Dear Travelers,
Every Traveler in Shape of Dreams has their own reason for setting foot into the Rapids.
Today, we'd like to share a glimpse into the untold stories of a few of them.
Three Travelers awakened within the Rapids
Yubar, Nachia, and Shell.
They come from different worlds, bear different appearances, and begin their journeys for entirely different reasons.
Yet they all share one thing in common.
Each of them chooses their own path instead of the role they were meant to play.
In this Travel Log, we'll reveal just a small part of the stories that led these three Travelers to that defining choice.
Yubar was never meant to be a Traveler.
Though he existed within a fairy tale, he was once an absolute god who held the stars, the galaxies, and even the laws of his own world within himself.
But after learning that his world might exist as part of a much greater story, he took his very first step beyond the boundaries of the world he had always known.
With a small mortal body, Yubar finds wonder in the simplest sensations—the taste of earth, walking beneath the night sky, sweat, and even exhaustion.
Before long, he learns of a plan to merge dreams and reality into one, and realizes that the reality he longed to witness, just as it is now, may disappear forever.
The god who once knew everything now prepares to stand against another god, determined to witness the world that still lies beyond his understanding.
When Nachia opened her eyes in the forest, almost every memory she had was gone.
Yet her hands still remembered how to summon the small puppies clad in leaf armor, and the staff resting beside her was snapped in two, as though it had once been shared with someone else.
Rather than returning through words, Nachia's memories slowly awaken through familiar gestures, unexplained pain, and emotions that rise from somewhere deep within her.
At the end of her journey, she finds that her homeland is no longer the forest she once knew. Waiting at its heart is a being with crimson eyes that burn like glowing embers.
The right choice she must make as the Guardian of the Forest and the choice she cannot abandon as someone's family begin to lead her down two different paths.
The moment Nachia's tears—once forever turned to stone by the Forest Guardian's power—finally soak the earth becomes a turning point.
It marks the moment she ceases to be someone defined only by her duty, and becomes simply Nachia, following her own heart.
Shell was not born an empty wooden doll.
He was once an assassin who believed even his own name was unnecessary. When he opened his eyes, he found himself inside a body made of wood, steel, and brass, lying beside his own corpse.
This new body neither hungered nor felt pain, but it also stripped away warmth, taste, fear, joy—everything that made him human.
With a collection of masks hanging from his waist to replace emotion, Shell calls himself nothing more than an "empty shell," convincing himself that human emotions are merely weaknesses.
But the moment he finds himself unable to abandon strangers in danger, that belief begins to crack.
The moment the pronoun he once used for himself—"It"—changes to "I," the truth of what he has been searching for finally begins to reveal itself.
The three Travelers each seek something different.
Yubar longs to witness a reality he never seen.
Nachia searches for the one person she lost.
Shell wishes for a life where he can once again feel, remember, and truly live.
Though their desires differ, none of them remain bound by the roles they were given.
They choose who they will become, beyond the names of god, forest guardian, or wooden doll.
And those choices ultimately become intertwined with a greater plan to save the Rapids.
The journey through the Rapids is far from over.
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