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<blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5735710" data-attributes="member: 71571">But Shadow (the power source) isn't the not-Light.&nbsp; The Natural World itself is still very 'dark' and the metaphysical concept of 'light' is absent from most of it.&nbsp; Shadow is a substance, a very specific substance.&nbsp; It's a dark substance that imitates, creates warped versions of reality, and seeks to replace life.Think of it like the Lying Darkness from L5R... it's an active force that seeks to supplant reality.&nbsp; Mages use one aspect of it to create 'pseudo-reality' with physical Shadow (Nethermancy/Shadow Magic), and the other aspect to create replacements to life (Necromancy).Undead isn't solely the province of shadow either... Orcus, the demon prince of Undead, is elemental.&nbsp; Vecna gives a lot of power over the undead... that which serves him directly might be immortal origin.&nbsp; Most common undead are natural origin... sometimes all it takes is a lot of evil of any sort.You have four different classes of undead... elemental charged undead serving a demon prince; the divine-created servants of gods; the random coincidental undead of the natural world... but the shadow creates a different sort... hungry sorts that seek to feed, replace, supplant... the sort that sits in the shadow of life itself watching, waiting.There's a lot of room in 'undead' for a lot of different times of undead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DracoSuave, post: 5735710, member: 71571"] But Shadow (the power source) isn't the not-Light. The Natural World itself is still very 'dark' and the metaphysical concept of 'light' is absent from most of it. Shadow is a substance, a very specific substance. It's a dark substance that imitates, creates warped versions of reality, and seeks to [b]replace life.[/b] Think of it like the Lying Darkness from L5R... it's an active force that seeks to supplant reality. Mages use one aspect of it to create 'pseudo-reality' with physical Shadow (Nethermancy/Shadow Magic), and the other aspect to create replacements to life (Necromancy). Undead isn't solely the province of shadow either... Orcus, the demon prince of Undead, is elemental. Vecna gives a lot of power over the undead... that which serves him directly might be immortal origin. Most common undead are natural origin... sometimes all it takes is a lot of evil of any sort. You have four different classes of undead... elemental charged undead serving a demon prince; the divine-created servants of gods; the random coincidental undead of the natural world... but the shadow creates a different sort... hungry sorts that seek to feed, replace, supplant... the sort that sits in the shadow of life itself watching, waiting. There's a lot of room in 'undead' for a lot of different times of undead. [/QUOTE]

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