# Shadowfell ## Category Plane / Echo of the Material Plane ## Known Facts - The Shadowfell is a counterpart to the [[Feywild]]. - It is a reflection or echo of the Material Plane. - Where the [[Feywild]] magnifies colour, life, and emotion, the Shadowfell is bleak, desolate, and drained. - It is associated with decay, death, greyscale landscapes, dark echoes of living places, no true sun, foul water, spoiled food, and twisted reflections. - Light works strangely there. - Sources of light can be seen from miles away, but their illumination is not true warmth or safety. - The plane shifts constantly. - Its geography is unstable. - Locations appear, vanish, or warp in relation to the Material Plane. - Known Shadowfell locations include: - Evernight, seemingly an echo of an inner city in [[Valhon]] - The Dark Lands - The Black Rift - Shadowfell politics are fragmented and unstable. - One power has grown increasingly influential: [[The Night Council]]. - [[The Night Council]] has existed for thousands of years but became more organised and powerful in the last millennium. - [[The Night Council]] is led by Nera and Nerul. ## Known By - [[Pipe]], through political text research - Full party, after Pipe’s explanation - Scholars of planes - Possibly [[Solland]] authorities, depending on later revelations ## Important Connected Sites - Shadowfell - Evernight - The Dark Lands - The Black Rift - Echoes of Material Plane locations - [[Valhon]], through Evernight ## Associated Factions - [[The Night Council]] - Nera and Nerul - Shadowfell political powers ## Associated Characters - [[Pipe]] - Nera - Nerul - Possibly the planar creatures attached to [[Solland]] citizens, if connected ## Connected To - [[Feywild]] - Decay - Death - No true sun - Planar creatures - [[Solland]] cough, possibly - Blight, possibly but not confirmed - [[Nyxthys]], thematically but not confirmed - [[Whune]], thematically but not confirmed ## Open Questions - Are the planar creatures causing the [[Solland]] cough from the Shadowfell? - Is the Shadowfell connected to the Blight? - Are Nera and Nerul connected to current events? - What does the Night Council want? - How does Shadowfell geography map onto [[Tarin]]? - Is there an echo of [[Solland]] or [[Crownshold]] in the Shadowfell? - Are Traitor Hands connected to Shadowfell powers? ## Session 49 Archive Research - The Shadowfell is a bleak, unstable echo of the Material Plane, contrasted with the emotional abundance of the Feywild. - Known regions include Evernight, the Dark Lands and the Black Rift. - [[The Night Council]], led by [[Nera]] and [[Nerul]], has grown more organised and influential over the last millennium. - The Council seeks to make the Shadowfell an ordered power rather than merely an echo of the living world. ## Session 58 Update - [[The Final Days of Whune]] refers to a place called **“the land of Shadow”**, where Whune's faithful hoped she and **“your ward”** could hide beyond the reach of the Lands of Sol and be renewed in glory. - The party immediately connected this phrase with the Shadowfell, but the tablets do not explicitly use the modern name **Shadowfell**. - The tablets also describe an unnamed **Lord of Death** who shared Whune's fate and travelled beside her. - [[Elena]] has now left the main party with [[Jasper]], a Hand of [[Nyxthys]] who appears capable of planar travel, to begin an operation intended to exploit the Traitor Hands' repeated invitations to the Shadowfell. - Elena has **not yet been shown entering the Shadowfell** by the end of Session 58.