# Shadow Beasts ******** Though they are called fiends and are usually evil, shadow beasts actually hail from the Plane of Shadow, not the Lower Planes whence come most fiends. There they serve powerful warlords— cloakers, nightshades, dread wraiths, and humanoids who have made their homes on that plane of darkness. They are equally happy to come to the Material Plane as mercenaries or regular soldiers in the hire of an evil lord. On their native plane, the three varieties of shadow beast do not war against one another, but neither will they serve in the same company of soldiers. They do sometimes work together when serving on the Material Plane; in particular, the khumats seem able to cooperate with either of the other two varieties.