As "Gilbert", Fiddler's Green accompanied Rose Walker to find her brother Jed and gave her the means by which to summon Dream to rescue her from danger at the Cereal Convention that the Corinthian was speaking at.
In that series, he is portrayed as the guardian of a castle in Transylvania abandoned by both sides during World War II,[7][full citation needed] watching over its forgotten library with his companion, a werewolf named Rover.
Matthew's word balloons and font style are scratchy and uneven, probably to represent a hoarse, cawing voice, and perhaps as an indicator of his crude, smart-aleck personality.
They subsequently reappear in JSA #64, again trying to manipulate a human connected to the Dreaming (Sandy Hawkins) into their own "Sandman"; but Daniel Hall returns them to the darkness.
Gault is voiced and motion-captured by Ann Ogbomo in her true form and portrayed by Andi Osho when posing as Miranda Walker in Jed's dreams.
Nevertheless, Gaiman has on several occasions stated that he never intended the Creator to be any specific religion's god, just as he makes it clear in the first appearance of the abode of the angels, the Silver City, that it "is not Paradise.
In his own form, Loki is a tall, thin man with yellow eyes and long red hair that resembles flames; but he is capable of assuming any appearance at will.
Susano-o-no-Mikoto is the Japanese God of the Sea, Storms, and Fields who is among the angels, deities, and demons that meet in the Dreaming to discuss the future of Hell following Lucifer's abdications.
As with Lucifer's appearance in The Brave and the Bold, he looked more like a traditional devil, but was identified as an incubus: here, a creature who steals people's dreams and imprints them upon tapestries that give him power, and cannot be destroyed without killing the victims.
Duma eventually allies with Lucifer and Elaine Belloc to save creation, and persuades Hell's new ruler Christopher Rudd to bring his army to Heaven's aid at the Battle of Armageddon.
The Merkin's facial form was almost certainly based upon a photograph by the artist Joel-Peter Witkin entitled "Amour, New Mexico, 1987", showing a naked female figure wearing a spider-like horned mask.
Despite this power, it was revealed that she is illiterate, and so regularly uses Dream's library because its special properties allow its users to read books in any language, including those they cannot speak.
Hob was granted immortality in a pub named the White Horse in 1389 when he simply declared that he "had decided never to die"; whereupon Death agrees, at Dream's request, to forgo him.
“Lamia” refers to several types of monster, and to other magical and supernatural characters, in Greek mythology, as well as to the Thessalian witches Meroe and Panthia in The Golden Ass by Apuleius.
She also had a large role in Death: The High Cost of Living, where she is shown to be rude, miserly and constantly complains about the lack of knowledge that present day youths have.
A youth raised in a remote forest has a series of adventures, including meeting with Lucien (to whom he gives a book) and Baba Yaga, and marrying a fellow shape-changing wolf.
Dream encounters her several times, once to ask her to recover the head of his son, Orpheus – a mission she performed so successfully that part of its aftereffects was the ending of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
In her middle age, Johanna Constantine is charged by persons unknown with the key to a box containing the sigil of America, allegedly created by Destiny.
Jenna Coleman was cast as two versions of Johanna in the TV adaptation of The Sandman: one in the eighteenth-century that encountered Dream and Hob Gadling and another in the present day where she is an occult detective just like John.
He was incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, with other Batman villains such as The Scarecrow and The Joker, until freed by the amulet given to him by his mother, Ethel Dee, former mistress to Roderick Burgess.
He originally sought power, money and mostly the restoration of his human body, but the madness brought about by overuse of the relic drove him to savage, monstrous acts of depravity using the ruby.
Desire's intervention transfers the vortex to Unity's granddaughter Rose Walker in the hope that Dream will kill one of their relatives and thus incur the vengeance of the Furies.
In issue #12, their mysterious appearance is revealed to have been because they were being paid an $800 monthly stipend by social services at the manipulation of Jed's maternal grandfather Desire.
Richard Madoc is a struggling author suffering from an impenetrable writer's block who imprisoned and repeatedly raped Dream's ex-lover Calliope after he obtained her from Erasmus Fry.
The investigation is brought to a premature end by Morpheus who has deduced the involvement of Desire and Despair in these events and, refusing to play the twins game returns Maddison and the Corinthian to the Dreaming.
Louis de Saint-Just is the Orator of the French Revolution and supporter of the Terror, he is deposed after Orpheus sings a song that saps his ability to articulate.
Geoffrey Chaucer is the famous 14th-century poet and author of The Canterbury Tales is seen in the White Horse Tavern in AD 1389 in part four of The Doll's House, where Dream first meets Hob Gadling.
John Hathaway is the senior curator of the Royal Museum who gave Roderick Burgess the Magdalene Grimore following the death of his son Edmund during the Battle of Jutland.
After accidentally breaking the seal which freed Dream and placed Alex in a "nightmare of eternal waking", Paul later ran the Wych Cross Retirement Home where he met Rose Walker.
He is portrayed as a nervous, paranoid, babbling academic, trying to make jokes to psychologically test his prison guards, and unable to sleep for fear of rats.