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Real Name: Dreamqueen
Occupation: Ruler of Liveworld
Legal Status: Ruler of Liveworld
Identity: Her existence is unknown to most of the population.
Place of Birth: An other-dimensional plane
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Nightmare (father), Zhilla Char (mother, destroyed and reformed as the Dream Queen)
Base of Operations: Liveworld
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Although she is the child of two demons, she lacks most magical abilities due to her isolation in the Liveworld dimension. Despite this handicap, she has developed a formidable array of powers.
The following are powers that she can use in any dimension. She can use these
powers to affect a known target currently located in another dimension.
Emotion Absorption: She can absorb the psychic energies released
by strong emotions and convert it into increased Power and personal energy. Her
initial Poor rank limits her area of effect to a single area. Each 1000 living
people she adds to her control adds 1 point to her total Power ranks. As this
total increases, her rank and her range increase, thus drawing more people into
her sphere of control. As this power comes into effect, the ranks of her other
powers should be increased equally.
Clairvoyance: Monstrous ability to perceive distant events. This
power is often externalized into a scrying pool or crystal orb.
Hallucination: Monstrous ability to make people experience
realistic delusions of her creation.
Illusory Invisibility: Amazing ability to make people ignore her
presence.
Longevity: Her actual lifespan is unknown. She is 900 years old in
her current form.
Serial Immortality: If she becomes pregnant, she dies in a blaze
of spontaneous combustion. A new succubus rises from the ashes with her old
memories but with a new personality.
Self Sustenance: By feeding on the emotional energy of others, she
can go without eating or sleeping. As a demonic lifeform, she does not need to
breathe.
These are powers she can use only in her home dimension of Liveworld:
Lifeform Creation: She has the Shift-Z ability to transform the
raw material of Liveworld into any lifeforms she chooses. Such lifeforms are
permanent until they are destroyed. She can create a maximum of 500 pounds of
living objects per day.
Artifact Creation: She has the Shift-Y ability to transform the
raw material of Liveworld into any object she imagines, including converting it
into the necessary elements and compounds. Such objects have a permanent
existence. She can create up to 500 pounds of such artifacts each day.
Molding: Shift-Y ability to sponateously reshape objects within
Liveworld. This power does not affect beings or materials from other dimensions.
However, it can be used to turn the Liveworld landscape into a weapon against
such visitors.
Molecular Conversion: Shift-Y ability to transform the raw
material of Liveworld into any substance she requires.
Talents:
The Dreamqueen possesses limited access to her mother succubus’ memories and magic. She has an innate mastery of psychology and motivational skills. She has Unearthly knowledge of every member of Department H and its three “Flights,” up to the addition of Manikin and Goblyn.
Contacts:
None, although Nightmare may show up to criticize her current efforts.
Role-Playing Notes:
The Dreamqueen is out to spread fear and suffering because that is how she gains power. In order to gain later power, she will help out individuals who are unaware of her nature. She has a deep hatred of her father, Nightmare, because he killed her earlier form and abandoned her on Liveworld. She has a grudge against Talisman (Elizabeth Twoyoungmen).
History:
Eight hundred years ago, a succubus named Zhilla Char caught the interest of Nightmare. She was unaware of Nightmare’s obsession. He caught and raped her, then banished her to an otherwise uninhabited plane. When she awoke, Nightmare told her that she was pregnant. He reminded her that a she-demon is destroyed in birth and her body reformed into that of her child. When she asked why he did it, he said he simply did it to make her suffer.
As she died, Zhilla Char swore that her daughter would hate Nightmare. She was wrong. The Dream Queen, as she eventually named herself, was grateful for the gift of an entire dimension to do with as she pleased. Over the next five centuries, she transformed her mediocre realm of sub-matter into a world and people that submitted to her dark fantasies. For a time, she was pleased. Then she became bored.
Three-hundred fifty years ago, a Chickaqua shaman named Nanquato accidentally breached the barrier to the Dream Queen’s realm. His astral form sought the land of the sky gods in search of an end to the drought that threatened his tribe. The Dream Queen graciously agreed to end the drought and gave him a magic totem to take back.
It was her first deception. It gave her a thrill she had never felt before. As Nanquato began the ritual that he thought would end the drought, the Dream Queen acted. She gave Nanquato the hallucination that it was raining, but she gave the tribe hallucinations that they were being transformed into or being attacked by demons. The struggle nearly decimated the tribe before a warrior realized Nanquato was somehow responsible. Nanquato died with two spears in his chest. He and the magic totem were buried in a stone cairn and eventually covered by soil.
A few years ago, the mutant child Goblyn was delivered into the Dreamqueen’s realm. The Dreamqueen was interested in the child, since this was the first corporeal being she had ever encountered in her realm whom she had not created. She transformed Goblyn’s section of the realm into a benevolent paradise. The Dreamqueen wanted Goblyn to feel safe and remain there while she studied the child. She wanted the secret of where Goblyn had come from and more importantly how she could get away. When Goblyn disappeared and was replaced by her sister, Laura Dean, the Dreamqueen discovered their link. The next time Laura materialized in Liveworld, the Dreamqueen captured her in hopes of extracting the means to cross the dimensional barriers. The unplanned invasion of Liveworld by Alpha Flight and the interference of a Tibetan high lama catapulted everyone to a lamasery in China.
In the battle in the lamasery, the Dreamqueen managed to gain a complete knowledge of all members of Alpha, Beta, and Omega Flights. Before she could use the knowledge to defeat her foes, Puck grabbed her and held her helpless while Laura closed the dimensional door and sent the Dreamqueen back to Liveworld.
In the meantime, the Dreamqueen led Elizabeth Twoyoungmen and her archaelogical team to the cairn where her totem wand lay. Snowbird stopped her from touching the totem and gave her a warning about the Dreamqueen’s history and plans. The warning came too late. The Dreamqueen used a gathering of Alpha Flight in Ottawa to pull herself into the Earth Dimension.
Nightmare appeared to her again with the warning that, as Talisman, Elizabeth was going to kill her. The Dreamqueen enlisted the unwitting aid of China Force to stop Alpha Flight, though they failed. Talisman confronted the Dreamqueen first, fully intent on killing her. The arrival of the rest of Alpha Flight saved the Dreamqueen’s life. Laura opened a gateway into another dimension and Talisman pushed her through. The identity of this dimension is unrecorded but it is one Laura must have thought a suitable prison for the Dreamqueen, for she has not been heard of since. Unfortunately for Puck, the rest of Alpha Flight are unaware that he remains a prisoner in the Liveworld dimension.