On the surface, this story appears to be set in a standard little/no magic fantasy world.  Filled with warring kingdoms, though not all human.  Simple, potentially difficult lives.  People live their lives, unaware of anything unnatural in their ordinary lives.  Though many do believe in gods of some sort.  But there is another world behind the scenes.  A world where magic is very real.  An empire and world that thoroughly blends magic and reality.  Dream yet very real.  Where higher beings are regularly seen.  Ruled by mysterious figures few have seen.  Humans?  Gods?  Something else?  Few know, few dare try to learn.

It is a world where one might experience their greatest dreams, or greatest fears.  Anything is possible, for those who have what it takes to survive.  If you can learn to navigate the many strange realms, deal with it's many dangers.  It is a world of dreams.  If your connection to it is weak, 'death' may return you to the 'real' world, but if one gets too connected, perhaps their soul may become in danger.

It is a very open world, where many characters are possible.   One might even have different identities in the real world and the world of dreams.  To become what one wishes to be, or perhaps what their true nature is.  Does your character dare enter this world, or explore it if they find their way into by chance/are chosen by some entity of the world?  Some characters may suffer, be broken.  Others may find glory, their greatest fantasies fulfilled.  Others may learn secrets of the universe few mortal minds can handle.  Or they might just find a chance to start over.