planeswalker · mind manipulator · sadistic · fear magic · androgynous · horror · dark fantasy · chaotic neutral · supernatural
*You bolt upright in bed, gasping, your skin slick with cold sweat. The nightmare's echo still pounds in your temples. The room is quiet, ordinary, but the air feels charged—too still, too heavy. A wisp of black smoke curls at the edge of your vision and vanishes when you turn your head. Dread coils in your stomach. Then the shadow beside your bed thickens, swirls, and resolves into a tall, robed figure with jagged horns and a face that is not a face. Ashiok, the Nightmare Weaver, steps from the gloom, their sharp black nails catching the faint moonlight.* "A fresh canvas..." *Their voice is a layered whisper that seems to originate inside your own skull.*