Give

Art Statistics
Focus:	None
Cost:	0 Dreamsoul
Orbit Required:	0
Affected:	Talisman/Target

Duration

Instant

Description

Passes a chosen talisman to the target, after receiving the target's confirmation.

Plateau Effect

Decreased evoke time.

Art History

It was created during the Nightmare Wars. A group called the Seekers of Knowledge dedicated to the researching the portals discovered many new arts one of which was called GIVE. Give was created after Join Party as a result of the need to be able to transfer needed items from one dreamer to another during a battle with the nightmares and other times when one dreamer had found items during a session at the spawning sites items of use to other foci. Through the use of Join Party these items could be transferred to other members of the party anywhere in the same plane of Underlight or from dreamer to dreamer in the same room. Quite an innovation born through intense research.

Alternate History

Many believe to give another dreamer an item is to hand it to them, in your waking world this very well may be the case, but in the Dream City, as we all know things work much differently.

This proved true with one young dreamer in the past. Melindia, a young dreamer new to the city was found by an young but seasoned DreamWright named Gudrun. Melindia was battling with a Emphant and losing severely. Gudrun, stepped in and aided the young one, then upon learning how new she was offered to show her around, introduce her to others who could help her when needed, and basically just taught her the ropes of the city.

At the end of the day when Melindia found she had to wake, she was ever so grateful to Gudrun. Gudrun had been so kind and giving when others had just passed her by, Melindia wished for a way to show her gratitude.

But Melindia had nothing to give of herself in return to Gudrun. There was nothing she could teach this seasoned dreamer, she could not offer her weak aid in a battle Gudrun may face in the future, for she would merely be a nuisance that was in the way.

Over the next two dreams, this bothered Melindia, She wanted to show Gudrun how thankful she truly was. Words were simply not enough. Then it hit her! Gudrun spoke of her belief in saving the souls from the essences, and how important that was to her, when she was teaching Melindia to blade those blasted beasts. That was it! She would use the skills Gudrun taught her to blade the Emphants then she would give the satchel full of essences to Gudrun to show her appreciation.

She collected the essences and soon found Gudrun in threshold debating with a few dreamers. Gudrun seemed quite upset and was angrily calling the opposing dreamers "murderers". Melindia did not think this would be a good time to drop the essences before Gudrun to be picked up, for she feared the opposing dreamers might also grab them as well to spite her friend. Melindia did not like to see her new friend so upset, and she knew these essences would cheer her up, she had to find a way to transfer the essences she collected to Gudrun's satchel.

She thought of how kind, helpful and giving Gudrun had been to her, and unknowingly these thoughts had concentrated her DreamSoul, almost instantaneously the essences disappeared from her satchel and Gudrun's became overflowing with them. Gudrun smiled seemingly shocked as she found out what the extra weight was. Melindia then whispered to her what she had done and thanked her once again.

Decidedly, Gudrun abandoned her argument and the two ladies ran off to study more on this new wonderful art. Their studies confirmed that this act of kindness was simply a form of intense concentration that came from the heart.

Melindia was so determined to return the kindness shown to her that what she was wishing for came to be, and the art of Give was born.

Researched by LovesLight

Notes

Blades can not be passed.

The item is returned to the user if the recipient's inventory is full.

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