Skein

The Skein is the dream-realm that mostly Changelings versed with Oneiromancy can visit.

Basically, the Skein is every dream that’s ever existed and every dream that will exist, arrayed like beads of silver moisture along an infinite tangle of threads, linked through the forces of the Wyrd. They cross and twist when people have similar dreams or dreams that complement each other. Few mortals have the power and knowledge to cross from dream to dream, but a few Changelings know the way and might journey through an endless array of dreams. Many changelings don’t even know this is possible and many who know it can be done believe it shouldn’t be done. It’s too dangerous and perhaps unethical, too, because the Skein gives changelings access to dreams for which they hold no pledge.

Approach
Any changeling can travel the Skein, but it takes skill and bravery. The Lost make maps, use divining ways and, sometimes, follow a figurative trail of breadcrumbs to walk from dream to dream. Nevertheless, one cannot always anticipate what will await a changeling in the next dream over. There are no layers or huge, multi-dream realms that cluster in one part of the Skein or the other. There are trends, rules and connections, but not a stable, overarching geography. Generally, a dream gate manifests when some coincidence with another aligned dream occured.

Most Changelings use a skill called Oneiroscopy to divine their way thorugh the numerous dreams.

Geography
The Autumn Court has classified eight categories of dreams within the Skein that they associated with astrology in order to better orientate themselves within the Skein. This is called the Hypnagogic Constellation. Within the Constellation, the term "Sun" is referred to the waking life.

* The Dreams of Mystery correlate with Lilith, the Black moon


 * The Dreams of Secret Memory correlate with Luna, the White Moon


 * The Dreams of Blood correlate with Mars


 * The Dreams of Swift Knowledge correlate with Mercury


 * The Dreams of Justice correlate with Jupiter


 * The Dreams of Ambition correlate with Saturn


 * The Dreams of the Bedchamber correlate with Venus


 * The Dreams of Death correlate with Pluto

Inhabitants
Within the Skein, several malicious entities thrive: Such are the Incubi, which are being that escaped from other planes to the Skein by not using a pledge, normaly Others that were banished from Arcadia, but sometimes also Dream Guardians that manifest when a Changeling uses too much Glamour within a dream, and the powerful and enigmatic Morpheans.