Nightmare at the Seems

 This Story Is Part Of The Bard's Tales Contest .

Many a man has been plagued by the Nightmare, the darkest seed that enroots itself within the dreams of those who sleep, spoils and rots them to there core, and turns the dream into a medium for the victim's truest fears. Men, waking up in balls of sweat. Women, screaming in their sleep. Children, haunted for days of the monsters that hunt them at night.

Yet has anyone ever wondered where the Nightmares come from? Surely, our ancestors have, ideas have cropped up over the centuries: Evil spirits, seeking fun in the mind of mortals; entities from a demon realm, trying to breach into our world; our minds, concocting our suffering to punish us for guilt.

They are all false.

To understand what Nightmares are, we must first understand what they were. And for this, we must find someone who is old enough to remember, someone who would know of such things. Guthix's snake-guardian, Juna, has begiven unto me the secrets that no mortal aside you or I knows........

Nightmares once walked the earth as you and I do, free to grasp at people's darkest, most honest fears, and lay them out for all to see, just to make the Shadows laugh.