The Second Generation of Dark Shamanism

The First Generation

Dark Shamans, like any other Shaman, date back to when Shamanism was first created. The Deamon Aopohet created the spirit realm, creating the two spirits of time and space. The realm grew and the elemental spirits and immortal spirits were created. Krug, the first shaman had a daughter, Dom. After Krug’s death Dom was deemed the greatest shaman. Back in Aegis, a pack of shamans created the clan Dom. A member of the clan, Or’Ta, found out he can trick spirits into giving off their name, or he can make unfair and very clever pacts with them that’ll force them under his will. With their name or pact, he can forcefully summon them and use their power. The Doms were quick to utilize Or’Ta’s method. Every Shaman of the clan was forcing spirits against their will. The news spread widely across the spirit realms, the Dom clan was hated by the spirits. The spirits told other shamans of the Doms’ actions. The news then spread across the clans quickly. The Lur clan spat on the Doms’ name, they openly hunted the Dark Shamans down to the last Orc, nearly killing every Dom in an attempted genocide.

The Second Generation

What the Lurs forgot was to destroy the Dom’s books, tomes, and knowledge passed down. Dark Shamanism was at the peak of extinction, less and less Dark Shamans lived to fully learn the Dom’s methods of Dark Shamanism. Few Doms remained, though, a Dom which survived the late days of Aegis did remain. Grak’Dom, a Dom born while the Lurs hunted down his kin. His mother and father both in hiding, which died of natural causes in the future. What Grak’s father, Raz’Dom taught him was how to deceive lesser spirits, and how to trick them into giving over their name. Raz told his son more about the Doms, and where their study grounds were. Before Raz died, Grak travelled to the Orcish desert to search for the Doms’ training grounds. He searched for a few weeks, food and water were scarce. He finally came across a small cave, it looked so as if he saw Shamanistic carvings on the walls, and steps that lead deeper into the cave. He delved into the cave, where he found an underground oasis. The Oasis had a hole in the ceiling, which shone a bright light across the small oasis. To the back of the cave he could see a bookshelf, tons of old books scattered on the ground. The pages weren’t preserved well, he only could salvage a few books. The Orc made out of the cave with a bag of books which had various scriptures on dark Shamanism, written by the three Or brothers, Or’ta, Or’Drak, and Or’Jum. Grak didn’t bother to read the books, or to even skim through them. He left the cave far behind as he went home to his mother and father. Years upon years did Grak practice the dark shamanism, various trials did he do to perfect the Dom’s created art. After mastering the lost art in Anthos, he decided to take in three pupils, which he trained to antagonize the Lurs and those clans that were against the Doms. His pupils served well, and they had a slow start in the art as he did. After Grak’Dom’s inevitable death, his knowledge was lost, his pupils not finishing their trials. Dark Shamanism was at a loss. Only the dark Shamans which terrorize the Orcish nation remain.

Forms Of Dark Shamanism

Tricking/Deceiving

The biggest part of Dark Shamanism is tricking and forcing spirits against their will. Tricking the spirit into what exactly? Dark Shamans usually say a riddle, or a twist sentence to attempt into tricking the spirit into giving off its true name. Once the Dark Shaman has the spirit’s name, he can call on the spirit whenever, forcing it to do what the Dark Shaman wants it to do. Forcing or tricking a spirit gets complicated depending on the spirit. If it is a lesser spirit they are much easier to trick compared to a greater spirit. Spirits that are often under the forceful influence of the Dark Shaman will tell other spirits, which could relay back to another Shaman. There are different ways of tricking spirits. For Elementalists, usually the Dark Shaman will make riddle or a joke to confuse the spirit into willingly giving off its name. For lautamans,witch doctors, and farseers, the dark shaman usually makes a clever pact with them, they may twist the words, which can mean one thing or another, an example of this would be, “I will give you power in exchange for you bestowing your power upon me at my own will.” If the spirit agrees, the Dark Shaman now has the spirits power and can use it at his own will (there are millions of other pacts that could confuse a spirit, though it’s up to the dark shaman to figure them out).

Flesh Smithing

Another aspect of Dark Shamanism is flesh smithing. Flesh smithing is the Dark Shaman art of mutating bodies and/or modifying bodies. The Doms realized that the average body is actually a conglomerate of the elements. Flesh smithers began capturing Orcs and running Shamanistic experiments on the captives. The process undertook a lot of time and energy, requiring a vast amount of trial and error. The art requires silence, so this can’t be done on the battlefield or the middle of a fight, it must be done in a contained, silent area. The flesh smiths finally perfected what they wanted, all their patients in the end had a bigger body mass, extra limbs, bone claws, etc. The knowledge of flesh smithing was lost along with Grak’s death. Though the spirit Ixil has the knowledge of it, which he could grant to someone for a cost of sanity.

Identifying Dark Shamans

Physical

In the early stages when the Dark Shaman has just started tricking and forcing spirits, nothing physical would be shown. Later on, the more the Dark Shaman practices his art, he will start to develop purple nails, his/her irises and whites will begin to turn pure black, and their gums will turn black.

Spiritual

In the early stages of Dark Shamanism not many spirits would know about the Dark Shaman. Though the more the Dark Shaman practices his art, more spirits will know and most likely inform other shamans about the Dark Shaman.

Highlighted Points!

• Fleshsmithing is quite hard to self-teach, one would need to consult with the spirit Ixli to gain the knowledge of flesh smithing. Though a flesh smith has the ability to teach another.

• Dark Shamans do not learn a Shamanistic subtype any faster than a normal Shaman, they just don’t make pacts with spirits, and instead they trick/force them.

• Dark Shamans do not summon spirits any faster than a normal Shaman with equal skill as them.

• A Flesh Smith can’t mutate/modify his own body himself.

• Fleshsmithing must be RP’d with trial and error.