Prominence of Shade
Introduction
Prominence of Shade is a sorcerous path of the Shadowcasting school of hedge magic. The key to "Prominence of Shade" lies in realizing that shade isn't just the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area. Rather objects, places and areas are projections of the Abyss in our world. Therefore, shade is the liminal zone between our world and the world of the Abyss. The dark magician simply calls upon various mystical qualities already inherent in these liminal zones to produce visible or tangible effects in our earthly plane. Thus the allegory of Plato's Cave would have us believe that if we are sitting in a cave looking at a blank wall and upon that wall appear shadows, that those shadows are just illusions of things passing in from of the light. But in reality, the opposite is true, the shadows are more real that the objects to which they are attached and their influence upon the material world and the beings who live there is absolute. Plato's theory acts to protect the mortal mind from a higher truth, that occurrences of shade are simply humanity's imperfect perceptions of encounters with another "realm", a place incomprehensible because, theoretically, it is the source of a higher reality than the one we have always known; it is a realm of pure form, pure fact, pure darkness - the Abyss.
In most languages the difference between shade and shadow are vague as all things cast a shadow. But in certain languages shade is usually the shadow of a place or thing. The distinction for the purposes of this path and power are irrelevant.
1) Efficacy of Shade is the keystone power of the path of Prominence of Shade, granting the shadow-magician the ability to touch and manipulate the shadows of people, places and things. The shadow-magician attunes himself the darkness of the Abyss through his shadow and thereafter need only touch a specific person, place or thing to begin manipulating the chosen shadow or shade.
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2) Adumbral Manipulation
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