Gathering of the Entranced

After a rather long journey thru the Basin of Stars, you'll come across the House Gathering of the Entranced.

Clash of Dreams Era Beliefs

Unopened.

House Facts

Plane: Basin of Stars

Beliefs: ?

Role: ?

Prime Artifact: ?

House Art: ?

House Roster

Rulers: N/A

Guardians: N/A

Lyra Era Beliefs

The Gatherers are Enlightened (illuminated) who believe in cleansing and removing the taint within the mare essence.

They often speak of a higher plane in which they believe they can achieve thru a higher level of existence, the Nirvana.

House History

In The Beginning

Written By: Unknown Author

After recent studies in deep chaos a team of scholars returned to the dream with a startling discovery regarding the ancient dreamwrights. The leader of the research by accident unearthed the copies of an ancient manuscript in a tongue used by only the most ancient of dreamwrights. After lengthy research and translation he discovered it was a chronicle about the first beginnings of the dream, of a dream that existed before the dream: The story of Cloudsbreak is that the world is a dimension onto itself where chaos rules and pockets of stability within that chaos make up the world we know as the dream. What is not told is that beyond the chaos there is something else, the Nirvana, the ultimate state of harmony. The ancient dreamwrights managed to pierce the Nirvana, in their quest to seek spiritual enlightenment, but basically finding a shortcut into the Nirvana made their souls not capable of dealing with the harmonics of this dimension, effectively threatening to collapse the Nirvana upon itself. Many days of debate and discussion followed, splitting the ancient dreamwrights in 2 camps, those that decided to seek to become attuned to the harmony of the Nirvana and those wanting to lead their own lives and decided upon leaving this dimension in search for another. In the end it was decided that to prevent the total destruction of the Nirvana by people finding their way unto this dimension, a barrier would be created that could only be pierced by people completely attuned to the harmonics of the Nirvana. This way the Chaos was born.

The Chaos

Written By: Unknown Author

Since Chaos is a state of constant change and motion it seemed to be a perfect blockade to prevent unattuned to enter the nirvana, but as is with Chaos the effects were unpredictable. Chaos formed and within its current spots of tranquility started forming. It is these spots we currently inhabit. Only then the first dreamers entered this new realm and the stories of Cloudsbreak as we know it became into work. What nobody knew was those who had remained within the Nirvana managed to contain the chaos from spreading and even managed to make the nirvana coexist with the chaos as Yin and Yang. But as activity within the chaos increased, they became aware of this new force within the chaos and send a few of them out for investigation. What those scouts found was the thriving society of Underlight. Seeing the use of this stability within, it was decided to guide the efforts of those residing in Underlight and watching over them. Agents were selected to live among those of Underlight. (To this day no agent ever was discovered to the knowledge of this person and this chronicle is the only evidence we have of his or her existence)

Another fact that never was explained was how the chaos all of a sudden grew in strength and more important how the mares appeared within it. Those ancient dreamers who left for other dimensions found many, amongst them dimensions able to twist and dement the strongest of dreamers. Trapped within one such dimension a group of those who left the dreamers in Nirvana twisted and evolved into what we now know as Dark Mares. This was a gradual process, costing many souls and many pains in the group trapped within this twisted dimension. With no way of warning others they only could watch how more of those who left the Nirvana or followed from other dimensions got entrapped within this dimension. Many succumbed to the effects of this dimension and changed into Emphants, Bogroms, Agoknights, Shamblixes, Horrons and what perverted shape more. In a realm of true evil they became smarter, more cunning. They evolved. And as they evolved the memories buried deep within the souls of those corrupted was regained...including the way how to dream. This happened around the end of the Dreamer wars. Not entering the Nirvana this time the mares ended up in the protective barrier of the Chaos. Unable to pierce it and threaten the Nirvana directly they ended up in a war-torn Underlight, recovering from the Dreamer wars. Driven by their rage of not being able to return to the dimension they had left they went on a rampage that is now known as the Day of Savaging. What happened after that is known to all. Outside the chaos, the proceedings were followed with interest. Could the dreamer wars be considered harmless to the Nirvana, the Nightmare wars had those residing in the Nirvana worried, for if the mares managed to pierce the chaos and manage to subdue the realm of Underlight, the Nirvana would be the next target.

To counter this the Deep Chaos was created as an extra buffer, but finding dark mares were able to pierce this deep chaos barrier as easy as they pierced the chaos and Underlight, the decision was made to eliminate the chaos for good and sealing the dreaming ways permanently. Devising strong harmonics they began shrinking the chaos, pressuring it into the realms of Underlight in an effort to collapse it completely. What they did not realize was that because of the Deep chaos their agents had increasing difficulty reaching their brethren, who were unable to inform them that the dreamers within Underlight were slowly gaining the upper hand over the Mares. By the time the dreamers within Underlight had managed to fight off the Mares within their realms the Nirvana had managed to shrink the chaos considerable. Still unaware of the goings on in Underlight they started encountering steady resistance from within the chaos. What they did not know was that dreamwrights had started to repair the city walls of Underlight. Increasing their efforts, managing to crush the obstacle by the sheer pressure of their efforts. What they didn't realize was that their efforts created the Dorsal rift and allowed the dreamers now known as nightmares to gain a permanent foothold within the chaos. The only good that came from this was that contact between the Nirvana and it's agents was restored through the dorsal rift and other rifts that appeared after this. Appalled with the results of their efforts the Nirvana tried to undo the damage done but with no success. Upon the advice of their Agents and weeklong debate it was decided to only watch the chaos and the realms within it from now on and letting the dreamers within those realms evolve so they one day would reach true harmony and pierce the chaos and the deep chaos to reach the Nirvana.

The Equilibrium Concept

Written By: Unknown Author

From beyond the Chaos, in the Nirvana, the Entranced as we shall call them, looked upon the mares and knew who they were. Pained to see names like Kruugaar, once a great woman who lead a group towards the dimensions, only remaining twisted and evil, bound on carnage and slaughter. Reports from within heard that GoE was all but wiped out by the Tehthu and only a few held on by their fingernails. One of the Entranced agents, the dreamer called Brosh, was recovered from the deep chaos after the Dorsal rift disaster, still carrying the specimens of mare essences she had hunted before the disaster. She found what had caused the rifts and told the Entranced to stop their efforts of collapsing the chaos, thus saving the realms of Underlight. She told the Entranced that the key of defeating the mares was not to seal off the rift but instead stopping the mares in the realm of Underlight by cleansing the souls that were corrupted. A team of scholars was formed under the guidance of Brosh; after all she was the only one who had contact with these changed travelers. Retreating into the deep chaos, to prevent contamination of the Nirvana some of the essences were released. To their horror they found that the attempts to restore the soul to its original state only resulted in a reforming of the mare. Their first attempt almost became their last.

Retrieving the essence of a horron they went through all researched options and the Nirvana was channeled onto the horron's essence. But instead of returning the soul's splendor a dark mare was born. Raging it's ugly head the dark mare turned upon the group with its newformed powers and strength, wiping out most of the research team. The remainder quickly retreated into the Nirvana where the dark mare was unable to follow. Those that survived gave their advice to the Elders and they decreed to leave the mares and the realms of Underlight alone. Only few saw, like Brosh, that denial of their existence was what was suggested and that ignoring them would eventually lead to the invasion of the Nirvana. It would not be way to safety, so at an unguarded moment she and 3 other scholars, Lhor'kha, Yew'whit and Marrhuk'kah took the remaining essences and fled into the deep chaos. After a long LONG time or experimenting they experimented with spheres of imprisoning, banishing or draining, and noting their effects. Taking this into account, they perceived a totally new form of combating the mares. A method that would be known as the Equilibrium concept. Lhor'kha, having lived in Underlight himself and knowing the art of forging as no other created a sphere that held a perfect diamond matrix he found best to channel the tranquility into the sphere. This tranquility would have the best cleansing effect. But early attempts to use it failed, simply because the concentrated focus the new sphere gave didn't return the harmony of the souls inside the essence equally. The effect was that souls, already warped by the effect of other dimensions became even more warped, torn apart by the enhanced good being stimulated upon them and the enhanced evil of their twisted being.

Having to find a way to get the focus distributed equally Brosh and Yew'Whit, inspired by the transformation of a butterfly, managed to spin the essences into a chrysalis of pure dreamsoul, thus diffusing the focused effect of the sphere and spreading the effect on the essence from all sides at the same intensity. Their first attempts were spectacular. Spinning an emphant into a chrysalis and placing the chrysalis into the sphere they waited and waited until one day they noticed the chrysalis burst and a cleansed soulsphere broke through. They knew they had succeeded. But when trying to do the same with a Dark mare something went wrong and Brosh was cast adrift again in the current of the chaos. Returning to the nirvana her research was continued. Written down the principle became known as the Equilibrium concept and was accredited to Lhor'kah and Yhew'whit.

The Nirvana

Written By: Unknown Author

The Nirvana is a plane that is in total natural harmony. The great circle of life as it is called by some applies here. Each element has its place within the Nirvana. Within the Nirvana there is both black and white to use that analogy since without the other there would be no balance. The difference is that because there is true harmony nothing overpowers the other. To reach the Nirvana one must achieve true enlightenment and wandered all the paths open to him, no matter if not all of these paths will lead him to good. In the end the harmony a dreamer will achieve will balance both good and evil within this person.

The Entranced and The Basin of the Stars

Written By: Unknown Author

In the days before the Great Loss, GoE was the home of the Entranced, a group of dreamers seeking peace and perfect harmony. They were led by a group of ancient dreamwrights who came from a place they called the Nirvana. They taught the Gathering that this was more than a place...it was a state of total harmony and tranquility. A state each dreamer had the power to achieve. These dreamwrights created the planes of the Basin, so green and full of life, to reflect the beauty of the Nirvana. The various buildings on the planes, Fahd's Fortress, Neutral Home, and Commons House, were built as meeting places, where classes could be held in the basic tenets of enlightenment. Every building had a different function to show the variety of the Nirvana and the harmony that could exist between them. The fort where action spoke, the meeting rooms where words fought and the neutral home where both came to rest. As the City moved closer to the Dreamers Wars, the GoE leaders were distressed. They send message of the hardship to the Nirvana before the wars began, and send a group of dreamers towards their brethren in the Nirvana to meditate and research ways to return peace to the City. Their followers were scattered throughout the City as a result of the Wars, many joining other houses in an attempt to bring enlightenment and peace to these houses. Those who held on were in the end defeated by the Tehthu. The last survivors leaving shortly after the Dorsal rift disaster, retreating towards the Nirvana Now, these leaders have returned, at a time when jealousy, fear, hatred and avarice again threaten to destroy the City. They seek to gather their followers together again, and reopen their once-mighty house, in order to assist in the rebuilding of the City and to promote the values of trust, honor and love throughout the dream.

House Emblem

House Facts

Plane: Basin of Stars

Beliefs: Enlightened(illuminated)/Cleansers

Role: Spiritual

Prime Artifact: The Harmonic Sphere

House Art: ?

First Elder: Brosh

Previous Elders: ?

First Rulers: Munchkin, Liondra, Breyd, Taryag613

Previous Rulers: ?

First Guardians: ?

Previous Guardians: CriPpLeMaNg

References

• http://members.tripod.com/jio_underlight/new_page_7.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20020826120730/http://members.cox.net/radiance/house_gote.html