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'''Nightmares''' are
== History ==
The Nightmares did not originally exist, they were created by a disaster wherein the father machine killed the vast majority of the inhabitants of Komashi, creating the nightmares as Cognitive Shadows held captive by the machine.{{book ref|yumi|23}}{{book ref|yumi|39}}
Following this disaster, they were kept in a replica of different towns in Torio, to repeat the same day disguised as the people they once were. At night, they were left to travel through the shroud and feed upon the people of various surviving nations, most notably [[Nagadan]]. In response to this, the profession of [[Painter|painters]] developed, in order to turn them into a more harmless shape, and banish them back into the shroud.
After the father machine was destroyed and the shroud was dispelled, all of the Nightmares, freed from the tyranny of the machine, dissolved into nothingness.
== Appearance and Behavior ==
Nightmares are inky black creatures that can take on many forms.{{book ref|yumi|3}} They begin as amorphous blobs, but over time, as they feed upon the thoughts and ideas of people, they start to take on more recognizable forms, gradually gaining more and more form as they pick up on more thoughts.{{book ref|yumi|3}} They rarely have faces, the face usually taking on the form of an even deeper blackness, which drips a dark liquid.{{book ref|yumi|3}} They constantly let of a gaseous blackness as they move around outside of the shroud, and if they fail to return to the shroud, they can evaporate away completely.{{book ref|yumi|3}}
They have to go on multiple trips to a city in order to gain enough substance to be truly dangerous, usually around ten or so trips.{{book ref|yumi|3}} If a nightmare has enough form, it would become something known as a '''stable nightmare''', which are particularly dangerous, and require elite painters in order to neutralize them, known as the Dreamwatch.{{book ref|yumi|7}} Stable enough nightmares have pinprick white eyes dotting their face, and bone-white teeth.{{book ref|yumi|7}}{{book ref|yumi|25}}{{book ref|yumi|40}}
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.
It is theoretically possible to form a bond with a nightmare
▲It is theoretically possible to form a bond with a nightmare.{{wob ref|15528}}
==Notes==
3 after painted, dissipates with the sound of a sigh. disperses/evaporates.
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
7 Futinoro destroyed by stable nightmares 30 years ago.
8 "beyond stable" nightmares in "the last days" which had begun to change color (flesh tones)
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