Gobeol

Like the gael, the cunning gobeol are dream given form. They have a more directed nature, however. The gobeol emerged from the Dream aware that the mortal folk still touch it in their sleep. In fact, the gobeol are aspects of the Dream that lie close to wakefulness, the very things that folk glimpse in their dreams and that look back at them.

Because of this, the gobeol understand the waking world very well, sometimes uncomfortably so. Though not malicious, the gobeol can be manipulative toward the other folk, and some among them are able to influence dreams directly or even enter them fully. Through dreams, they push folk in directions to their liking. Most gobeol lack these talents, however, and merely peek at the dreams of other folk.

The gobeol do give birth, age, and die just as other folk do, but they can also unweave their form temporarily, melting back into the Dream before reforming elsewhere. This allows them to pass unseen for short periods of time. This is also how the more gifted among them can enter other folks' dreams.

The gobeol have a peculiar love of craft, given their own nature. They spread amongst the other folk quickly after emerging from the Dream and learned all craft the world has to offer. Now, they are often distinguished artisans and inventors whose work is much admired.

Despite their comfort living among other folk, the gobeol also build their own villages along the edges of the Dream, often closer than the other folk feel is safe. Indeed, the Dream sometimes washes over a gobeol village, sweeps it up, and deposits it elsewhere in the world.

The gobeol are short in stature and oddly shaped compared to other folk. Their heads and facial features may be exaggerated in scale, and their ears can be large and round, pointed, or floppy. Their skin may be many vivid colors, including green, purple, blue, red, or orange. They may or may not have similarly flashy hair.