An excerpt from the journal of
Professor Heironymous Gore
Occultist & Toy Collector

"...simply put, the creatures known by local urban legend as The Wandering Marionettes are haunted dolls, discarded toy figures possessed by spirits of dim and fleeting origin. The speculation varies. Many say that they are the ghosts of their deceased owners while others claim that they are faerie or demonic in nature. My favourite theory however, asserts that these spirits are actually living dreams... or what in Tibetan lore are known as tulpas, thoughts that have been given a life of their own by their own intensity ...imaginary friends who have escaped from those who had imagined them in the first place.

I will not know for certain however, until i have captured them all and can perform the proper ritual and dissections.

As with most creatures of shadow, the Marionettes are known to delight in mischief. Reports vary but their victims generally walk away physically unharmed, left only with intense feelings of either fear or wonder, but always a sense of awe.

I suspect that there is a deeper purpose to this... that perhaps they derive something vitally important from the very dreams and nightmares they inspire. Do they come to steal what they themselves are incapable of? Or is this perhaps the very thing that sustains them?

Can a dream have a dream of its own? Can a dream exist without a dreamer? Or are such reasonings even relevant to that which is not entirely real in the first place?

I can only know for certain once i have them in the laboratory..."