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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 9274532" data-attributes="member: 6807784">I like it!I've been exploring my Shadowfell ideas lately and have turned to the Jungian concept of Shadow to recontextualive things. In the Jungian definition, to be very short with it, our Shadow are things we suppress about ourselves. This can be negative and positive, and includes things like impulses, thoughts, behaviors we don't act out, things we don't like about ourselves, things we have to suppress to do certain jobs, and so on. The Dark Powers are things that sentient life has suppressed about itself since the dawn of senteince. The Shadowfell itself is a plane where all of this information collects and the Dark Powers have grown over time, being spliced and changed and warped by positive and negative effects across all time and space, and it turns out that, since life is Suffering, Dark Powers are a lot darker than otherwise.Why the Dark Powers collect heinous people and lock them into Domains of Dread is not known, but there are theories from planeswalking scholars.1.) The Dark Powers are doing what is in their nature; if they are born of suppression, they must suppress, and they suppress the most heinous things in creation (and whoever is misfortunate enough to be drawn into their Domains with them or afterward).2.) The Dark Powers multiply by containing heinous people and steeping them in ever greater negativity. Eventually, the Dark Lord mentally adapts to their Domain and over comes it, becoming something capable of not just withstanding but manipulating the vast amount of negative information their Domain both absorbs and produces. 3.) The Dark Powers do this at the Raven Queen's behest, who mastered them when she fell into the Shadow and rose within it as her new godly self. The Dark Powers create Domains of Dread because within tragedies is contained the original memories of the Raven Queen; to understand herself, she must understand Shadow; to understand Shadow, she must understand Tragedy; thus she perpetuates the Domains of Dread (probably until the end of time).These three theories are competing, but could also work in unison, and its really made the Shadowfell a more interesting place for me specifically to run games in. Its also let me greatly reimagine the aesthetics of the Shadowfell (and in truth, the Plane of Shadow is really more like the Plane of Heresy at this point; maybe I'll rename it and try and publish it some day...)</blockquote>

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