Lyta Hall
A mother whose grief over her son's fate drives her to the Furies.
Lyta Hall is a human character in The Sandman universe, known as the mother of Daniel Hall. Her life becomes linked with Dream when she and her husband Hector Hall's ghost lived in the dreams of a child named Jed Walker for two years, after Hector was revived by the nightmares Brute and Glob in Morpheus's absence. Upon Dream's return, he destroyed the barrier around the child's mind, released Hector's ghost, and restored Lyta to the waking world. Dream then revealed he would someday claim their unborn son because Daniel had spent much of his gestation in the Dreaming.
Quick Facts
- Role
- Mother
- First appearance
- The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (as the mother of Daniel Hall)
- Key relationship
- Daniel Hall (son)
Lore & Background
In the Kindly Ones saga, Lyta incorrectly believed that Daniel had been 'abducted' by Dream, and took her grievances to the Furies, with whom she destroyed much of the Dreaming. Unknown to her, Daniel was actually abducted by Loki and Robin Goodfellow, and retrieved by the Corinthian and Matthew. At Morpheus' citadel, Morpheus transferred his role to Daniel and allowed Death to take him. Daniel as the new Dream is an amalgam of a child and the Endless. Lyta later met her mortal son for the first time since The Wake in The Sandman Presents: The Furies. Still later, Daniel, in the form of a magic mirror, tells Hector Hall (reincarnated as Doctor Fate) and Lyta about Sand, who is trapped in a dream world created again by Brute and Glob. Daniel brought the spirits of his mortal parents to live in the Dreaming after their deaths.
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