"I lost some time once, Its
always in the last place you look for it."
Delirium is the youngest of the Endless.
She smells of sweat, sour wines, late nights, and leather.
Her realm is
close, and can be visited; however, human minds
were not made to comprehend her
domain, and those few who
have made the journey have been
incapable of reporting more
than the tiniest fragments.
The poet
Coleridge claimed to have known her intimately, but
the man was an inveterate liar,
and in this, as in so much, we
must doubt his word.
Her apperance
is the most variable of all the Endless, who at best,
are ideas cloaked in the semblance
of flesh. Her shadow's shape and
outline has no relationship to
that of anybody she wears, and it is tangible, like old velvet
Some say the
tragedy of Delirium is her knowledge that , despite being
older than the suns, older than
the gods, she is forever the youngest of the
Endless, who do not measure time
as we measure time, or see the worlds
through mortal eyes.
Others deny this,
and say that Delirium has no tragedy, but there they
speak without reflection.
For Delirium
was once Delight. And although that was long ago now,
even today her eyes are badly matched:
one eye is a vivid emerald green,
spattered with silver flecks that
move; her other eye is vien blue.
Who knows what Delirium sees, through her mismatched eyes?
Sigil
Chaotic pattern
Appearances
21, 31, 41-49, 55, 56, 59, 63,
64, 66, Special Little Endless Storybook,
Endless Nights Chpts. 3, 5, 6
Other Names that Delirium
is known by
Mania