Editing Distant Stars (section)

==Shadar-Kai==
Though the masters of the Hell-Born Empire have risen above their kin by allying with devils, there are yet humans who fear damnation far more than death.  These pale witches have turned away from the pacts of their brethren and abandoned mortal life in service to Wee Jas, the Raven Queen.  Trusting their goddess to keep their souls safe long after they've passed on, they in turn cut away the lives of those who would defy death.  As a consequence, however, the Shadar-kai have left the mortal world for the cold comfort of the Shadowfell; if they fall, at least they won't have far to go.

A character knows the following with a successful Arcana check:

* ''DC 20'' - Gloomwrought is a city that borders the lands of the living and the dead alike.  But it is a stranger place than even that brief description would make it seem, for it is a city without fixed location.  Indeed, any who walk for nine days and nights, without rest or sleep and while keeping the city firmly in their minds, will stand before its gates.  For all of this trouble, Gloomwrought is probably the safest crossing between the mortal world and the Shadowfell, for the graveyards and battlefields where one can slip through the quicker are typically peopled with the hungry dead.
* ''DC 25'' - The most loyal of the Raven Queen's servants have joined together as a group called the Hands of the Shroud, and travel from the Shadowfell into the mortal world in an effort to enforce the laws of ending that she has dictated, slaying powerful liches or dark warlocks.  On more than one occasion, they have joined with the Hounds of Fate, as those who seek to defy destiny and those who seek to cheat death are often one and the same.  On the rare occasions that a cell of Hands and a pack of Hounds have similar targets but disimilar goals for them, the groups engage in a vigorous but cordial rivalry to carry out the wishes of their patrons.  While these competitions are rarely deadly, injuries do occur, and the groups' honor and reputations are at stake.  Lifelong enemies and, more rarely, lifelong friendships between the two sects sometimes result as a consequence. 
* ''DC 30'' -