Rowena Gives Birth

Rowena Nightshade, having duped the Laeroc, Consort to Queen Maeve to be the father to her child, gave birth to twins. Because Rowena was undead or perhaps because she ate prodigious amounts of food touched by the taint, she gave birth to twin faelings (the natural offspring between elfen and fae) who were larger and darker than normal faelings. These came to be known as shadow faelings, which all faelings become when serving the tainted Great Nature Spirits of Crow or Mother Night.