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Seed of Nightmare

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Seed of Nightmare
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Article contents
  1. Mechanism
  2. Categories
  3. First Nightmare Seed
  4. Call of Nightmare
  5. Known Locations of Seeds of Nightmare
  6. Seed of the Nightmare Spell
  7. Trivia
  8. References
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Seed of Nightmare is a vile manifestation of the Spell that grew in the Dream Realm and eventually blossomed, opening a Nightmare gate to the real world for the Nightmare Creatures to enter. It is the thing that Awakened was supposed to seek out and destroy by challenging the Nightmare contained within.[1]

Mechanism

A Seed can be challenged before and after it blooms. If the Seed is not found in time, a Gate opens, and challengers can fight their way through and enter the Nightmare directly. The Gate also disrupts the anchors of those near it, so Masters and Saints that enter the Dream Realm will appear in the vicinity of the blooming Seed.[2]

Most of the Seeds are not found in time because the Dream Realm is vast and only partially explored. That is why the Nightmare Creatures are entering the real world so often. Challenging a Seed before it blooms is better.[2]

After the Seed of Nightmare had been destroyed, a Gateway took its place.[3]

Categories

One of the things that differentiated Seeds was their Category:[1]

  • Category Two Seed would blossom into a Category Two Gate, and contains a Second Nightmare. If an Awakened challenged it and passed the trial, they would become a Master.
  • If a Master challenged a Category Three Seed and survived the Third Nightmare, they would become a Saint.

There are numerous Nightmares but not all Nightmares are equal. The nature of the Nightmare one can challenge determines what knowledge one will receive, and what secret one will be able to glean. The lessons humans can learn from the decrepit ruins in the Dream Realm are not that profound. Most of the knowledge comes from the stories people bring back from their Nightmares. For that reason, powerful Legacy Clans select the Nightmares for their members to challenge very carefully.[1]

First Nightmare Seed

The First Nightmare is similar to the other Nightmares. It is also born from a Seed. The only difference is that the seed does not grow in the Dream Realm. Instead, it develops within a human's soul.[4]

The Seeds of Nightmare were described as the most modest form of Corruption that could bloom in the hearts of Aspirants. Merely forming a soul core was sufficient to destroy these Seeds, and countless Sleepers had accomplished this with the aid of the Spell, while others accomplished it independently by Awakening naturally to remove them. Hundreds of millions of people carried the Seeds of Nightmare in their hearts but did not succumb to Corruption because the power of the Domains they belonged to—the power of their Sovereigns—suppressed the Seeds and prevented them from blossoming. The Path of Ascension was inherently opposed to Corruption, so the higher one climbed along it, the more resistant they became.[5]


Call of Nightmare

Main article: Call of Nightmare


All Seeds of Nightmare emanated this Call, to which all Awakened were susceptible—the stronger they were, the more maddening the Call became, drawing them to challenge the Seed.[6]

The Call of Nightmare is a familiar feeling in the soul of the Awakened that calls them to enter the Nightmare.[1][7][8] The Nightmare Creatures are also pulled by the Call to the blooming Seed of Nightmare to enter the waking world.[9]

Known Locations of Seeds of Nightmare

Region Location Name Form Category Status
Chained Isles Ivory Tower Dark Seed Seven rune-inscribed shackles[10][2] 2 * Conquered[11]
Nightmare Desert Tomb of Ariel ︖ A giant block of black stone. The entire block emanated a familiar ghostly darkness, making all of it a Seed of Nightmare.[12] 3 * Conquered[13]
A pyramid built from millions of colossal stone blocks, each a Seed of Nightmare, with some already in bloom and others awaiting their turn to bloom. The Nightmares were shallow and weak at the base but becomes harrowing and unfathomable at higher levels.[14] Variety Unknown
- Forming the capstone of the Tomb of Ariel[15] Seed of the Seventh Nightmare Active
- Moon[15] ︖ ︖ 6 *[15] Active
- Hidden in America[15] ︖ ︖ 5 *[15] Active
Hollows of Godgrave On top of an immense ziggurat towering above the ruins, rested a Seed of Nightmare[16] ︖ ︖ 2 *[16] Conquered[16]
East Antarctica At the deserted expanse of East Antarctica, in a snow covered battlefield where Battle of the Black Skull had once took place, three massive Nightmare Gates stood.[17] ︖ ︖ 4 *[17] Conquered[18]

Seed of the Nightmare Spell

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Reveal

The Seed of the Nightmare Spell is described as fundamentally unlike any other Seed. This particular Seed is singular and that there are no Seeds in existence like this one. It is identified paradoxically as both "the last one" and "the first one", ultimately clarified to be the Seed of the Seventh Nightmare. This Seed is not merely another Nightmare, but the source of all other Seeds and the root of the Nightmare Spell itself.[19]

Trivia

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 458 Shackles of Hope
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 459 Seed of Nightmare
  3. ↑ Chapter 752 Solid Foundation
  4. ↑ Chapter 793 Memories of the Future
  5. ↑ Chapter 2834 Unseen
  6. ↑ Chapter 2888 Other Side of the Coin
  7. ↑ Chapter 486 Call of a Nightmare
  8. ↑ Chapter 487 First Wave
  9. ↑ Chapter 1206 Nightmare Desert
  10. ↑ Chapter 457 Ivory Tower
  11. ↑ Chapter 743 Appraisal
  12. ↑ Chapter 1230 Hell is Empty
  13. ↑ Chapter 1580 What You Wished For
  14. ↑ Chapter 1231 Once More, With Feeling
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Chapter 2909 Dark Clouds
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Chapter 3004 Secluded Training
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Chapter 3033 Brave Souls
  18. ↑ Chapter 3143 Coronation
  19. ↑ Chapter 2908 Doom
  20. ↑ Chapter 1388 Wheels of History

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