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{{Quote|The Dreaming City is so-called because the Awoken drive the fate of the Dreaming, and the Dreaming drive the will of the Awoken. The Dreaming have been known to manifest on occasion - strange faces, peering from rocks…|Shuro Chi, Pilgrimage: Spine of Keres, Cave}}

The Dreaming City is a space station of immense scale, hidden by a massive cloaking device among the scattered asteroids of the Reef. The city itself is built on an artificial disc with closed ecosystem reminiscent of the untainted nature of the [[Distributary]] and, by proxy, [[Earth]], complete with mountains and rivers. Special stabilizing ring below the disc maintains the City's atmosphere, catching any escaping water and returning it back<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', Pilgrimage: Harbinger’s Seclude, Cliffs</ref>.

In the aftermath of the Wolf Rebellion, Mara Sov forged a secret alliance with the [[human]] Hunter [[Eris Morn]], [[Earth]]'s most knowledgeable expert on the [[Hive]]. The immediate reason for this alliance was the threat of [[Oryx, the Taken King]], known as the Great Navigator, and his armies of Hive<ref name="gf-queen">'''Bungie (2015/5/19)''', ''Destiny: House of Wolves, PlayStation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Allies/The_Queen#Ghost_Fragment:_The_Queen_2|Ghost Fragment: The Queen 2]]''</ref>. To rally the Awoken against this inescapable invasion, Eris Morn agreed to deploy her vast expertise of the [[Hive]] technology and magic she learned on the [[Moon]], including the knowledge of the [[Sword Logic]], the [[Ascendant realm]] and the art of creating throne worlds.  

The Awoken built the [[Blind Well]], an energy borehole in the fabric of space and time; it was drilled by Riven, taking the form of a "needle-nosed basilisk" and aided by Techeuns [[Lissyl]] and [[Sedia]] in a great cathedral on the eastern shore of the Dreaming City. The gate in the bottom of the Blind Well was built by [[Kalli]] and [[Shuro Chi]] inside in a hall they named "The Confluence". The Techeun [[Illyn]], the Coven Mother, used copious amounts of [[Tincture of Queensfoil]] to reach the Ascendant realm and began the construction from the other side, sorting the threads of reality on a vast metaphysical loom. Thus, Mara, Riven and the Techeuns built an isolated pocket universe and named it Eleusinia; it was Mara's third throne after the Distributary and Vesta. In the ascendant halls of Eleusinia, Mara carved a statue for [[Sjur Eido]]. The Blind Well, essentially a cross-world tunnel between the Solar System and Eleusinia, required a continuous multi-week charge of paracausal energies for operation<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Dreaming City#Throne|Throne]]</ref>.

Some time after the construction of Eleusinia, Mara Sov was contacted by the [[Ancients]], a group of mysterious entities describing themselves as "the nothing-space fabric". They possessed three Techeuns, including [[Kelda Wadj]], the Allteacher, to use them as mouthpieces to converse with Mara. Mara Sov agreed to the deal proposed by the Ancients; Kelda Wadj's body was destroyed and turned into a singularity the Awoken used to construct the [[Oracle Engine]], a sophisticated machine used for communication and transportation between planes of reality<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', [[Lore]]: [[Lore:The Dreaming City#Oracle|Oracle]]</ref>.