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S HADOWFELL Plane. Where a mountain stands on the Material Plane,
the corresponding feature on the Shadowfell is a jagged
• iven stood in the uppermost room of the central tower of rock outcropping with a resemblance to a skull, a heap
·is citadel-a fortress of shadows and dark stone carved in of rubble, or perhaps the crumbling ruin of a once-great
castle. A forest on the Shadowfell is dark and twisted,
-elief into the sheer face of a jagged peak . ... The starless
its branches reaching out to snare travelers' cloaks, and
·tack vault of the plane's sky hung over a landscape of gray its roots coiling and buckling to trip those who pass by.
nd black, where lived the dark simulacra of actual things. Shadow dragons and undead creatures haunt this
bleak plane, as do other creatures that thrive in the
hadows and wraiths and specters and ghosts and other
gloom, including cloakers and darkmantles.
!.mdead hung in the air around the citadel, or prowled
~he foothills and plains near it, so numerous their glowing SHADOW CROSSINGS
~res looked like swarms of fireflies. He felt the darkness in Similar to fey crossings, shadow crossings are locations
everything he could see.jelt it as an extension of himself, where the veil between the Material Plane and the
Shadowfell is so thin that creatures can walk from one
and the feeling made him too big by half.
plane to the other. A blot of shadow in the corner of a
-PaulS. Kemp, The Godborn dusty crypt might be a shadow crossing, as might an
open grave. Shadow crossings form in gloomy places
he Shadowfell, also called the Plane of Shadow, is a where spirits or the stench of death lingers, such as
dimension of black, gray, and white where most other battlefields, graveyards, and tombs. They manifest only
color has been leached from everything. It is a place of in darkness, closing as soon as they feel light's kiss.
darkness that hates the light, where the sky is a black
ault with neither sun nor stars. DOMAINS OF DREAD
The Shadowfell overlaps the Material Plane in much
In remote corners of the Shadowfell, it is easy to reach
r.be same way as the Feywild. Aside from the colorless
horrific demiplanes ruled over by accursed beings of
landscape, it appears similar to the Material Plane.
terrible evil. The best known of these is the valley of
Landmarks from the Material Plane are recognizable Barovia, overlooked by the towering spires of Castle
on the Shadowfell, but they are twisted and warped- Ravenloft and ruled by Count Strahd von Zarovich,
distorted reflections of what exists on the Material
the first vampire. Beings of the Shadowfell called the
Dark Powers created these domains as prisons for