Pesadilla
| Pesadilla | |
|---|---|
 por Aliya Chen
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| Tipo | Sombra cognitiva |
| Racional | Parcial |
| Mundo de origen | Komashi |
| Universo | Cosmere |
Las pesadillas son un tipo de sombra cognitiva nativa de Komashi que emerge de la mortaja para alimentarse de las mentes de las personas mientras duermen. Están formadas por las almas de los muertos de Komashi que fueron asesinados por la máquina padre, y convertidos en sus esclavos.
Historia
Las pesadillas no existían al principio, fueron creadas por el desastre que provocó la máquina padre el cual mató a la mayoría de los habitantes de Komashi, creando las pesadillas como sombras cognitivas mantenidas cautivas por la máquina.[1][2]
Después del desastre, estubieron en réplicas de los diferentes pueblos de Torio, para repetir el mismo día disfrazados de las personas que ellos mismos eran antes del evento. Por la noche, paraban de ser controlados, vagaban por la mortaja y se alimentaban de gente de las varias naciones supervivientes, principalmente Nagadan. En respuesta, apareció la profesión de los pintores, que las convertían en formas inofensivas y las desterraban de vuelta a la mortaja.[2]
Después de que la máquina padre fuera destruida y se dispersara la mortaja, todas las pesadillas, liberadas de la tiranía de la máquina, se disolvieron en la nada.[3][4]
Apariencia y comportamiento
Nightmares are inky black creatures that can take on many forms.[5] They begin as amorphous blobs, but over time, as they feed upon the thoughts and ideas of people, they start to take on more recognizable forms, gradually gaining more and more form as they pick up on more thoughts.[5] They rarely have faces, the face usually taking on the form of an even deeper blackness, which drips a dark liquid.[5] They constantly let of a gaseous blackness as they move around outside of the shroud, and if they fail to return to the shroud, they can evaporate away completely.[5]
They have to go on multiple trips to a city in order to gain enough substance to be truly dangerous, usually around ten or so trips.[5] If a nightmare has enough form, it would become something known as a stable nightmare, which are particularly dangerous, and require elite painters in order to neutralize them, known as the Dreamwatch.[6] Stable enough nightmares have pinprick white eyes dotting their face, and bone-white teeth.[6][7][8]
The shape of a nightmare can be forcibly changed by trying to think of it as a certain form through the focus of painting. This causes them to take on the shape of the painting. The closer the painting is to something they resemble, the more power one has over them.[5] One can return them back to their human form by making a painting of who they used to be, but this doesn't change them back into a flesh and blood human, and they will still fade away without the shroud.[8]
Nightmares spend most of their time in the yoki-hijo prisons, hidden away in the shroud. While there, they mostly behave as they did when human, and do not think of themselves as Nightmares.[9][10] But, when the hold of the machine becomes looser, they are able to wander and travel towards population centres, attracted to the Cognitive activity focused at such centres. The reason for their attraction to human cognitive activity, and for feeding upon it to take on form and substance, is due to lusting for the life they lost upon the activation of the father machine.[10][2]
Naturaleza y abilidades
Nightmares are usually almost entirely incorporeal, and are able to pass through solid substances such as walls.[5] Their forms are also unstable, and they constantly let off an inky black gas, if they fail to return to the shroud in order to re-Invest themselves, they will evaporate away completely.[5] There are stories of nightmares so stable that they begin to take on the color of flesh, but the truth of these stories are unknown.[11]
They are capable of detecting thoughts, most notably fear, and to hide from one, one should think calm and placid thoughts. Fear is also capable of giving it more form and substance, as it feeds on them.[5][6]
Nightmares are able to feed upon Investiture.[7][12] They can also see normally invisible Cognitive Shadows.[7]
It is theoretically possible to form a bond with a nightmare,[13] although exactly how such a bond would function is unknown.
Pesadillas notables
Curiosidades
- Sus similitudes con la Esencia de Medianoche son intencionales.[14] Hay una conexión significativa entre pesadillas, Esencia de Medianoche y Sangre Nocturna.[15]
Notas
- ↑ Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 23#
- ↑ a b c Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 39#
- ↑ Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 41#
- ↑ Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas Otro Epílogo#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 3#
- ↑ a b c Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 7#
- ↑ a b c Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 25#
- ↑ a b Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 40#
- ↑ Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 34#
- ↑ a b Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 36#
- ↑ Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 8#
- ↑ Yumi y el pintor de pesadillas capítulo 29#
- ↑ Secret Project #3 Reveal and Livestream
— Arcanum - 2022-03-22# - ↑ Secret Project #3 Reveal and Livestream
— Arcanum - 2022-03-22# - ↑ YouTube Spoiler Stream 6
— Arcanum - 2023-12-19#