Shadow Realm

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The Shadow Realm, also known as the Overseers Realm, is one of the very few Dynamic Instances that are present on the planes where Draconis takes part of. Inside the Shadow Realm, creatures can observe anything what is visible in the live world, but only those who can acces the Shadow Realm are able to see what's hiding inside. Inside the Shadow Realm, everything looks in a half black-white tone where a slight fog is permanently hanging.

At the present, the Shadow Realm is only accesible and visble by anyone who shares the Shadow element's abiity, who wears the Ring of Revelations, or bears the Mark of Umbra. Creatures who are not a Shadow Element can still access the Shadow Realm by using a Shadow elemental as their gatekeeper, but they will take severe corruptive influences if they are from the Mystical Sector.

History
Before the time Draconis existed, the Shadow Realm was a gift from Umbra, to give the Ascended mortals a place to oversee their flocks and empires, without having the risk to become an open target for their enemies. By that time, only minor, greater or Elder Gods could enter the Realm.

In the begin of the Second Age, the Greater God Wakiza found out about the realm and wanted to share it to his guardians; the Illujanka. Through a device he made in the First Age, the Hexcrest, he assigned a new trait to what made his Illujanka army unique; their Shadow element. But little did he know that another force, the demonic army of Annakharl, the Kraghat, also shared their very same element, and soon faced the fatal mistake he thought to be a good one.

In the late Fourth Age, as the Dark Salvation war was nearly debuting, one of the minor gods named Auria discovered a ring that allowed the wearer to see, and safely enter any realm she desired. This appeared to be an elder artifact, the Ring of Revelations.