01 / Waking world / reality layer
Wokeville
One of the cities in the waking world and the main reality layer of the story.
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WOKEVILLE / ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT03 / THE ETHEREALMS
An atlas of the impossible.
From Wokeville in the waking world to the lowest depths of the unconscious: a sequence of thresholds, private dreams and shared places. The Etherealms are a collection of places, not a single dream world.
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Wokeville is a city in the main waking reality. Sleep carries a dreamer across the Veil into a private Dream Thread; a Frame allows the crossing into shared dreaming. Beyond that, the known places become stranger still.
WOKEVILLE / ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT02 / Threshold / falling asleep
The Veil
The perceptual threshold where waking awareness gives way to dreaming.
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THE VEIL / TRANSITION STUDY03 / Private dreaming
Dream Thread
One dreamer’s private world, shaped by memory, emotion, and association.
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DREAM TRANSITION / CONCEPT STUDY, NOT A DEPICTION OF A SPECIFIC THREAD04 / Bridge / crossing
Frame
A bridge from a private Dream Thread into shared dreamspace.
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The Reverie
A shared dreamspace where dreamers can meet and places can persist between visits.
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The Elderwilds
A strange, shifting place where people’s memory fragments are stored together.
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ELDERWILDS / ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT07 / Nightmare leakage
The Nighlands
A region where nightmares leak into people’s dreams.
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DREAM-WORLD MOOD STUDY / NOT A FINAL NIGHLANDS DESIGN08 / Recently departed
The Quiet
Where people who have recently passed away go, overlapping the waking world where ghosts exist.
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THE QUIET / ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT09 / Souls / remembrance
The Anima
Where dead souls go in the unconscious dream realms to be remembered or stored.
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ANIMA / ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT10 / Lowest layer
The Deep
The lowest layer, where someone can become stuck in a coma-like purgatory.
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THE DEEP / ENVIRONMENT CONCEPTSomeone has to keep notes.
R.E.M. — Reverie Event Mitigation. Oversight, risk assessment, and mission authorization.
L.U.C.I.D. — Liminal University for Consciousness, Interdream & Dimensional Studies. Research and training across the Etherealms.
Threadkeepers — field responders working under R.E.M. They enter unstable Dream Threads to help dreamers, navigate Frames, and investigate nightmare events.
Examine the nightmares