The Shadow Folk

Shadow folk is the unofficial name of the creatures the Blue Caravan had encountered during their escape from Lenti, Bethryl. Little is yet known about them and they have only been encountered once by the Blue Caravan.

The shadows speak in haunting whispers:


 * "The voices continued their begging, with a urgency of a thousand sorrows. It was the din of forest as its trees were felled, the cry of a hungry and dying child under the darkness of the night, a pig's grunts as it was shuffled to a slaughterhouse."

They manifest from shadows and are described as being as black as ink by absorbing all light. At first they are formless and cannot leave the safety of the shade from whence they appear. Within a matter of minutes, however, the shadows start to take shape in the form of arms and a runner's body. The light that the shadows absorb is projected out through where their eyes should be. These secondary forms of the shadows are tangible entities and are shown to be rather strong, with one of them having given Velius quite a struggle. The shadows can be eradicated, as demonstrated when Caden sliced at one of them with his dagger and when Oliver threw a knife at another.

These Shadow Folk seem to have an affiliation with the Lenti Mage, Agamemno.