The Strings of The Shattered

This set of Abilities are all Shadow Witchery based spells. However, unlike other Witchery spells, Shadow Witchery does not require a ritual or brewery. It only requires Darkness and Shadows. Dark Power Cauldron: Allows the caster to summon a Cauldron, of which contains an infinite amount of Shadows. The caster is allowed to draw these Shadows out of the Cauldron and form the Shadows into an Eye of Darkness. An Eye of Darkness is an ancient Watcher of Shadows. A huge floating eye ball made of Shadows. They would watch the Guardians of Shalith to make certain if they would betray Shalith in the future. If the Guardian was accepted by the Watcher, the Guardian would be granted the ability to summon an Eye of Darkness. Eyes of Darkness provides the caster sight in the Dark, along with health regeneration and a movement speed boost when the caster is standing within its sight radius. The Eye also detects cloaked enemies and destroys any and all enemy projectiles that enter its radius. If an enemy is within its radius, the Eye will follow the enemy's movement, slow them down and weaken them. It will also apply blindness to the enemy. If the enemy gets too close to the Eye, the Eye will send out a Shockwave of Darkness towards the enemy. The shockwave sends the target into the air and applies Shadow Toxins to the enemy. If the Eye is destroyed, it will explode in Darkness, covering the enemy with Darkness. Upon destruction of the Eye, the Cauldron will also be destroyed, harming the caster and anyone near the Cauldron upon destruction. Shadow Alteration Core: Upon activation, the user becomes overloaded with Shadows, causing the user to gain faster movement speed, faster attack speed and the user gains faster recovery times. This Alteration Core also increases the user's Darkness/Shadow damage, along with all physical damage. The user's casting speed is increased along with physical and magic defense. While the Core is active, the user slowly loses health over time. The longer the Core is active, the more health the user loses. However, if the user lands a physical attack on their target, the user will regain some of the lost health. The Core can only be active up to a maximum of 35 minutes. Shadow Razor: Grants the user the ability to form a ball of Shadows into the air. This ball floats where the caster formed it. If the caster attacks the ball, it will explode like a bomb. The explosion contains sharp Shadow Needles. These Needles apply Shadow-Toxins and Bleeding to the target. The Needles also have auto-tracking, allowing them to automatically track to the nearest target. The Shadow-Toxins have a 20 second duration. The Bleeding can last for 45 seconds. If the caster hits this ball with a physical attack, it will not explode. It will instead engulf the caster with Shalith's Blessing. Shalith's Blessing grants the affected target empowered physical attack damage and attack speed. It also causes the affected target to regenerate health when the affected target is out of combat. The target's movement speed and defense power is reduced while Shalith's Blessing is active. This effect only lasts for two minutes and has a chance of affecting nearby allies. If an enemy strikes this ball with a physical attack, the ball with explode like normal. But it will also engulf the enemy with Darkness, applying weakness, slowness and longer recovery times. Shadow Puppet: Allows the caster to form Shadows into a Puppet. This also allows the caster to control the puppet in multiple different ways. Mimicry Puppet: Allows the caster to bind their movement with one or multiple Shadow Puppets. While this Mimicry is active, any and all movements made by the caster are also mimicked by the puppets. The puppets are even able to mimic the caster's abilities. However, every attack made by the puppet, physical or not, is weaker than the caster's attacks. Puppet of Drowthean: Allows the caster to turn a Shadow Puppet into a Puppet of Drowthean. Drowthean was a Healer of Darkness during the Tides of Darkness. The puppets have the ability to use the Darkness to heal the caster and any Shadow or Darkness ally.

is one of the few deadliest spells a Shadow may cast. It allows the caster to summon a mystical sword of darkness. This sword floats in the position of which it was summoned. When the caster's enemy approaches the sword, it will attack by swinging at the enemy. The attacks are extremely fast and deadly. Each attack will slice, cut and slash the enemy. Applying Bleeding and Slowness for 15 seconds. When the sword attacks, it will attack 5-10 times. Dependant on the will of the caster and the strength of the enemy, is dependant on how many attacks will be delivered from the sword.

Shadow's Eye is not an offensive spell, it is a spell of which buffs only the caster. When the caster uses this spell, it allows the caster spot and target all enemies within the caster's sights. Once spotted, the targets will receive a debuff called, Eye's Detection. Any living creature with Eye's Detection will be covered by a swarm of Darkness for 4.5 seconds. When the swarm returns to the caster, the caster will receive a bonus multiplier towards their physical attack speed, physical attack power, movement speed and life regeneration. The bonus is multiplied by twice the amount of enemies that were covered in Darkness. This bonus can last for up to 25 seconds. However, if the caster does not witness an enemy while the swarms are out, the swarms will cover the caster, then will apply the same bonus to the caster's nearby enemies. This spell has a 10 minute cooldown.

is a deadly spell that was banned from all of life. Gael was not taught this spell by anyone. Upon activation, the caster creates a Well of Light. This Well will shine with bright Light that blinds and deals high damage to any and all living things within a 100 mile radius, including the caster. The reasoning of this spell being banned is due to the amount of chaos the Well creates. The longer the Well is active, the more damage it does and the brighter it gets. If this Well is not destroyed or deactivated within 25 minutes of its activation time, it will create tears in the air, of which allow Prisoners of Limbo to travel through the tears. Prisoners of Limbo are ancient beings that were captured and killed by the ancients of both Light & Dark. These Prisoners are extremely deadly. They are fast, hit hard and apply every debuff one can think of. They also have the ability to turn someone into something else. The Prisoners are very weak in terms of defense however. A single attack can kill one. If the Well is destroyed before the tears are created, the Well will explode in a mix of Darkness and Light, applying both Blindness and Shadow-Toxins for 25 seconds. The Well will also harm the caster and almost kill the caster upon its explosion. When the Well is active, the caster will receive multiple debuffs for the length of the Well being active. These debuffs are, Blindness, Slowness, Shadow-Toxins, Purity, Bleeding, Weakness, slower health regeneration and Nausea. These debuffs are applied at their strongest states and are incurable unless the Well is deactivated or destroyed.

This ability allows one to channel the powers of the Ancient goddess of Darkness. The goddess was called Cemmeris. In the past, she would grant Guardians of Shalith the ability to bend and manipulate Shadows and even the Darkness itself. The strength of the Shadow created depends on the will of the user, and the form of Darkness. Darkness Blast: The user is able to collect Darkness around them, forming it into an explosive Darkness payload, of which explodes upon contact and inflicts Blindness for 4.5 seconds. Darkness Bed: The user is able to cast a cloud of Darkness around their target. When the target is surrounded in this cloud, they are put to sleep for 10 seconds. When the target wakes up, they will be blinded, slowed, and they will fear the user for 4 seconds. This ability may only be used directly after another Darkness based ability is casted. The effects of the ability may only apply once every 25 seconds. Tears of Darkness: Allows the user to create a Dark tear in the air, allowing for more Darkness and Shadows to arrive at the tear's location. It also increases the strength of the user's Darkness and Shadow based abilities the more Darkness or Shadows there are around the user. This ability is only a buff. The tear will stay for 30 seconds and can be destroyed by a melee attack or even an arrow. This ability has a 45 second cooldown. Dark Sphere: The user is able to form a spherical ball in their hands and launch it towards the user's target. Upon contact with the target, the ball explodes and covers the target, applying Darkness for 5 seconds, slowness for 7.5 seconds, and Shadow Toxins for 10.4 seconds. The explosion itself also damages the target. The damage of the explosion depends on the size of the Sphere. The longer the user holds the Sphere the bigger the Sphere grows, of which increases its damage. If the user holds the sphere for too long, it will explode in the user's hands, applying the debuffs to the user.

Veilios was an Ancient Guardian of Shalith. He had the ability to control Shadows, take the form of a Shadow and even combine Darkness with Fire. Shadow Formation: Grants the user the ability to take the form of a Shadow. This form replaces the user's human body with a Shadow body of the same shape as the user's normal human body. The organs of the user stays, but is protected and surrounded by Shadow. While the user is in this form, all Darkness based abilities are empowered in terms of attack speed, damage, along with causing all buffs and debuffs to last longer. The user is also granted faster movement speed, and stronger defense. The negatives of this form, causes the user's melee attack speed and attack power to slow and weaken. It also causes the user to become weaker to Light, Fire and Binding based attacks. The user's health and stamina will also drain faster the longer the user is in this form. Shadow Reformation: When the user dies, the user is resurrected as a Shadow then is reformed into the user's human form. This ability automatically activates. It can only activate three times before it goes into cooldown. This ability has a two hour cooldown.

Encases the user when the user dies if the user dies when out of Shadow Reformation charges. The Shadow Dome provides healing and fast recovery to the user. It is also indestructible, so nothing and no one can destroy the Dome. But it will go away after awhile. The Shadow Dome will stay encased around the user for one hour. After the hour is over, the Shadow Dome will disappear, and the user will have to be taken to a bed for rest. This ability may only activate once every four hours. Any and all buffs and debuffs applied to the user, allies and targets will disappear the moment this ability activates. Any summons the user has casted will also disappear.

The user is able to teleport to any location where there is Shadow. However, the location of which the user wants to teleport to, must be visible. Every time the user teleports, there is a small chance the user will restore a small chunk of health. Each teleportation applies Slowness to the user for 5 seconds.

Spyte was the leader of a faction called Vigorous Shadows. They were a faction that consisted of Shadows who became mercenaries. During The Tides of Darkness, they did not devote to either side. Because of this, they had to train themselves in the Arts of Shadow. Granting them a new set of powers no one had any knowledge of. Birth of Shadows: Grants the user the ability to conjure a Shadow Highland Guard. A Shadow Highland Guard looks like this. Credit to the artist here. Shadow Highland Guards are Guards of the Shadows of Clouds. They are incredibly fast, and have sharp claws. Their claws are sharp enough to apply Bleeding to its prey. The peacock tail gives it the ability to push a heavy gust of wind towards its prey, causing its prey to be knocked down and possibly even Dazed for a short time. The user of Birth of Shadows can command the Highland Guards to attack whomever the user wants. The user is also able to summon up to three Highland Guards at once, but only one of them may be a Shadow Highland Guard. Shadow Highland Guards do the same thing as normal Highland Guards, but they are empowered. Meaning their movemnet speed is even faster, they attack slower but deal more damage. They are also weak against Fire, Binding, and Light. Though the only way to rid of these Shadow Highland Guards, is with Binding or Light. Shadow Binding: Allows the user to link the user's life force with another's. This means, if the user is damaged, the linked target, enemy or not, will be damaged too. If the linked target gets damaged, the user will too. The user and the linked target share health. But they also receive a movement speed boost, attack speed boost and they deal more physical attack damage. The longer this Health Link is active, the more damage the user and the linked target receives. While Linked, the affected targets cannot move too far away from each other, otherwise the Link will break and deal massive damage to the Linked targets. The Health Link can only last for 3 minutes and will fully heal the affected targets if it was not broken. This ability has a 10 minute cooldown.

This ability grants the user a set of Liquid Shadow based abilities. Dark Wave: Allows the user to send a Liquid wave of Darkness towards their target. The wave pushes the target back and knocks them down. It also applies Darkness for 5 seconds and engulfs the target with Shadows, causing weakness and slowness to the target. The effects can stack multiple times, but the strength of the effect weakens with each stack. The effects can only stack up to five times. Deep Shadow Wave: Grants the user the ability to send a Wave of the Deep Darkness towards their target. The Wave applies Darkness for 15.5 seconds, Blindness for 12.6 seconds, Slowness for 10.5 seconds, and it engulfs the target with Shadows, making the target weaker to attacks for 25 seconds. The last effect can stack up 4 times and the effect's strength increases with each stack. The wave also stuns the target for 5 seconds, and applies Shadow Toxins for 12 seconds. The Wave will push the target and knock them upwards. When this Wave is casted at its maximum power, the Wave explodes in a Mist of Darkness upon reaching its target. The Mist applies Shadow Toxins to nearby enemies and prevents sight from inside of the Mist. The Mist also provides Invisibility to anyone inside of it. Ally or not. The Invisibility lasts for 20 seconds and is strong enough to make the affected targets nearly invisible. One could still see the outline of the affected targets. Pool of Shadows: Allows the user to cast a liquid pool of Shadows. When one stands in this pool, they will become a Shadow, making them impossible to detect unless they were spotted while stepping into the Pool. While in this Pool, not only will the affected target become invisible, but they will also receive health regeneration. The Invisibility immediately wears off the moment the affected targets leave the Pool. Upon leaving the Pool, the affected targets receive a movement speed boost for 14.5 seconds. It also increases all physical attack damage for 45 seconds.

The first weapon the blacksmith had forged for Gael was a cutlass. The hilt made of a fine polished wood, with leather wrappings around it. The blade made of a sharp and rare metal named Shadow-Tear Metal. Shadow-Tear is almost indestructible, but is very capable of being reformed. When formed into a blade, it is said to be the sharpest blade. Due to the blade being made of Shadow-Tear, the cutlass inflicts Shadow-Toxins to anybody hit by the sword. The Shadow-Toxins can last for 2.5 seconds. When struck by this sword, there is also a chance the affected target may receive a Dark Sights and Slowness debuff. Dark Sights causes the affected target to become unable to see any and all forms of Light. However, targets affected by Dark Sights are also granted the ability to see anyone who is in Shadow form. Both the Slowness and Dark Sights debuffs last for 10.5 seconds. He calls this sword, Malos, Ravager of Darkness.

The blacksmith had also forged him two more weapons, one being a Flintlock Pistol. This pistol has two separate firing mechanics. The primary fire allows Gael to load Darkness into the pistol, upon trigger pull, the pistol will shoot two Shadow-Tear Armor Piercing Rounds, before needing to be reloaded. The secondary mechanic allows for Gael to turn the pistol into a hand cannon (A cannon, but in the size of a pistol), allowing for it to shoot High Explosive Shadow-Tear Cannonballs. The explosion itself knocks down enemies and will apply Tier II Shadow-Toxins for 5.8 seconds. This form takes 10 seconds to reload, and cannot be enchanted. Gael calls this Pistol, Shadow's Temper

The third weapon the blacksmith forged, is a Katana. Of which has two different forms. As a Katana, this weapon can slice through almost anything. The blade applies Tier III Bleeding for 3.5 seconds, Tier I Slowness for 6.3 seconds and has a 5% chance to apply Tier III Shadow-Toxins for 7.9 seconds. It is also infused with a Shadow Gem. This gem allows the wielder to cut themselves with the blade, covering the blade with their own blood, allowing for the debuffs applied to enemies to have a greater effect. However, this also causes the wielder to lose health over time. The longer this gem is active, the faster they lose health. The wielder is able to shake off the blood from the sword to stop the gem. The handle allows the wielder to split the sword into half, revealing a mother katana, allowing for dual wield Katanas. When dual wielded, the wielder gains a new set of combos. One deadly move, allows the wielder to spin themselves, holding the sword straight ahead with the spin, creating Shadow Rifts that release blasts of Shadow Energy around the wielder. Knocking back everything around the wielder. The Shadow Energy also applies Shadow-Toxins for 3.5 seconds, Darkness for 7 seconds, Blindness for 4 seconds and Slowness for 5 seconds. Gael calls this Katana, Slice of Darkness