Several inhabitants of the Dreamscape are discussed in Part 5. However, most have have been warped by the energies of the plane over the intervening generations. Over millennia, various creatures from the material realm have formed colonies or spread out across the lands. Native dreamlands creatures range from the singular, powerful and terrifying Archeptons to the ubiquitous Kanvupalka or ‘dreamscape kobolds’.
The dreamscape is populated with many unusual creatures, some are travellers who have overstayed whilst others are born and raised there. Powerful entities may even be able to reform their material bodies as long as their Secondself remains. Such counterparts are often able to remain in the dreamscape even if their ‘original’ body is destroyed. Some creatures and spirits also have counterparts in the dreamscape, second-selves and dream-twins. They spend more and more time there until they eventually become wanderlost, refusing to ever depart. Some who go there too often end up beguiled by it. Travellers and Inhabitants – Travelling to the dreamscape, physically or through dreams, is always a disorienting and beguiling experience. However, few sleeping creatures pull back the veil and glimpse the hallucinatory landforms of the true dreamscape. Vivid dreams in particular edge closer to the dreamscape’s planar borders. In return, the dreamscape feeds imagination and visions of those who slumber. While creatures sleep, they contribute to the swirling energies of the figmentary plane, help to manifest its rolling landscapes and feed its inhabitants. It is a place from whence dreams come but also where they go. The plane of dreams is known by many names to many different peoples: Dreamscape, The Figmentary Plane, Ulla-Machok, Wandersight, Tsinbisa, Hulmalusavar, The Seeing, Schalefeben, Liminalia. However, some dreams are magical, some divine and yet more are linked to the Plane of Dreams and its strange energies. Complicated images intertwine with lived experience, unconscious thoughts and the imagination. And then there are some plain old little mammals, to feed their neighbor predators.Most dreams are contained wholly in the mind of the one who slumbers. (They are gone now, but still found on Komodo, Rinca, Gili Montang, Gili Dasami, and Flores.) There are dolphins, the occasional whale, falcons, kites, geckos, and green turtles. There once were three kinds of Komodo dragons here. There are six species of shark, and two of manta rays, and many different reptiles. Padar is home to a remarkable array of wildlife, especially for its size. And the white one, in most any other setting would be a spectacular find. The pink, one of a few in the world, has pulverized red coral mixed with white sand. The black-sanded beach has volcanic origin, composed of various dark minerals. It is a rare combination, a quirk of this unique island. It’s all surrounded by three turquoise bays, and curiously, each one of the bays’ beaches has different coloured sand: One is pearly white, another charcoal black, and a third is a very rare baby pink. Padar is mostly savannah-covered, surreal landscape fringed by bright green-capped mountains of fairy-tale shapes. Padar is small, but is the third largest island of Komodo National Park, and was once a stomping ground for the immense dragons that gave the reserve its name. The Indonesian island of Padar is about 20 miles (30 km) from Labuan Bajo, a fishing town on the westernmost part of Flores.
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