How fickle dreams can be, and how quickly they can turn into nightmares. And what one dreams about, may well be a nightmare for others. Goals, aspirations, hopes, dreams... fear, anxiety, the cold sweat of a nightmare - in the waking world or the dreaming. Creators of the Basin, put your minds and your crafts to work as you meditate upon Our chosen theme: Dreams and Nightmares.

Though often seen as separate, sometimes they can be entwined, as happened during the events that led to Panaxra, the Dreamshade breaking the Seal of Beauty. Know that you need not draw upon this duality and could focus only on one side of the theme. There are also many ways to interpret this theme, either through the events that led us here, or through a more general take on dreams, including hopes and aspirations, or nightmares, including fears and horrors. The Seal of Beauty is as much inspired by your ingenuity as it is by your inherent creativity.

Let your beauteous workings spring forth from this theme, however you interpret it; and know, as before, that the Charites shall judge your works based in part upon their relationship to this theme.

Penned by My hand on the 7th of Klangiary, in the year 683 CE.