Shadow

The Shadow people of Evergloom are the inhabitants of the southeastern-most region of the great continent. They have built for themselves a vast castle-city with high towers and magnificently ornamented structures. However, they are dark-dwellers, a word used in disgust by the westerners to talk of the easterners. They look much different than the races in the light and as such invoke fear because of their alien appearance.

It is not only their look that alienates them. Their entire way of life is vastly different. They grow to be at least three times as old as the light. The current regent of the shadow-lands has been ruling for 300 years.

They live in the very dark, and they have night vision and heat vision. When they are in the light areas they will have to shut off their night vision, perhaps by blindfolding themselves. They can still use their heat vision, and this makes them great assassins and thieves.

In the society of the shadows, organised criminality is accepted. It is seen as a possibility of the people to usurp their leader, should he be bad for them. The shadows keep pets that eat feelings. A common pet is the one that eat conscience. Criminality is accepted because people acknowledge that if you can survive as a criminal, you are very good at doing what you do. In the capital, the Shadow City, a common pet is the fear-eater. Two other major cities keep the anger-eater and the sorrow-eater. There is disagreement between people as to which pets to keep. Some say that fear is the road to war, but others that it is a good feeling, leading to caution. Anger and sorrow keeps you from letting people tread upon you.