Lore: Locations -- work in progress

THE PLACE WITH NO NAME

The Place With No Name is a part of the Dreamworld where all the deepest pieces of the heart and the subconscious within a dreamer lives; it is where the mares, nachtkrapp, and other such creatures of dark dreams reside. This, of course, includes Albtraum.

This place is not only made of fears, but of things that a dreamer feels a longing for, ashamed of, wrathful toward, grief over, lusting for, and other such more "hidden" and "dark" emotions. The Place With No Name or sometimes called The Nameless Place changes depending on the Zeitgeist of the places it hides under the veil of (Germanic countries) and depending on how far you travel as it correlates to places within the waking world. Therefore, it also changes based on who is sleeping nearby in correlation within the Waking World. This place, because a Sandman lives within it, also holds pieces of Albtraum. For example, there is typically the faint sound of a song and a heartbeat riding the air.

Someone who has fallen deep into their subconscious can drop into this place. Normally these are people who aren't dreaming but are in a deep unconscious state, sometimes a coma but not always something so severe. It can also be someone who lucid dreams and simply walked too far or got lost. This is less likely, though, as those within the main Dreamworld will often stop these dreamers from crossing into The Nameless Place.

GENERAL ATMOSPHERE

The general appearance of The Place With No Name is dreary and obscured. The sky is an overcast of swirling and shadowy grey. There is a thick fog that rolls along the ground and occasionally manifests in all sorts of ways such as forming a person, weighing down a person, or any other sort of action that lays deep in someone's subconscious. Say if someone fears sinking, the fog may work to pull them down and imitate this feeling. The shadows move and often have eyes. Waiting. Watching.

There is a long road that runs through it. How it looks and how one travels through the Nameless Place all depends on who and what is around. It may be a dirt road, it might be steaming hot pavement, it might be cracked and fragmented. It could be a straight line or a road with twists and turns. Someone can break away from the road but it's inadvisable. While there is plenty to be distressed over from the road itself, its safer than anywhere else within The Nameless Land.



COMING SOON:
The Lake of Sorrows

The Black Forest
This is where the Mares, Nachtkrapp live. It's dangerous, with its ashen trees that often attack intruders and its pitch black atmosphere.

The Mirror of Reflection
A massive mirror far into The Land With No Name. It takes some work getting to and the path to it is different for each person. Eventually one will find a more slender road shooting off from the main one. The more your heart burns for this object the more difficult it is to get to. Once someone reaches the mirror they will find it's framed in beautiful ornamental silver and the reflection is a swirling shadowy gray. If they step forward and stand right before the mirror, those shadows will shift and part to show them their heart's greatest desire. There is no real formula to understanding who can and cannot obtain what they see. The mirror just chooses as it wants.

If this is a person, then whoever is observing the mirror will be able to watch them. If they are lucky they'll be able to get their attention and speak with them. If they are even luckier, the mirror will turn into a portal where either party can join the other. This is the same for objects. Either the viewer will just be able to see the object, or they'll be able to reach out and enter the area where the object is or bring the object back into The Nameless Place with them.

The Endless Fall
At the furthest reaches of The Nameless Place is a fall. The sound of water is deafening although there seems to be none. The closer you get, the more it shifts into screams. While often you will not see from whom those screams come, they are neverending. Anyone who steps off this cliff is doomed to an eternity of endless falling; suspended in freefall forever.

PLAYLIST

Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin / Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in / Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove / Dance me to the end of love

Come Undone by Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan
I'm not scared of the dark though you tangle and tease me / But worse than your bark you said you'd never leave me / The devil make everybody, don't please believe me / Oh love of my life, won't you let me down easy? / Undone, I come undone

Wild is the Wind by David Bowie
With your kiss my life begins / You're spring to me / All things to me / Don't you know you're life itself / For we're like creatures in the wind / And wild is the wind / Wild is the wind

The Beginning is The End is The Beginning by The Smashing Pumpkins
The pale princess of a palace cracked / And now the kingdom comes / Crashing down undone / And I am a master of a nothing place / Of recoil and grace

Where the Wild Roses Grow by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow / And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief / And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty must die" / And I lent down and planted a rose 'tween her teeth

Street Spirit by Radiohead
All these things into position / All these things we'll one day swallow whole / And fade out again and fade out / Immerse your soul in love

Without You I'm Nothing by Placebo, David Bowie
I'm unclean, a libertine / And every time you vent your spleen / I seem to lose the power of speech / You're slipping slowly from my reach / You grow me like an evergreen / You've never seen the lonely me at all

Nothing Really Ends by dEUS
Do you still love me? / Do you feel the same? / Do I have a chance of doing that old dance / With someone I've been pushing away? / And touch, we touched the soul / The very soul, the soul of what we were then / With the old schemes of shattered dreams lying on the floor

Orpheus by David Sylvian
I harbour all the same worries as most / The temptations to leave or to give up the ghost / I wrestle with an outlook on life / That shifts between darkness and shadowy light

I Let Love In by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Despair and deception, love's ugly little twins / Came a-knocking on my door, I let them in / Darling, you're the punishment for all of my former sins / I let love in, I let love in

My Thieving Heart by Sivert Hoyem, Marie Munroe
I may be undone but nothing seems to undo you / You're the lucky one it seems to pass right on through you / I think I know just what you're longing for / You're so much colder than you were before / Oh, my thieving heart

Grace by Jeff Buckley
Well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid, afraid to die / My fading voice sings of love / But she cries to the clicking of time, oh, time / Wait in the fire, wait in the fire

Blue Valentines by Tom Waits
She sends me blue valentines / To mark the anniversary of someone that I used to be / And I didn't think you'd ever find me here / I can never wash the guilt or get these bloodstains off my hands / And it takes a lot of whiskey to make these nightmares go away

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen
There's a lover in the story but the story's still the same / There's a lullaby for suffering and a paradox to blame / But it's written in the scriptures and it's not some idol claim / You want it darker / We kill the flame

Let's Pretend by Tindersticks
I know it is, I know we could / I guess we surely would / Let's pretend it's not / It doesn't mean a thing

The Widow by The Mars Volta
He's got fasting black lungs / Made of clove-splintered shards / They're the kind that will talk / Through a wheezing of coughs / And I hear him every night