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...rms are generally only a few centimeters across, small but intricate forms of gold and silver and other precious materials. ...every seed charm does have a knob by which it can be attached to some sort of holder. It is the interaction between the charm and its holder that activa ...

The '''flickerbird''' is a creature of [[Dadauar]] most remarkable for its [[dream magic|magic]]al ability to become briefly ...ity makes it hard to harm them, they can be killed if taken off guard, and of course they are susceptible to more indirect means such as poisoning, with ...

...tuff, as are the onirarchs' servants the [[batirine]]s—or ''partly'' of dreamstuff, like the [[dreambuilt]]. ...rying hues of red, blue, and other colors, but all with an underlying play of different shades. ...

...er, behave much as mice do, and occupy the same niches, even to the extent of occasionally spreading into cities and invading buildings. ...e of a dust mouse are the same greyish color and silky texture of the rest of the creature. ...

...ge their shape, but this is not a power the Bathybius chooses to give most of them. ...[[evil]] [[spirit]]s through a similar metaphorical extension as children of the [[devil]], but given the Bathybius's sinister reputation to most people ...

...rm of [[energy]], in the [[physics|physical]] sense, but is more a sort of magical potential—and in fact is sometimes called "dream potential", though t ...t [[spell (dream magic)|spell]]s and perform other acts of magic, or their magical energy can be siphoned off and used by others. ...

...climate|temperate zone]] and has less extreme [[climate]]—as is true of its [[east]]ernmost tip. ...the [[Fallen Lake]] in the northern part of the continent and the [[Inlet of Vyre]] on its [[south]]ern shore. ...

...e full of magically altered and wholly artificial creatures, [[talisman]]s of diverse sorts, and powerful [[enchantment]]s to help enforce the rulers' wi ...the leaders, endured without complaint in order to return to the paradise of dreaming—so that awake and asleep, the people are working for the oni ...

...rbs... and it's perhaps for that reason that it prefers to absorb ellogous creatures. ...large scale very flat; essentially, it appears to be just a gigantic lump of gelatinous goo spread over the ocean floor. ...

...sness common to all deeplings. Sometimes, however, apparently at the whim of the Bathybius, they take on a different shape, [[transfiguration|transfigur ...ooze]] or even a part of their own bodies—which, after all, are made of the same stuff. ...

...nced {{IPA|/ˈdædəwɑːr/}}) is a [[world]] of [[Qabede]] where [[tyranny|tyrannical]] [[dictatorship|dictators]] tap into ...oper. It is the presence of Chethe that gives Dadauar its name; the name "Dadauar" comes from the [[Lilmi]] word ''yatyatyawarr'' ({{IPA0|[jæˈd& ...

...ical Charotian [[rew]] is separated from its nearest neighbors by millions of [[kilometer]]s, and is in most ways a self-contained world, although it may ...[Heqhasta]] the [[H axis]]. The [[obverse (cosmology)|obverse]] conspects of Qabede, Gaden, and Heqhasta are [[Mriddiom]], [[Ckapir]], and [[Gaiua]], re ...

...intelligent]] than others, they are all [[agency|self-willed]] and capable of acting on their own initiative. For the most part, however, batirines are ...by their subjects, and it reflects the dread with which these [[life form|creatures]] were initially (and to some degree still are) regarded. ...

...f [[Dadauar]]'s [[ocean]]s. Like the Bathybius, deeplings are made mostly of [[enchantment|enchanted]] [[seawater]], and—absent [[dye]]s or [[illu ...nsciousness]] of their own. [[Infected]] are created when a small portion of the Bathybius's substance is [[ingestion|ingested]] by another [[life form] ...

...th directions. These colors are in fact the temporarily transformed forms of the people using the path; an empty streampath appears colorless and nearly ...different countries, although the [[onirarch]]s no doubt have careful ways of tracking border crossings. ...

...as the existence of the [[ambient magic]] that seems to exist independent of dreaming—but it fits the facts well enough to have won wide acceptanc ...person, that the magic is directly acting on), or help them see through a magical [[illusion]]. ...

...ch that a normal [[human]] [[lifetime]] is generally measured in some tens of years. ..., the abbreviations "mya" for "millions of years ago", "bya" for "billions of years ago", and so on are common, though they are discouraged by some autho ...