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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8257508" data-attributes="member: 6795602">I think this is a good thought provoking post.  I've been contemplating this picture and what other plausible ways the spell could be described and it strikes me that it's either this or inkblot style (provided there is illumination behind the darkness emanating in a sphere.)But this picture doesn't really go with the first few sentences of the spell description IMO - 'Magical darkness spreads from a point you choose within range to fill a 15-foot-radius sphere for the duration. The darkness spreads around corners.'  IMO The above picture is definitely not depicting what the spell describes.So IMO, despite those sentences being easily written off as unmeaningful descriptive fluff, the importance of these first couple of sentences in the spell is paramount.  They are the RAW that validates darkness spell isn't transparent such that you can see things on the other side.  Once that has been established, it's clear that normal vision can't see something in the darkness spell, nor something on the other side of it.  The spell also specifies that this is the same for darkvision.I think this makes for a strong case that RAW functions you say.</blockquote>