Just as the Blue Star where Li Wei had once lived had its three major carriers—Mobile, Telecom, and Unicom.
Likewise, few people knew that Coriel also had three "Weaves."
They were the Weave controlled by the Goddess of Magic, the Shadow Weave controlled by Shar, the goddess of night, and the Abyssal Weave controlled by the Spider Queen.
Shar's Shadow Weave had expanded precisely by seizing the gap during the succession following the fall of Mithriel, the first Goddess of Magic.
Thus, at the very instant the Goddess of Magic fell, Shar, who had likewise descended into the Prime Material Plane, and Lolth, who remained in the Abyss, both lifted their heads.
They knew that the opportunity they had awaited for so long had finally arrived.
The Shadowfell, also known as the Shadow Plane.
It was a dimensional realm where every color but black, white, and gray had been drained from all things, and a dark land that rejected light.
Its sky was a pitch-black vault, with neither sun nor starlight, nor any color at all.
Though landmarks from the Material Plane could be vaguely recognized in the Shadowfell, they were warped and distorted, like the shadows of the Prime Material Plane—twisted and dim.
In this desolate plane, only shadow dragons, undead, lurking mimics, and dark curtain magic beasts had once dwelled, slaughtering and multiplying amid the gloom.
That was how it should have been.
As a low howl swept across the sky, the shadow creatures within the twisted forest below all shrank back and hid.
It was a city, a city floating in the sky.
The creatures here had long forgotten when it had appeared in the Shadowfell. They only knew that the "Mages" within that Floating City were extraordinarily dangerous and cruel.
Thousands of years of wanton persecution