The Fade

The Fade, also known as the Plane of Shadow, was one of the planes of existence in cosmological model of Revelyá's material plane. Other names for this plane included Shadowland, The Void and simply Shadow.
It existed as sort of counterpart to the Feywild, in the sense that it was a reflection, or "echo", of the Prime Material Plane. Unlike the Feywild, it was a bleak, desolate place full of decay and death and the plane that was infested with several demons, also called "Daemons".
Roaming around the desolate stretches and ruins that decked the geography of this forsaken plane of existence, dark monstrosities and abberations make their home. In the Fade's darkest heart, called the "Pandemonium", daemons seek out the dreams of sleeping creatures. When a living creature went to sleep in the prime material plane, their mind and soul would usually wander throughout the etherial plane and tug on strings and fabrics of the Fade - something we would call nightmares. It is in those nightmares when daemons would seek out our minds and tried contacting us through various means, with a promise of power and magical abilities. Weak souls would usually accept the terms and were granted small fragments of powerful magic, sometimes without even knowing that they were touched by a daemon who made this possible and without even agreeing to going into a pact directly. This way, daemons woudl grow their influence in the Prime Material Plane and would build up power to one day be released from The Fade.

Description

The most striking and immediate impression a visitor to the Plane of Shadow experienced was the lack of color and light; no sun, moon, or stars adorned the vault of the inky black sky, and all things looked as if the color had leeched out, leaving nothing but black and white, which in the dimness were more like "dark black" and "light black". A light source only illuminated half the distance it normally would, flames and fires put out less heat and spells that dealt with light or fire were less predictable and prone to failure, whereas shadow spells were enhanced. On the other hand, although it would not illuminate as far, any light source on the plane could be spotted at a distance of up to ten times its normal range of illumination, such was the contrast to the constant gloom, similar to a star in the night sky. Even a light source that only put out shadowy illumination, like a darkness spell or a lantern burning shadowlight oil, could be seen up to five times its range of illumination.
Gravity and time were the same in The Fade as on the Prime Material Plane, but because The Fade was magically morphic the landscape was a dark, twisted echo of what existed on the Prime. Upon entering the Plane of Shadow, the local features were usually quite similar: casting shadow walk in a forest put you in a shadow forest; casting it under water dropped you in a similar body of water, etc. But from that starting point, the landscape diverged rapidly away from the familiar, and on subsequent visits from the same starting point it diverged in different ways, making mapping The Fade a useless endeavor. Landmarks were usually recognizable but altered in some bizarre way: buildings might be constructed in a different style, built with different materials, at a different location, and/or in any condition from dilapidated ruins to its normal appearance, for example, or otherwise strange and distorted. Similar sites were sometimes called "shadow-analogues".
Quite unsettling echoes occurred in areas analogous to towns and cities in the Prime Material Plane where the veil between the planes was thin. They were nothing more than mirages, but familiar faces and places seen through the macabre mirror of The Fade could be very demoralizing. Structures might appear altered, dislocated, destroyed, or replaced entirely by something else. Mirages of the living had visages of distorted nightmares, but were still recognizable enough to give travelers a jolt of fear and revulsion.
Air, water, and food existed on this plane, supporting weird plants, distorted fauna, and the demons adapted to the shadow environment. Visitors could survive indefinitely if they were willing to endure thick, foul-smelling water, food that oozed dark blood, and a pervasive nip of cold in the air. A visitor could never feel warm, would often hear or sense the presence of things that weren't there, and could never shake the feeling of being watched. It was a constantly unsettling place. Over time, exposure to The Fade altered living things, increasing various traits and abilities but also some vulnerabilities. Emotions and the ability to experience them seemed to fade over time for those who were exposed to this plane for too long...

Type

Dimensional plane