 Part exercise, meditation, combat training, and artistic expression, the Path of Shadows is a smooth, soft, graceful, and fluid art of hypnotic moves and sweeping motions.A Kalashtar focusing purely on the movement is said to be "staying in the light" while one who instead uses it to train for battle is "facing the shadows".The quori are nightmarish beings from the plane of Dal Quor, the Region of Dreams.