*A text found on the orderly shelves of the library of Winya Ravanna, it is not quite finished. It appears to be more of a sample of perhaps greater work. The piece however is available for the people to view as they please.*

Opening Pages

I am a simple creature, I live, breathe, and consume as all life needs. I prefer the simpler life of natures beauty, shrouded in its vibrant embrace. I live a religious and spiritual life, though I am no priest or holy warrior. I am but a survivalist, using all that is gifted to me by our Seldarine. Some may know me as a former councilor, a brother, a friend... My name is Azaquis Eilefel. I wish to offer insight and direction in a skill that all of the People and Feykind possess. I speak of the Reverie.

Few know the entirety of this ability. The term is used loosely as "Elven Sleeping", when it is much more. I hope this text will inform young minds of all of the People, including our half-human's. All carrying the blood of the People should know what the True Reverie is.

The Reverie: Facts and Differences From Sleep

Living with no needs, actions without consequence, the line between reality and thought... The Reverie is a state of being, both body and mind. It is the conscious projection into a dream-state in which you control every detail of. Through this state we see what we wish to live, our minds are sent to what we decide is ideal, while our bodies remain behind to be refreshed and recovered without the distractions and troubles of life. This method of rest and recovery is far more advanced than sleep, and thus to receiving the same benefits of a full nights rest in less time.

Typical sleep for the People is the same as other humanoid races. Only our slumber is without dreams. Dreams do not come to the People. Only the devote of Sehanine Moonbow ever receive the rare dream in their normal slumber. These dreams are actually visions, omens, or glimpses of the past or future from our Goddess. Ones that the clergy of Sehanine Moonbow decipher and make sense of.

If you are one reading this hearing that dreams are omens and signs from the Goddess you are not devote too and are troubled, worry not for there is a likely explanation. It is most likely you are beginning to slip into a pseudo-reverie state. A state that may happen nearing awakening. The mind is two pieces, the Conscious and the Unconscious. All supernatural, extraordinary, and magic ability is from the unconscious mind. However, we can not freely access this part of the mind through will power only. Some have this access naturally, some do not, and never will. As the People, we all have the potential to take this skill from the unconscious mind. As you sleep, the unconscious mind and conscious mind become closer, secrets and information may pass at this time. If you awaken shocked suddenly at the images of a dream for the first time, you were in reality awakening from other reasons already. However your body and mind were awakening while still having connection to your unconscious mind.
This event is the first bridge to achieving Reverie. I will attempt to describe the event the best I can.

You are asleep, all is quite, you are relaxed and all is black as if looking to a nights sky before the stars blanket it.
Suddenly, you see the stars, the moon, the trees and grass in the field you are in, you consciously realize you are sleeping.
You feel your body laying, you curl your fingers and wiggle your toes and they respond as if you are awake.
You hold onto this feeling, focusing on this image of the stars, it mixing with the sounds of the area around you, you know where you truly are, yet your mind is showing your eyes otherwise.
You are in the early phase of Reverie, you are between sleep and awake, reality and thought, conscious and unconscious minds acting together.
Your eyes open seeing nothing that you just visualized was ever there, but you recall it all in perfect detail that it very well could have been.

In this description the body and mind awake before the minds separate, thus giving a surreal feeling in this state of treading the middle grounds of Sleep and Awake. The feeling is anything from lightheadedness to weightlessness. Mentally some may experience curiously or fear of this event mistaking it for something else. Hopefully reading this text will aid in those fears and satisfy the curiosity. Reverie is a gift to us from the Seldarine, there is nothing to fear from these teaching passed onto us by our Gods. There is always the options of a Guided Reverie if one is unable to relax themselves into the state required to maintain the Reverie.

The Reverie: Entering Reverie and Words of Caution

Mastery of thoughts and mind to paint your own reality, control your dream-state and reflect on all you learned and what your future holds. Reverie is a powerful gift and takes time to master fully, though creating your own reality where you may even develop skills of the mind in your Reverie, physical skills may be tested, however do not be surprised when your true body is not able to perform as you may imagine it.

Entering Reverie requires only a safe location, free of threats to the body and mind, a quite place free from distraction is ideal. Reverie may be performed in a sitting or laying position. The body must relax, breath light and deep to fuel the mind. The mind must be clear, to reach the bridges created to the unconscious mind, the mind must be in a state of not thinking, an absence of thought for the time it takes to achieve reverie. This time may vary based on the individuals skill and familiarity to reverie, it may be seconds or several minutes in early and extreme cases. Once achieved, the conscious mind becomes away of the unconscious mind and lets it take you deep into your controlled dream-state while it separately remains with the body, aware of its surroundings and condition. During Reverie you are aware of both realities simultaneously, you may ignore one or the other as fit or maintain both. Thus waking abruptly from bears no ill effects aside from perhaps irritation of being interrupted, as would anyone who was woken up before planned.


I urge everyone reading to not overlook these words of caution. Reverie is a powerful gift and as such should not be abused. It is possible to be injured and lost within reverie if one is not careful. Do to the connection between the mind and body, these controlled dreams will indeed transfer feel and touch, and thus pain. If your reveries include such things that may cause injury for whatever reason you will it to be so, the body will feel such things as the mind experiences it. Do be careful and remain in control of your reverie.

On the topic of remaining in control, I am aware of the desire to create your own perfect dream-state to always live in that is more appealing and better than true life once your skill is grand enough to perform such. I highly advise against such things, life is to be treasured, its challenges and surprises only there to remind you that you still are alive and appreciate the good things that are just and always there. Not only is creating such dream-state not living, it is dangerous. While the mind stays in Reverie, the body hungers, grows weak and old, and slowly dies. Thoughts and morality is so absorbed into the unconscious mind that its possible to forget about the needs of the other. At this point awaking abruptly is dangerous and may be harmful to the elves mind and body which is already weakened from neglect.
This is especially dangerous to the Fey, many fey create such realities for themselves and they require nothing to survive but being in their magic groves. They may remain in their dream-states forever, detached from all sense of reality beyond their made up worlds. I urge everyone to use this ability responsibly as it was intended to be used.



*The book seems to end here, rather abrupt and on a rather darker side than the rest of the material. Perhaps the end of the sample provided, or it was ended on a rather serious note so it is not lost in the middle of things. Time shall tell.*

As for Drow having dreams, it is highly possible, Lloth may constantly plague them with dreams. Or simply the Dark Seldarine may act them in ways I am not exactly certain of. I will have to research more on drow specifically.

I do not exactly site novels, even ones such as the Dark Elf Trilogy or the Elves of Evermeet. While they can give insight, many of them even contradict themselves. One of my favorite FR Authors, Paul S Kemp has his main character capable of Shadow Jumping through walls, on the Shadow Plane, and able to move an entire ship into Skull Port (Underdark).

Novels while great looks into the interpretations of FR Lore by authors, they are still just that, interpretations. The most important things in them are the events that actually take place, details such as how a race sleeps is quite low on the totem pole.

While I do appreciate the the information on Drow Nightmares. I quite like the idea of them suffering from such due to the Dark Seldarine, it is quite fitting. It is a gray and not highly explored area that allows for creative thought.

[Edit] Meant to also include that I have not exactly heard the memories not having any control. I had always learned that Reverie is a controlled Dream state. I do not exactly recall the source, but the example for the fey is something I recall reading and dangers of Reverie. I am going to read more on the details of Reverie being random memories they have no control of. As I know I have read that elves will often reverie on a topic discussed, in ways to see it and visualize it.

That also supports their magical ability, less time needed for rest, and their skills in specialized elven classes. As most lore on Elven only classes suggest much of it linked to religion, state of mind, and focus. I am unsure how much better the experience would be if they are randomly given vivid memories of some random past event. But as I said, I will read your 2E source on Reverie.

Novels while great looks into the interpretations of FR Lore by authors, they are still just that, interpretations. The most important things in them are the events that actually take place, details such as how a race sleeps is quite low on the totem pole.