The Dreamqueen is the product of the union between the demon Nightmare and a Succubus named Zhilla Char. Relaxing after a night haunting the dreams of mortal men, Zhilla Char wandered too close to the borders of the realm of Nightmare. Having impregnated her, Nightmare banished her to a lesser realm. Knowing that demon mothers become their own children at birth, Char vowed revenge through her own daughter who would soon be born. However when the Dreamqueen emerged she found she could not hate her father, for she had her own world, which she could forge, and rule as she saw fit. Over the years her domain became her prison and she began to look for a way to escape. To this end when the Astral form of Nanquato, Shaman of the now extinct Indian tribe the Chickaqua appeared in her realm, searching for the sky gods in an attempt to deliver his people from a drought which was killing their crops, the Dreamqueen promised to help if he would take a small totem back to his people. The Dreamqueen intended to establish a link to the earth's plane of reality. After returning to his tribe the Shaman started a ceremony to bring forth rain, but while he saw rain falling, his people could only see demons, which the Dreamqueen had sent to cause terror and thus create a psychic link to this plane. Nightmare however, had warned a brave within the tribe, what was really happening through a dream. He killed the Shaman and, insisting that no one touch the Totem, had it and Nanquato buried within a stone cairn. Once again the Dreamqueen was trapped within her realm. Hundreds of years later a creature not of her creation appeared within her realm. Going against her natural instincts to inflict suffering, she watched the creature. This creature, Goblyn, made her aware of the existence of Alpha Flight and bought her into direct conflict with them. |