An English man from the 14th century. Dream encountered him while visiting the waking world with his older sister Death. Gadling was proposing to his friends that people only die because everyone else does it, and that he'll have no part of it. Dream belived that this might be an interesting experiment, and so Dream tells Gadling that, if he truly belives the way to live forever is simply not to die, Dream will meet him in one hundred years in the same tavern for a drink. Gadling agrees and in one hundred years they meet. At first when Dream shows up Gadling belives that he has made some kind of deal with the Devil. Dream convinces him otherwise, and they meet every one hundred years for a drink. During one meeting in the 1800s Gadling accuses Dream of being lonely, and that he wanted friends and that was why Death never came for Gadling. Dream is outraged that Gadling would suggest that "one of my kind..." needs friends, and storms out of the tavern. One century later Gadling is waiting for Dream in the bar. When Dream finaly turns up Gadling admits that he didn't expect him to show. Dream replies, "I was always told it is bad manners to keep one's friends waiting." After the first Dream dies Death comes to Gadling at the Renaissance Fair, and tells him that it is true, and was not just a dream. Then she asks him if he is ready to go; if he is finally ready to die. Gadling replies that he is not ready; he's still got so much to live for, and besides his girlfriend would kill him. After his meeting with Death Gadling has a dream where he meets Morpheus on a beach, and they greet each other warmly. Then a street painter whom Gadling once met, really Destruction, comes up, and the three of them walk off down the beach.