The Dreamlands for Dummies

For my Dreamlands stories, I use as a framing device excerpts from a book written by Aislinn Sile, a sage in the Dreamlands who lives Ulthar, "The Dreamlands for Dummies".

She wrote it to be a guide for new and novice Dreamers so that they could familiarize themselves with the Dreamworld before they got into too much trouble.

In my magnum opus "The Adventure of the Dream-Trials", Team Girl gives it to Differel, and the early chapters of Part 1 describe the information she learns as she reads it.

Here is the Table of Contents:

Part One: On Dreaming, Dreamers, and the Dreamlands

"What Are the Lands of the Dreams of Men"
"What Is Dreaming"
"Who Is a Dreamer"
"Finding the Lands"

Part Two: The Nature of the Dreamlands

"Life and Death"
"Time"
"Magic"
"The Setting"
"Technology"
"The Kitchen Sink"
"Food and Drink"
"Lighting and Fire"
"Water and Waste"
"Money"
"Travel"
"Adventuring"
"The Dreamers and the Visitors"
"The Bestiary"
"The Gods"

Part Three: The Dreamworld Gazetteer

"The Geography of the Lands"
"Ulthar and Environs"
"The Enchanted Woods"
"The Six Kingdoms"
"The Oukranos River Valley"
"The Coast of Awsan"
"The Desert Regions"
"The Forest of Parg and the South"
"Oriab and the Caraiben"
"The Lands to the West"
"Celephais, Serannian, and Ooth-Nargai"
"Karchedon and Punica"
"Hazuth-Kleg, Lhosk, and Daiwa"
"The Lands to the East"
"The Northlands"
"The Southlands"
"The Fantastic Realms"
"The Moon and the Solar System"
"The Underworld"

Essays taken from this book can be found here:

http://teamgirl-differel.deviantart.c...