Thread:Lukas Exemplar/@comment-1682045-20131115154517/@comment-29517617-20131115175205

Well, the image used in the infobox (Verlain_the_Shadow_Lord.jpg) is not one of the Shadow Lord/Malverlain, but rather one of the Masked One, whose actual name is Kirsten. An article about Kirsten can be found at the Deltora Quest Wiki here . She acted as guardian of the Sister of the South, an evil creature who sings a poisoned song which is slowly killing the land. She is also secretly a servant of the evil sorcerer Malverlain, or Verlain shortened, better known as the Shadow Lord. Now, an actual illustration showing the Shadow Lord can be found here and here. These illustrations are by the story's canon supposed to be depictions of the Shadow Lord the way the palace librarian (Josef) in the time of King Lief imagined him to look like, since the book which these depictions comes from are narrated by him. The book also has a fictional counterpart that appears in the story. Josef was working on the book before he passed away. That was actually where it originally appeared, before being released as a real world book as well by Emily Rodda. That's all. I think I might have overworded it, but I am such a Deltora Quest geek. I just can't stop when I start. Sorry.

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- Lukas S.