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The shape of a nightmare can be forcibly changed by trying to think of it as a certain form through the focus of painting. This causes them to take on the shape of the painting. The closer the painting is to something they resemble, the more power one has over them.{{book ref|yumi|3}} One can return them back to their human form by making a painting of who they used to be, but this doesn't change them back into a flesh and blood human, and they will still fade away without the shroud.{{book ref|yumi|40}}
Nightmares spend most of their time in the yoki-hijo prisons, hidden away in the shroud. But, when the hold of the machine becomes looser, they are able to wander and travel towards population centres, attracted to the cognitive activity focused at such centres. The reason for their attraction to human cognitive activity, and for feeding upon it to take on form and substance, is due to lusting for the life they lost upon the activation of the father machine.{{book ref|yumi|39}}
== Nature and Abilities ==
Nightmares are usually almost entirely incorporeal, and are able to pass through solid substances such as walls.{{book ref|yumi|3}} Their forms are also unstable, and they constantly let off an inky black gas, if they fail to return to the shroud in order to re-Invest themselves, they will evaporate away completely.{{book ref|yumi|3}} There are stories of nightmares so stable that they begin to take on the colour of flesh, but the truth of these stories are unknown.{{book ref|yumi|8}}
They are capable of detecting thoughts, most notably fear, and to hide from one, one should think calm and placid thoughts. Fear is also capable of giving it more form and substance, as it feeds on them.{{book ref|yumi|3}}{{book ref|yumi|7}}
Nightmares are able to feed upon Investiture.{{book ref|yumi|25}}
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3 doesn't reflect light like ink
3 usually take direct path into the city
3 leave behind black whisps, footprint steaming black vapors (less common), handprint
3 "ink and shadow", seven feet tall is considered tall, legs and arms with too many bends, elongated, (long) fingers
5 legend says they came from sky originally
7 tall enough that she has to bend over inside room. Sinuous, boneless neck. Lupine features, legs bent wrong way and face with snout. Virtually no smoke rising from her. Has eyes�bone white, deep as sockets in a skull. Barely drips darkness from face. ALMOST fully stable. Not formless, not aimless, not harmless. Around ten feedings to coalesce to this level. Only a few more to be fully solid. Thigns like this could slaughter hundreds. Can cause physical harm at this stage. (claws child's face and draws blood). Knife fingers. Bone white teeth. Smiling. Eyes "pull through to some other eternity". Difficulty going through walls, especially claws.
7 Futinoro destroyed by stable nightmares 30 years ago.
25? "wisps of lackness rising and vanishing [...from] something black. Like blood. That evaporated."
25? not understood why they don't leave footprints
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