Intro

The world you live in, the lives you live, and the tales they tell you: they all have a purpose. To teach you a lesson, to let you experience new ways to go and to let you live your dreams.
But what about your dreams? Are they real? Or are they just your imagination going wild? What you dream, does it have a meaning?
All of the questions, if they are all answered you would have more questions, more doubts and more dreams. One thing I can tell you that what you dream is true. You only have to work for it to become true.
I see the dreams of creatures, some small and some big. Innocent and evil, one dream I saw was the most evil I have ever seen. The dream to destroy the dreams of other creatures and to use it against them.
That creature's name is Ollo.
The terror of the desert, the creature that will make his dream come true, all those names for one little creature. No matter what ou dream about, never, ever, give up your dreams, or you will end up like him.

Welcome...

Welcome stranger, although you aren't welcome here. My name is Nahanna.
-'Ehm, hello Nahanna, my name is guest.
Stranger, you know you don't belong here in the woods.
-'I only wanted to learn more about the Nightmaren species!
FOOL, you know that the Nightmarens won't share their secrets so easily!

After having said that the eyrie you encountered walked away. You walked quickly after her but then a dark blue blur stopped you. In front of you stood a six foot tall eyrie with gleaming white eyes.
-'Come closer and you will feel it. He said and you stopped dead in your tracks. Stupid forest creatures. You walked away and tried to forget those eyries.

About Nahanna

Name: Nahanna
Nick: Hanna, Nahan.
Genger: Female
Age: Looks 17 but is over 700 years old.
Species: Nightmaren
Subspecies: Dream Gryphon
Rank: Dream Collector

Homeland: The Plains
Born: The great Thunder Plains
Personality: She is a soft and kind hearted Nightmaren who doesn't like to hurt creatures, she loves to study the stars and dreamt dreams to try to predict the future for a limited part. She also has the ability to feel the souls or beings of creatures around her.

Family: They have probably died a long time ago…
Love: Eh, not allowed to have, but I like to hang out with someone
Kids: *no comment*
Status: Keeping a distance from the other group members.

Main fur: Light brown
Wings: Brown with dark chocolate coloured tips.
Eyes: Light blue.
Feathers: Purple.

Nahanna is a really kind hearted gryphon and can't feel angry towards others. She isn't a full-blood Nightmaren, she had two normal creatures for parents. This is possible because once the Nightmaren genes are in a family, they can't disappear. Sometimes kids can suddenly be born like Nightmarens, but their older sibling isn't automatically a Nightmaren.
Nahanna was born in an Indian style Clan and lived there happy and carefree. She did have some weird encounters with bolbs of light surrounded by smoke. All of those bolbs were looking for her, they were bright pink, orange, blue, purple, yellow and green, but there were some who didn't have the same aura as the other light bolbs: they were dark coloured and some even deep red and deep blue.
Nahanna soon discovered they were dreams which have been dreamt. She touched one dream once and saw its content, which she wished she hasn't.
But after that incident she began to feel scared because the dreams began to pile up around her, but disappeared when someone else came by. One day she was finished with the dreams stalking her and she got a dream catcher.
But that same dream catcher guided the dreams closer to her and disappeared through it into a place she didn't know then.
A few weeks after repeating that ritual some strange creatures entered the village and demanded to take Nahanna with them. This was the first time Nahanna has encountered Nightmaren and she was frightened. They were two cats, one huge cat stitched together and only mumbled things to the second big cat, which was purple and had a strange mask on her face.

The chief didn't want to give Nahanna to them and they began to threaten him, but still he refused to give her up. The villagers tried to get Nahanna away in the meantime, but the giant cat noticed it and it failed. In the end the big cat just grabbed Nahanna and ran away, while the slightly smaller cat reassured Nahanna that she could see her parents again soon.
When they introduced Nahanna with the Nightmaren world and her future task she went into training to show her how much strength she actually has and how to use it.
In that time of training she discovered that she could feel the creatures around her, but once she stepped in the normal world she was shocked to see how many creatures died around her from age, killed, disease and accidents she was so scared she shut down that power and never used it again. She only used her power to locate sleeping and dreaming creatures, this way she can decide when it's time to begin to collect the dreamt dreams. The rest of the night she is looking at the stars and trying to figure out a pattern in them.

Design

Nahanna is a normal built gyphon, strong in the legs and powerful wings. She was born with her marking and the spiritual members of her Clan were all excited that she was special because she had a special mark. They even believed that she would make it as a clan chief because the current had also 'special' markings.
But they were very wrong about that, Nahanna is a Nightmaren and that is what makes her special.

She has twice the strength of a normal gryphon and can be faster than the fasted gryphon. Nahanna also ages very slow, which can be confusing for other creatures. Nahanna has also the ability to sense other beings around her, asleep and awake, but she is afraid to use the ability for the creatures who are awake. The dream 'sensing' isn't like the other sensing, she uses the dreams they dream to locate them. When they are awake she can locate them through their being or soul.

Dream Catcher
The dream catcher she has in her ear is for directing the dreams into the dream dimension. She got the dream catcher at first to protect herself against them, instead of bringing someone else with her all the time. But the dreams came closer to her and went through the dream catcher to disappear to the dream world. From that moment on Nahanna has used the dream catcher to grant the dreamt dreams to their dimension.

Feathers
The feathers on her head are a Clan tradition. Each year they have to hunt for prey and the member of the clan who has the fastest kill earns a feather. But since Nahanna refused to kill an animal pure for earning feathers she earned them by doing special things (like healing a very sick person or animal).

Legmarking
Her leg marking does have a meaning, but Nahanna hasn't discovered it yet. She went to the owl gryphon of the forest, but he said to keep look inside to find the meaning of that marking. Nahanna questioned him at first, but when she discovered from Parchment, the librarian of the Nightmaren world, that the owl gryphon was thé Owl himself. The creature who helped create the planed together with the Fire bird and Parchment (the 3 gods).