Baku dreamweavers are the specialists of the baku race—more
powerful than their generic baku kin, but consuming only the dreams of the
imaginative, the creative, and the psychic.
They are still deadly foes of night hags and other oneiric predators,
making them essentially benevolent protectors of mortal dreamers.
You might even say dreamweavers can get you through thenight…?
(I…I don’t know what just came over me. I am so, so sorry.)
(#notsorry)
Where baku dreamweavers truly shine is their ability to
facilitate travel through and even shape the Dimension of Dreams, courtesy of
abilities like dream voyage, dream
whispers, dream shepherd, and so on.
Nothing says you’re about to embark on an extraordinary voyage like
embarking on a dreamship with a levitating tapir as your captain…
Adventurers
continually wake up fatigued and mentally foggy. Soon they realize their memories have grown
faulty as well. A dreamthief hag has the
soul of baku dreamweaver’s mate held hostage in her dreamstone. The hag has directed the dreamweaver to
torment the adventurers so that she remains free to pursue other plans
unopposed.
To gain safe passage
through a fey lord’s domain, adventurers agree to bring him “the ram from the
Hill of Dream Poppies.” The “ram” is
actually a baku dreamweaver, and the adventurers will have to sleep on the
hillside to even spot the creature, let alone capture it. Of course, sleeping in Faerie carries its own
risks… Even if the adventurers capture
the baku, they wake in thorn manacles, bound hand and foot by the fey lord who
has no scruples about breaking his bargain.
The dead don’t dream—especially
not in Hell. But mortal prisoners
do. Not long after their friend is
stolen away by devils, adventurers have an encounter with a baku
dreamweaver. The magical beast saw the
adventurers in their friend’s dreams and wished to see them (and possibly taste
their dreams) for himself. The baku’s
ability to travel so fluidly through the Dimension of Dreams sparks plans for
one of the most daring jailbreaks on two planes.
—Occult Bestiary
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<nerd voice> Um, excuse me, Paizo, but Gary Wright clearly indicates that dreamweavers fly
through the Astral Plane, not the Dimension of Dreams, despite
their name. Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.” </nerd voice>
Edit: Whoops, forgot to post this week's radio show. Grab it before midnight tonight! The post should have said:
ReplyDeleteLast night’s radio show. I really like it. Maybe you will too. It starts with Eisley, has some classic Beat Happening and Double Dagger, new Mike Pace and the Child Actors, and a political rap rarity whose title is almost FCC-fine-worthy. Really, what more could you ask for? Stream or download it here.
(Link good till Monday, 11/23, at midnight.)