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<blockquote data-quote="Tewligan" data-source="post: 1389130" data-attributes="member: 2191">You could require the character to find and bargain with some powerful entity on the Plane of Shadow. Who, of course, keeps the character's life force that it replaces with shadowstuff and can use that life force later on down the road to force the character to commit some nefarious deed on its behalf. Not that it mentions that minor detail to the character at the time of the bargain...Or, maybe only so many shades can exist at one time. To become a shade, one has to first scour ancient libraries, consult sages, etc. to learn the necessary rituals. Then he has to find and kill a shade so that he can steal its essence to become a shade himself. Of course, any shade knows that there will always be people looking to steal the Gift of Shadows, so they're sure to have plenty of defenses - you don't last long as a shade if you can't hold onto that power. If the character DOES manage to kill a shade and reach shadehood himself, then he just became a target for ambitious adventurers very similar to him back in his &quot;fleshy&quot; days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tewligan, post: 1389130, member: 2191"] You could require the character to find and bargain with some powerful entity on the Plane of Shadow. Who, of course, keeps the character's life force that it replaces with shadowstuff and can use that life force later on down the road to force the character to commit some nefarious deed on its behalf. Not that it mentions that minor detail to the character at the time of the bargain... Or, maybe only so many shades can exist at one time. To become a shade, one has to first scour ancient libraries, consult sages, etc. to learn the necessary rituals. Then he has to find and kill a shade so that he can steal its essence to become a shade himself. Of course, any shade knows that there will always be people looking to steal the Gift of Shadows, so they're sure to have plenty of defenses - you don't last long as a shade if you can't hold onto that power. If the character DOES manage to kill a shade and reach shadehood himself, then he just became a target for ambitious adventurers very similar to him back in his "fleshy" days. [/QUOTE]

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