High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Shadows are a fictional alien species in the science fiction television series Babylon 5. Their homeworld is Z`ha`dum, and they were the second race among the First Ones to be discovered and nurtured by Lorien, the "First One". In contrast to the Vorlons, whose philosophy is represented by the question "Who are you?", that of the Shadows is represented by the question "What do you want?", centering towards desire rather than identity. J. Michael Straczynski, the show`s creator, once explained that he chose the name "Shadows" because of its meaning in Jungian psychology.