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Sacheverell, the Dreamer of Telling Portents, Yozi

"Baby, don't you know? There's always an ending."

Sacheverell is sleeping. He has slept for many years, since long before the primordial war. He slept when the world was whole, and he has slept since. It is in his nature and his name. His dreams shape the world and how it works, and were he to wake then his words would speak the destinies even of the yozi - it is for this reason that they will not allow him to wake. Even at the speaking of the oaths that bind the demons to their realm, his oath was taken by proxy. None know if the oath holds him, but none are willing to accept the consequences if he were to rise again. Even his own souls strive to keep him asleep, knowing that Sacheverell is a being of control and destiny, and their time with independence would end were he to awake. He himself chose to sleep, knowing that he could not fulfill his own true nature.

Sacheverell is a being of stories and legends, whose dreams are the shape and substance of all the stories told of and by the demons of Malfeas. His dreams are the archetypes for their stories, his dreams provide every avenue of story for them to follow - were he awake, his whims would define the passing of events in Malfeas. The other primordials would act, but act in accordance with his tales. He knew, once, that this was no way for a story to unfold; and so he sleeps. None know if he will remember this truth when he awakes.

Sacheverell is the great mountain in the very center of Malfeas, a stoic, stable peak that has never changed in any way since the demon city was built. Its sides have remained inviolate; the caves etched into him have stayed constant. It is only his dreams that have ever changed. It was once said among demons that a proper tincture of the blood of a hero that had defied his destiny, the tears of a hundred dreams unfulfilled, and the soul of a demon that wished for freedom, together, could protect one from the influence of Sacheverell, or at least earn you his reprieve. This secret is all but forgotten, and it is unsure whether it was ever true at all or just one of Sacheverell's stories.