The Possessed refers to those poor, doomed, mortal souls whose bodies have been usurped and corrupted by discarnate entities from the Dreamworlds. These entities, called Ochelum, are bound into earthly amulets, called Soul-prisons, through which the ochelum can take over the bodies of mere mortals can damn their souls into the ochelum's own soul-prisons when the mortals die. Among the ochelum are two distinct races-- one evil, one good. They are (respectively) the Yugtuhul and the Benedera.

The Yugtuhul, also referred to as the Elder Nightmares, are powerful alien entities from a distant dimension that wandered into the human Dreamworlds in prehistoric times. They may have been outcasts, or merely lost, from the First Reality (what they call their home dimension), into this Second Reality, the truth remains unknown. The yugtuhul are rulers of the dream-demons, the Shadows. Each yugtuhul commands its own legion of darkness, ruling over a province of a realm called the Nightmare Lands. About half the yugtuhul have their souls bound into soul-prisons, called Phylacteries; the most powerful yugtuhulnever came to earth during that early period and thus remain unbound. While the yugtuhul whose souls are bound into the phylacteries have had the most contact with the waking world (and are the only ones available as protagonists), many of the Unbound now walk the earth. The bound yugtuhul prefer possessing and corrupting people who are extreme good and innocent, especially those who are somewhat strong-willed. The yugtuhul find their mortal souls much tastier, and greater sport than those of evil mortals.

The Benedera are also referred to as the Requiters of Dream, as they now take responsibility for hunting down and destroying the yugtuhul who tread the earth wearing mortal bodies, as well as the unbound that once again walk the waking world freely. The benedera were once mortal humans themselves, having lived many millennia ago in the Antediluvian Cities. They were adapan priests and magick-workers who discovered the yugtuhul and set many of them free accidentally. After discovering the yugtuhul's evil nature, they tried to bind them into earthly objects with the help of the dragons, but they were not completely successful. While it appeared they had succeeded, the phylacteries could not contain the power of the yugtuhul, who possessed the priests (who were wearing the phylacteries in remembrance of their own folly).

These first possessed were easily destroyed, but the phylacteries learned to teleport themselves magickally when their hosts died, thus finding new host-victimes. The priests who became the benedera realized they could not destroy the yugtuhul within their own lifetimes, so they bound their own souls into amulets and still continue their quest for yugtuhul genocide. Rather than punish innocents for the benedera's own mission, the benedera only possess wicked people, particularly murderers and other extremely violent criminals who have not been caught by the authorities.

The possessed are unique individuals who have strong connections to both good and evil. Their ironic dual-natures of intense good and evil-- constantly in conflict-- makes roleplaying the possessed interesting, difficult, and diverse. Human hosts constantly fight against their possessors. Innocents are abused by yugtuhul, who force them to commit atrocities, while the benedera find their mortal hosts expendable, forcing them into the service of good with no regard for their mortal lives. Sometimes it is hard to tell the good guys from the bad without a score card.