Toru

Toru was the last god to be liberated from the dream. Toru was first to pull the dream through to the material. Before Toru, there was no life save the gods. For all their creation and movement of matter, their existence was solitary, a wandering band of eternal gods who fought desperately to create something else where only they existed. Through Toru they discovered their own purpose. Much like their own struggle, the infinite dream had lived for all of time within cycles of self informed possibility; possibilities that could never be made real.

During the course of the God War, casualties escalate to levels that could no longer be offset by the Soul Collectors, and the dreams of those who were killed began to languish, blurring together like memories as years of war passed with no one to guide them back to the Infinite Dream. Shortly before the war ended a new phenomenon was noticed, as souls began to coalesce into the form of Spirit Walkers. Although this helped to balance the dream with the material world, Toru saw it would never be enough to placate the left over dreams that had began to warp the world back into dream. As the war came to a close, Toru spoke to the judges, and together devised a spell that would force the dream caught between life and death to inhabit the physical world, manifesting in beings of the elements, congregations of trash and machinery, works of art, and occasionally, bodies that already inhabited a soul.