"Come, accompany me to Oribos." The Winter Queen acted decisively, resolving to summon all the Eternal Ones to the Seat of the Arbiter for a council of the five gods of the Shadowlands.
The Winter Queen could not accept that Revendreth and the Maw had conspired to orchestrate the Anima crisis devastating the Shadowlands.
This betrayal from within made the Winter Queen feel that winter had truly arrived. The order of the Shadowlands was on the verge of complete collapse.
With the traditional route between Ardenweald and Oribos severed, Ysera accompanied the Queen through the attendants' gate and entered the empty Chaos Realm of the Shadowlands.
By forgoing the spiritual passage built by the city of Oribos, Ysera was fortunate enough to see the Shadowlands in their entirety.
The Winter Queen told Ysera that the Shadowlands were a wondrous plane.
This world consisted of different regions joined together, with Oribos serving as the central transit hub for the five major regions.
Imagination alone offered no clear picture. Ysera had simply assumed that the six major regions of the Shadowlands formed a spherical planet like Azeroth, with the various landmasses arranged around Oribos.
But in the Chaos Realm, Ysera finally saw how the six regions of the eternal Shadowlands were arranged.
Oribos was indeed a transit hub, but the capital itself merely floated above the Chaos Realm of the Shadowlands.
This ancient city-engine resembled an enormous portal, connecting the five major regions of the Shadowlands through five slender routes of different colors.
Revendreth, Ardenweald, Bastion, Maldraxxus, and the Maw.
These five Shadowlands powers occupied different positions, surrounding the enormous city of Oribos in three dimensions.
Moreover, the territories of the five Eternal Ones were far larger than what Ysera had seen.
Take Ardenweald, for instance. In this world that sheltered the