Oneiros, the Master of Fate

[Nana]

• Oneiros, God of Fear, Nightmares and Calamity
  

‘Archfiend’, Once-man-now-divine, ‘Anathema’, Master of Fate, Lord of the Nightmare Castle, He-who-breaks-gods & The Black Hand of History.

Oneiros, albeit supposedly once a mortal man of unknown name and origins has acquired enough power through his existence, his alliances and schemes that by right he acquired the title of ‘Divine’, the only one truly able to lay claim to such a title, for though lesser Primordials are able to lay claim to ‘godhood’, far from it, they are neither immortal nor have acquired a defined control over an aspect that has existed since the dawn of time; life, death, hope, despair… those are the aspects embodied by gods, and he alone has claimed the aspects of Fear, Nightmares and Calamities for himself, not through mere word however but through his actions which vary from stealing pages of the book of Fate from Memoria, to breaking the realm of dreams in half in a struggle against Mestra, to the hundreds of thousands of plots that men and women have been drawn towards for his own gain, things that have forevermore wounded both reality and the lives and destinies of countless mortals.

Whomever he might’ve been once has been completely erased from history, all tablets of stone, all scrolls, all memory, deleted through what might’ve been a most fiendish use of the pages of the book of fate to make himself unknown, that his enemies may not know what he does or when exactly he did it.

• Nightmare Realm, the Shards of the Dreamworld
  

What once was the whole of the dreamworld now lay fractured and shattered, his domain where he reigns supreme alongside his generals and his most devious creations, the Nightmare-born, creatures that rival lesser primordials and speak not through tongues or thoughts but through nightmares as they warp all around them, bending reality that the nightmares of those that look upon them may become true.

A helish landscape that seemingly has no end nor beginning, at the very center of it all the upside-down castle of Oneiros, the Prison of Thought, a structure that defies all natural laws as its corridors, patrolled by the Nightmare-born stretch unto infinity and beyond allowing those that walk them to glimpse upon realities that did not come to pass; traps for those foolish enough to enter, dreams where those that enter them may never leave, and though such may offer solace to the lost souls that wander such corridors, such are nothing but dreams as each room is but filled with the endless pile of corpses of those that dared enter and never left.

Though Witches may access such a realm through their consciousness to truly enter a realm through wayfinding is considered an imminent death sentence. Thankfully however the realm of Nightmares upon its very conception was sealed by the might of Enarr, Athelios, Caius and Mestra thereupon the breaking of the true Dreamworld Mestra herself had built, leaving Oneiros trapped and, to a degree, unable to fully interact with the realms of men whom he has been influencing that his realm may one day become one with the realm of men giving him true dominion over all things, mortal or otherwise.

• Enemies of the Archfiend
  

Though many would claim to be an ‘enemy’ to Oneiros, his main enemies are Memoria, Mestra and Enarr: Memoria due to endless tampering of time and fate Oneiros has done, Mestra due to the usurpation and breaking of her realm and Enarr for the countless fated heroes that never did become such due to his corruptions and schemes.

In recent years, Oneiros has contended with those that might’ve been once his allies as he supposedly almost fatally wounded Felfyraxes and in mockery of the dragon and all dragons created Ouroboros, an amalgam between worm and dragon that twists and coils around the Prison of Thought, guarding the castle safe from any that might survive the onslaught the Nightmare-born would offer.

Despite what one may think, Oneiros does not ally himself nor pact with witches, he does not offer to those that follow him Witchcraft not trades power for their souls, instead he drives those that manage to contact him through persuasions that are almost impossible to escape from and those that do follow him, almost irrevocably end up destroying their own souls in accomplishing what Oneiros might’ve desired, for one reason or another.

• Calamities
  

Most notably upon this list are the supposedly most well known misdeeds perpetrated by Oneiros, and though some may seem senseless, far from it, the Archfiend always is benefitted in one way or another by the calamities he inflicts upon the world:

• The empowerment of the one that would be known much later as ‘Misfortune’.
  
• Misguiding Joseph Aetius towards the construction of the realm-changing tower that would take the name of the man.
  
• The theft of the diabolical aspects from the remnants of Hel’s corpse for the creation of the seven deadly sins that would plague men time and time again.
  
• Tampering with the stream of souls and during an age unknown to man what almost was the uprooting of Yggdrasil.
  
• Inflicting Fenrir upon their conception with its cannibalistic black rage which would come to plague beastkin.
  
• Destroying my soul...