Editing Dreamspeakers (section)

== History ==
The Dreamspeakers are probably one of the oldest, if not ''the'' oldest form of Magic in the World of Darkness; formed from an understanding that (according to them), the first souls interacted with matter, and the first spirits created the Spirit Realm. Their go-betweens for the mortal world and the spirit realm were in fact the first Dreamspeakers, and they've held this position for millenia throughout history in cultures that venerated spirits and the spirit world. As an official Tradition, they came into being in 1466 at the Grand Convocation as the culmination of a shared brotherhood (or spooky tribal magic, if you were european) of shamanist practice. From there...well, ask most tribal cultures how they're doing post-1600, and I'm sure you'll get a good answer on why they're so cagey around other Mages and why their magic is having trouble working like it used to.

One thing that definitely became a major sticking point for the Dreamspeakers throughout the 20th century is that continued severence from the spiritual world by the Technocracy has begun to create active "holes" in the Spirit Realm where it's VERY obvious that there is a clear absence in the Spirit Realm that is causing something bad...but they don't quite know what, and are looking to figure it out before the problem gets worse.

While their traditional seats of power are considered to be Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; their diversity goes even farther than that. The Tradition is one of the most prominent in Japan, as Shinto doctrine falls under their auspices. Siberia is another bastion, sparsely inhabited and with spiritual traditions still practiced by its scattered peoples (not for nothing that the word "shaman" is Siberian in origin). There are also a fairly small but still notable number of spiritualists in the Victorian tradition, though they tend to be regarded as dabblers and tourists by those with more entrenched cultural roots.