Oh cool thanks for the info. And thanks for the xp Klaus.
I love thinking up cool\weird builds that may not be perfectly optimized but offer a unique play and rp experience. The intelligent slayer shade above for example I imagined grew up in a vistani clan to family with a strong slayer tradition of fighting to protect thier clan. Unlike his father, uncles, and brothers and even his sister he was born kind of weak, but smart. While his family encouraged him to pursue intellectual studies believing that being a slayer was not in the cards for him realistically, he refused to remain the family disappointment. He experimented a little with swordmage magic in the hopes of finding an edge, but found that despite his intellect and speed he had little talent for combat magic although he excelled in rituals passed down from his mothers side of the family. It was from them that he at least learned how to use his smarts when fighting as well as the ritual to become a shade which his greated grandmother had attempted to use, but destroyed herself with. When the clan was appoaching a shadowcrossing to get to a rare market in the shadowfell that would play top coin for wares from the swamps of the Feywild that they had collected, he took his chances and cast his ritual to transform himself into a Shade in the hopes that it would be the edge he needed to thrive as a slayer. He was right it gave him an edge and he found that his unique combination of intelligent blade mastery with slayer might and innate shadow magic made him the best slayer in the clan as well as a repected sage and shadow mystic. The price was high though as the part of his soul that the shadowfell took as brideprice for power was his connection to his family, he lost his ability to connect and understand them, not because he violated a taboo, his clan was practical about such matters, but because the previous ingrained feelings of belonging and kinship to his family were ripped away with that part of his soul. He can't even recall the memory of those feeling although his memories of those experiences are otherwise still in tact. He still remains a member of his clan, not out of love, of which her retains the capacity for even if the previous emotional connections are gone, but out of a mixture of possesiveness and an unnatural drive to prove his suppiorority to all of them, far beyond his previous desire to belong and prove his worth. He still jokes with his clans men and women, but while he is as witty as ever, his humour has a darker edge to it and his words have hidden barbs were before there was only playful teasing and an open heart.
