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The '''Shadow''' or '''Shadow Realm''' ('''''Hisil''''' in the First Tongue) is a separate, [[Wikipedia:Animism|animistic]] plane of existence composed of [[ephemera]] and inhabited by [[spirit]]s.

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The Shadow is a warped reflection of the physical world (or Material Realm) in which everything is alive; anything of import that happens in the Material Realm may birth a reflection in the Shadow, and that reflection may live on long after the original is gone. Thus demolished buildings, ancient trees and extinct animals may all still exist there in spiritual form, as may ideas and concepts which pre-date anything in the modern world (among which are the [[idigam]]). The only exception are human beings (and similar creatures like [[~~vampires~~]], werewolves and Prometheans): people are eerily absent from the Shadow. This may be because only these creatures possess [[soul]]s (or, in the case of Prometheans, an equivalent). (Ghosts, the echoes sometimes left behind when humans die, are composed of [[ephemera]] but exist in [[Twilight]], not in the Shadow.)

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The Shadow is a warped reflection of the physical world (or Material Realm) in which everything is alive; anything of import that happens in the Material Realm may birth a reflection in the Shadow, and that reflection may live on long after the original is gone. Thus demolished buildings, ancient trees and extinct animals may all still exist there in spiritual form, as may ideas and concepts which pre-date anything in the modern world (among which are the [[idigam]]). The only exception are human beings (and similar creatures like [[vampire]]s, werewolves and Prometheans): people are eerily absent from the Shadow. This may be because only these creatures possess [[soul]]s (or, in the case of Prometheans, an equivalent). (Ghosts, the echoes sometimes left behind when humans die, are composed of [[ephemera]] but exist in [[Twilight]], not in the Shadow.)

Travel between the Material and Shadow Realms is impossible because of a barrier known as the Gauntlet, except at places of great spiritual energy known as loci. Because of the Gauntlet, few mortals are aware of the Shadow; only spiritual creatures, Uratha, mages adept in the Spirit Arcanum and Prometheans of the Ulgan Lineage commonly interact with it and its denizens.

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 The '''Shadow''' or '''Shadow Realm''' ('''''Hisil''''' in the First Tongue) is a separate, [[Wikipedia:Animism|animistic]] plane of existence composed of [[ephemera]] and inhabited by [[spirit]]s.
-The Shadow is a warped reflection of the physical world (or Material Realm) in which everything is alive; anything of import that happens in the Material Realm may birth a reflection in the Shadow, and that reflection may live on long after the original is gone. Thus demolished buildings, ancient trees and extinct animals may all still exist there in spiritual form, as may ideas and concepts which pre-date anything in the modern world (among which are the [[idigam]]). The only exception are human beings (and similar creatures like [[vampires]], werewolves and Prometheans): people are eerily absent from the Shadow. This may be because only these creatures possess [[soul]]s (or, in the case of Prometheans, an equivalent). (Ghosts, the echoes sometimes left behind when humans die, are composed of [[ephemera]] but exist in [[Twilight]], not in the Shadow.)
+The Shadow is a warped reflection of the physical world (or Material Realm) in which everything is alive; anything of import that happens in the Material Realm may birth a reflection in the Shadow, and that reflection may live on long after the original is gone. Thus demolished buildings, ancient trees and extinct animals may all still exist there in spiritual form, as may ideas and concepts which pre-date anything in the modern world (among which are the [[idigam]]). The only exception are human beings (and similar creatures like [[vampire]]s, werewolves and Prometheans): people are eerily absent from the Shadow. This may be because only these creatures possess [[soul]]s (or, in the case of Prometheans, an equivalent). (Ghosts, the echoes sometimes left behind when humans die, are composed of [[ephemera]] but exist in [[Twilight]], not in the Shadow.)
 Travel between the Material and Shadow Realms is impossible because of a barrier known as the Gauntlet, except at places of great spiritual energy known as loci. Because of the Gauntlet, few mortals are aware of the Shadow; only spiritual creatures, Uratha, mages adept in the Spirit Arcanum and Prometheans of the Ulgan Lineage commonly interact with it and its denizens.