Morpheus's most powerful tool ever created is the Dreamstone, a glowing ruby that holds the ability to build dreams, bring them into reality, and even control other people by altering their hopes and imagination.

In Netflix's live-action adaptation, Lucifer is played by Gwendoline Christie.

So, Morpheus needs to travel to Hell and negotiate the recovery of his Helm with one of the rulers of the fiery dimension, Lucifer, the fallen angel. In Preludes and Nocturnes, Morpheus finds out his Helm was given to a demon in exchange for a protection amulet. So, DC’s Sandman vigilante is just a result of the universe trying to adjust to one of the Endless being trapped for many decades. While retconning Sandman’s story, Gaiman described in his comic books how Wesley was inspired by the original Dream right after Morpheus was captured and imprisoned. Gaiman wrote The Sandman as part of the bigger DC comic book universe, where a vigilante named Wesley Dodds already existed and used the moniker 'Sandman.' Wesley used a gas mask to protect himself from the sleep gas he used to knock down criminals, which explains his curious look. To make matters more humiliating for one of the Endless, the cultists also steal Morpheus' three sigils of power: the Pouch of Dream Sand, Dream’s Helm, and the Dreamstone ruby.įans might be quick to notice that Dream’s Helm is shaped after a gas mask, which directly correlates with the DC comic book history. The physical barriers of his prison prevent Dream from walking away from his cell, while a series of runes inscribed on the ground contains his power to walk through the Dreaming, the dimension where we all go when we close our eyes. Unfortunately, their ritual doesn’t work quite as expected, and they end up putting Dream inside a cage. The cultists want absolute control over Death to become immortals. The story of The Sandman starts as a group of cultists performs a ritual to ensnare Death, one of Dream’s sisters. But what are Dream’s tools? Why does Morpheus need them? And how did they get lost?

The first of these storylines follows Dream, or Morpheus ( Tom Sturridge), one of the Endless, as he looks for his tools, magic artifacts holding a parcel of his power. Netflix The Sandman sticks close to the original comic book stories by Neil Gaiman, adapting the main events of Preludes and Nocturnes and The Dolls House, the first two big chapters in the epic saga of the Endless.

Sandman preludes and nocturnes