The North is a lot like the Underworld. It is dark a lot of the time especially in winter. The moon shines over the north for months. The north was a stronghold of the Lunars just as the south was a stronghold of the Solars and has a disproportionate number of Lunar manses. The Chosen of the Moon were drawn to this shadowy and eldrich land.
   In shadowlands the ground is covered in the ashes of the dead. A shadowland is created when the land is completely a realm of death. Shadowlands often occur in graveyards and other places where death has dominated Creation and became the only thing present there the Essence of the Underworld spills through it. Graveyards are often surrounded by iron fences to stop the dead from escaping and are carefully warded.