Shadow Binder

Strange spellcasters who seek to use their talents to create shadow doubles to serve them and do their work.

Prerequisites

Shadow Binders must have taken Occultist at least once and must have been brought to 0 HP while in an area of pitch black darkness

Skills

Shadow Binders increase these skills;

+1 Rank to Ritual, Spellcasting, Arcana, and Cosmos (Outer Realms).

Shadow Binders receive the following skills;

Chemistry and Anatomy at Trained Rank.

Equipment

Shadow Binders do not receive any special equipment.

Shadow Binders increase their wage by 8 Silver.

Spellcasting

Shadow Binders learn a ritual as a means to create a shadow puppet for themselves.

Create Shadow Puppet
Items Required: Deceased animal or magical beast, and a room lit with nothing but moonlight
Chant: Come out of the Dark Land, obey your new master (Et veni ad terram tenebrosam, novi te dominum ejus intellexerunt)
Ritual Check: 30 (see description for increases to the Ritual check)
MPI: 65
Duration: Permanent | Casting Time: 1 day

Description: After creating a magical circle and chanting the appropriate chant, you imbue the corpse with the powers from the Dark Land - the ancient realm where creatures such as the Unyura and Shadow Dragons live. If successful, the gripping energies of the Dark Land entering into the corpse and sliding through the body in order to begin propping the body up and using the body like a hand in a puppet. Despite being controlled now, the corpse is still rotting and is now no better than an undead, flesh and muscle falling from the body. Its bones are surrounded by the dark and shadowy substance, giving the impression of shadowy muscles replacing the previously rotten flesh.

The Ritual DC increases based on the size of the creature, increasing by 10 for each size category above Medium the creature is. In addition to this, only one creature may be enthralled to you as a puppet. If you would get a new puppet, the previous one is no longer controlled by you and is almost always hostile.

Puppets created in this way have the same Attributes except for an Intellect score.

Training

Shadow Binders and costs 6 TP in order to take it as a Promotion to the Occultist.

Shadow Binders also do well when combined with any Magician occupations.

Occupational Abilities

Shadow Companion: When first becoming a Shadow Binder you go through a lengthy process of manipulating your own shadow and filling it with energy enough to the point that it becomes its own pseudo-physical entity. Your shadow can remain as a regular shadow on the ground, or at its own discretion split from you to act on its own.

Your shadow possesses the same skills as you; however it cannot cast spells, attack, or otherwise do harm to others, usually only being able to interact with objects with 5 lbs. of force maximum, or being able to lift 5 lbs. maximum. It must remain within 12 squares of you, and doesn't suffer any true damage when struck (although it may feign such).

Shadow Ritual: You're capable of creating strange, shadowy duplicates of creatures with your rituals. You can attempt a Ritual on the dead body of an Animal or Magical Beast. The ritual is listed below.

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