The Land of Morpheus, as it is often called by mortals is one of the realms within the Greek world.
God of War: Lost World[]
The God of Dreams and Son of Nyx, Morpheus is one the Protogenoi, the first order of Gods who embody the quitessential aspects of nature, the ancient Dream God resides and rules over the Realm of Dreams, a bizzare world of eternal night where imagination and reality converge, and time is distorted.
This world of imagination, fears and desires is often thought to be the other side of the coin to the World of Man and Gods, similar to the night universe of Nyx, the Night itself and the mother of many conceptual primordial dieties like Morpheus himself or Thanatos, the God of Death who also presided over his own realm, the Domain of Death.
If the divine balance of Light and Dark is ever disrupted to the favour of Night and Darkness, then Morpheus would be able to merge the Realm of Dreams and Night and the rest of creation into one, with him alone holding supreme power.
God of War Comic[]
The King of the Barbarians, the father of Alrik fell ill from a curse secretly inflicted on him by Hades, God of the Underworld, as motivation for Alrik in the Wager of the Gods. The Healer tended to the King on his sick-bed, revealing to his son, Prince Alrik that his father suffers from "the living sleep", which was a curse which imprisoned his father in the Land of Morpheus, until it finishes draining his life-force.
In a desperate attempt to save him, Alrik ventured forth on a quest for the Tree of Life to gain the healing drink of the Gods, the Ambrosia of Asclepius, having been informed of its abilities by the elder Healer.
Alrik failed however, as the Spartan warrior Kratos, the Champion of Ares captured the Ambrosia to save his daughter from an innate illness. Returning home empty handed, Alrik saw his father, who had succumbed to his curse, being cremated. Having been crowned the new Barbarian King shortly after, Alrik vowed vengeance on Kratos.
Afterwards[]
It is not known what happened to the ancient realm in the aftermath of Morpheus failed plot to depose the Gods of Olympus and merge the entire creation with his domain. Gaia stated that he retreated into the shadows upon the return of Helios, which would mean he went back into his realm to hide from the wrath of Olympus.
However, as he was never mentioned again it is not clear whether he succeded in staying out of the long reach of Zeus and his pantheon. If he did not, then his realm may have fallen into dissarray and chaos. However, if Morpheus managed to escape his punishment, he would be alive during the events of God of War III, the destruction of Olympus and the death of Helios and Zeus, aswell as the departure of Kratos. It would be a perfect opening for his return to the waking world.
Gallery[]
God of War: Lost World[]
God of War Comic[]
Trivia[]
- The Realm of Morpheus shares its meta-physical and primordial nature with his brothers Domain of Death and his mothers parallel world, aswell as the Realm of Chaos, long since tamed and brought to order by the Skyfather Ouranos.
- The Dream Realm is also referred to as a parallel world, mirroring the waking and physical world. This would be another similarity with Nyx's world, besides the shared eternal night and darkness.
- The existence of such realms, standing for Chaos, Night, Darkness, Dreams and Death shows the sheer vastness of the Greek world, as these are just the ones that have been shown and mentioned by name, with many more remaining unexplored and unmentioned.
- Like the upper Underworld and Tartarus below it, the Land of Dreams can be merged with the World of Man and Gods, though the result of that would be far more severe and different for the rest of creation than in the case of the chtonic afterlife realms who were physically merged with the living world by the Titan Hyperion.
- As Hermes, the God of Speed and Messenger of the Gods, was the deliverer of dreams to the sleeping mortals, it is likely that he traversed the Land of Morpheus on his duties, just as he does the Underworld, in his role as a psychopomp.
- Hermes represents some mortal aspects of the Night, being the God of Thieves and Criminals, making him suited to travel the primordial realms of darkness and night.