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	permanent Dream Realm inspired by your dreaming mind.		permanent Dream Realm inspired by your dreaming mind.
	This Realm might be something you created intentionally		This Realm might be something you created intentionally
	with the Talent: '''Lucid Dreaming''' , or it might exist in a place		with the Talent: '''[[Lucid Dreaming]]''' , or it might exist in a place
	conjured by your subconscious imagination. Either way, it		conjured by your subconscious imagination. Either way, it
	follows cues from your consciousness and features elements		follows cues from your consciousness and features elements

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	== <span style="color:#4B0082;"> ==		== <span style="color:#4B0082;"> Demesne ==
			A mage’s mind is her castle. There, she can get away
			from it all to a world of her own making. Classical and
			Renaissance treatises refer to ''memory palaces'', wherein a person
			builds a structure in her mind as an aid to meditation, study,
			reflection, and, of course, memory. Shaped from the builder’s
			consciousness, these constructs have no physical form, yet
			they offer a type of refuge. With this Background, you have
			such a place.

			Cosmologically, a Demesne exists in the Maya as a semi-
			permanent Dream Realm inspired by your dreaming mind.
			This Realm might be something you created intentionally
			with the Talent: '''Lucid Dreaming''' , or it might exist in a place
			conjured by your subconscious imagination. Either way, it
			follows cues from your consciousness and features elements
			of personal significance for you. Your mind might build a
			temple that no one can defile, a field of flowers in honor of
			your beloved, a gallery of pictures that immortalize people or
			places you wish to remember... if you can dream it, you can
			create it... though you might not actually control your creation
			once the Demesne exists.

			This Demesne might not be a pleasant place. Nightmares,
			Quiets, suicidal thoughts, or other dark neuroses can spawn
			a Demesne too. Maybe you want to craft a nightmare realm,
			either a testing-ground, a purgatory, or a reflection of your love
			for horror films. Pleasant or otherwise, the Demesne could be
			small, impressive, or vast. You yourself might not know just how
			expansive it can be. Our minds, after all, are full of surprises...

			In game terms, the Background rating reflects the degree
			of control you have over this place once it’s established. At
			low ratings, you can visit the Realm but not command it,
			while at higher levels you determine almost every detail of
			your Realm. ('''Again, see the Lucid Dreaming entry, p. 294.''')
			Figure out your Demesne’s appearance and nature, probably
			in collaboration with your Storyteller... who’s bound to add a
			few elements of her own.

			When dreaming or meditating, your character can go visit
			his Demesne with a successful Perception + Demesne roll.
			The difficulty depends upon your situation: directing yourself
			there under normal circumstances would be difficulty 5 or 6,
			whereas trying to reach it under distressing circumstances (say,
			while enduring torture or other challenges) would range from
			difficulty 7 to 9. Once he’s arrived, the character’s consciousness
			is free to wander around the Demesne. Although physical or
			mental distress can disrupt the Realm, it’s still a familiar – if
			not always welcoming – space.

			There’s nothing physical about a Demesne. You don’t go
			there physically, and you cannot take anything physical from
			that Realm. Instead, a traveler sends his astral form into that
			Demesne, leaving his body behind. For details, see Astral
			Travel in Chapters Four and Nine, (p. 87) and (pp. 476-478).
			That said, you don’t need Mind 3 or better to enter your
			personal Demesne – the Background Trait takes care of the
			travel arrangements. A mage who can travel astrally, though,
			may wander out of the Demesne and reach other Dream or
			Astral Realms from there.

			In the Demesne, your appearance reflects your state of
			mind. If you’re calm, you’re lucid dreaming, or have managed
			to project your ideal astral form, you look however you want
			to look. Under other circumstances, your visiting form might
			betray whatever stress, fear, or insecurities you’re facing in
			the physical world. A successful Wits + Demesne (or Lucid
			Dreaming) roll lets you adjust your appearance at that point,
			though... and similar rolls can help you change the dreamscape
			too. Large changes, of course, demand several successes – see
			above for potential difficulties.

			Because the Demesne itself reflects its creator’s mental state,
			you can also confront internal issues within the Dream Realm’s
			boundaries. A successful Perception + Demesne roll allows you
			to puzzle out subconscious conflicts and figure out what’s going
			on beneath the surface. On a related note, you can try to access
			memories that might be hidden throughout the Demesne. In
			this case, roll Intelligence + Meditation or Demesne (whichever
			is higher), with the difficulty and numbers of successes based
			upon the obscurity of that information. The name of your last
			girlfriend would be easy to find, but the name of the kid who sat
			next to you in third grade would be significantly harder to recall.

			A skillful Mind mage (that is, Mind 3 for a sleeping
			subject, Mind 4 for one who’s awake) can draw other people’s
			consciousness into his Demesne too. If that person doesn’t want
			to enter the Demesne, they have a Willpower-versus-Willpower
			contest ('''see Resisted Actions in Chapter Eight, p. 390'''), with
			the winner achieving his objective. A person who’s fighting
			the dream can roll every few turns to leave the Demesne; until
			the roll succeeds, however, that character is trapped. Again,
			this is not a physical trap, though being stuck in someone else’s
			nightmare can be pretty horrifying...

			If your mage falls into a Quiet, you can roll his Willpower
			(difficulty 9) in order to go into your Demesne; there, he’s still
			trapped in the mindscape, but at least it’s familiar territory. A
			few successful Perception + Demesne rolls could lead him back
			out again. See '''Quiet''' in '''Chapter Ten, (pp. 554-561)'''.

			:X -- No Dream Realm to speak of.
			:• -- Occasional visitor to the Realm. You have a name for it and recognize a few significant features.
			:•• -- A regular visitor, you’ve traveled extensively through the Demesne.
			:••• -- In your dreams, you know this place quite well.
			:•••• -- This is your Realm, and though you don’t command its every feature or resident, they know and recognize you as someone of authority there.
			:••••• -- Lord or Lady of the Demesne, you know and command this Realm as if it were your kingdom... because it is.

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