In well-lit surroundings (daylight or the radius of a daylight spell) none of these powers function. Shades must be of a nongood alignment.Īll shades have the following powers when within shadows or darkness. Region: Anauroch, City of Shade Combat Racial TraitsĪs creatures of the Plane of Shadows, shades are considered to be of the outsider type.
Shades created from humans use the following aging effect characteristics instead of the ones in Table 6-5 in the Player's Handbook: By trading some portion of their souls for the stuff of shadow, they extend their lifespan tenfold. Shades have extraordinarily long lifespans. There are no such things as young shades, and shades who marry produce normal offspring. Human Shadovars are never made into shades until after they have reached the age of majority.
They are thinner than most humans, and they prefer to dress in dark-hued clothes or armor.
Shades look just like normal humanoids, although their skin is gray to inky black, as are their eyes. Prospective candidates are stringently tested for ability, loyality, and resourcefulness. The Princes of Shade decide who is to be given such a blessing, and they are stingy with their favors, careful to only empower those who are sure to be loyal to them and their causes. Until then, the Shadovars scheme in secret, their true goal a mystery to all but their ruler, the High Prince Telamont, and his twelve sons, the Princes of Shade. Most fear that solving these vital riddles will provide them with answers they will not care to hear. Why the Netherese – now known as the Shadovars – returned, and what they are planning, are two mysteries that trouble the rulers of every nation in Faerûn. Today, it soars above the deserts of Anauroch, land that was once a fertile part of the Empire of Netheril. For thousands of years, the City of Shade was lost to human knowledge, but in 1372 DR it aprubtly returned to Faerûn above the Dire Wood. Over two thousand years ago, the ruler of a Netherese flying city transported his entire city onto the Plane of Shadow in order to explore that dim and perilous plane.