Nightmare Form

Art Statistics
Focus:	Dreamsoul
Cost:	10
Orbit Required:	40
Affected:	Self
Duration:	1 minute

Description

The user takes the form of an Emphant.

Plateau Effect

Duration increases by 1 minute.

Art History

The DreamSoul art of Nightmare Form was created by an ancient member of the Entropy Coalition, the group responsible for the nightmares entry into the city. In their studies into the chaos outside the City Walls, they found a way for dreamers to act like a mare. However, they did not perfect the art, because while you are in Nightmare form, you cannot evoke any arts. The teacher who came up with the art died, before he could realize the problem with his art.

Alternate History

After the Great Loss, as the City was beginning to rebuild itself there came a time when more Elders began to show up, other than Kelrith and Artamor. Shade, Sabra, and Gyrethyn were the first of these to return to the City. They began to teach Dreamers, something that was needed as the Teachers of that time had no one to go to for their own plateaus.

It was not long after their return that Gyrethyn grew ill. His very soul had been tainted, he claimed, and he sought the aid of Dreamers in healing him. In a ceremony in Lower Basin of Stars, Kyane and Arianna were able to remove the taint from his soul, or so it was believed. This was done through a piece of his soul that had been removed, and when it was returned to him things seemed to go well for a time.

One night, a short time after he was healed, he was spending time genning and speaking to some Dreamers in Cairn of Sorrow. Suddenly without warning his features contorted as if in pain and then his figure did as well. Before anyone could even ask him if he was alright his avatar went through a horrifying transformation. In the end the form that stood there was not that of a Dreamer, but of an Emphant. However, it moved with more intelligence and its attacks were more dangerous, akin to those of a Horron.

In the end he was collapsed and when Restore was offered his form was that of a Dreamer once again. He did not remember what had happened to him. This was the first known instance, since the Great Loss, of a Dreamer adopting the form of a mare for a limited time. It was not long after that some of the Elders could train Dreamers in an art known as Nightmare Form, though the attacks were different (those of an ordinary Emphant) the effect was very similar.

Researched by Valourin

Notes

This form prevents the use of arts and items, as well as preventing running.

Reference: http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/dranak/Arts/arts-dreamsoul.htm#nmf