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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3216596" data-attributes="member: 1656">Let's say we're in a room lit by torches.  There are no magical light sources.  I cast Darkness.Within the area of the spell, normal lights - like torches - are incapable of brightening the area.  Thus, in the absence of magical sources of light, the area inside the spell would be pitch black.However, there is a magical source of light; the Darkness spell, which radiates shadowy illumination... brightness the equivalent of candlelight, but over a larger area.Thus, we have a brightly-lit room, with a patch of... call it  'candlelit haziness', in the middle. Creatures inside the shadowy illumination have concealment; creatures outside do not.Now let's say we're in an unlit room.  I cast Darkness.Within the area of the spell, normal lights - like torches - are incapable of brightening the area... even if they were present, which they are not. Thus, in the absence of magical sources of light, the area inside the spell would be pitch black.However, there is a magical source of light; the Darkness spell, which radiates shadowy illumination... brightness the equivalent of candlelight, but over a larger area.Thus, we have a pitch-black room, with a patch of 'candlelit haziness' in the middle.  Creatures inside the shadowy illumination have concealment; creatures outside have total concealment.-Hyp.</blockquote>