Ogre & Ogre-folk

A Lakelands setting post OgreIn a dreamzone, anything can become more than what it is, so long as some sapient mind nearby attaches unconscious significance to it. Those objects that are more symbolically potent, like a skull or a rose or a cross, are therefore more likely to change, and anything elevated with meaning by the right ritual will become invested with new power. Blood, for most of us, is as substances go among the most symbolically loaded. When blood is shed ritually in a dreamzone, then, it becomes strange indeed. It's called dreamblood and its uses are many. Dreamblood at first seems no different than ordinary blood, but it's a unique and powerful ingredient in potions, poisons, powders, medicines, oils, and drugs. Specifically, it appears to emanate a small, weak dreamzone of its own. Of course, most people in the Lakelands don't think of it that way. If they have any precise idea at all of dreamblood's use, it's that a person can use it to make Weird potions, oils, and…