History of the House of Light
As told by: Valourin
Pre-Loss Highlights

Dreamers of Light was founded as a group of Illuminated Dreamers before there were Houses as we know them. Like the others they banded together based on their beliefs and overall attitudes as well. They were always warriors for their cause and put forth some of the greatest Knights* in the Illuminated Front.

After the Dreamstrike Offensive when all of the factions split apart and moved to the far edges of the planes to create their Houses for protection the Dreamers of Light went up Mt. Ilapse. They first created a keep on the way to where they planned their fortress to act as a first line of defense. Afterwards they began work on the golden fortress that is used as the House proper in these days.

The first Ruler of Dreamers of Light was a dedicated and ruthless woman named Demetria. She would do anything for her beliefs and her home even if others would think such actions were wrong or immoral. When it came to the House she fully believed the ends always justified the beliefs. From there the House grew and flourished up until the Great Loss.

Post-Loss History

One day after the City had been reopened there was a large gathering of Dreamers in the Dreamers of Light Threshold. Kelrith and Mythrandir were having a debate it seemed, and most of the Dreamers of that day seemed to be in attendance. Kelrith was speaking of the Dream as nothing more than a dream and that the nightmares were figments that needed to be banished. Mythrandir spoke of the Dream as a higher plane, a spiritual one, and that the nightmares were using the souls of the Unawakened and had to be imprisoned for the good of both Dream and Waking world together.

The debate ended with no winner and Kelrith stormed out telling those that believed as he did to meet in the House Calenture Threshold, many left but others stayed, still others just sort of filtered out now that the excitement was over. Those of us that stayed spoke further to Mythrandir and after a great storm we came back and many of us chose to be initiated into Dreamers of Light.

As the House grew the need for more leadership was seen and so Artamor chose the first of the House's Guardians, Watcher and Kasumi Keda. During this time we got ahold of the Orb of Calenture, before the Dreaming Stone was found again even. However, being young in the Dream and not considering it fully the Orb was traded back for the House ID of Valourin that was lost to a Horron on the mountain that Smoke, who then joined Calenture, picked up.

During the time that Tehthu walked the dream the House continued to grow and flourish, so much so that two new guardians were chosen, Valourin and LMBE. After Tehthu was defeated the two Guardians that had been able to stay through the ceremony, Valourin and Kasumi Keda, were in the group of five that became the first Teachers in the Dream.

Things went well for Dreamers of Light for some time after that, we recovered our piece of the Codex of Immortal Dreams and the House was growing and more structure was being introduced by the Guardians. A framework was designed to allow for the orderly growth of the House.

There were small problems from time to time, storms would occasionally take the Stone but it always seemed to happen at the same time as the Orb and so it was that we always were able to retrieve it quickly even if Calenture were the ones that found it as we would always seem to find their artifact.

The major incident of note was the first demotion of a Guardian. LMBE was increasingly sympathetic with House Calenture and he would go beyond his duties and behind the backs of his fellow Guardians. He would second guess them as well as say that the things they said and did were wrong in public, against the general rules of the rank at the time. All of the other Guardians saw this and realized it was a huge problem, LMBE was spoken to but even that did not seem to work. So it was decided with Artamor's help they would seek his demotion, and at the next House meeting they did just that. Artamor listened and in the end, as it was the will of all other Guardians, LMBE was demoted to the rank of Initiate.

Not long after, Artamor came to the Guardians and said that the time to choose a Ruler was at hand and that the whole house should have a voice in it this time. So a vote was held and at the next meeting with Kelrith, now a freespirit, and Artamor both in attendance Maker gave the results. Watcher had won the vote and would be the Ruler of Dreamers of Light. However, Artamor surprised everyone by saying that there should be two and asked who the next highest was, and with one vote seperating them Valourin was named the other Ruler of Dreamers of Light.

*Knights in this sense meant those with the Arts necessary for combat. At the time they were the only ones that took part in combat in the Dream. It was not until the creation of Talismen that nearly every Dreamer could take part and thus it was this discovery that catapulted the dream into the Dreamer Wars.

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