--- ## Overview This mysterious **Archfey**, known only by cryptic titles such as _The Dreaming Veil_, _The Whisper in Moonlight_, or _The Velvet Echo_, is an ancient and inscrutable being of the Feywild whose domain is **dreams, forgotten longing, and emotional echoes**. Unlike more flamboyant Archfey who seek courts and followers, this entity drifts between slumbering realms and the minds of the grieving or lost, offering power in moments of emotional vulnerability. It is neither cruel nor kind—but **curious**, **detached**, and fascinated by mortal passion, especially the ache of loss. To this being, mortals are candles burning at both ends: brief, bright, and beautifully tragic. --- ## Appearance - Rarely takes a consistent form - Appears in visions or dreams as a silhouette in flowing deep green and blue mist, a face behind veils of silver thread, or a voice from behind moonlit vines - When seen clearly, their eyes resemble swirling constellations, and their form shifts with the viewer’s emotion --- ## Domain and Influence - **Emotional Power**: Draws strength from longing, grief, dreams, and the desire to rewrite fate - **Dreamwalking**: Appears in the dreams of pact-bound individuals and others marked by fate - **Veiled Sanctuary**: Its Feywild domain is a vast mirror-lake beneath a starless sky, ringed by whispering trees and will-o'-wisps that repeat the words of lost lovers and children --- ## Pact Traits and Boons - **Subclass**: Suitable for _Archfey Warlocks_ or custom _Fey Pact subclasses_ - **Expanded Spell List**: Dream, Phantasmal Killer, Calm Emotions, Major Image, Detect Thoughts, Misty Step - **Gift of Echoing Will**: Once per long rest, a pact-bound warlock can reroll a failed Charisma save or social skill check if driven by grief, guilt, or hope - **Dreammirror Intercession**: The patron can grant prophetic dreams, visions of lost souls, or glimpses of possible futures --- ## Personality and Goals - Emotionally detached, but **studies mortals like poems or songs** - May guide mortals toward noble goals—or toward beautifully tragic ends for the sake of meaning - Values **genuine feeling**, despises pretense and performative acts - Communicates rarely and only through dreams, illusion, or signs in nature --- ### **Whispers of the Dreaming Veil** “Your sorrow is a shape I have not seen before. Let me wear it, if only for a moment.” “I do not weep for the fallen. I listen for the echo they leave behind.” “You ask for power, but I ask... what story will your pain tell when it is sharpened into action?” “Sleep is not silence, child. It is where the world remembers what waking tries to forget.” “You are not chosen because you are strong. You are chosen because you broke—beautifully.” “Mortals burn so brightly. That is why we never look away as you fall.” “Do not lie in my presence. The dream will unravel you in its own time.” “I offer no comfort. Only clarity... and the courage to see through illusion.” “If you feared the truth, you would not have whispered my name.” “The stars do not guide you—they watch. I guide.” ## Role in Campaigns This Archfey may: - Act as a **mysterious guide**, offering cryptic aid or warnings - Serve as a **quest-giver** for missions involving dreams, lost memories, or emotional restoration - Be **hunted by other fey** for refusing to take sides in ancient Feywild politics - Emerge as a key player if mortals threaten the balance between dream and waking