D. All of the above.
Each of those items are equally important when presenting/preparing.
The Sorrows want the Lucera, the spiritual leader of the shadowshapers, to become one with them and "set them free." And shadowshapers are humans who can put spirits into the things that they create (art, stories, etc.) and make their creations come to life. But that's just about all we learn
The root word for a geographer is Geography if I'm right