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Jacobson Editing • Adam Dray Layout • Fred Hicks Art •Jeff Preston  \nWe Are Listening!  \nWe want your feedback! This is a living document that needs quality feedback from fans of Dungeons & Dragons like you.  \nIf something in here particularly rocks or particularly stinks, we want to hear about it. Please drop usa line at  \n[feedback@onebadegg.com](feedback@onebadegg.com)  \nand share your thoughts!  \nIf we think we need to change something here in response to the feedback we get, we absolutely will, and we’ll post updates to this document whenever we can.  \nWorking together with fans like you is important tous. Come be a part of the Egg!  \n[www.onebadegg.com](www.onebadegg.com)  \nGODS OF THE SHrOuD ©2008 One Bad Egg, LLC  \nDuNGEONS & DrAGONS, the DuNGEONS & DrAGONS Compatibility Logo, D&D, PLAYEr’S HANDBOOK, DuNGEON MASTEr’S GuIDE, and MONSTEr MANuAL are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. in the uSA and other countries and are used with permission. Certain materials, including 4E references in this publication, D&D core rules mechanics, and all D&D characters and their distinctive likenesses, are property of Wizards of the Coast, Inc., and are used with permission under the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Game System License. All 4E references are listed in the 4E System reference Document, available at [www.wizards.com/d20](www.wizards.com/d20).  \nDuNGEONS & DrAGONS 4th Edition PLAYEr’S HANDBOOK, written by rob Heinsoo, Andy Collins, and James Wyatt; DuNGEON MASTEr’S GuIDE, written by James Wyatt; and MONSTEr MANuAL, written by Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert and James Wyatt © 2008 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. All rights reserved.  \nGods of the Shroud: Foreword  \nrelIGIon Is messy!  \nReligion is a messy thing. People get passionate about it. Different faiths tell different stories about similar ideas but people fight over them anyway. In the end, everything’s a bit ofa confusing morass where people, who by all rights should get along, simply don’t because they can’t come to terms about the stories of whose god did what to whom.  \nThe Shroud’s myths embrace that. In the following entries, you’ll find the occasional contradiction. These contradictions are entirely intentional, and in the game world, they are meant to be the topic of much debate.  \nThe biggest point of contention in the world of the Shroud surrounds the origin of a god known as the Umbral Claw. All of the stories agree on one thing: the Umbral Claw was lopped off of the arm of one of the goddesses by the Torchbearer.  \nWhat they don’t agree on is which goddess lost the hand. Some stories (including one that you’re about to read) tell a story of the Torchbearer cutting off the hand of the Bone Witch, while others speak of the Shadow Above losing her hand in a struggle between light and darkness.  \nWars have been fought over this very question. 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