The 7 Nightmares
Every child's nightmare, father's failure and mother's death. If one member of the family falls to one these monsters, the rest are sure to follow. These dream monsters, scholars are split as to when they first appeared, or where. But from records they know that in the past the nightmares held no sway over our dreams. Their best guess is that arrived during the Rebinding period (All knowledge or memory of a certain period had been erased for a certain time). Originally there were only known to be 6 nightmares, but one more has been reported, though it's so rare it's still somewhat thought to be a fabrication.
The known nightmares are Askatie the Nightmare of Seduction, Eskatie the Nightmare of Mimicry, Iskatie the Nightmare of Shadow, Oskatie the Nightmare of Youth, Uskatie the Nightmare of Terror. The last reported is Yskatie the Nightmare of Twins.
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The Nightmares are cunning, evil creatures who only hold one goal, to escape into the real world. They exist in the far flung depths of the dream. Coming in waves and causing havoc upon their victims. It is a perplexing mystery of the mages, to try and find the source of these monsters and destroy it. With some mages having put themselves into comas to search the dream as long as they possibly could.