Dread Realm

A dread realm is a partition of Ayareath, the Plane of Shadow, that has been shaped by an ultimate tragedy in the mortal plane of Urz and is ruled by the gloom and sorrow of a particular soul or sometimes a grouping of such souls that come to be Dread Lords.
== Known Dream Realms ==
Anapilis. A twisted grouping of seven hills and seven towns in what is now modern day Gernaris. They were ruled over by Velinas, the Keeper of Fire. It is believed his death was an effort on the nobility of this region to steal the flame he held as a threat against them and assassinated him in court.
Bitterheart Vale. A segment of borderlands sitting on the western edge of the Broken Blade Coast region that served as Gulthias Toranor's dread realm during his reign as a dread lord.
City of the Apostolate. The horrors of the Church of Alteria are the stuff of nightmares and the great city that hosted the Alterian Inquisition and all of its victims had streets that ran red with the blood of apostates. It is here where the dread lord Alnoth, Exalted Elder of Atavius, reigns. 
Croenur. During the Age of One Wood, the elf known as Victicant peeled the flesh from his relatives and hung them about in his glade, forming the Wood of Peelings, later known as Croenur. These horrific acts allowed Victicant to become a dread lord.
Dark Side of the Moon. The remnants of the realm Thorn Stacianodel escaped from. The dread lord of this place is reclusive and little is known about them. 
Edge of Creation. The dread realm of Hiro Rockscale. It has been left unshaped and its dread lord has worked against the efforts of the Senate of Ravens to be corrupted fully and shape the realm to represent something tragic from his past.
Elorelatas. A dread realm shaped by the madness of Keldur Alfwyn after being corrupted by the tortured souls bound in the Pyramid of Souls. 
Numatymas. Dread realm formed from the twisted genius of Lamdric Semaldric, crafter of the first Undaunted born of the souls of the past dead. His perversion of death and the weight of the methods he wrought plagued his mind into death and beyond it.
Roots of the Godheart. This dread realm was formed in the Lost Age and in itself hosts numerous dead souls that willingly enter the partition because of its nature. The Nothingness that plagued the world and stood against the Godheart during Urz's infancy burns with falsehoods that seem to be the answers to sorrow, loneliness, and the lack of meaning in many a dead being. 
Swamps of Deabahl. The burial site of Grendell the Nasty, a monarch in Vendar that treated his people with such disdain he would have many of his subjects killed and butchered before him to be cooked and then served to him to sate his horrible tastes.
The Hollows. A dread realm formed entirely of tunnelways and old fallen dwarvish fortifications and settlements. The peoples of this place were betrayed by Bernulf Redmane, Overlord and King of the Hollows. They were butchered in their sleep by Bernulf's Glorious Guard and their bodies were given over to the King in Yellow to appease the Great Old One.