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Published: 2012-04-10 19:14:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 3726; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 0
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This is a shadow, not match to tell here really, they are another incorporeal, insubstantial undead. Some sort of corrupted soul or ghost. They suck the warmth from your body can pretend to be normal shadows. I think they are one of the more interesting forms of undead, even though their so simple. I think that's what it is though, their simplicity means they're easier to understand and their concept never changes really. They stay consistent.Not sure how they're made, they may be from people who die alone and abandoned. This may be why they yearn for the warmth of others. I imagine many shadows were children. I don't think shadows make other shadows though. D&D did this and I think they went “hog wild” with undead making other undead, before you knew it EVERY undead made other undead in their absurd world. It got tiring, predictable and redundant.
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Hm, a really nice version of the shadow here. The idea of them being the degenerated ghosts of lonesome children makes them seem really sad, but also gives a really realistic feel.
And I totally agree with your opinion on almost all undead in fantasy stories nowadays making other undead. For heck's sake, this isn't the rabies, it's the unlife!
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I think they are basicly the same as wraiths but have whitred away so much its only the shadow left
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That's a neat concept of them.
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i was actually a bit inspired by dnd. they depicted the undead as a supernatural disease, an abberration that a mortal can catch like one could catch a cold.
however, they definantly went too far.
you know, i never in my life thoguht of shadows as undead. it seemed to me that they are some kind of demonic being, of a lesser evil. instead of full blown hate and greed an sadism, they represent lesser, if still dark, emotions, like sadness. i always viewed the dark as demonic, and the dead something that cannot be represented so simply.
that is why i go against the idea that all demons are evil and such. they represent our dark fears and wicked temptations, but that does not mean evil. anger is dark, and lust unpleasant, but unless you end up killign someone for a mere fit of anger or raping someone, there is not wrong for those feeligns existing.
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Well, shadows existed in D&D because there was a plane of shadow. Hell, there was a plane for everything you could think of, it became distateful and tacky after a while. If I don't have a plane of shadow then they have to be undead or something different. Even in D&D they were undead though. I don't think shadows, at least to me, are demons or would fit. Remember demons and devils in my world are living immortal and substantial physical beings. they are a genus, a speciec of creatures. Just look to my Hoof Horn and Wing gallery to see their similarities amongst the speciec. So givin that fact, where does that leave shadows? Well, undead i guess, some sort of ghost.
However i understand that if you DO have a shadow plane and if demons are spirits in a fantasy world then, yes, it makes perfect sense that shadows can de demons.
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