Shade

Years after years, descendants have searched for sources of power beyond the voidal arts, to grow stronger. This power hungry side of them has made the Iblees himself to forge a dark, twisted gem, inhibiting the shade parasite in itself, for an evocationist named Rilath to find. Upon finding the gem, Rilath found his soul and his mind slowly getting corrupted by what was within, as the parasite was now inside him. After days, perhaps weeks of paranoia, endless nightmares, he started learning how to utilize “Amber”, the tendril-like amorphous material, to his will, yet Rilath was still having trouble sleeping with the nightmares the twisted creature within him was subjecting him to, and his personality was much more corrupted and twisted than before.

Shade magic is perhaps one of the most twisted of the dark arts, involving a creature, that originates from Iblees himself that lurks in the form of its host, giving them powers it has while damaging their sanity and humanity in return.

Specifications

• You may use Amber to do different things with your Shade. You can form a tendril and use Amber to make the tendril as hot as fire, make it as dense as steel, and even turn it into a liquid with little to no friction.
• You may make someone feel dread and fear by the shade making corrupted Amber then making it touch the mana they wish for it to touch. It will then convert mana into amber. This causes the amber to make them feel dread and is if they’re about to die, it will as well cause the person to hear voices, seeing their fears in the corner of their eye, and some permanent effects may happen to people or lesser sources of mana like a rock. Black markings are one of the permanent effects that may happen if Amber remains and doesn’t burn away.
• You can imbue spells with amber. It’d make the spell darger, and more nightmare-like. You can create dark flames, illusions more scary, etc. The weakness would be that it is weak to holy magic.
• The shade may also create structures with their Amber. Of course they’d need to an obelisk that creates mana that is then converted into Amber, done by the dark terrain, to keep up the structure. The structure, or Ambercraft, are blackened constructions, tentacles, and things of that nature. You may also make something like this if one is near the Shade Gem, since it can directly give it Amber. It may also be bound to portable sources of mana.

Levels

Tier zero

• Oddly enough, shades have a tier 0. All it is, is when you are infected by the shade and its taint slowly grows, to add on a corrupted soul is also made and will slowly grow. For an elven week, you will feel paranoid, have horrible nightmares, and a new voice and feeling of a new consciousness inside your head.

Time clarification: The time between Tier 0 and Tier 1 is one week.

Tier one

• When the shade becomes tier 1, two different things will happen. The individual will either permanently have Shadedom, with small possibility of cure, or the user will birth a Shade. After this happens the corruption part of your soul will grow, and different things will happen. Your worst personalities will be amplified and mimicked by the shade. You’ll have horrible nightmares, making you not want to sleep. Finally, a Shade might attempt to take you over, although it’s unlikely to happen and succeed since the Shade is still weak.

Time clarification: The time between Tier 1 and Tier 2 is two weeks.

Tier two

• No more power comes at this tier, the Shade grows stronger and new problems occur. You will get more whispers, and darker words said to you, frequent and grim nightmares occur. One may even see dark figures in the corner of their eye, but they are never present if the individual turns to look for theirself. The shade will now use the thoughts and the memories of the past shade’s self. The shade is now more then likely to attempt a takeover of the shade user.

Time clarification: The time between Tier 2 and Tier 3 is three weeks.

Tier three

• The corruption and Shade continues to grow and develop, the shade experiences different hallucinations made by the corrupted fraction of your soul. You can hear someone say something different, see someone do something menacing, etc. These won’t happen often, as it requires effort from the Shade. Combined with the nightmares that follow your sleep, your sanity is at risk. If one was to have Shadeom sleep would be worse, as you’d sleep more often and the nightmares would be horrible. To end off, if one hears the corruption’s voice it is powerful and is very difficult to dismiss.

Time clarification: The time between Tier 3 and Tier 4 is one month.

Tier four

• The final tier that you can get, tier four. The Shade is now stronger with its sensory hallucinations on the Original user, it is very difficult and only used when the Original is vulnerable. You could see a dead body look at you a smile, feel a hand grasp you, etc. Sleeping is now terrible, filled with grim nightmares and the Shade talking to you in your sleep. The voice of the Shade is now equal with the Original’s thoughts, and speaking terrible things very often. Being taken over is frequent, with regaining control becoming troublesome. The corruption has stopped developing, but still grows. Eventually it can take over the Original, depending on the age of the the Shade.

Time clarification: Tier 4 is considered the final 'normally achievable' tier for a Shade to achieve.

Tier five

• This is only possible if the Original succumbs to their Shade, and lets it take control. The shade is allowed to come fully to the ‘surface’ and take control of the original’s body. The power they wield is directly proportional to the age of the shade. At tier 5, the shade can manipulate Amber without even being taught, as it is now an instinct.
• There are a few ways to achieve tier 5 without allowing a Shade to take over. One involves becoming a Daeva and another which requires one to master the Shade. You must get the approval from the leaders of the Shades to do this! For different purposes, the Shade takes over control when achieving tier 5. There is a very high possibility, for old Shades, that the corrupted sections of their soul has spread so far, they are no longer able to remain themselves. They will succumb to the curse, instead it now reverses roles with the Shade; the Original now observes the Shade, while the corrupt section of the body, controls the body.

Time clarification: One can only achieve tier 5 through being taken over by the Shade or by becoming a Daeva. Any other method must have the approval of the Leader of the Shades.

Red Lines

• Tendrils and other creations MUST connect back to the Shade controlling them. If they don’t, the Shade no longer has control over them.
• Once disconnected from a the Shade, Amber begins to fade away in flakes of blackness.
• Summoned things are only as malleable as their density, hardness and temperature allows. You can’t have an entire tendril as hard as solid steel bending and flexing like rubber.
• It is more difficult to make denser creations. Thusly - for most shades - only the area near the tip of a tendril can be fully hard, with the rest ranging in strength.
• The further away from a Shade, the harder the magic is to manipulate and control. At greater than twenty meters away, it is not manipulatable enough for most combat uses.
• They are far easier to cut with holy magics and weapons with wards.
• Using the magic is akin to physical exercise; when performed, it can be sustained for long, but after doing so, one becomes exhausted. Additionally, line of sight and mobility aren't required for *Shade magic to be done.
• Though using Shade Magic requires a tell, it needn't be 'Black Eyes'. It must be present and visible, however.
• If used against spectral beings, it does some damage, but not nearly as much damage as aurum.

How to learn

This magic is not self-teachable, and requires a shade father to infect one with the shade parasite, utilizing the Shade gem.

Random Tidbits

• If you’d like more info on the shades click here!
• This was based off a guide! Click here!
• On a different note, did you know: That the first shade was a man name Rilath,seeking for power beyond the voidal arts, who did find that in the first shade gem forged by Iblees himself. The shade took host in his body and the man became the first shade in existence.

References

• Original Lore

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