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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9646135" data-attributes="member: 25818">I should mention my conception of the Feywild and the Shadowfell.The way it gets put on there, the Feywild is just the realm of Faerie and the Shadowfell the realm of Shadows. Much like the Elemental planes are the realm of Element(al)s.I liked 2E's Planescape. I see it like this: when people create stories on the Prime Material Planes, that reverberates. Particularly good stories get retold, and the reverberations pick up power, and the Feywild is where that takes a form. The Feywild is the realm of Wild Expression. The reverberations take on a form based on the story; if enough people tell a story about an "ancient witch," when she forms in the Feywild, she is already ancient, with a history, based on the stories.By contrast, I see the Shadowfell as the realm of Banality. As things lose their spark of imagination, they lose "color," both metaphorically and, to an extent, physically. Eventually, they "fall" into the Shadowfell, where the lifeforms that remain become desperate to consume the spark of life and energy to stay alive -- that's why there are so many undead and similar creatures there, they're desperate to drain the energy from whatever they can reach.So, in my cosmology, they're practically opposites.</blockquote>