The Faerie have no concept of time, breath of life, or gift of death. They are Other, neither good nor evil, and therefore capable of both extremes. They inhabit the twilight Sha-dowlands, a between space that buffers mortality from the hereafter, where magic is thick, influencing human dreams and nightmares.
The greatest of the Fae, Shadowman, also known as Death, guarded the veil and couriered souls across the divide for millennia upon millennia.
One day, Death fell in love and abandoned his post. As a direct consequence of his actions, the boundary between mortality and the Shadowlands thinned and is now…permeable to beings on both sides.
—from The Shadowlands
Treatise,
by Talia Kathleen Thorne,
The Segue Institute