glacius Posted August 8, 2010 Report Share Posted August 8, 2010 I want to start playing malifaux and want to start with Neverborn and the dreamer. I am really big on fluff helping me make the decision. Does anyone know the fluff or the backstory behind the dreamer. Taanks so much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shekbo Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 The dreamer was a little boy kidnapped by a neverborn he calls lord chompy bits. He believes this entire world to be a dream, because LCB makes everything he imagines come true. LCB warps his imaginings into terrible Nightmares, and protects the child in return for his boundless imagination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glacius Posted August 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Ok, that sounds cool. So is lord chompy bits a demon or something? or do demons exist in the world of malifaux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy'sLawyer Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 Neverborn aren't demons, they are the past inhabitants of the Malifaux world. They have been twisted by the powers of the soulstones long ago and have now taken on forms that represent our fears and nightmares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q'iq'el Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 The dreamer was a little boy kidnapped by a neverborn he calls lord chompy bits. He believes this entire world to be a dream, because LCB makes everything he imagines come true. LCB warps his imaginings into terrible Nightmares, and protects the child in return for his boundless imagination. The way I understood the explanation in the D6G interview, the Dreamer hasn't been kidnapped at all. He doesn't even know about Malifaux. What happened is that among Neverborn there are Nightmares who visit dreams of human beings on this side of the breach for some reason. They visited the Dreamer and rather than everything going as usual, it turned out the boy is not scared of his new friends and can use them to appear in Malifaux, while he is dreaming safely back on this side of the breach. So it is a case of Neverborn over-stretching and falling under control of an exceptionally talented human boy and not the other way around. But perhaps I got it wrong. Very cool concept indeed. I'm just waiting for a transportable normal-sized mini to purchase (not saying big isn't cool. Just not my thing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted August 9, 2010 Report Share Posted August 9, 2010 The way I understood the explanation in the D6G interview, the Dreamer hasn't been kidnapped at all. He doesn't even know about Malifaux. What happened is that among Neverborn there are Nightmares who visit dreams of human beings on this side of the breach for some reason. They visited the Dreamer and rather than everything going as usual, it turned out the boy is not scared of his new friends and can use them to appear in Malifaux, while he is dreaming safely back on this side of the breach. So it is a case of Neverborn over-stretching and falling under control of an exceptionally talented human boy and not the other way around. But perhaps I got it wrong. Very cool concept indeed. I'm just waiting for a transportable normal-sized mini to purchase (not saying big isn't cool. Just not my thing). You gots it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karavak Posted August 10, 2010 Report Share Posted August 10, 2010 What happened is that among Neverborn there are Nightmares who visit dreams of human beings on this side of the breach for some reason. It is how they power Malifaux.. Duh!:peace: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarkonneN Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Are there any information about the dreamer's name? Calling him as "The Dreamer" is quite boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadaka Posted October 15, 2010 Report Share Posted October 15, 2010 Hes bob the blanket boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdelemental Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 Q'iq'el has the story right (well...for what's been revealed - duhn duhn duhn...). In fact, if anyone is "kidnapped" it'd be more appropriate to say that LCB was kidnapped by the boy, but that's not exactly right, either. Just more right than thinking the boy was kidnapped by anything. Without trying to sound canonical at all (as in, I'm just playing and throwing out ideas without wanting them to be 'written in stone'), the boy may very well be the most powerful "mage" ever. Nothing before has ever exhibited anything like the ability to travel from one distinct world, through the aether, and into another (Malifaux), and then back again. The friggin' Tyrants are simply trying to figure out how to get to the aether and keep their wits intact. Re: boy's name: It's known by a select few that lurk in Wyrd's darkest corridors, whispering the name in fear as they shamble about almost mindlessly. But that's just a pretty typical workday for them anyway.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadboy Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 I like to think it's Daniel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 Just a quick question to Nerdelemental, Lord Compy bits seems verry simlar to freddy krueger, is that right sort of idea or am i completely wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdelemental Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 I'd help if I could, but I don't know the Nightmare series and only know of Freddie by anecdote. Tell me more about the connection you see and I'll do my best to confirm or deny the similarity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icemantis99 Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 I would say LCB is pretty close in idea to Freddy, yeah. Freddy Krueger is a demon (Or a man possesed/empowered by demons, depending on the film/comic/radio series/etc) based in the Dream Realm, empowered by the fear of his name. He stalks children in their dreams, playing with their fears, eventually hunting them down and sadistically slaughtering them. And the wounds that Freddy inflicts in the dream show up in real life. If you die in the Dream, you die for real. I think the difference is that LCB doesn't usually kill the children he visits, and there's no "die in the dreamland" thing with LCB. He'll just pop up next to your bed to murder you. Also, I'm going with "Linus" for the Dreamer's name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izikial Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 he sort of is, but he isnt out for revenge, he neads a chiald's imagination and fear to live, its how he sustains his life, and he was allways looking for new ways to try and make him self imortal, and he found that as the dreamer wasnt sceard of him and had a limitles imagination he could basicly harvist the kid to keep him self alive, thats why he does what the kid wants cus if he dosent the dreamer would just kick him out of his dreams, and then lcb sorce of imortality would be lost to him for ever, so he maks everythign seem like a game so the chiald will creat nightmears (normaly nightmears can only exist inside peaples dreams but the dreamer can give them a corporial form alowing them to attack the living and harvest true fear rather than just night terrors) to kill peaple and then he feeds of the fear of the sourunding peaple. i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satyrwyld Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 I could swear that somewhere in the deep recesses of early teasers they referred to the boy as "Nathan the Dreamer," but I'm not where where I remember seeing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarkonneN Posted October 16, 2010 Report Share Posted October 16, 2010 I would say LCB is pretty close in idea to Freddy, yeah. Yeah, not identical twins, but they have some similarities. I think I'm gonna call the kid as "Jacob". It was the name of the boy in the "Nightmare on Elm street 5 - The Nightmare child". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wodschow Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 @Satyrwyld: Not sure if there's any connection, but I think it was Eric that had the Dreamer as his avatar a very long time prior to Book2 Nathan had a Steampunk Abomination I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdelemental Posted October 17, 2010 Report Share Posted October 17, 2010 @Satyrwyld: Not sure if there's any connection, but I think it was Eric that had the Dreamer as his avatar a very long time prior to Book2 Nathan had a Steampunk Abomination I think. Nathan went to the SPA after. For a long time Nathan had LCB's head as his avatar while Eric had the Dreamer that LCB was cradling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicpockets Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 It is how they power Malifaux.. Duh!:peace: Best overlooked post in ages. Any pixar gag gets my vote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 he sort of is, but he isnt out for revenge, he neads a chiald's imagination and fear to live, its how he sustains his life, and he was allways looking for new ways to try and make him self imortal, and he found that as the dreamer wasnt sceard of him and had a limitles imagination he could basicly harvist the kid to keep him self alive, thats why he does what the kid wants cus if he dosent the dreamer would just kick him out of his dreams, and then lcb sorce of imortality would be lost to him for ever, so he maks everythign seem like a game so the chiald will creat nightmears (normaly nightmears can only exist inside peaples dreams but the dreamer can give them a corporial form alowing them to attack the living and harvest true fear rather than just night terrors) to kill peaple and then he feeds of the fear of the sourunding peaple. i think thats pretty much what i was thinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poulpox Posted October 19, 2010 Report Share Posted October 19, 2010 Best overlooked post in ages. Any pixar gag gets my vote That's actually how I explain to my wife that my Neverborn crew are not evil: they're just like Monsters Inc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sholto Posted October 20, 2010 Report Share Posted October 20, 2010 I don't know what the Dreamer's life is like Earthside (I have my own theory on that, and it doesn't involve the Dreamer being a mage), but I think he's been coming to Malifaux in his dreams for so long that he thinks nothing is unusual about it. I think he is old enough to suspect that when he is dreaming it is not just his own head he is in, and that the people in his 'dreams' might be more than just figments of his imagination, but he doesn't like to think about that too much. It spoils his fun, and the Dreamer likes his fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sliver Chocobo Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Just a thought but could the dreamer be a young H.P. Lovecraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadeau Gorgon Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 My Take: I always imagined The Dreamer on our side is a British child, I call him Oliver. His PJs always looked like a hospital gown to me, so I think that he's in some type of medical/psychiatric facility. I do a lot of work with Autistic Children, and a large number of them will retreat into their own realities for prolonged periods of time, and I kind of feel that is what the Dreamer is doing. Nightmare simply showed him the way to Malifaux by accident, and there he has power... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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