Shadow Realm

English[edit]

(slang) Alternative letter-case form of shadow realm (“oblivion; death; knocked out”).
(fantasy) A place, often another world, universe or supernatural plane, that is inhabited by darkness, evilness, or benevolent entities and creatures, sometimes based around, or said to be, shadows, or personifications thereof.
- 2008, Jennifer Sims, Kenny Sims, Dexter Hall, Wrath of the Lich King, BradyGames, →ISBN, page 19:
  If when doing this quest something should happen and you should leave the Shadow Realm prematurely, speak to Salanar and he helps you return.
- 2011, Linda Chapman, Lee Weatherly, “The Shadow Woods”, in The Fog Boggarts (Sophie and the Shadow Woods), HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN:
  For these woods are like no others. Hidden deep within them is a gateway to the Shadow Realm – a dark and chaotic world where all the mischief-making creatures like goblins, boggles and trolls live.
- 2012, Alec Zandur, Polly and the Shadow Goblin: Goblin Lost, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:
  He is the Shadow Master, Gobregolen, First Lord of the Shadow Realm, he could have called out the Goblin Guard and sent them through your village like unto a plague of locusts, they would have found me, but in so doing he would have ruined my chances of being chosen.