Awakening: The Dreamless Castle

Entrance of Dreamless Castle

## Plot

After a 100 year sleep, Princess Sophia awakens in the Dreamless Castle with no knowledge of who or where she is. In her room she meets Mira, a handmaiden of the Fairy Queen who was sent to guide Sophia. Making her way through the castle, Sophia meets a goblin Guard who informs her of her identity and challenges her to a game of Goblinjong. Sophia finds the Fairy Queen's Messenger, a pigeon, and informs the Fairy Queen of her awakening. She also meets the Goblin Alchemist who first calls her the "Light in the Dark".

She continues her way through the castle, learning her name and that the Goblins are trapped with her in the castle until she can find a way out, making some of them quite bitter. She appeases every goblin she meets, cooking a soup for a Hungry Goblin, finding wine for Borys, identifying fake coins for the Thug Goblin, and playing Goblinjong with the Gambler.

After activating five switches to open a door, Sophia enters the great halls of the castle where she must figure out how to move a statue of herself on a unicorn to be able to open the main door, beginning with collecting six blue runes. Along the way she meets the Curator Goblin who has been making the puzzles throughout the game, the Dragon Keeper Goblin, whom Sophia helps hatch a Faerie Dragon, and the Astronomer, who reveals Sophia's parents left her to protect her from "the perils of human magic" and that it is her fate to rule the Human Kingdom without magic. Sophia uses the blue runes to unlock a golden crown from a magic mirror. When she puts the mirror on the statue, the statue disappears, allowing her and the goblins to leave the castle.

### Bonus Chapter

The remastered version of the game includes a bonus chapter that takes place on Sophia's journey to the Moonfell Wood. Sophia is stopped from continuing on her journey in the town of Rosehaven by their Town Guard Goblin who doesn't believe her identity. She does some tasks for the Innkeeper Goblin to get a Bolgin for a Goblin newspaper to prover her identity to the Guard. He tells her that the Dreamless Castle was once named Rosehaven Castle and was famous for white roses. He instructs Sophia to go to the town's rose farm which was her mother's favorite place. She helps the Field Orchardist and gets a bugle in return which allows her to bring the Unicorn statue in the town center to life whom the Guard says is Sophia's guardian. With the Unicorn and Mira, Sophia continues her journey into the woods.

## Media

Title CardSophia's BedroomGardenStablesPondDining HallDragon ChamberGrand Hall

## Journal

Unclear if they knew the true reasonProven untrueSome do believe in Sophia's prophecySubjective
## Inconsistencies

* Sophia can speak, read multiple languages, and interact with the Goblins as if she hasn't been asleep since she was a toddler. See Sophia's Age Mystery for more.
* In the original version, Sophia makes some prejudiced comments about Goblins that are rooted in antisemitism, the remastered version has removed these comments.

## Trivia

* Even though the remastered version includes more puzzles, collectables, concept art, wallpapers, and a bonus chapter, its redesigned graphics are much more simplistic and seem underdeveloped.

## Trailer

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## Sources

* Big Fish Games: Awakening: The Dreamless Castle
* Big Fish Games: Awakening Remastered: The Dreamless Castle
* Big Fish Games: Awakening Remastered: The Dreamless Castle Collector's Edition
* Kawaii Games's Original Walkthrough
* Arglefumph: The Nancy Drew Dude's Remastered Walkthrough
* Wikipedia: *Awakening* (video game series)