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Is Shadow Council down right now?

Live status for the Shadow Council realm (Americas (US)). Realm type: RP.

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Connected realm group

Shadow Council is part of Blizzard's connected-realm group #125. Players on connected realms share a single auction house, guilds, mail, and group finder.

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Realm insights

Region

Americas (US)

Realm type

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Recent health

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Recent activity

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About Shadow Council

Hosted in Blizzard's US datacenter, Shadow Council is a RP realm. Players use it for raiding, M+ keys, and PvP for North/South American players, which means queues here tend to track real player demand rather than infrastructure problems. What makes Shadow Council distinct is that it is a roleplay realm, so its community skews toward in-character events and guild storytelling rather than competitive PvE. Because it sits in a connected-realm group, an outage here affects every connected realm in the group at once.

Why this may differ from the launcher or forums

Blizzard's launcher and forums can lag a realm's actual state by several minutes. This page reflects the official realm status API directly.

Player reports — Shadow Council

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Frequently asked questions

Is Shadow Council down right now?▾

We don't have a recent probe result for Shadow Council yet. Check back in a few minutes.

Why is there a login queue?▾

Login queues happen when more players want to log in than the realm can handle at once. They're most common right after a maintenance window, a content patch, or during peak evening hours. The queue moves on its own — there's no way to skip it.

What does 'connected realm' mean?▾

Blizzard merges low-population realms into shared connected-realm groups. Players on any realm in the group share an auction house, can join the same guilds, send mail, and form parties — but each realm keeps its own name.

Where does this status come from?▾

We poll Blizzard's official Battle.net /data/wow/connected-realm/125 endpoint every few minutes and surface the result. We don't make up our own status.

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