Talk:The Nightlanders/@comment-9340689-20130530212753/@comment-1988716-20131231220744

The Nightlanders have always been a sort of anomaly in our mythos. Nobody really writes with them and those who do are never sure of how to write them. They were originally called The Shadowgraphers, and we thought they'd be implied to be shadow travelers from another world who simply never talk, always rearranging furniture and drawing maps of places. I came up with this idea that they might be former victims of The Empty City, as after you spend an eternity in a place where maps are meaningless and you suddenly find yourself free again, you'd want to keep maps and organization for your own sanity's sake. Then I think it was The Visitor who came up with the (rather Wooden Girl-like) way they control people and do body horror and that seems to be the one that caught on.

Personally, whenever I write The Nightlanders, I emphasize their mystery. But overall, yeah, I don't see any similarities with the Vashta Nerada. The Vashta Nerada are tiny creatures that live in shadows and act like pirhanas. The Nightlanders are literally creatures made of shadow who are always mysterious.