two-dimensional predators so successful in their
hunting that they overpopulated their plane of origin and overflowed
into intersecting places.
2
victims of a magical superweapon that left them as nothing but twisted silhouettes.
3
native entites from a world of stark light and darkness, dragged here by some celestial confluence.
4
the occlusions of enchanted shadow-puppets which tore themselves free from the objects that cast them.
5
the tenebrous psychic ejecta of a terminally repressive community.
6
things of living vantablack pigment escaped from the workshop of an occult artist.
D6
These shadows' touch drains strength
1
by causing strands of muscle to agonizingly tangle and knot.
2
by sapping away the very will to exercise it.
3
by granting darkness a weight and viscosity that drags at all movement like tar.
4
with a shivery, contractive cold.
5
by inflicting acidic exhaustion in one's tissues.
6
by sharing a part of their own insubstantiality.
D6
These shadows lurk
1
in the abandoned observatory of a cabal of dark
astrologers, who foretold the future based on the umbras and eclipses of
celestial bodies rather than their light.
2
in the megalithic calendar-complex of a prehistoric civilization.
3
in the buried, tunneled refuge of a city left dry and bleached like bones in the desert.
4
in the cliffside caves of a valley so deep and narrow
that the sun only shines within it for a small fraction of every day's
noon.
5
around a nocturnal traveling circus, relying on prior suspicion on the carnies and freaks to deflect attention from themselves.
6
under the clouds of a perpetual storm, an endless dark night.
D6
These shadows can be held at bay
1
by shadow puppetry imitating their forms.
2
with a total darkness that consumes even shadows.
3
by the light of the sun, which annihilates them on illumination.
4
with a line, circle, or tossed fistful of glittering substance - gold or powdered gemstones perhaps.
5
with a bonfire big enough to singe those sheltering within its vicinity.
6
with chanted prayers to a god of light.
D6
These shadows are known to
1
be distracted by the silhouettes of wisps of smoke cast by fires of fragrant wood.
2
be burned by pure salt - as if the stuff was acid.
3
subordinate themselves to wizards with power over darkness.
4
claw out shrines of negative space in territories wherein they are powerful.
5
be confounded by riddles, so long as they are in groups - debating among themselves a while until a solution can be agreed upon.
6
sometimes convert spontaneously into glares - things
like shadows, but composed of light instead of darkness - this is
believed to occur when their ideals are incontradictorily challenged.
D6
These shadows seek
1
to destroy priests and paladins and suchlike of solar deities.
2
the incarnation of the anti-sun, who will bathe the world in darkness.
3
pilgrimage into the land of the dead, and a psychopomp who will lead them into a favourable position therein.
4
the black bile of melancholic sorts, which is narcotic to them.
5
the pieces of an obsidian calender, which when
collected will allow them to catch a ride on a black glass comet into a
void which will be paradise for their kind.
6
an ebony egg which under their tender care will hatch into a shadow-dragon whose breath will eclipse the world.
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