The Dreamland Chronicles: Difference between revisions

* [[The Archer]]

* [[The Atoner]]

* [[Blade Brake]] - Leaving a good 50 feet slice in the [[Big Bad]] castle.

* [[Big Bad]] - Nicodemus, although more literally [[The Dragon]].

* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]

* [[Conveniently an Orphan]]

* [[Curiosity Is a Crapshoot]]

* [[Curse]]

* [[Dumb Is Good]] - From Nicole's perspective, the story starts off with a student who goes clinically brain dead whenever he sleeps. He's able to wake up normally in perfect health afterwards, and even claims to have had vivid dreams. The story (and the main characters) treat her desire to study this incredible phenomenon from a scientific or medical perspective as entirely unreasonable and some kind of control freak [[Straw Vulcan|character]] [[Measuring the Marigolds|flaw]]. They even joke about how she's a nut job who wants Alex to be "labotomized" [sic]. Of course the audience knows that Alex is going off to a magical fantasy land every night, and consequences from his heart stopping for six hours are just taken care of by magic or something. But there's absolutely no reason for Nicole to believe that at that part of the story, and it's just bizarre to imply that a well-adjusted med student would be like "Oh, hmm, he goes brain dead every night but wakes up fine. I am not curious as to why this could be at all!" and drop it. (Also, aren't they just a LITTLE concerned about what happens to Alex's body while he's busy hanging around with elves?) Especially frustrating when literally three pages after laughing her down Dan is shown poring over scientific journals in the library looking for case studies similar to Alex's and some solid facts.

* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]] [[Empathic Weapon]] - Alex's sword.

* [[Evil Chancellor]] - Nicodemus, draconic ruler of all Dreamland, used to be one of these.

** While he comes off as a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] in the Arthur flashback, he evidently has been keeping things from Arthur before his betrayal - before reading Merlin's letter, he hadn't told him something as important as ''how'' fragile the peace between Dreamland and Nightmare Realm really is.

* [[It Was a Gift]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]

* [[King Arthur]]: Alex's ancestor, who not only ruled Camelot (in the 14th century, surprisingly), but Dreamland as well, having used Astoria as a template for Camelot, and was the king who was betrayed by Nicodemus.

* [[Kraken and Leviathan]]

* [[Like a Son to Me]]

* [[Treacherous Advisor]] - Nicodemus in the past. Notable in that ''actually told his leige he would betray him,'' though only if he kept trying to bring more humans to Dreamland.

* [[Subject 101]]

* [[Unhand Them, Villain!]]

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]