r/ShadowSlave 1d ago

Fan Fiction Custom Aspect: [Dreamwalker]

Aspect Name: [Dreamwalker]

Aspect Rank: [Sacred]

Aspect Description: [You are a Dreamwalker, the master of a Lesser Dream Domain. Tresspass into the dreams of others and expand your domain.]

Innate Ability: [Lesser Dream Domain]

Ability Description: [Your soul sea is incomprehensibly vast and is the location where all of your dreams take place, existing both within you and in an isolated space somewhere between part of the real world and the Dream Realm. Even when you sleep in the Dream Realm, you will dream and be sent within your Lesser Dream Domain. Within this dream-world, you are in a lucid state and can freely manipulate said dream with your imagination, allowing you to create almost anything. Within this Lesser Dream Domain, your body does not follow the same rules, so it can be oversaturated with your soul essence to achieve greater levels of strength, speed and resilience once you have Awakened (like Jet's undead body). You can transport inanimate objects in and out of your Lesser Dream Domain like it's a storage memory, but only objects originating from outside can leave.]

Dormant Ability: [Dream Walk]

Ability Description: [You can travel through dreams. Within dreams, you're able to gain both soul shards and memories from vanquishing Nightmare Creatures manifested within a creature's subconscious. They are dangerous because, while the threats may not be real, the damage you sustain is. Killing living creatures within their dream will destroy their souls, leaving an empty body behind in both the real world and the Dream Realm if they are a human below the rank of Ascended. Through entering the dreams of a body without a soul, you can influence it as if it were sleepwalking, creating a Pseudo-Echo.

Awakened Ability: [Dream Curse]

Ability Description: [You can lull living beings to sleep and imprison their souls within your Lesser Dream Domain, where you can freely manipulate the dream to your imagination. You are unable to manipulate any living creature imprisoned inside your Lesser Dream Domain, as they are an external force; however, you can use the dream to harm them. If a creature's physical body is destroyed within the Dream Realm or the real world while they're imprisoned within your Lesser Dream Domain, they will become stranded within it as permanent inhabitants.]

Ascended Ability: [Dreamer's Tribute]

Ability Description: [You can surpass the limits of your own soul core by drawing upon the soul essence of the inhabitants of your Lesser Dream Domain. (Has the potential to greatly surpass the reserves of a Divine Aspect holder, as you can potentially draw upon more than seven cores).]

Transcendent Ability: [Dream Manifestation]

Ability Description: [Within a limited sphere of influence surrounding yourself, you can transform the world, merging it with your Lesser Dream Domain, allowing you to freely manipulate it as if it were a dream. Your alterations to the world are temporary, only lasting within your sphere of influence and reverting to its previous state once a specific area has left your physical sphere of influence. (E.g. if you create flowers in a patch of grass, as soon as you walk far enough away, they will disappear into white sparks. If you create a living being, it cannot exist independently of your physical location, disappearing if it strays too far.) You can't affect living beings that do not originate from or inhabit your Lesser Dream Domain, but can materialise inhabitants of it within the real world. You are also able to oversaturate your body with soul essence as if you were in your Lesser Dream Domain.]

Supremacy Path: [Through defeating the wielders of other Lesser Dream Domains (Nightmare and the Dreamscape's creator Saint Thane, etc.), grow your Lesser Dream Domain by incorporating their domain, eventually reaching a Greater Dream Domain.)

Attribute: [Sleepwalker]

Attribute Description: [Whenever you are unconscious or within your Lesser Dream Domain, your body will be in a semi-unconscious state, piloted by your subconscious mind. It is capable of performing non-demanding mental tasks, such as keeping watch whilst you are unconscious and even continuing a fight based on muscle-memory if you have been knocked out.]

I would love some feedback on this Aspect, as well as some possible flaws. I was wondering if it was too overpowered, considering the Ascended ability gives you the potential for crazy amounts of Essence, and the Transcendence is like low-tier reality warping. I tried to add limitations to the Transcendent ability, so I think it's balanced compared to high-tier saints like Sunny, Mordret etc., but I'm open to any feedback.

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u/MisterTower- Priest of the Nightmare Spell 1d ago

Really good, i like it

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u/AmbitiousBeing6967 1d ago

I have an idea for you, what if you get the nightmare echo? The Original, not the one from the second nightmare, The One who was around there all crazy and was left as a remnant

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u/Fast_Dish7306 1d ago

Pretty good aspect, but your oc/you will be cooked if you fight against someone with resistance to your hax. Also there's. Danger that you'd stumble across knowledge of the forgotten god especially considering the nature of nightmare seed and such. Thus you'd be in a lot of danger

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u/Traditional-Win354 2h ago

wym resistance to hax? Like mental resistance? Or lacking a soul like Saint?

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u/Fast_Dish7306 43m ago

Mental resistance and soul resistance but an enemy would probably need a large amount of it to save themselves from this aspect.

Also, the abilities can go to the category of "being too good", this doesn't mean it's overpowered, it means that the user)wielder of this aspect would definitely end up getting reliant on his hax to save himself which would end terribly for them.