Dreams of Nothing

"**Dreams of Nothing**" is a Mainline Quest in *Wizard101* and the 73rd Mainline Quest for the Wallaru storyline. It was released on live servers with the rest of the Wallaru expansion on November 27, 2023. The Quest continues from "Freddie's Dread" and leads to "Yes, to Novus!."

## Characters

*In order of appearance:*

* **Sandiago** (Sandiago\_WL-DREAM) — Scott Jones
* **Sybil/Sybil Dreamer** (Sybil\_WL-DREAM/Sybil\_Dreamer\_WL-DREAM) — Valerie Redd
* **Dasein** (Dasein\_WL-DREAM) — Mike MacRae
* **Judge Veg** (Judge\_Veg\_WL-DREAM) — J.M. Specht
* **Furryosa** (Furryosa\_WL-DREAM) — Elizabeth Maxwell
* **Joan Locke** (Joan\_Locke\_WL-DREAM) — Jenny Larson

## Dialogue

Previous: "Freddie's Dread"
(*Talking to Sandiago in the Dreamspeak*)

 **Sandiago:** But Bartleby has another side, a side of which I think even he is unaware: the hub of possibility, the domain of what could be or could have been.
 **Sandiago:** We stand at the exact antipode of the Ravenwood, its direct opposite in the Spiral - a land down under, you might say.
 **Sandiago:** Here, the World Tree dreams. And from his unconscious imaginings come new realities.
 **Sandiago:** But this Dreamer is as unaware of the material world as Bartleby is of him. Thus, we made Sybil to bridge the gap and advance the Arcanum's studies.
 **Sandiago:** Now, Wizard, plant that sprig we took from her in the dirt you brought from Novus. Connect Dasein to this place, to this inspiration.
(*After planting Sybil's Twig*)

 **Sybil:** Wizard, you are real.
 **Sybil Dreamer:** And so is... he.
 **Dasein:** What... where are we now... the tree! I know you! And... Judge Veg? What are you all doing here?
 **Judge Veg:** We're here for you, mate, to help you figure out where you belong in all this.
 **Dasein:** I don't belong anywhere. I was Nothing. I am Novus.
 **Sybil Dreamer:** And what is Novus?
 **Dasein:** It was supposed to be something wonderful - a gift to the Spiral. I went everywhere, saw everyone, became part of everything.
 **Dasein:** I offered riches and resources, adventures and discoveries. I wanted to create heavens.
 **Dasein:** Instead, I fueled only hungers. As I gave, they took. As I offered, they demanded. As I sought, they twisted. They mangled me into an engine of war, into the plunder of empires. So I withdrew. I refused. I rejected.
 **Sybil Dreamer:** So what IS Novus?
 **Dasein:** Now only a collection of rocks in the shape of the worlds... they occupy.
 **Sybil Dreamer:** What is Novus?
 **Dasein:** To the Spiral... a guest, when it was a bounty of gifts.
 **Dasein:** Now that those gifts are withdrawn... an invader, a power that can wipe them out with a thought. I am in all their skies! A living intruder in every world, a monster they can't vanquish.
 **Sybil Dreamer:** So Novus is a threat?
 **Dasein:** It could be. I could be. I could melt their minds, swarm their worlds, give them something to fear.
 **Dasein:** But I don't want to be. Or have to be. Not now that I control all my Shards.
 **Dasein:** I can recall them. I can bring them to Conatus, assemble myself in my own space, become truly the world of Novus.
 **Sybil Dreamer:** That is what Novus is. What should Novus become?
 **Dasein:** I... don't know.
 **Sandiago:** My friend, if all you want to know is who you are and what will be your forever place in the worlds, the answer is simply that there isn't one.
 **Furryosa:** Life is stupid, messy and complicated. Nobody knows where they belong or what to do.
 **Sandiago:** Exactly. But from that mess comes discovery. As you learn and experience, life develops new meanings and your answers to the big questions change.
 **Joan Locke:** We are what we learn to be, but you have learned many things, no? Just because you began one way doesn't mean you must remain as such.
 **Judge Veg:** What was it you really rejected? What is your real problem? Everything you ever saw?
 **Joan Locke:** Or just the hungry powerful who would burn your world to feed on the ashes?
 **Sybil:** What are you?
 **Dasein:** I... am... still learning. I have seen much in this Spiral - heroes and villains and artists and families and pets and struggles and joys and sorrows.
 **Dasein:** I find less fulfillment granting wealth than in making a single flower bloom. I... like building, creating, helping. I like people.
 **Dasein:** But not some people. I would learn more about their stupid, messy, complicated lives and, maybe together, we can all discern our own designs.
 **Dasein:** I was Dasein. I was Novus. I will no longer be shaped by the wills of others. I don't know what I will become. No one does. But for now, I am me.
(*After exiting automatically and porting to Hope Springs*)

 **Sandiago:** It would seem our Walkabout has ended.
(*Talking to Sandiago in Hope Springs*)

 **Sandiago:** Was it all you had hoped, Wizard? You did not face your demons, nor realize your truth as we all did.
Next: "Yes, to Novus!"