Nico Paolo unleashed his nightmare powers upon the wealthy elite, infiltrating their dreams and corrupting their sanity! Now mere puppets to his will, they scrambled to fulfill his demands before their houses turned into charnel houses.

Some elites fell prey to somnambulism, their bodies susceptible to accidents and harm as they moved without their own conscience. The puppeteer could control their somnambulism, manipulating them to do his bidding, mainly forcing them to commit fiendish acts!

Others surrendered to the void, committing suicide in their sleep or even while fully awake, unable to escape the crushing weight of fear that the ragazzo’s powers had instilled in them. Their nightmares were relentless, a constant barrage of terror that left them feeling helpless and hopeless. Indeed, hopelessness spread like a contagion, infecting all it touched!

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Madness and despair claimed many as the community trembled! Fear became the only constant, a reminder that the darkness was always near, waiting to strike! But amidst the shadows, too, a cruel truth awaited: the Fountain of Youth, that elusive promise of eternal vitality, was soon revealed to be nothing more than a legend… a myth born of desperation and envy. In response to this revelation, Nico's heart, already shrouded in a familiar mist, felt the weight of his own mortality settle upon him, and the emptiness within seemed to expand. The mist thickened and spread outward, obscuring his victims’ faces and names. Now somewhat unsure who he was menacing at which point, his baleful actions became even more ruthless!

And then there were the babies… Nico's powers made many noble infants appear as changelings to their mothers, sowing discord and doubt in the most fundamental of relationships. The horror of not knowing if their child was truly their own was a burden that many couldn't bear, leaving families broken and many mothers in asylums or prisons.

But Nico's cruelty didn't stop there. He targeted women with a special brand of terror, making them infertile or afflicting them with postpartum depression via nightmares that left them feeling empty and unwhole.