Prerequisite: Wyrd •••
Effect: Your character’s dreams can now range forward and backwards in time, providing hints of distant events and possible futures. Sometimes these dreams are of distant or long ago events that have no connection to your character, but often your character’s unconscious seeks out information about people and events that would be of interest to her.
All knowledge contained in these dreams contains a mixture of metaphor and whimsy and requires careful thought and interpretation to fully understand. However, your character is always aware when she had had a visionary dream, since such dreams are always unusually vivid and easy to remember. Most of the time, the Storyteller chooses whether your character has a visionary dream and what the content will be. This Merit provides the Storyteller with a way to give your character information that may be unattainable by any other means.
Your character can also choose to attempt to have a dream about a specific person or place. Doing so risks the character having confusing visionary and ordinary dreams, and your character has no conscious control about what her dream will reveal. However, if she succeeds, the dream contains some bit of useful information about the subject. To actively call upon this power, a character must spend a Willpower point and roll Intelligence + Wits. She must also have at least five hours of uninterrupted sleep. Characters may not use this Merit more than once per day.
Dramatic Failure: Your character has a normal dream about the character that your character mistakes for a visionary dream. The information in this dream is false and misleading, and represents your character’s hopes and fears and not any truth.
Failure: Your character either fails to have a visionary dream or her dream contains no information that is immediately useful, such as a dream about an enemy’s fifth birthday party, when the character was hoping for information about the enemy’s marriage.
Success: Your character has a dream that provides some clues about the subject your character desires. One image or clue is provided per success. However, these clues come in the symbolism and imagery of dreams and almost always require some interpretation to be deciphered correctly.
Exceptional Success: Per normal success, except the clues are significantly clearer and more obvious.
Suggested Modifiers
Dreams are independent of time and distance. However, it is far easier to have a dream about a subject your character knows well than about a subject your character is barely familiar with.
| Modifier | Situation |
| +1 | Your character has a very close connection with the location or individuals involved. |
| –1 | Your character has only a casual connection with the location or individuals involved. |
| –2 | Your character has no real connection to the location or individuals in question. |