Editing Dreamspeakers (section)

== Field guide to Witch Doctoring ==
The Dreamspeakers are unique among the traditions due to their Reality Paradigm being very different from that of the other traditions. Instead of assuming a spark of the divine comes from a single source, or from an individual effort, the Dreamspeaker understands that pretty much everything has a spark of spiritual connection born inherently from nature itself, as befitting the Seat of Spirit. If you properly venerate and consult with those spirits, they'll reward you with their time and with whatever thing you happen to want to occur, and strive to bring the living world and spirit world into a perfect harmony; man and spirit helping and venerating in equality. That said, the spirits are to be treated with utmost respect; things in the Umbra are far more powerful than the average Mage is expecting, and thus Dreamspeakers spend quite a long time learning how to properly make both deals and discussion with them in ways that don't involve spirits of "bleed-out-the-ass disease" leaking out onto the nearest city block. 

They are paradoxically the most social of all the Traditions due to their historical place of veneration in a great many cultures; but also the slowest to trust outsiders to their respective communities, cultures, and their Tradition in general, though not because of any pettiness. The Dreamspeakers have been through a lot; slavery, ignorance, betrayal, oppression, you name it. Hell, aside from the Verbena and [[Cult of Ecstasy]], the majority of the council still looks down on them in a very paternalistic way even though several of them have actively done this Tradition wrong. Which is a shame, because being a spirit warrior fucking rules.

Well, them and the militants who just want a larger and better connected organization at their backs. Dreamspeakers are often notable (or frustrating) for their extremely varying interpretation of pretty much everything; being a Shaman means knowing the appropriate rituals for the spirits in your surroundings but how you go about approaching such a thing is entirely up to you and how you interpret how those spirits are interacting with the real world. Three Dreamspeakers could come to three entirely different conclusions on how to chop down a tree using magic; one seeing a spirit of sickness that must be dispelled, one seeing the tree's spirit that must be released from a prison that died too fast, or a vessel for mighty spirits to prove their worth to a and all of them would be correct. It's extremely confusing if you see the world away from their perspective, but all would be satisfied that the tree fell without an axe because the spirits were appeased. That said, not all Dreamspeakers are shaking chicken bones and sticking needles into dolls in order to get the spirits to do what they want; there are indeed those who seem to be able to find the spirits within technology and can make it do wondrous things, but the stereotype of the dancing and chanting tribal chief remains.