Location from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
The fragmented warren of Shadow — Shadowthrone and Cotillion's domain, a shattered plane of twilight, illusion, and paths between places that should not connect.
The Shadow Realm — known variously as Meanas, Rashan, and the fragments of Kurald Emurlahn — is the domain that Kellanved and Dancer claimed when they ascended as Shadowthrone and the Patron of Assassins. The realm was already broken before they arrived: Kurald Emurlahn, the Tiste Edur warren of Shadow, had been shattered in an ancient war, and its fragments scattered across multiple planes of existence. Shadowthrone has spent millennia stitching pieces back together, creating a warren that functions as both kingdom and weapon. The realm connects to everywhere and nowhere — its paths can deposit a traveler in any other warren, any continent, any time, if one knows the way and survives the journey. The Hounds of Shadow patrol its borders, seven beasts of terrifying power whose deaths and replacements follow their own incomprehensible logic. Nothing in the Shadow Realm is entirely real or entirely false, which makes it the perfect domain for a god whose primary weapon is misdirection.
A realm of perpetual grey twilight where the landscape shifts between recognizable terrain and impossible geometry. Roads appear and vanish. Structures materialize from shadow and dissolve when approached from the wrong angle. The sky is a featureless grey dome that provides diffuse light without any visible source. Hounds prowl the borders — massive, terrifying beasts that serve as the realm's immune system. The quality of shadow here is different from mortal shadow — it has weight, texture, and occasionally intent.
Also known as: Shadow Realm, Meanas, Rashan, Kurald Emurlahn, the realm of Shadow