Domains of Dread
"Within the Shadowfell are pockets of terror... pockets that watch and burn and rip and tear and hide and choke and twist and die... these are the Domains of Dread."
A Domain of Dread is a pocket dimension anchored to a gate in the Shadowfell. Each dimension directly serves a specific fear (or multiple fears), who are coalesced into entities referred to as Dread Lords. The most well-known of these is Barovia, overseen by the vampire Strahd von Zarovich. Domains of Dread are nearly impossible to escape without extensive magical prowess.
A Domain of Dread is a pocket dimension anchored to a gate in the Shadowfell. Each dimension directly serves a specific fear (or multiple fears), who are coalesced into entities referred to as Dread Lords. The most well-known of these is Barovia, overseen by the vampire Strahd von Zarovich. Domains of Dread are nearly impossible to escape without extensive magical prowess.
Geography
Each Domain has its own unique topography that functions in direct service to whichever Dread Lord owns the pocket dimension. Some are extremely similar to Uthilithian geography (Barovia is isolated into a valley), while others are supernaturally altered to extract the most terror (such as the Abbatoir, a slaughterhouse where creatures within experience being processed like livestock).
History
The Domains of Dread were first created when the Near Planes were forcibly severed during the Calamity. The resultant aftershocks fundamentally altered the landscape of the Shadowfell, and so much residual arcane energy was left that smaller pocket dimensions were formed within.
Type
Dimensional, Pocket
Location under
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