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>Talismans/wards are made through thaumaturgy, which was nuked from the setting.
Still false.
>And since 1e, shadowlands are so inimical to life, that they begin to close if people live too hard near them, such as doing constant religious rituals and religious pilgrimages.
I strongly doubt that the religious rituals and pilgrimages done by ancestral cults would close a shadowland.