Dreamland

**Dreamland** is a twisted and magical fairy tale land from LinetteFox's original story by the same name. The story was originally planned to be a trilogy of RPG video games but due to not knowing any coding they changed it into a novel instead. Because it was intended to be a video game the four protagonists all have a genderbent design and different names and pronouns that could have been used if Rin didn't want to use their default settings.

## **Story**

Once upon a time there were two siblings, their parents had recently passed away and the two struggled with grief and the fear of growing up. After reading the storybook left by their late parents that night the two found themselves inside the book but not as themselves. The oldest of the two, Belle, possesses the body of Beauty from Beauty and the Beast, processing her fear of turning 18 and trying to save the kingdom from the dictator and tyrant that is the Beast. The younger of the two, Jake, possesses the body of Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk, dealing with the grief of losing his parents and his new found romantic feelings towards some girls in the world.

The second time they go is after their cousin Alice runs away and finds herself in the nation of Wonderland which is a curious place connected to Dreamland. The two return to the bodies of Beauty and Jack to search the world for their cousin and keep the Queen of Hearts from claiming the child as her own.

The final story follows Alice's best friend Stephen as after discovering his attraction to men deals with the fear of his father sending him away. He ends up in Dreamland as the Snow Queen, freezing the land in hopes things will never change and that he can stay with his best friend forever. Alice, Belle and Jake team up with Gerda a girl whose friend was kidnapped by Stephen to find both their friends and save the world once and for all.

## **Lore**

### **The Storybook**

The storybook is a magical fairy tale book that is the only remaining item that belonged to their parents. When someone reads a story from it there is a chance they could be transported to Dreamland, however the only way for people from our world to exist there is to possess the body of a character. The character is randomized but is most likely to be a protagonist or antagonist. The stories that exist in the storybook include the following:

* Beauty and the Beast
* Jack and the Beanstalk
* Alice in Wonderland
* The Snow Queen
* Mary Had a Little Lamb
* The Three Little Pigs
* Robin Hood
* Little Red Riding Hood
* Rapunzel
* The Little Mermaid
* Princess and the Pea
* The Ugly Duckling
* Little Match Girl
* Snow White
* Sleeping Beauty
* Cinderella
* Humpty Dumpty
* Peter Piper
* The Fox and the Grapes
* The Lion and the Mouse
* A Raven and a Swan
* The Fox and the Lion
* The Old Lion and the Fox
* The Fox and the Raven

These stories are all iconic and most people likely have heard of most of them, they are by famous authors The Grimm's Brothers, Mother Goose, Hans Christian Andersen, Aesop, Lewis Caroll and many many more.

### **Locations**

The world itself is built of many nations and places that are listed here.

* **Fairland** - The capital nation is ruled by Prince Charming who leads a strict dictatorship over the kingdom and its goods. If their prince decides he wants something, whether it's human or an item, he will make sure at all costs he gets it. It is basically home to all the miscellaneous fairy tales.
* **Atlantis** - The underwater nation is located to the left of Fairland and beyond the forest. It is where Littlest comes from, these waters are where most of trade and travel happen. Unfortunately some mermaids are dangerous creatures and they often make ships disappear.
* **Wonderland** - A bizarre and mad nation, ruled by the Queen of Hearts and home to the characters from Alice and Wonderland and behind the looking glass. It is explored in the second game by Alice as she tries to reunite with her mother.
* **Snowdome** - This nation is cursed with eternal winter by the Snow Queen. It is really hard for anyone to get in and out of this kingdom and is where Stephen ends up, playing the role of that evil ruler.
* **The Pond** - Near Snowdome is a kingdom around a lake filled with magic, hope and love. They somehow remain unfreezed despite the harsh cold of their neighbors and live in happy spring days. The stories living here are based on the stories by Hans Christian Anderson.
* **Grimmtin** - Was the hometown of many Grimm Brothers’ tales, they were destroyed by the Beast and now all that exists there is one farm and a massive empty field.
* **Goslings Ville** - A village based on the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose. The smallest town in Dreamland.
* **Fabled Woods** - A forest filled with Aesop fables.
* **Devil School** - A dark school for devils and trolls to learn their evil craft.

### **Magic System**

In order to use magic and spells in Dreamland the character needs to be helped by a spirit.

#### **Spells and Spirits**

In order to use spells the character has to physically be close to their spirit. How close the spirit is to your character determines how likely the spell is to work. To make the spell stronger they have to have a strong bond with the spirit, the better friends they become the stronger the spells will become.

Spells are kept on scrolls written in an ancient language that only the spirits can understand. Spirits cannot use spells without the help from their bonded person so after reading a scroll they will teach the character what to do to perform it.

Wands are used by newcomers to magic to help communicate with the spirit. They can be used to show the spirit where to aim or to ask for help. If the spirit and character are bonded enough they won’t need the wand or even vocals to communicate, eventually just telepathy will suffice.

Spirits do not have to obey the rules of one specific bonded person, they also don’t have to have just one bonded person. When the bonded person of a spirit passes away that spirit will often bond to their descendant or if the spirit has multiple bonded people they will go to one of the other people they bonded with. If a spirit has multiple bonded people and two of them try to use the spirit's help at once it will often go to whoever has the strongest bond first.

Obviously spirits used to be people. They are most commonly people who have died and their forms usually appear as animals when they visit the mortal world. Occasionally, when a person is being possessed by someone from another world the spirit will leave the body of whom is being possessed.

Possession is not a spell that can be done normally, it happens when a human from the real world reads the storybook and somehow ends up inside the story they read. Humans from the real world cannot enter Dreamland as themselves and are forced to possess the body protagonist they read about. This causes the spirit to leave the protagonist’s body.

#### **Potions**

Potions are little magic spells in a bottle and one of the few ways to use magic without a spirit. They can only be used once so most only use them in case of emergencies. Their effects can be dangerous to people and spirits so the user has to be careful when using one. Plants that can become potions:

* **Aloe Vera** - Growing an aloe vera plant in the kitchen can prevent burns and other household accidents. It can also guard against evil.
* **Cayenne Pepper** - Scattering cayenne pepper around the perimeter of your home can break bad spells. It also makes a good ingredient in love potions, because it can spark fiery passion.
* **Lavender** - Carrying lavender in your pockets or a sachet around your neck will allow you to see ghosts. It is also good for purification.
* **Nettles** - Sprinkling nettles around a room will protect those inside the room. Burning nettles or feeding them to livestock can drive out evil spirits.
* **Sage** - Burning sage in the home banishes evil spirits and protects residents. It can also attract wealth.
* **St. John’s Wort** - Hang St. John’s Wort around your neck to cure or prevent fevers. It also brings good luck and wards off evil. One bit of lore says that a young woman who picks St. John’s Wort during the feast of St. John and hangs it on her bedroom wall will dream of her future husband.
* **Thyme** - Burning thyme in a home will promote good health. Stuffing a pillow with thyme can prevent nightmares. It is also used to communicate with fairy folk and even the dead.

#### **Tarot Cards**

These are magic cards that can be used to play three different card games with the spirits to raise bonds. The games included: tarocchini, grosstarock and konigrufen. Of course this is not the only way to bond with your spirit but it is a fun way. And these games are very complicated so the versions used in the story will have to be more simplified so even the protagonists can play it without being confused.

The cards can also be used by a witch to predict the future, at The Hood it only costs a few pieces of gold to get a reading. The cards are separated into four suits with an additional group for the trump cards, also below is a list of all of them.

##### **Major Arcana**

The Major Arcana Tarot cards reveal messages about the big picture of your life and its long-term direction.

* The Fool
* The Magician
* The High Prietess
* The Empress
* The Emperor
* The Hirerophant
* The Lovers
* The Chariot
* Strength
* The Hermit
* Wheel of Fortune
* Justice
* The Hanged Man
* Death
* Temperance
* The Devil
* The Tower
* The Star
* The Moon
* The Sun
* Judgement
* The World

##### **The Wands**

The Wands cards are about action, initiative, and invention. They help to guide how you move through your life, advising when to move and when to hold back.

* Ace of Wands
* Two of Wands
* Three of Wands
* Four of Wands
* Five of Wands
* Six of Wands
* Seven of Wands
* Eight of Wands
* Nine of Wands
* Ten of Wands
* Page of Wands
* Knight of Wands
* Queen of Wands
* King of Wands

##### **The Cups**

The Cups cards represent your emotions, intuition, and relationships. They can guide you in love and help you understand and process your highest and lowest feelings.

* Ace of Cups
* Two of Cups
* Three of Cups
* Four of Cups
* Five of Cups
* Six of Cups
* Seven of Cups
* Eight of Cups
* Nine of Cups
* Ten of Cups
* Page of Cups
* Knight of Cups
* Queen of Cups
* King of Cups

##### **The Swords**

The Swords cards are all about challenges. They can tell you when conflict and heartache are looming and help you harness the strength of your own mind.

* Ace of Swords
* Two of Swords
* Three of Swords
* Four of Swords
* Five of Swords
* Six of Swords
* Seven of Swords
* Eight of Swords
* Nine of Swords
* Ten of Swords
* Page of Swords
* Knight of Swords
* Queen of Swords
* King of Swords

##### **The Pentactles**

The Pentacles cards are associated with your work, finances, and domestic life. They can answer questions about your personal goals and your money, family, and health.

* Ace of Coins
* Two of Coins
* Three of Coins
* Four of Coins
* Five of Coins
* Six of Coins
* Seven of Coins
* Eight of Coins
* Nine of Coins
* Ten of Coins
* Page of Coins
* Knight of Coins
* Queen of Coins
* King of Coins

## **History**

This section is a work in progress, things will definitely change. This is just to help keep track of how LinetteFox has tied together the different stories.

### **Snow Queen's Creation**

A long time ago there was a school that the devil is the headmaster of, he makes a magic mirror that distorts everything it reflects. He takes his pupils around the world to make everything ugly. The devilish trolls attempted to bring the mirror up into heaven to make fools of the angels. The mirror slips and falls back to Earth shattering into many pieces the size of sand, the splinters blow all over the world and get into the hearts and eyes of people, making them cold and evil like the devils. One of these splinters became the Snow Queen, a being that hides on the mountains and watches the world through mirrors.

### **Prince Charming**

Prince Charming was the future ruler of Fairland and a very spoiled young boy. He was given everything he could ever have asked for and became very selfish. One day the witch came to the castle and begged for the prince to help her sick child as well as many other sick subjects. After being casted out she cursed the prince to become what he truly was on the inside, every night he would become the big bad wolf, aka the Beast. Although it was meant to make him repent he instead used this as a Jekyll and Hyde situation, using the night to do as many cruel things as he can think of while in his new disguise. It's why the witch moved to Grimmtin, so he doesn’t find her and get revenge.

### **The Witch**

The witch had a daughter and that child would give birth to two children (Robin and Red Hood) before growing gravely ill. Her daughter would die and leave the Hood family in shambles and that loss may have also been what led to her taking Rapunzel. It also fueled Robin Hood starting the rebellion against the prince and later on the beast he would become.

A husband and wife happily await their new baby's birth. The wife gains a craving for the beautiful lettuce being grown by their neighbors. Her husband steals the greens and when he is caught the witch threatens to curse them. So they will not be cursed, they allow the witch to take their baby, little did the witch know that they had twins and hid the younger brother away so only the older daughter could be taken away. Angered, the witch curses their family so their family tree will always be a barren one. The witch named the daughter Rapunzel and hid her in a tower where no one could find.

### **Grimmtin falls**

Meanwhile the three little pigs lost their mother and had to build houses to stay in. The first built a house of straw but it got destroyed by the beast. The second built a house of sticks, it too got destroyed by the beast. Finally the third pig made one of bricks that was able to stay standing through the beast’s rampage. Nearby a widow, her son and their beloved cow weren’t too lucky. The rampage destroyed their home, the pigs invited them to live in their house and the widow also adopted the pigs. They became family and lived happily despite not having enough money for even a small piece of bread.

One princess Snow White, moves in with some dwarves and the other princess named Talia was cursed to sleep for a hundred years. Without its leaders the land once belonging the the kingdom of Grimmtin became a part of the Beast's territory and combined with Fairland. Other characters' lives were changed by the Beast’s rampage. Ella’s mother was killed and her father remarried to a woman who only wanted his wealth. The stepmother and stepsisters now just use Cinderella as a servant. The child known as the Little Match Girl lost her parents from the rampage as well and she is now wandering the Pond alone and lost.

### **The Pond and the Littlest Mermaid**

Meanwhile Prince Edward of the Pond also searches for a partner. He struggles to find a real princess, soon one appears but his mother is hesitant. The queen makes a bed with twelve matrices and puts a pea inside, forcing the princess to sleep there. In the morning she asked how she slept and she said terribly as the pea kept her from sleeping well. This is how they knew she was a real princess as it showed how sensitive she is.

The youngest princess of Atlantis named Littlest saved Prince Edward and fell in love. To become human and be with him she made a deal with the Sea Witch to become human, in return for getting legs the witch took her tongue and alongside that every time she stepped it felt like she was walking on glass. If the prince gets married to another person she will become seafoam and die, if she manages to kill him with the knife the Sea Witch gave her before that can happen she will return to being a mermaid. Of course no matter the option she would never be able to be with him, so instead she just wanders Dreamland as a mysterious girl and anxiously awaits the day her prince is old enough to marry Princess Pea.

### **The Animals**

A baby swan somehow hatches from the nest of ducks. He is believed to be the ugliest duckling until he grows up and becomes the most beautiful animal in the land. The raven tries to become beautiful like the swan but almost drowns trying. The starving fox who lost the grapes and escaped lion attacks uses the raven’s pride to make him sing and lose the cheese he was holding, the fox then snatches that up. The mean old lion aka the king of beasts torments and feasts on the animals of the woods. One day he is caught in a trap and is freed by a mouse who then becomes his friend and redeems him.

At a farm in Goslings Ville a young sickly lamb is abandoned by its mother. She is saved by a young girl named Mary and bonds with the human girl, following her everywhere and even to school where she learns how to talk and walk on her hind legs. Her dream to help people and a lot of training later leads her to the castle of Fairland where she becomes a maid.

### **Beast and his Princess**

The prince searches for a princess (or prince) to force to be his bride. Talia had gone to sleep by pricking her finger on a flax, Snow White had been poisoned by her evil stepmother, the princesses of Atlantis were all forbidden to be with a human and Princess Pea had already been betrothed to another. With all the princesses unavailable he chose the next best thing, the maiden so beautiful that she was only known as Beauty. He asked but was refused, so instead of playing nice he took her beloved father, to get his father to be released Beauty sacrificed her own freedom to him. The bribe was taken and she now lives isolated in the Beast’s castle.

### **Magic Beans**

Milky White, the cow of the Spriggins does not give anymore milk but Jack has bonded with the animal and does not want to part with her. However his mom forces him to go to town and sell her for no less than 5 pounds, instead he is sold magic beans by a baker and his wife. When he gets home he is heavily scolded and the beans are tossed out. They now sit with no money and no way to make more.

### **Stolen by the Snow Queen**

The Snow Queen spies on two teens named Gerda and Kay who seal their friendship by planting roses. When the two make fun of her she sends a splinter into Kay's heart and kidnaps him.

### **Wonderland**

This whole time Wonderland has just been existing, being a mystery and legend told to children and families. It is well known that whoever goes in there rarely comes out so the people of the other lands try to steer clear of it. All that we know is that it's ruled by the Queen of Hearts and if you see a white rabbit hopping around, be careful he doesn’t teleport you to the mad place.

### **The Two Siblings**

Meanwhile outside of the story world a brother and sister lose their parents in a fire. The two move in with their aunt and one night when they are at their lowest an earthquake opens up the ground and takes them to Dreamland.

## **Characters**

### **Protagonists**

Since it was originally meant to be a game all of the protagonists have three names, one feminine, one masculine and one gender neutral the player would have been allowed to choose between these names as well as choose between the fem and masc models and choose the pronouns of the character they'd be playing. This would not change anything besides how the other characters refer to them.

* **Belle/Ben/Beau** - A kid turning 18 soon who is hesitant to grow up. They wind up in Dreamland in the role of Beauty from Beauty and the Beast.
* **Jake/Jade/Jamie** - The young sibling who is a 14 year old boy who is just trying to get through his first year of high school without being bullied. They end up in Dreamland in the role of Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk.
* **Alice/Aaron/Addie** - A quiet and blunt little girl who misses the attention of her mother that's always working. They take the role of Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
* **Stephen/Sandra/Sloan** - A kid in Alice's class who's grappling with their identity and trying not to be kicked out by their dad. They become the title character of the Snow Queen.

### **Spirits**

When the people from the real world enter Dreamland they possess the body of a random story protagonist. The spirit of the protagonist is separated and becomes an animal made of light, this spirit allows the protagonist to use magic and spells. Depending on how big their bond is with the spirit determines how strong the spell will be and the physical closeness of the spirit determines how likely the spell is to actually work.

* **Beauty** - A wolf made of yellow light, she agrees to help Belle get home so both of them can return to their normal selves.
* **Jack Spriggins** - A calf made from green light, he isn't very helpful at first but overtime him and Jake do manage to bond.
* **Alice** - A little bunny made from white light, she just wants the other Alice to leave Wonderland but since she's not listened to all she can do is keep an eye on the other child.
* **Snow Queen** - A reindeer made from blue light, instead of helping Stephen get home or achieve his goals she is instead manipulating him, trying to get him to continue her evil goals.

### **Antagonists**

* **Prince Charming/The Beast** - A spoiled brat that pretends to be kind and charming when actually he's a monster that terrorizes the village every night.
* **Mr. Blunderbore** - The giant is a minor antagonist that Jack fights atop the beanstalk, he later on gifts a special sword that can defeat the Beast to the young boy.
* **Mrs. Blunderbore** - An even smaller threat, she is the first giant Jack meets and she pretends to help him hide from her husband while really she's preparing to eat him.
* **The Queen of Hearts** - Queen of Wonderland and cruel individual, she bonds with Alice and attempts to keep her in her kingdom forever.
* **The Devil** - The devil that created a mirror that makes everything it reflects ugly, him and his trolls attempted to bring the mirror to the heavens wanting to make everything there ugly. They were stopped by angels and the mirror shattered into many splinters that turned people evil, one splinter is where the Snow Queen was born from.
* **Trolls** - Various lackeys that cause problems for some characters.

### **Important Characters**

* **Aunt Willa** - Belle and Jake's aunt that they move in with, also Alice's mother. She is almost always working and she's not a bad person she just doesn't understand the kids' interests.
* **Willow Lamb** - When she was a little lamb she was saved from a sickness by a girl named Mary, she then followed this girl to school each day and somehow learned how to talk and walk on her hind legs. Wanting to help others she got a job as a servant and is now working at the castle.
* **Mrs. Spriggins** - Jack's mother, her and Jack both moved in with the three pigs when their home was destroyed.
* **One** - The youngest of the three pigs, lazy and naive he tried to make a house out of straw that was then destroyed by the Beast.
* **Two** - The middle child of the three pigs, he worked hard for a day on a house made from sticks but it too was destroyed by the Beast.
* **Three** - The oldest and smartest of the pigs, he spent weeks building his house of bricks and it was the only building in the neighborhood that survived the Beast's rampage.
* **Red Hood** - A 14 year old girl learning the ways of witchcraft from her grandmother and helping run The Hood which is a popular magic shop.
* **Robin Hood** - The older brother of Red and the one starting a secret rebellion to combat the Beast.
* **Lilith Hood** - The witch who doesn't necessarily count as a full villain in this story, her daughter and many other people in the village were ill and when she asked Prince Charming for help he denied her despite having the money and tools to do it. Angered she cursed him to become what he truly was on the inside, the Beast. Her daughter would die leaving her to look after the two grandchildren. Also at one point her precious garden was stolen from by her neighbors and she stole their first born child to punish them.
* **Littlest** - A mysterious young girl who cannot speak, she sells antiques at a small stand in town.
* **Cheshire** - The Cheshire cat that just helps Alice get more lost.
* **Mad Hatter** - Throwing a tea party with his best friend.
* **March Hare** - Mad Hatter's best friend.
* **Gerda** - A young girl who's best friend was kidnapped by the Snow Queen.
* **Kay** - The boy the Snow Queen kidnapped.

### **Other**

* **Rachel** - The robber girl that befriends Gerda and the group.
* **Rain** - The reindeer that formerly belonged to Rachel, he now helps the group get to where Snow Queen is.
* **Rapunzel** - A girl locked away in a tower and raised by Lilith.
* **Prince Edward** - Prince of The Pond, the one that Littlest is in love with but will be marrying another soon.
* **Princess Pea** - The princess that will be marrying Edward
* **Duckling** - A baby swan living with a group of ducks that think he's ugly.
* **Match Girl** - A little orphan girl living at the Pond.
* **Snow White** - A princess that lives with 7 dwarves and helps them maintain a business that sells resources.
* **Talia** - The Sleeping Beauty. A princess that pricked her finger on a piece of flax and now sleeps for a hundred years.
* **Ella** - A girl living with her Stepmother and stepsisters and being treated like a serving girl.
* **Humpty Dumpty** - Just an egg trying not to break.
* **Peter Piper** - A boy trying to pick enough peppers.
* **The Fox** - A mischievous and wise fox.
* **The Lion** - an old and evil beast.
* **The Mouse** - The kind little mouse that befriends the lion.
* **The Raven** - A hungry and egotistical bird.

### **Wikipedia Articles**

* Beauty and the Beast
* Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
* Jack and the Beanstalk
* Brothers Grimm
* Alice in Wonderland
* Lewis Caroll
* The Snow Queen
* Hans Christian Andersen
* Mother Goose
* The Three Little Pigs
* James Halliwell-Phillipps
* Robin Hood
* Little Red Riding Hood
* Rapunzel
* The Little Mermaid
* Princess and the Pea
* The Ugly Duckling
* Little Match Girl
* Snow White
* Sleeping Beauty
* Cinderella
* Humpty Dumpty
* Peter Piper
* Aesop
* The Fox and the Grapes
* The Lion and the Mouse
* The Fox and the Raven

### **Animated Adaptations**

* Snow Queen (1957 Film)
* The Little Mermaid (1975 Anime)

### **Other Inspirations**

* Into The Woods
* The Path
* Princess of Souls
* Princess Tutu
* To Kill a Kingdom
* Some weird dream Rin had

### **Other Sources**

* Beauty and the Beast (Full story)
* Mary Had a Little Lamb (True Story)
* A Raven and a Swan
* The Fox and the Lion
* The Old Lion and the Fox
* Tarot Card.com
* Tarot
* Tarot card games
* Tarocchini
* Grosstarock
* Konigrufen
* 7 Popular Herbs You Didn't Know Can Ward Off Evil
* abitfrank (YouTube channel)
* abitlate (YouTube channel)