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==The Shadowfury==

''The avenger for whom no price was too high''.

'''Usual Location''':  At the heart of the Dread Marches stands a bastion of black and silver, lair of the Shadowfury.

'''Common Knowledge''':  Some of the Icons might know what dark rage drove the Shadowfury in the past, but most people only know that she created the Dread Marches one hundred years ago in a cataclysm of dark magic and Elder technology.  Forging an army of twisted beasts and undead, the malevolent genius of the Shadowfury scourged the Drakkath until her forces were defeated.  But time seems to have tempered her anger, and the surviving people of the Marches are now her vassals and students, arcanists and furies learning the secrets of the sinister path she has walked.  Exactly how the Shadowfury is still so hale and healthy after a century is not clear.

'''Characters and the Shadowfury''':  Few have the strength of heart to venture into the Dread Marches, but those that do often seek tutelage from the Shadowfury in becoming a fury empowered with dark energy or in the arcane arts of necromancy and daemonology.

'''Allies''':  Few icons are allies to the Shadowfury, or even acquaintances - in part because she has outlived most of her contemporaries.  The Manipulator-General has sent envoys in recent years, seeking to unearth what knowledge has made the Shadowfury such a gifted creator of horrors.  The Vault-Keeper grudgingly owes an oath of aid to the Shadowfury, one sworn by his predecessor; he is too afraid not to honour it but thankfully she has not yet come calling.  The Eagle King fought against the Shadowfury as a youth, but the two seem to have come to some strange sort of accord born from mutual respect; the Eagle King mostly keeps her own counsel about the whole affair.

'''Enemies''':  Most Icons feel hostility towards the Shadowfury.  The Thornmaiden and Magistrate both consider the Dread Marches a pit of evil that needs to be purified; the Flame Guildmistress and Lord-Commander see it as a strategic problem that needs to be overcome.  The Silver Warder has a warded prison set aside just for the Shadowfury and looks forward to the day that the ancient fury becomes a permanent, unwilling resident of Pharam Sung.

'''The True Danger''':  The Shadowfury's rage has calmed, but if it were stoked once more to a blazing inferno then would she once again demand the world pay the price in blood and darkness?