Shadow Giants are some of the rarer and more reclusive inhabitants of the Evergloam, keeping to thsemselves. They resemble Kayal writ large, averaging fifteen feet in height.
“It was not always thus. The Keepers of Thoughts did once rule a peaceful empire ‘twixt the stars, not scrabble in the maddening remains of another, coiled and lost in time.”
"Kayal (lit. ‘Shadow Dweller’) are a race hailing from the Evergloam who are believed to be descended from humans trapped there following some cataclysm. The term ‘Fetchling’ is a human one, and is often strongly disliked by Kayal."
The mythic origins of gnomes, svirfneblin and other such creatures is supposedly in the mysterious and lively Evergleam, which they left for reasons that are lost to time, or that they refuse to elaborate on.
“It thinks your thoughts and dreams your dreams and it thinks it’s you but it isn’t it can’t it won’t have me it won’t be me my dreams are mine my thoughts my own!”
Local Man Wears A Hat So The City Can’t Read His Mind.