A simple question, so perhaps out of context. What the context is? Decide for yourself, and then see what you may do with the provided 20 possible answers. This blog post has been inspired by Roll XX from Neoplastic Press. “Roll XX” was brought to you by The Sentinels of Meregoth (whoever THEY may be)!
01. A Dream Nymph escaped the nightmare they imprisoned her into. Her aether traces lead them to this place, now they need to find out in whose subconscious she is hiding. Then, they will rive her out by torturing her host, and imprison her again.
02. Queen Nyrzessia longs for a carpet made of long-haired scalps.
03. To find a notably cruel soul that they may capture in a lich crystal, for inspiration.
04. So that they may conceive children in a human guise. Children that will grow to adolescents within six month, and then return to terrorize their mortal parent.
05. To rob children for Master Laeszkarz´s Choir of Wails.
06. To steal -all- future tears from those with sorrowful dreams, and enjoy drinking them.
07. To impregnate the dreams of sleepers with returning nightmares, which they will pass on to their children after their death. These will pass them on to their children, and those on to theirs, …
08. To give a burgeoning artist and theosophist a glimpse of what hell is like.
09. To steal the eyes of every firstborn in their sleep.
10. To confer with the crows about future misfortunes.
11. They have been exiled by their own kind for being unimagnatively cruel.
12. To buy horrible memories as soil for new nightmares. They pay 30 pieces of silver for each memory, and the seller will almost forget about the dreadful events once they have been sold.
13. To break the will of a figure of hope.
14. To bury alive some of their own between the graves of men, so that they may disturb the peace of the dead forevermore.
15. Because the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son summoned them here.
16. The Book of Evil Dreams is hidden here somewhere. They can sense its presence.
17. To steal children so that they may replace them with nightmare changelings.
18. For a competition: it is about who is able to scare a mortal to death with nightmares first.
19. WAR
20. They dropped out of a nightmare whose dreamer awakened much to quickly, and now search for another nightmare to return through.
P.S: If I would have to describe the Aelf-Adal of Veins of the Earth with two terms, “Nightmare Elves” would be them.
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