Seeing the Colors of Night
Description: There is a riddle that lies at the heart of shadowcasting, that darkness defeats perception and therefore understanding. For most mortals there is no resolution to this paradox and those without the will or need to know, turn away from the study of darkness and shadows for more...reasonable pursuits. But the assumption that there is nothing of value within the dark to be found or learnt is simply a failure of imagination stemming from mankind's erroneous assumption that the dark is simply the absence of light, rather than an emanation of a higher order.
This rite of shadowcasting, Seeing the Colors of the Night, resolves the first riddle of the dark and the inability of mere mortals to see without light. In order to see in the dark, the neophyte must first forsake the light and his mundane sight. The sacrifice that empowers this rite is the shadowcaster's willingness to accept mundane blindness in return for the superior sight of the dark. Once free of mundane perceptions, the shadowcaster perceives the world through the Abyssinian emanations of the dark rather than the illusions of the light. But as this rite is of the simplest rank of shadowcasting, the effects are quite temporary unless the shadowcaster should make a critical error in the casting, in which case the sorcerer is blinded for a length of time consistent with his error.
If successful, the shadowcaster sees the world through the dark prism of Abyssinian emanations (in other words, as if seeing the entire world as a negative film exposure) which paints the world in the reverse of the so called...natural order. But the world is not painted in black and white as most would presume, rather as the color black is made up of all other colors, so the shadowcaster sees the world in an infinite spectrum of brilliant and varied hues that would be surreal to those not initiated into the school of shadowcasting.
The effects are short-term and can last no more than a day, but can be unnerving for mundane men and women to see as an inky stain appears to envelop both the caster's iris and eye white, turning both as black as pitch.
Origin: Unknown.
Ingredients: Kohl (cosmetics)
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