Everyone always wonders who Shadow is and where he's from. Well here is his story…



Very early in the morning when the air was sharp and crisp in South Figaro Samuel Arrowny heard a scream echoing out of his daughter's room. Samuel leaped out of his bed and ran down the hall to his daughter's room. He opened the door that was paint in a rainbow of colors and in different cursive strokes said Relm's Room. Samuel flung the door open and to his surprise he saw his wife and daughter in the room with a little Doberman puppy.

"Now what is this," Samuel asked the two.

"I decided to give into the temptation," his wife, Saria, so keenly noted.

"Do you like her daddy?" asked Relm

"Of course, what will you call her?"

"I was thinkin sumthin like Shadow."

"Why Shadow, isn't a strange name for a girl."

" No, it matches her black fur."

"Saria can we talk?" Samuel insisted.

"Relm I be back in a second sweetie," Saria said while walking out.

The two went to the kitchen to discuss the pet situation over their favorite drink, coffee. Samuel told Saria the reasons why their little three-year-old girl couldn't have a pet.

"Saria with the election of Gestahl to watch over Vector. It is causing a panic and with those "Green Peace" Returners who closed the mountains of Narshe to the outside world, all of the raw materials are being lost. The only things keeping this world afloat are the rich people of Jidoor and all of the Figaros. I have recently received word that King Figaro has fallen ill and the family is feuding over who will receive the crown after his death. The Returners will have a hay day with this information and the leader, Banon, will surely try to start some sort of uprising to destroy the links that sustain the government."

"But, I thought that all of the election mumbo jumbo would help the government to stabilize itself and the Senate would make the land prosper."

Contemplating this new information Samuel gets up and goes to get the morning paper. He reads the front headline and coffee comes shooting out of his mouth with a surge of energy. "Oh my God, Saria, Gestahl has declared martial law over all of Vector. This will destroy the economy."

"What is he planning to do?" Saria asked.

"I am not sure but we must keep a close eye on it. Though I fear that he is power hungry and will come after Figaro next."

"If he has taken over Vector, does that mean that he has taken over the…"

"Yes, he has taken the Senate also."

Just then Relm and Shadow came into the kitchen. "Daddy can you show me how to teach Shadow to fetch?" Relm so innocently asked.

"Not yet honey She has to get bigger first."