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"Darkness is a friend, an ally. Darkness allows us to understand others, to see what they value when they believe no one else is looking. It allows us to be honest with ourselves, to express those values that we would disavow in the light. The light blinds us. It is only in the dark that we see clearly, and there is a great dark hidden among these worlds."
― Darth Revan (Star Wars)
Top: The moon illuminates against the darkness, yet it also represents duality.
Bottom: A dark gray sign is a black crescent moon that represents the unknown, fear and control, duality, introspection, and sometimes taboo.
Dark (Tagalog: madilim; Maori: parauri; Japanese: 闇 "yami"; Emoji:🌑) is an inorganic element that is commonly found in nature.
Umbrakinesis is the superpower to create, control, and manipulate darkness or shadows. It is the mystical opposite of Photokinesis, embodying secrecy, fear, and power drawn from the absence of light.
Umbrakinesis is from Latin:
“Umbra” = shadow or darkness
“Kinesis” = control or movement
Umbrakinesis literally means “control of shadows or darkness.”
A person who wields this power is called an Umbrakinetic or Shadowmancer.
Blackness Manipulation/Control
Darkness Control
Erebokinesis
Scotokinesis (or Skotokinesis)
Scia-/Sciokinesis (or Skia-/Skiokinesis)
Achluokinesis
Zophokinesis
Shadow/Shade Manipulation/Control/Bending
Umbrakinesis
Umbral Manipulation/Control
Darkness/Shadow Magic (Fairy Tail)
Dark/Shadow Magic (Black Clover)
Obtenebration (Vampire: The Masquerade)
Void (Hollow Knight)
Shadow Summoning (The Grishaverse)
Dark Type (Pokemon)
Darkness is the condition resulting from a lack of illumination, or an absence of visible light.
The Dark Element is represented by traits that are considered feral and untameable, specifically those born from adverse and intense complex social conditions; by traits that evoke a negative leaning nature—from having a nocturnal day cycle, exhibitions of unusually cruel, crafty, and clever intelligence, belligerent aggressiveness, the sentient awareness and choice to harm and/or inflict ill will—and by traits that represent the negative end of nature and reality, such as shadows, declination, "the survival of the fittest," destruction, comings of darker times; and to the unknown but potentially dangerous aspects of the mysterious and enigmatic.
By juxtaposing light-value colors against dark-value colors, we create “contrast.” Through contrast, the human eye can quickly identify the important design principles of proportion, line, form, texture, and movement as part of evil ideas.
The creature or survivor has the ability to create, sculpt, and control shadows and darkness. One can control and manipulate the beings that are present there, create and remove shields and areas of complete darkness, make constructs and weapons, teleport oneself through great distances using shadows, and more. Darkness is primarily used to cover everything in total darkness, but it can also be channeled to a variety of effects, both as an absence of light and a solid substance.
The user may control the night, including how long it lasts, as the dark element rules because nightfall occurs whether or not the sun is shining in those regions of the planet. They have some limited control over the moon and stars, darkness, and nocturnal optical phenomena.
Advanced creatures or survivors can build, shape, and manipulate all parts of a moon or moons, including its gravity and the impact it has on the planet, its reflecting surface, the ability to tell time, etc. They can also utilize its lunar energy. This is because the dark element rules.
Due to the Moon's prominence in the sky, which results from it being the second-brightest object in the sky after the Sun, and its regular cycle of phases, the Moon has had a significant cultural impact on language, calendars, art, and mythology since ancient times. The ocean tides and little lengthening of the day are caused by the moon's gravitational pull. The moon appears approximately the same size in the sky as the sun due to its current orbital distance, which is about thirty times the diameter of Earth. This allows it to almost perfectly hide the sun in total solar eclipses using only mental incantations.
Users can reanimate corpses and dead creatures, giving them the ability to move and respond within the dark element's laws. Although the corpses are typically under the user's control, they must be closely watched because they are probably mindless. Some users might be able to develop sentient or somewhat sentient undead, though.
Umbrakinesis represents:
🌑 The unknown — mystery, secrecy, and the hidden self.
⚫ Fear and control — the power of the subconscious.
💀 Duality — light cannot exist without shadow.
🧘 Introspection — mastery of one’s inner darkness.
Shadow users often walk a fine line between balance and corruption, making them complex antiheroes or dark guardians in fiction.
Weapons and armor can be imbued with the element of darkness. Some species of creatures are imbued with it. Using dark sources or other naturally occurring materials. When a dark weapon strikes, it releases a black, purple, or green energy from the darkness into the wound, which can be extremely effective against certain creatures.
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Depending on skill and focus, an Umbrakinetic can:
Shadow Generation: Create and expand darkness in any area, even in full light.
Shadow Manipulation: Shape shadows into weapons, tendrils, creatures, or constructs.
Darkness Solidification: Transform shadows into tangible objects, such as armor, blades, or shields.
Shadow Travel / Shadow Stepping: Move instantly between two shadows, allowing teleportation through darkness.
Fear Inducement: Draw on darkness to amplify fear, despair, or anxiety in others — a psychological side effect of the power.
Cloaking / Invisibility: Blend into darkness or turn invisible within shadows.
Energy Drain / Light Absorption: Absorb light energy to strengthen darkness or weaken light-based attacks.
Shadow Possession: Merge with or control the shadows of others — even influencing the person attached to that shadow.
Dark Construct Creation: Manifest shadow beasts, clones, or weapons made of condensed darkness.
Dimensional Connection: Access a “Shadow Realm” or dark dimension that exists parallel to the physical world.
Dark Punch
Dark Kick
Dark Spit
Dark Blast
Dark Ball
Dark Slash
Dark Explosion
Dark Fang
Dark Blade
Dark Beam
Dark Shot
Dark Slash
Dark Breath
Dark Stumbled
Dark Arrow
Sucker Punch
Torment
Bad Accused
Muted Chop
Night Blast
Moonlight Beam
Moonlight Punch
Moonlight Kick
Embargo
Bone Slam
Bone Club
Bone Blade
Crime Teaser
Fake Cry
Fake Surrender
Malicious Slam
Nope for Me
Beat Me
Snatch
Moonlight Shield
Shadow Trap
Solar Eclipse Beam/Sǧʰriūl (Mothsol only)
Primeval Wrath (Titanios only)
Hacked by Black Saturday (Nigrostra and its subspecies only)
Shadow Exodusucks (Black Shug Monkey\ only)
Waste Plasticificate (Moha-moha only)
Shadow Lies - Powers up the Dark Element moves, if during Nighttime.
Justify - When the creature is hit by a Dark Element attack, its Attack stat is boosted by its sense of justice.
Harsh Combat - The creature gets scared when hit by a Dark-, Spirit-, Fae-, Light-, Combat-, Chaos-, or Bug-type attack or if intimidated, which boosts its Speed stat.
Solar Eclipse - Turns the ground into darkness when the creature enters a battle.
Arcane✨ - because these represent fears, which can take over the mind and affect one's concentration.
Metal🔩 - The machines don't feel fear since they don't have emotions or feeling, causing alternatively bad glitching by the dark magic called AI Takeover.
Sound🎵 - because travels faster at night causing the sound wave to refract back towards.
Light🔆 - Because of the lack of light of either darkness or evil people, and fear is known to disrupt one's rationality and cause blindness.
Time🕒 - Because the time is wasted. However, experimental demonstrations of altered time perception in depressed patients are not conclusive.
Aether🌌 - because they can be affected by light to the space and soul.
Rock🪨 - because some rocks and crystals absorbs light.
Leaf🌿 - because plants absorb light from the chlorophyll called photosynthesis for their own benefit.
Sound🎵 - because it does not really affect sound, sound travels in waves and exists only within a medium. Light also travels in a wavelike manner but light has electric and magnetic properties
Dark🌑 - because of the lack of light of either darkness or evil people, and fear is known to disrupt one's rationality and cause blindness.
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Watchers
Uatu
Fomorians
Balor
Lugh
Dean Breathnach
Antediluvian Saurfolks
Erlin Khan
Common Saurfolks
Meranie Jorpassadal
Jared Jorpassadal
Isu
Thor
Loki
Sigyn
Zeus
Hera
Artemis/Selene
Apollo/Helios
Aphrodite/Venus
Hephaestus
Ares
Hades
Persephone
Chang'e
Quetzalcoatl
Odin
Frigga
Yahweh
Marduk
Bathala
Ranginui
Papatuanuku
Susanoo
Amaterasu
Tsukuyomi
Indra
Satan
Yaldabaoth
The Holy Ghost
Saraswati
Angels
Michael the Archangel
Gabriel the Archangel
Raphael the Archangel
Uriel
Samael
Humans (pre-2100)
Gilgamesh
Moses
Pythagoras
Leonidas I
Alexander the Great
Darius III
Roxana of Bactria
Artabanus of Persia
Peter the Apostle
Paul the Apostle
Saint Valentine of Rome
Agnes of Rome
Constantine the Great
Sir Lancelot
Queen Guinevere
Dymphna
Eivor Varinsdottir
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Princess Aurora
Varian Debussie
Arianna of Corona
Rapunzel of Corona
Julius Sonne-Pierre
Marielle Pierre-Muller
Florent Sonne-Pierre
Ruben Sonne-Pierre I
Pierre Sonne-Pierre II
Vivienne Sonne-Pierre
Lady Josette Sonne-Pierre
Alicia Sonne-Pierre
Cassandra Lunlac
Anthony Pierre
Maurice Pierre
Maribelle Pierre/Princess Belle
Cinderella
Anna of Arendelle
Miguel Rivera
Mirabel Madrigal
Sofia Balthazar-Winslow
Cedric the Sorcerer
Elena Castillo Flores
Anastasia Romanov
Berengar Horvath
Constantin Sanatescu (WD-2)
Diana Spencer
Nilan Punzalan-Pradep
Guaiya Punzalan-Padilla
Pingking Punzalan-Peng
Lesley Punzalan
Noel Punzalan
Ginhawa Punzalan
Carlito Asad Bautista
Maleek Badawi-Bautista
Mateo Badawi-Bautista
Omar Badawi-Bautista
Valerianna Badawi-Bautista
Gorca de Pascua
Juan Nantellontil
Timoteo Nantellontil
Donald Nantellontil
Gaspar Nantellontil
Zhong Yi Linjin
Meijing Linjin
Ronaldo Galicinao-Kealani
Paolo Galicinao-Kealani
Maia Galicinao-Kealani
Alina Galicinao
James Galicinao
Joszef Horvath
Heloise Szekely
Manuelito de Jesus
Shay Cormac
Arno Dorian
Desmond Miles
William Miles
Tony Stark/Iron Man
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin
Harry Osborn/New Goblin
Eddie Brock/Venom
Akuma
Ryu Hoshi
Mr. Bison
Jin Kazama
Humans (post-2100)
Helga Miracle
Yosef Buenaventura
Clarissa Jasmin-Buenaventura
Archie Buenaventura
Arnold Buenaventura
Allison Buenaventura
Rapunzel Solcorvauld-Morrison
Isabella Solcorvauld-Morrison
Nicolette Solcorvauld-Morrison
Jericho Morrison
Arianna Solcorvauld-Morrison
Amethystine Regina
Dominic Regina
Chiara Wilson
Odette Regina
Clarabelle Regina
Lorenzo Villaroel
Human-Isu Hybrids
Adam
Eve
Ryomen Sukuna
Human-Angel Hybrids
Sunny Starlen
Lumina Starlen
Elves (post-2100s)
Galadriel Hegrikultras
Amberley Hegrikultras
Melissa Hegrikultras
Geraldine Fifhtrasso
Thatrollwans
Delphina Dlerraz
Antoinette Dlerraz
Jeanne Dlerraz
Santiago Gutierrez
Fairies
Emily Blair
Sarah Blair
Dermochlories
Ji Yi Ko Ashton
Gi Ga Ko
Berbanian "Gods"
Asraq/Uwawu
Wannor
Comieos
Thorimiyer Ankawor
Katackalos Ankawor
Eldritch Terrors
Typhon
Tiamat
Jormungandr
Apep
Trentren Vilu
Caicai Vilu
Bakunawa
Yamata no Orochi
Ellen Trechend
Humans
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Padme Amidala
Anakin Skywalker
Luke Skywalker
Leia Skywalker
Sabine Wren
Ezra Bridger
Kanan Jarrus
Captain Rex
Satine Kryze
Bo-Katan Kryze
Sheev Palpatine
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Yoda
Ahsoka Tano
Synapsids
Fomorian (varied)
Mammals
Reptiles
Non-Avian Dinosaurs
Antediluvian Saurfolk (varied)
Common Saurfolk (varied)
Seashore Saurfolk (varied)
Volcanic Saurfolk (varied, minority)
Avian Dinosaurs
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Saurischian Wyverns
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Elder Dragons
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Amphibians
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Fisherps
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Bony Fishes
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Cartilaginous Fishes
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Jawless Fishes
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Cnidarians
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Segemented Worms
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Mollusks
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Chelicerates
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Crustaceans
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Insects
Automatons
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Extraterrestrials
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Constructs