[Not that Dream will ever admit it, but this story does make him slightly impress with the city. That's quite the demonstration of magical power there, to transform an entire city.]
That does sound strange, indeed. What happened to those that had signed such a contract during that time?
In my world, humanity still thinks as such. Most pantheons have disappeared as mortals turned to other beliefs, the gods losing their powers over them and fading into nothingness. My name is not well known in my world, I would be surprised that it would be in yours either. [He's always been discrete after all, and even his marriage to Calliope had been rewritten to Oeagrus or Apollo, depending on the poets that sang about her life.]
I am no deity, if that is what you are asking. I am the anthropomorphic representation of the collective unconsciousness of humanity. Mortals call me 'the Sandman'; I create and rule over dreams and nightmares that all living creatures visit when they sleep.
[It's an abridged version of what he is, but for now, it'll do.]
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That does sound strange, indeed. What happened to those that had signed such a contract during that time?
In my world, humanity still thinks as such. Most pantheons have disappeared as mortals turned to other beliefs, the gods losing their powers over them and fading into nothingness. My name is not well known in my world, I would be surprised that it would be in yours either. [He's always been discrete after all, and even his marriage to Calliope had been rewritten to Oeagrus or Apollo, depending on the poets that sang about her life.]
I am no deity, if that is what you are asking. I am the anthropomorphic representation of the collective unconsciousness of humanity. Mortals call me 'the Sandman'; I create and rule over dreams and nightmares that all living creatures visit when they sleep.
[It's an abridged version of what he is, but for now, it'll do.]