Viravain knew that she needed mortals to lead the spiritual way of
Mother Night to protect Glomdoring's spiritual aspect. Thus, a powerful
coven of night needed to be formed. However, the only person who could
do this was Mother Night's chosen, Rowena Nightshade, whom Viravain
despised because she was undead. Rowena feared that, once a new night
coven was formed, Viravain would destroy her once her usefulness had
lapsed. Therefore, Rowena stalled as long as she could, trying to figure
out a way to make herself useful in order to save herself.

Knowing Viravain, still a goddess of creation despite her
transformation, loathed those who were barren, Rowena spent many months
trying to figure out how she, being undead, might bear a child. She
finally hit upon an experiment. In ancient times the elfen and fae made
many pacts among themselves from the times the elfen helped heal the
ailing fae spirits. Rowena played upon the pacts to lure the fae noble
Laeroc, Consort to Queen Maeve of Faethorn, with a potion of her own
devising to come to her. Rowena then begat a child with Laeroc, using
strong magics to seed her womb to life.

This appealed to Viravain who eagerly awaited the child's birth.
Rowena's hunger grew to epic proportions during the pregnancy, and the
foods she craved were of a strange variety of life that grew with the
Glomdoring Forest. Finally, she went into a very difficult labor, to
which Viravain became midwife. Perhaps it was the undead womb the
infants grew in, or the tainted food she was fed, but when she finally
gave birth to the faelings, the natural interbreed between elfen and
fae, these infants were strangely different than normal faelings, having
skin that churned with shadows, bat-like wings and eyes that glowed red.

Thus came the shadow faelings to Lusternia, faelings touched by the
Tainted Great Nature Spirits of Crow and Mother Night.

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Juliary, in the year 115 CE.