The darklords of the Deepmists were figures bound to their own domains of despair, cursed by the very Dark Powers that granted them dominion. Each ruled over a pocket of land steeped in shadow, shaped by their sins and obsessions. Though they held great sway within their territories, their power was a prison, for the same forces that granted them control denied them escape. Their domains reflected their failings, trapping them in endless cycles of regret, ambition, or cruelty that they could never truly overcome.
These rulers were feared as tyrants and monsters, but they were also captives of their own making; regardless of their rise to power, all were defined by their inability to break free from the fate that held them. Across the Plane of Shadow, their names carried weight as cautionary tales of ambition twisted into eternal ruin.