Dreamers are supposed to be good things. They Dream and they create Glamour and every Kithain wants to muse several good Dreamers because Glamour is hard to find. Therefor, Dreamers are supposed to be good.

This isn't always the case.

Take, for example, Dr. Welles. He's a young man, a Dreamer. He feels the magic in his soul, for all that he's a scientist, and he believes in Faeries, and in Vampires, and in Werewolves, and in Magick, and in Spirits. Seems like a pretty nice guy, huh?

Nope.

Dr. Peter Welles is on a crusade to prove to the world that the supernatural is real. He has been laughed at and scorned by the world and he's out to prove himself right, at any cost, literally. He knows the truth and he knows that he knows, and he wants to know more, and he wants to be able to prove it all.

Unfortunately for us, the good Doctor has managed to acquire a rather wealthy patron, who supplies him with equipment and helps him find suitable subjects, all in the name of science and the finding of the Truth that everyone knows is Out There.

Oh, he's a Dreamer alright, but he's not a good one, and if you ask me, he's not entirely together, if you catch my meaning.

The Twisted Dreamer is someone who Dreams, who knows and who believes with all his heart. However, this sort of Dreamer is dangerous, because he will trap, torture, and even destroy Faeries and others in the name of finding out the truth about them. He is completely objective, accepts the evidence of his own experiences and in fact has an extremely low Banality, he's just very dangerous.

Perhaps he's on a tear about a certain Kith, and one of the PCs happens to be of that Kith. Perhaps his mysterious patron is trying to eliminate certain distractions, and so arranges a trap so that the Doctor can acquire more subjects for his experiments.

One note, the Twisted Dreamer is *not* an Autumn Person, this is a true and legitimate Dreamer, just with some twisted motivations. He's also not completely illogical and unreasoning. A certain level of neutrality and objectivity is necessary for his work. Of course, it's all relative.

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