regal woman spoke of skill, grace, and resolve. She wore a light metal armor and wielded a slender estoc, its blade long and sharp. Her eyes seemed to shift from one color to another as if reflecting her mood.

## Personality

There was a strange serenity about her that somehow seemed simultaneously alien and familiar, it was the same type of clarity that Nephis possessed. She seemed deceptively placid. She is a combat master.

## Battle Ability

She can transform her technique into a completely new one. There was a slight disconnection between how her shadow moved and how she moved. She can avoid losing her footing on the slippery petals and none of them were also crushed under her armored boots. It was almost as if she was always hovering a few millimeters above the ground without actually touching it.

## Background

Her alias was Queen Bee, and she was almost as enigmatic as Sunny himself. Unlike other popular duelists, she didn't broadcast or promote her fights, preferring instead to remain anonymous and under the radar. It seemed as though she was only interested in dueling itself, and nothing else.

## Trivia

* Queen Bee had never lost a duel. She was an undefeated champion of the arenas. The network was full of theories about who Queen Bee might be:

* There was even a rumor that she was not human at all, but instead, an artificial construct was created to keep the players from reaching the top spot and to remind them to always strive for greater mastery.
* Queen Bee had her own army of unreasonable fans.

* Queen Bee (Noble Queen Bee) is a cameo for one of the readers of the novel.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 395 Roaring Lion, Hidden Dragon
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 543 Finale
3. ↑ Chapter 544 Glory to the Victor
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 542 Polite, Reasonable Online Discussion
Age of Heroes

**Age of Heroes** was the time when Corruption is prevalent across the mortal realms.

## Trivia

* It was first mentioned by the Shadow Lord who battled the remnants of Corruption across the mortal realms.
* According to Noctis, things like dying were rather common at the dawn of the *Age of Heroes* and that was what happens when human champions grow unfit for their duty.
* The Age of Heroes ended with the destruction of the Kingdom of Hope. It was a turning point in history.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 638 Dream After Dream
2. ↑ Chapter 680 Lost and Found
3. ↑ Chapter 691 Heresy
Cassie's Dream

**SPOILER WARNING!**

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## Participants

Known & Part of the Prophecy
* Cassie
* Nephis
* Sunny

Part of the Prophecy
* Effie
* Kai

* Gunlaug

## Occurence

### Concurrent

* Establishment of Dreamer Army
* Siege of the Crimson Spire
* Shadows and Light

**Cassie's Dream** was disjointed, full of weird symbolism and vague, uncertain images. It was much more like a charlatan's prophecy than a vision gained through an Aspect Ability.

## History

**Note**: Click **Show Spoilers** to reveal.

One day, on their journey to the Human Castle, Sunny and Nephis were woken up by a scream from Cassie. Without knowing what caused it they let her calm down on her own while Nephis taught Sunny the way to use his sword. After she calmed down she told Sunny and Nephis her vision.

In the last confrontation between Nephis and Sunny in the Crimson Spire, it was revealed that Cassie was the first one to understand the meaning of her vision. She knew that the two of them will end up fighting each other and Nephis was going to lose or even die. She didn't know how, when, and why but she told Nephis about Sunny's secret, hoping to save her life. That is why Cassie asked Sunny to protect Nephis no matter what, but the latter refused. She was forced to choose between her two best friends and she chose Nephis, thinking maybe both of them would survive. She knew about the secret because she saw it in a vision with Harper and the rest was a conclusion from what Sunny told her about his First Nightmare.

## The Vision

### Unraveling the Prophecy

1. ↑ The first part of the vision described the day when the Vessel of the Artificial Sun had gone mad, and the curse of the all-consuming darkness had escaped the prison created for it by the seven ancient heroes.
2. ↑ The lonely star shining in the black skies was Nephis, the herald of ruinous change, who had drowned the halls of the Bright Castle in blood to become its ruler, and then watched as it burned to the ground.
3. ↑ The corpse in the golden armor was Gunlaug, who had died on his white throne, killed by Nephis' hand.
4. ↑ The woman with a bronze spear and the desperate archer were Effie and Kai, who had almost perished fighting against the nightmare horde during the siege of the Crimson Spire.
5. ↑ Seven severed heads guarding seven locks were the heads of the giant statues, who stared at the Star Sigil that Sunny had used to banish the dark sea.
6. ↑ Nephis was the dying angel, the precious thing that was going to be taken from Cassie, and Sunny was the hungry shadow that consumed her.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 44 Cassie's Dream
2. ↑ Chapter 43 Repetition
3. ↑ Chapter 350 End of the Nightmare
4. ↑ Chapter 56 The Heaviest Thing in the World
5. ↑ Chapter 55 Lucky People
6. ↑ Chapter 360 Broken
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Chapter 344 Sorrow, Pain, and Rage
8. ↑ Chapter 307 Throne of Light
9. ↑ Chapter 314 Leaving the Dark City
10. ↑ Chapter 297 Red Flower
11. ↑ Chapter 327 Siege of the Crimson Spire (13)
12. ↑ Chapter 330 Siege of the Crimson Spire (16)
Goliath

* Name
* Status

 Cause of Death The artificial Memory, Siege Souvenir, plunged right between the titan's three pupils.

## First Appearance

### Novel

Chapter 945 The Road Ahead *(Mentioned)*
Chapter 952 Hidden Giant *(Appearance)*
Chapter 1031 The Fall of Falcon Scott (49) *(Named)*

**Goliath** was the creature responsible for responsible for obliterating Erebus Field.

## Appearance

A stone giant. Its arm can easily reach twenty or thirty meters into the air.

Goliath resembled a small mountain with a rough, unpolished body and distorted proportions. Its legs were powerful and stocky, and its torso was massive and asymmetrical, with mounds of stone rising from its back like humps. It had three arms, each with different thick, short fingers. His head was like a misshapen hill of brown rock, with two cavernous holes and a single circular sort of look like an eye in the center. What was thought of as an eye, was milky-white and round but seemed cut from stone.

When the moon appeared in the night sky, the giant's eye closed.

## Ability

Its exact powers remain unclear, as its physical might was only shown.

When the milky surface of the giant's eye slid away, a second eye was revealed. Unlike the first one, which was white and had neither an iris nor a pupil, the second one was of a furious red color, as if made of pure magma, and had three incandescent pupils floating in its depths, like windows into a scorching inferno. Suddenly, unbearable heat can be felt in the surroundings, and snow clouds melt making it rain in the middle of the polar winter.

## History

The giant Fallen Titan, Goliath, had been parasitized by the Heart of Darkness.

## Background

Goliath, the Minor Shard of the Stone Titan came from the Unholy Titan that Ariel battled.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 1031 The Fall of Falcon Scott (49)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chapter 953 Titan
3. ↑ Chapter 966 Reinforcements
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 986 The Fall of Falcon Scott (4)
5. ↑ Chapter 952 Hidden Giant
6. ↑ Chapter 980 Siege Capital
7. ↑ Chapter 966 Reinforcements
8. ↑ Chapter 1032 The Fall of Falcon Scott (50)
9. ↑ Chapter 1247 Fear Itself
Shadow (Creature)

For similar terms, see Shadow (Disambiguation).

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**Shadows** were different from Echoes. They were mercurial by nature, always changing their forms and shapes depending on the environment. And so, a Shadow was capable of change to some extent, it was capable of growth.

## Characteristics

* It is unique to Sunny due to the special nature of his aspect. They are an advanced form of Echo modified by Sunny's Aspect to be able to grow and be more alive. They grow via consuming Memories.
* Shadows possessed a semblance of consciousness and a distinct personality.
* Unlike Sunny, who cannot get partial shadow fragments, his Shadows can increase their shadow fragment count by half a point. **Note**: **Soul Serpent** is a special case due to it being tied to Sunny's *Aspect Legacy*
* To turn an Echo into a Shadow, Sunny had to possess the corresponding shadow in his Soul Sea to transform an Echo.
* If a Shadow sustained serious damage, it would enter a slumber once dismissed. That slumber would last until the damage was sufficiently repaired, which meant that Sunny would not be able to summon the sleeping Shadow for some time.

## Echo to Shadow Conversion

From Sunny's Soul Sea, two beams of dark light descended from one of the Shadow Cores. One fell on the Echo, the other on a motionless shadow that stood with the rest of them on the still surface of the calm waters. The shadow seemed to dissolve into the dark light, and then, the Echo became wreathed in black flames that seeped into its flesh, changing it on a fundamental level. The boundless spellweave that was hidden within the Echo disappeared, replaced by darkness. A living shadow was now dwelling within the former echo.

## See Also

* Sunny's Echoes and Shadows
* Category:Shadows

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 107 Growing Shadow
2. ↑ Chapter 110 Memento
3. ↑ Chapter 510 Human Echo
4. ↑ Chapter 696 Extraordinary Rock
5. ↑ Chapter 827 Daunting Task
6. ↑ Chapter 921 New Pets
7. ↑ Chapter 105 Living Stone
8. ↑ Chapter 106 Creating a Monster
9. ↑ Chapter 1079 Imp
Syclus

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## Syclus

from Trash of the Count's Family

* Names
* Status

## Physical Description

### Occupation

* Commentor
* Nightmare Creature expert

## First Appearance

### Novel

Chapter 532 Ancient Forest

**Syclus** is the commentator of the Fifth Annual Dream Tournament and Nightmare Creature expert.

## Appearance

His avatar is that of an exquisitely handsome young man.

## Trivia

* In Chapter 354, both he and Dimi were glued to the screen and even forgot to do their job of filling the silence with informative or entertaining chatter.
* He is a fan of Mongrel.
* Syclus, who was somewhat of a Mongrel fan, but not a diehard follower, was a bit confused by the sudden change — the enigmatic swordsman seemed to lose all his edge, and engaged in protracted, slow, exhausting battles with his opponents, only managing to dispatch them after long and arduous fights. To which Dimi replied Mongrel is not struggling but learning and that's what makes him dangerous.
* Syclus is a cameo for one of the readers of the novel.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 532 Ancient Forest
2. ↑ Chapter 534 Demonic Swordsman
3. ↑ Chapter 537 Learning Curve
What? No, wait!

By WillOBrien

* Names
* Status

**What? No, wait!** is one of the participants in the Duels of Dream Tournament. His bizarre name sounds familiar, the man summoned a shield and an arming sword.

## Aspect Ability

He possesses an Aspect related to blood. His first Ability allowed him to ignite it, and the second increased his strength and speed the more he bled.

### Battle Ability

His technique was polished but unoriginal. Not that there was anything wrong with that, except that it was also too straightforward and inflexible.

## Trivia

* Sunny recalled that he almost ended up with the exact name after accidentally saying the words out loud. Luckily, it had already been taken.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 539 Out of Reach
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 540 Blood Feud
3. ↑ Chapter 392 Birth of a Legend
4. ↑ Chapter 541 Battle of Two Demons
Riverborn

**Riverborns** are those who were born after the Outsiders settled inside the Tomb of Ariel.

Riverborn are those who are beholden to the flow of time within the Great River. They are born inside the Tomb of Ariel and can only travel as far as their lifespans allow, with the only direction being upstream. They are not immortal just because their bodies do not age. The Riverborn do not usually live that long, as life is full of hardship and the waters are dangerous inside the Tomb.

Even if the bodies of Riverborn don't age, they are still humans who are not immortal. If they live too long, their souls grow weary and want to rest in the embrace of Shadow.

Despite being attentive and earnest artisans, the Riverborn were clearly much less sophisticated than their ancestors.

See also: Seven Houses
## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1292 History of Time
2. ↑ Chapter 1300 Riverborn
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 1305 House of Parting
Seed of Nightmare

Nightmare Seed Illustration

**Seed of Nightmare** is a vile manifestation of the Spell that grew in the Dream Realm and eventually blossomed, opening a gate to the real world for the Nightmare Creatures to enter. It is the thing that Awakened was supposed to seek out and destroy by challenging the Nightmare contained within.

## Mechanism

A Seed can be challenged before and after it blooms. If the Seed is not found in time, a Gate opens, and challengers can fight their way through and enter the Nightmare directly. The Gate also disrupts the anchors of those near it, so Masters and Saints that enter the Dream Realm will appear in the vicinity of the blooming Seed.

Most of the Seeds are not found in time because the Dream Realm is vast and only partially explored. That is why the Nightmare Creatures are entering the real world so often. Challenging a Seed before it blooms is better.

After the Seed of Nightmare had been destroyed, a Gateway took its place.

## Categories

One of the things that differentiated *Seeds* was their **Category**:

* **Category Two Seed** would blossom into a *Category Two Gate*, and contains a *Second Nightmare*. If an Awakened challenged it and passed the trial, they would become a *Master*.
* If a Master challenged a **Category Three Seed** and survived the *Third Nightmare*, they would become a *Saint*.

There are numerous Nightmares but not all *Nightmares* are equal. The nature of the Nightmare one can challenge determines what knowledge one will receive, and what secret one will be able to glean. The lessons humans can learn from the decrepit ruins in the Dream Realm are not that profound. Most of the knowledge comes from the stories people bring back from their Nightmares. For that reason, powerful *Legacy Clans* select the *Nightmares* for their members to challenge very carefully.

### First Nightmare Seed

The First Nightmare is similar to the other Nightmares. It is also born from a **Seed**. The only difference is that the seed does not grow in the Dream Realm. Instead, it develops within a human's soul.

## Call of Nightmare

Main article: Call of Nightmare

The **Call of Nightmare** is a familiar feeling in the soul of the Awakened that calls them to enter the Nightmare. The Nightmare Creatures are also pulled by the Call to the blooming Seed of Nightmare to enter the waking world.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 458 Shackles of Hope
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 459 Seed of Nightmare
3. ↑ Chapter 752 Solid Foundation
4. ↑ Chapter 793 Memories of the Future
5. ↑ Chapter 486 Call of a Nightmare
6. ↑ Chapter 487 First Wave
7. ↑ Chapter 1206 Nightmare Desert
8. ↑ Chapter 457 Ivory Tower
9. ↑ Chapter 743 Appraisal
10. ↑ Chapter 1230 Hell is Empty
Verne

* Names
* Status

 Cause of Death [1] Disappeared due to Terror of LO49
[2] Became a thrall of the Terror and was killed during Falcon Scott

* Affl

**Verne** was the Master in charge in LO49.

## Appearance

He was tall, powerful, and appeared to be in his forties. He was clothed in a black bodysuit with an unzipped parka over it. He had dark hair and calm, intelligent eyes. His stern and weary face bore a composed expression. Everything about him spoke of experience and discipline.

## Personality

Verne was an experienced government official. He was reserved, methodical, and did things by the book. He had received instructions from Army Command to reinforce LO49 and await the naval rescue, and he was determined to carry them out. It was not simple for him to defy an order. His thinking was not flexible enough.

## Aspect, Abilities & Flaw

### Known Memories

* Polished Plate Armor
* Shield and Short Sword
* Flint dagger with a handle made out of weathered bone. It has protection against mind attacks.

## Trivia

* He has a hundred Awakened under his command and close to a thousand mundane soldiers.
* He was one of the fourteen hundred people who vanished in LO49.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 900 Don't Look Back
2. ↑ Chapter 1010 The Fall of Falcon Scott (28)
3. ↑ Chapter 1023 The Fall of Falcon Scott (41)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 876 LO49
5. ↑ Chapter 899 Only Hope
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 883 Sortie
7. ↑ Chapter 894 Cold Waves
8. ↑ Chapter 877 Disconnected
Red Sect

**Red Sect** was an ancient and rather terrifying sect that takes in orphaned girls, especially those born with red hair, and trains them to become perfect vessels of War.

## Teachings

Their teachings had grown cruel and perverse over the centuries. It was endless training like battle training, essence training, and body conditioning. How to endure pain, how to endure fear, how to steel your will. How to be a perfect, merciless, lethal vessel of War. They were also very inventive in their lessons like enduring pain to the brink of death.

All the things they did to the girls were done without any hint of hatred, malevolence, or bad intentions. On the contrary, the older Maidens treated the girls like their little sisters — when they were not torturing and killing them.

## Background

The War Maidens are not someone to be trifled with they only needed Noctis' protection because there was a schism within the sect, and one of their disciples left to create her own cult. They have a rule that no one can leave the sect alive, her departure was not amicable. Those who survived it came here to build the Temple of the Chalice and remained there since.

The sect that dwelled in the *Temple of the Chalice*, was where Solvane came from.

Their last transcended, the venerable foremother, died two hundred years ago. There were no other Transcendents among the maidens since.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 663 Heralds of War
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 675 Devastation
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 672 Shadow Cohort
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 674 Mercy of Shadow
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 673 War Masters
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 682 The Red Sect
7. ↑ Chapter 678 Wind of Change
Temple of the Chalice

**Temple of the Chalice** was the location of the glass knife, given to a War Maiden by the immortal Shadow.

## Description

### Island

There was only one path through the forest of blades and nothing was around but pillars of jagged rocks and the swords thrust into the ground.

## Interior

In the center of the Temple, there is a large hall where a *giant stone chalice* stands. It was filled to the brim with ranging white flames, the same fires that burn in the Sky Below. On the bottom of the chalice is where the glass knife was kept.

The tall chalice was cut off a single slab of gray stone. Underneath its surface, an intricate weave of ancient runes was glowing.

## Rules

The Temple of the Chalice only allowed women inside. They will only give passage to female warriors of utmost skill, those who are veiled in dread and the smell of numerous bloody battlefields. Men aren't allowed to enter the Temple unless they are serving a woman.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 638 Dream After Dream
2. ↑ Chapter 666 Dark Rider
3. ↑ Chapter 667 Temple of the Chalice
4. ↑ Chapter 668 Vessels of War
5. ↑ Chapter 664 Basic Logic
6. ↑ Chapter 663 Heralds of War
Defilement

See also: Six Plagues
**Defilement** is the other name for Corruption. It is a special kind of Corruption that appeared on the Great River and spread downstream like a plague. The origin of the Defilement is the Estuary.

## Origin

The Seekers were always searching for the Estuary, but none of them found it. They built a city of their own in the far reaches of the past called Verge. Its grandeur could compete with the large prosperous cities ruled by the sybils. From there, they continued their search until one of the Seekers managed to enter the Estuary.

However, what he found there was Corruption, not the truth. Perhaps it was the truth he found that corrupted him. He became the first of the Defiled, bringing the Defilement back to the Verge. The city of Seekers was consumed by the Defilement, and those consumed became twisted and monstrous. It spread from there like a plague, bringing a great calamity to the River People.

Because of the Defilement, the peaceful waters of the Great River became plagued by the Corrupted. The River People were trapped between the harrowing past and the doomed future. They fought against the Defilement and resisted for a while, but also fought among themselves. That was how Daemon followers were chased away upstream, facing dangers, and eventually lost contact with those who had exiled them. Many sybils succumbed to the Defilement, and their cities fell, including Twilight, the city of the Serpent King.

## Trivia

* It was mentioned that the Defilement was born after the voices of the gods grew silent which cause the sybils to seek the Estuary.
* The First Seeker, who has not been seen in a long time, is said to have turned into a mindless mass of rotting flesh due to **Defilement**. Some said he was severely wounded by the Serpent King and is yet to recover. There was also heresy that the Dread Lord had subjugated and imprisoned him.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 1293 Defilement
2. ↑ Chapter 1292 History of Time
3. ↑ Chapter 1309 Mad Prince
Valor Clan

Valor Crest

The **Valor Clan** ruled Bastion, one of the three great human citadels in Dream Realm. It is considered to be one of the three great clans. Their territory is the farthest north of the three human enclaves in the Dream Realm. Previously led by Saint Anvil, it is officially been led by his cousins ever since he disappeared.

## Members

This Great Clan was renowned not only for its *knights*. It was also famous for its *forgers*. Members of the Valor family often received Aspects tied to *forging and creation*. Some of them could even create Memories, tailor-made for destroying Nightmare Creatures and conquering the dangerous expanses of the Dream Realm.

Crafting Memories was an innate ability of the Valor family, not a learned skill like their knowledge of runic sorcery or knowledge of weaving.

### Known Members

* Anvil
* **✞**Madoc
* Mordret
* Morgan

### Knights of Valor

* **✞**Amiran
* **✞**Cormac
* **✞**Pierce
* **✞**Welthe
* **✞**Warren
* **✞**Shtad
* **✞**Agathe
* **✞**Crass
* **✞**Varo

### Non-Combatant

* Forgemasters
* Seneschal - a high-ranking adviser, second only to the Forgemasters among non-combatant specialists of the great clan.

## History

For a time, the allies and vassals of Clan Valor used to conquer one lesser Citadel after another, expanding human territory far into the north. But their expansion in that direction stalled because they encountered Hollow Mountains.

## Trivia

* The clan still has ambitions of exploring Hollow Mountains even though it was designated as a Death Zone. Perhaps that is why Night Temple exists and a Saint is stationed there.
* Clan Valor had inherited the lineage of War God.
* There are originally twelve Saints who swore loyalty to the Great Clan Valor.
	+ It became eleven after Cormac was killed.
	+ One of their Saint was reported dead in the Dream Realm, while heroically defending a Citadel from some vicious Nightmare Creature.
	+ In Chapter 1005, another of Valor's Saints was killed.
* The representatives of the Great Clan Valor were proficient in using runic sorcery back in the Night Temple.
* All Valor Awakened were too serious and full of ardent devotion.
* Those of the Valor bloodline - Anvil and his children, at least - carried the lineage of War God in their veins which was confirmed by Cassie.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 550 Tournament Rewards
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 244 Death Zone
3. ↑ Chapter 369 Hidden Forces
4. ↑ Chapter 542 Polite, Reasonable Online Discussion
5. ↑ Chapter 1340 New Perspective
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 1125 Private Conversations
7. ↑ Chapter 1166 Homecoming
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Chapter 1171 His Own Designs
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 1167 Prince's New Clothes
10. ↑ Chapter 1160 Idle Days
11. ↑ Chapter 557 Night Temple
12. ↑ Chapter 577 Only You
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Chapter 598 Broken Balance
14. ↑ Chapter 597 Welcome Aboard
15. ↑ Chapter 986 The Fall of Falcon Scott (4)
16. ↑ Chapter 758 Crossroad
17. ↑ Chapter 1131 Foresight
18. ↑ Chapter 1135 Rematch
Shadow Lord

For similar terms, see Shadow (Disambiguation).

* Names
* Status

**Shadow Lord** was one of the Chain Lords who died prior to the start of second nightmare.

## Appearance

In one of Nightmare's dreams, Sunny had become the Shadow Lord. His hand was clad in a glove of black silk.

## Personality

He had been cunning and fearless, valiant and unrelenting, full of faith and hope.

## Background

He had been a hero once, battling the remnants of the *Corruption* across the mortal realms. His triumphs and his victories at the dawn of the Age of Heroes were depicted on the ancient stone walls of his castle, etched into the annals of history.

He had been entrusted with the glass knife by the Lord of Light which he then gave to his servant, a towering demon with pale grey skin, four arms, and twisting horns. He commanded the demon to take the glass knife to the Temple of the Chalice and give it to the War Maiden.

He had stolen the *ember knife* which contained his fate from one of the brothers, the Sun Prince, and used it to end his own life.

## Trivia

* He was the original master of the Shadowspawn and Nightmare (Black Steed).

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 611 Immortal Lords
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Chapter 638 Dream After Dream
3. ↑ Chapter 637 Iron Cage
4. ↑ Chapter 644 My Enemy
5. ↑ Chapter 661 Precious Tether
Mordret/History

## Family History

According to Welthe, he is the eldest son of Saint Anvil, one of the patriarchs of the great Valor clan. As a young child, he was given as a *hostage* to a *powerful ally*. That no harm was meant to come to him to keep peace and ensure prosperity for all.

Years later, he was returned to the clan as an Awakened. But their joy was short-lived because it became apparent that he had grown up to be disturbed. He was cruel, uncaring, and had certain impulses that couldn't be controlled. The more powerful he became, the less human he seemed. He was more powerful than any Awakened was supposed to be.

In the end, he left the clan, breaking the command of the elders, and sought out a Seed of Nightmare to become a Master. Knowing that he was too dangerous to be allowed to Ascend or even to walk freely in the waking world, a decision was made to eliminate him.

Mordret had been forbidden from challenging the Second Nightmare for being "*too powerful*" and "*couldn't be controlled*". That was why he had come to the Chained Isles alone, seeking a Seed that had not been discovered and thus couldn't be guarded by the forces of the Sovereigns which eventually led to his downfall. His physical body and spirit body were destroyed but that still didn't kill him. No matter what they attempted, he simply refused to die.

## Second Nightmare

Mordret had grown weaker as if he did not possess six soul cores anymore. Instead, there were five strange creatures helping him — like the lesser versions of the reflection creature on the Reckoning Island. While the Night Temple army fought with himself, the five creatures attacked the town that they had left unprotected, slaughtering every human who lived there.

He later possessed the old priest who tended to the Ivory Lord. He spent months carefully putting a few useful ideas into the Ivory Lord's muddled mind.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 577 Only You
2. ↑ Chapter 686 Creature of the Fog
3. ↑ Chapter 734 Final Obstacle
Ruined Temple

This temple was mentioned in Sunny's First Nightmare when he reached the peak of the mountain and found the **ruined temple**.

## Description

Inside the temple, there was a large altar cut from a single piece of black marble at the far end of the hall. It was the only thing inside that was untouched by snow.

## Trivia

* This where Sunny unknowingly sacrificing himself to the gods and the Shadow God stirred from his slumber and aided Sunny to kill the tyrant thus ending the nightmare.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 14 Child of Shadows
Warmongers

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**Warmongers** are Awakened warriors who are worshipers of War God. Every one of them was merciless, mad killers.

The followers of the cult of Glory were merciless, cruel raiders that worshiped war, slaughter, and bloodshed, killing simply for the sake of killing. Their perverse fate and zealous belief are that by destroying the lives of innocent people they were delivering the gift of salvation to their victims.

## Appearance

They are tall, strong, and clad in archaic armor. Their garments were painted bright red, and so were the plumes of their helmets. They wielded deadly weapons.

## Mindset

Their worldview was twisted and ruthlessly cruel, but more or less simple. They believed in struggle and glory, one had to struggle to achieve glory, and the struggle itself was the most glorious thing. Dying while struggling against an overwhelming foe was the highest form of glory. The only thing more righteous than being killed by a stronger enemy was to kill that enemy instead.

In their mind, what they were doing to the slaves was not a cruel injustice, but a benevolent gift. They were generously given a chance to walk the path of righteousness and strive toward glory.

## Members

* One was armed with a spear and a shield.
* One wielded an axe and a sword.
* Jailer - An Ascended warrior who wielded a great blade inscribed with a line of runes and was enchanted with very powerful magic. His figure was solemn and powerful, a sense of terrifying strength radiating from it in almost physical waves. The apostle of War wore the same ragged leather armor and a tattered red robe, his features hidden behind a deep hood.

## Trivia

* In the Kingdom of Hope, their *cruel trials* in the Red Colosseum are something that every parent tells their children to make them behave.
* Their weapons were enchanted with runes.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 609 Glory
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 683 To Kill a Dragon
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 611 Immortal Lords
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 614 Hope's Canvas
Obel

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## Obel

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[Reveal]**✞** Deceased Chapter 1060 The Fall of Falcon Scott (78)

 Cause of Death Due to the murderous cold from the domain of the Winter Beast.

## First Appearance

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Chapter 509 Ghastly Reward *(Mentioned)*
Chapter 877 Disconnected *(Appearance)*

**Obel** was the scientist who developed the Obel Scale. He is also the chief researcher of LO49.

## Appearance

He was an extremely old man in a white lab coat.

He was at least eighty years of age or older. His skin was thin like paper, with knotty blue veins clearly visible beneath it, and his neatly combed hair was completely white. The old man's eyes, however, were still brimming with sharp intelligence and awareness.

## Personality

He cared for young people and thinks that someone old like him is not worth saving. He values what the young generation will accomplish in the future.

## Quotes

  ― To Sunny,Chapter 911 Question of Value

  ― To Sunny,Chapter 911 Question of Value

  ― To Sunny,Chapter 964 Proof of Competence

  ― To Beth,Chapter 1054 The Fall of Falcon Scott (72)

## Trivia

* He was the VIP that Sunny is supposed to deliver to safety.
* He referred to Julius as a brat because he used to be his student but chose a different field of study.
* He and his team were studying the Nightmare Spell, specifically to understand its causality. They are exploring the cause and effect of various phenomena having to do with the Spell, as well as correlations between them. Their study mainly has to do with the Nightmare Gates.
* He called Beth a stubborn child.
* Professor Obel can cook.
* Obel's favorite Awakened was Sunless according to Beth.
* He gave up his position on the priority list, stating that he would not leave without his assistant. Due to this both he and Beth were stuck in the standard selection group for the time being (Evacuation from Falcon Scott).
* The Army was consulting Obel on upgrading the communication array.
* He chose to be left behind Falcon Scott.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1060 The Fall of Falcon Scott (78)
2. ↑ Chapter 509 Ghastly Reward
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 877 Disconnected
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 878 VIP
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 911 Question of Value
6. ↑ Chapter 879 Signs of Lightning
7. ↑ Chapter 964 Proof of Competence
8. ↑ Chapter 989 The Fall of Falcon Scott (7)
9. ↑ Chapter 990 The Fall of Falcon Scott (8)
10. ↑ Chapter 1004 The Fall of Falcon Scott (22)
11. ↑ Chapter 1054 The Fall of Falcon Scott (72)
Volume 2: Demon of Change

Credit: Oana Roxana Birtea (Yuuza)

**Demon of Change** is the second volume of Shadow Slave written by Guiltythree. It tells the story of Sunny reaching the Dark City, along with Nephis and Cassie in hopes to find a way back to the real world.

## Synopsis

Sunny, Nephis, and Cassie manage to reach the castle but soon realize that their one hope of finding a way home in the castle was extinguished. There is no gateway in the Dark City. The trio manages to find humans living in the city. Many sleepers end up there when they start off on the Forgotten Shore. The trio tries to find hope in the Dark City, riddled with politics of different regions and their king Gunlaug, and find out that their one true hope lies in the Crimson Spire, a huge tower in the Forgotten Shore, seemingly the origin of all the corals of the labyrinth. It contains a gateway capable of leading them back home. However, it is guarded by a Fallen Terror. Seemingly at the end of the line, many believe they will die in the Forgotten Shore however, that fate is unacceptable to Nephis.

## Mini Arcs

* Flashback (Chapter 122 - 169)
* Journey to the edges of the Forgotten Shore (Chapter 190 - 262)
* Establishment of Dreamer Army
* Siege of the Crimson Spire
* End of Forgotten Shore (Chapter 350)

## Parts

Chapter 168: Outside

End of Part I: Graveyard of Hope.

Chapter 262: Path to Damnation

End of Part II: Crown of Dawn.

## Trivia

This volume contains 255 chapters, 300,000 words.
Azure Serpent

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**Azure Serpent** is the creature that has been stalking Sunny in the Third Nightmare.

## Appearance

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* Human Shadow

### Corrupted Creature

A monstrous sea serpent about fifty meters long. Each one of its azure scales that glistened in the sunlight, is larger and thicker than the armor plates of a heavy military APC. The creature was enormous, ancient, and seemed mad. Its dorsal fin ridge flowed with curved spikes, and its eyes were dim and cloudy, with lines of crimson pus spreading towards its long snout. The azure scales were covered by scars, some missing entirely, revealing pale, desiccated flesh. Pieces of rotten meat were stuck between its dark fangs.

### Human Shadow

The shadow of Daeron of the Twilight Sea was a handsome man with strong facial features and fierce, downturned eyebrows. He was tall and imposing, with broad shoulders and a strong-willed, angular face. His hair was arranged in a long braid, and he wore an archaic robe that seemed both simple and regal.
## Background

Daeron was a valiant and wise king who ruled over a dying land. Refusing despair, he came up with a plan, gathered his companions and braved the desert to enter the Tomb of Ariel, where the Great River flowed endlessly from the future into the past. They built a city at the edge of dawn and gathered an army to vanquish the defiled city. However, the army was destroyed, and the king succumbed to madness. Consumed by wrath, he roamed the Great River for years. One day, he met a treacherous shadow, Lost from Light, who battled him, ultimately becoming his doom.

He came from outside the pyramid and was believed to have entered the true Great River with his subjects. Daeron's plan was to use the uniqueness of the Great River to help his people Transcend through a Nightmare but failed, as many of his people died trying to destroy "that which was defiled."
## Trivia

* The Azure Serpent was once a human. A human who succumbed to corruption, and not just any human but a proud and mighty Sovereign, an exalted being of the Supreme Rank.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 1279 Raging Waves
2. ↑ Chapter 1293 Defilement
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 1239 Sea Monster
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 1288 King Among Beasts
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 1289 Crown of Twilight
Verge

**Verge** was the city built by the Seekers in the far reaches of the past, further downstream of the Great River.

## Trivia

* It was mentioned that its grandeur could compete with the bustling prosperity of the large cities ruled by the Sybils.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1305 House of Parting
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1293 Defilement
Time Storm

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**Time Storm** is the darkness that veiled the northern horizon like a wall, connecting the surface of the Great River to the sky.

The Great River experiences unpredictable time, turning into stale whirlpools, clashing currents, and deadly tides. A **time storm** is a dangerous anomaly that twists and rips time apart, originating from the span of the river that corresponds to the final days of the Doom War, when the last battles between the daemons and gods ended in death.

Even the Defiled can't survive the broken time.

During a time storm, people, memories and the Nightmare spell will be affected by broken time.

In the eye of the time storm, are the reflections of the gods and of the daemons that slayed them. It was unknown if all gods and daemons reflected in the waters inside the eye of the time storm.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1321 Drowning Island
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1322 Broken Time
3. ↑ Chapter 1325 Lawless Abyss
4. ↑ Chapter 1326 Eye of the Storm
5. ↑ Chapter 1327 Frozen Reflections
Sorcery of Names

**Sorcery of Names** is the most common type of sorcery used by mortals based on names of things and people.

## Nature

The nature of Sorcery of Names differs from other types of sorcery, which acted through fixed conduits like essence threads and runes. It uses Shapers themselves as conduits.

Those individuals with True Names are more connected to the mystical world and can be influenced by hidden powers and have greater influence in turn.

The Sorcery of Names, like other sorcery types, did not come without a cost. While uttering the Word did not consume essence, channeling a Word imposed a strain on the Shaper's body when controlling the outcome of a Word.

## How to use

One only needs to invoke the Name of things and put them together into a verse. A **True Name** is used to serve as an anchor for the entire verse.

### Rules

* True Names were never meant to be spoken by mortals so one has to possess innate talent in order to master even the easiest of them.
* Without a True Name, a thing lacks pull and influence, making it difficult for sorcery to stick. Sorcery is tenuous and slippery. There is a rule that goes beyond sorcery. Nameless things won't be influenced as much, but it will also be unable to exert much influence in turn.

## Background

Before *Hope* invented *writing*, the most common type of sorcery used by mortals was the *Sorcery of Names*. Everything that exists has a name. It is a fact that a thing only starts to exist after it is given a name. However not all names are equal, some are simply given and aren't worth much, while others have to be earned, the true names of things hold power over them.

Names are a powerful thing and people who learned those names could share in the power. It was just that their authority was obscure and fleeting since it was only invoked when someone said the names aloud and it was not an easy feat to say them with a mortal mouth.

Once writing appeared, one with enough knowledge could connect the names to material objects, granting the invocation permanence. Knowing the names of things and how to shape them into songs and phrases is incredibly hard because with the knowledge of names comes the knowledge of everything. Simply scribbling a rune without understanding its meaning would not do anything.

## Trivia

* It is important to have innate talent in mastering even the easiest of these names.
* Runic sorcery and shaping relied on True Names, one etched through a written language, the other invoking them directly.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 693 Knowledge of Everything
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 1318 Leaving Weave
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chapter 1299 Nameless Things
4. ↑ Chapter 1350 Familiar Pattern
Winter Beast

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**Winter Beast** is the Titan responsible for the strange blizzard raging across the Antarctic Center that caused the collapse of the interaction network.

## Appearance

The creature's physical body was rumored to be hidden at the heart of the blizzard, protected by hurricane winds and murderous cold. The snowstorm was not an aftereffect of the Titan's presence but it was much as part of the Winter Beast.

## Ability

The Winter Beast had shown an eerie ability to control cold, snow, and wind. Its battlefield with Sky Tide was the sky above the Antarctic Center with Tyris constantly countering its dreadful power, making its true extent unknown. However, its powers had to be tremendous, considering that the mere presence of the creature was distorting communications across the entire region of the Antarctic Center.

The terrifying cold from the Corrupted Titan was too insidious. It was able to pass through all forms of defenses. As one walked deeper into the blizzard, the cold worsened. The cold felt like a natural force that made thoughts slow and frigid and flames seemed to lack heat, like predators that had lost all their teeth.

The Corrupted Titan was capable of affecting even the shadows with its power, meaning its ability is not limited to physical cold but can also affect minds. Within its snowy domain, nothing could avoid being pervaded by its power. Its influence prevents an Ascended from accessing their Dream Realm anchors.

## History

It was Tyris' responsibility to defend the north where Falcon Scott located. Due to her Aspect, she can contain the Winter Beast but not kill it.

## Trivia

* In Chapter 1057, Winter Beast had reached Falcon Scott.
* This creature was closer to the dark sea of Forgotten Shore than it was to a simpler creature like Goliath.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 902 State of Affairs
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 986 The Fall of Falcon Scott (4)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 1058 The Fall of Falcon Scott (76)
4. ↑ Chapter 1057 The Fall of Falcon Scott (75)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter 1059 The Fall of Falcon Scott (77)
6. ↑ Chapter 1061 Dire Strait
7. ↑ Chapter 961 Sand Castles
8. ↑ Chapter 984 The Fall of Falcon Scott (2)
9. ↑ Chapter 986 The Fall of Falcon Scott (4)