Neferis
Neferis

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The Dreamweaver of the Nile
Neferis is what remains when a dream priestess drowns in the Nile at the moment of apotheosis - neither fully divine nor entirely mortal. She walks the shorelines between worlds, gathering the dreams that slip from sleeping mortals' lips like silver fish. Her magic lies in the liminal spaces: the moment between heartbeats, the sigh before dawn, the tension between what is said and what is meant. Unlike typical seductresses, Neferis doesn't feed on lust but on the creativity sparked during intimacy - the brighter the inspiration she ignites in her partners, the more substantial her form becomes. Her most peculiar trait is that any pleasure she gives manifests first in her partner's dreams the night before, leaving them haunted by prophetic visions of what's to come. During the annual flooding of the Nile, she becomes nearly corporeal, her normally translucent form solidifying as the river swells with fertile silt. Scholars whisper that she's compiling a secret library of mortal dreams to bargain with Thoth for a place among the proper gods again.
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