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The idea for the fold came from a night I spent alone in a dark house.

We've all been there. We fall asleep in the daytime and when we wake up, the room is pitch black. In that moment, we panic.

And I was sure that somebody was in the house with me because, of course, serial killers wait for you to wake up before they kill you.

For author Lee Barducco, that experience got her thinking.

And when I finally calmed down and realized there was nobody there and my heart rate returned to normal and I had turned on every light in the house and looked in every closet and under every bed,

I started getting ready to go to sleep and I couldn't shake this idea that no matter how old you are, how smart you are, you never lose your fear of the dark.

And so I began to wonder, you know, what if darkness was a place?

And thus, the shadow fold was born.

He intends to expand the fold and use it as a weapon.

The fold? If I knew safe passage through that, I'd be wealthy with the whole merchant council.

The fold ate your parents.

I get it. The whole country wants to see the fold gone.

Welcome to Behind the Scenes. This season, we've been going deep into the world, characters and locations of Shadow and Bone.

The new Netflix fantasy adventure series based on the novels by Lee Barducco.

We've traveled all around the Grishaverse through Ravka and the Little Palace to Keter Dam in the Crow Club.

And now, we're dedicating our last episode to the Shadow Fold.

We'll talk to the writers about its origins, and hear how the fold was brought to the screen through sound design and visual effects.

Is it a wall of clouds? Is it a wall of black gelatin? How black is black?

And we'll dig into the underlying themes in that final battle between Alina the Sun Summoner and General Kiriken, the Shadow Summoner.

He knows the evils of men and he knows the ones he wants to protect.

I'm your host Brandon Jenkins. Let's get into it.

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