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Thank you for your feedback, lemme break this into parts. The mental link was created not to make a group. Absolutely none of the dark ones will be gathering together, as they're pretty independent. The link was actually made for Yah'sharau, so that if people that resisted his influence with the ritual, the desperate people, he could somehow talk them into becoming corrupted. Moving onto the forms. A form is locked, meaning from the moment you become a dark one, your forms are chosen(However, obviously you would pick them OOCly.). you can not change your forms appearance. Also, no matter what you change into, you have the blessings and curses of your original race. This does not change your actual lifespan either. Your original race will also choose that. However, after you do the ritual to become a dark one, your age will not change. You essentially become a shadow. This change has no effects on disease however. And yes, down to the bones you do become that race until you are to change back. One last thing I'd like to note. Yah'sharau and Khai'ihel are completely separate beings with separate goals and so on and so forth, they just use the same kind of magic.

You would be correct in assuming that the player would have one locked look for each form. You could not change to look like someone else. And yes, An orc, kha, human, so on and so forth. But I've actually been considering only making it the four base races. So then you could only turn into a human, elf, dwarf, and orc. I feel as if that would give you less of an advantage over other players.

Yah’sharau The Deceiver and The Mraka'svijeta Materials: One piece of obsidian, about the size of a mina The Blood of whichever race you plan on changing to A dark room A diamond shape. Knife Ritual instructions Find a small, dark room, with plenty of space to move freely in. You are to begin with the shape of a diamond, about the size of the room itself, drawn onto the floor. Take the obsidian in hand, smear it with the blood of the races. Place it in the center of the room. This will act as a catalyst for all of your forms. Meaning if your gem is destroyed in some way or another, you turn shadow form until your obsidian gem is remade, which has to be made by a mortal, willing to sacrifice themselves to reforge you. Without the gem, you are stuck in your shadow form.(note that you do not have to keep it on you). After placing the gem in the center of the diamond, proceed to kneel before it. There are no words, or incantations for this ritual. You need only cut your own hand off. The shadows will take care of the rest. After these steps have been completed, the shadows will destroy your original form(which is extremely painful, imagine getting thrown underneath a steamroller, and there you go), and remake it from the shadows. This means that all ailments will be cured. Missing limbs, and injuries will all be undone. This is a one time ordeal, and does not give you any permanent healing properties. During the elven day, your form will be remade anew. Your new form will have some slight changes though. Your eye color will change, at random. There will be a sort of tattoo on the lower half of your back. This is muscle deep, so unless you feel like carving your back muscles out, there's no getting rid of it. The shadows will however instantly turn you into the shadow form, and you will be reborn. That's all for the instructions. If the Ritual should fail There is a slight chance that the ritual could fail. If it does, one of two things could happen. Best case scenario is when the shadows don't tear your entire body apart. Think of it like this. The shadows are creating shadow you, then they stop halfway through, you would look like a humanoid version of a "dark one" Your skin would be blackened, horns sprouted from your head, and your eye color would be a dark red. Those who get like this, will feel immense pain most of their life. The other scenario. Your entire body explodes from the shadows that are creating your new body. Say during the ritual, the shadows see something wrong. They are a part of your body now, so this would happen about 3/4th s of the way through the ritual. The shadows would see the problem, then all try and leave your body at once, bringing bits and pieces of you with them. The result is quite gruesome as you might think, so I won't go into detail. This would of course kill you in the process, and the choice to pk or not is yours to make. If you choose not, then you go to the cloud temple like always. Yah’sharau Also called “The Deceiver”, Yah’sharau was once a man, just an elf. He was a natural historian, figuring out the world mysteries. There was one problem...the world had already been so deformed by the races of the world, it was almost a completely different place. He longed to see the world as it really was, before anyone, or anything touched it. This longing after centuries, had turned to hatred of the races. This thought, this idea grew inside his mind, consuming him. He wanted, no...needed to see the world untouched. The thought only grew overtime, festering and boiling his hatred for the various races of the fringe. He began to plot...and plot and plot. He began to create his own type of magic. A dark...and foul magic. The foul magic...changed him. His reasons changed. He had read about true power. The ability to crush his enemies. He now sought power. He knew this power could grant him his wish. Months, and years, and decades had past. The ritual had been completed. The parts necessary had been gathered. The finally walked to the center of the diamond, where he placed his hand on the floor. He took the knife, saying no words. He reached down to his hand, with the knife, and in one swift movement, he separated his hand from his arm, and immediately screamed and cried in pain. The shadows of the room began to swirl about, going towards the center of the diamond. He continued to writhe and scream and shout, the shadows swirling and circling around him. All at once, they gathered and shot through his chest, surrounding him with shadow. They all dropped through the floor, and Yah’sharau was gone, only his hand remained, in a pool of blood, motionless.. The shadows began to rise from the floor, at the center of the diamond. It shaped the form of a man, but the legs never grew, only shadows coming from the ground were in their place. Horns grew from the head shape, and blood red eyes formed. The shadows formed a mouth, where but a whisper came from. “Finished...finally…” The Magic of Dark Metamorphosis The ritual that Yah’sharau designed, gave him some unique abilities. From that point on, he could change. Not just from elf to shadow, or shadow to elf. He had exactly one form of every race. He could change his appearance from race to race. However this had its limits. It was not instantaneous, it really had not combative power to it, as that came from personal skill. He devised a way to use this magic for his own purposes. With a new face, he could be multiple people, from multiple races. He could infiltrate, and he could go to those places where he originally could not. He could be the person that can be blamed. He could be the hero. He could be the villain. He could be...anyone. Changing Forms Changing forms is not all that complicated itself. All it takes it a bit of time. You require the original room that you performed the ritual in, and you require the obsidian gem. All you do is enter the circle and you state the words "Darkness darkness...make me anew...give to me the body of a (Insert race here)" and the shadows will do their work, changing your body after one complete elven day. This is not painful as you've already become one with the shadows, so its as easy as making a new shape with a shadow. Some notes on Forms You cannot change a form's appearance once it has been created. You get the racial buffs of the form that you change into You will not age after the ritual, nor will your forms. They will retain the age of your original body, but will only look like that age, not feel that age. You cannot and will not be able to change gender by changing forms. If you are male, you will stay male. If you are female, you will stay female. OOC Notes With this magic type, i'm hoping to not restrict it. I want this to be a widely available type of magic that could be used in a wide manner of ways. Though it is a dark magic, I want it to be available for people. However if the lore team, or the gm’s want this to be a form of restricted lore I won’t argue. While in shadow form, you are completely unable to interact with the world.No touching, no attacking. you are quite literally a shadow. If accepted, books containing the ritualistic instructions will be scattered across the land. Those who may find them may do as they please with them. Note that those who wish to perform the ritual will need to contact me, so I may oversee it. When in each form, I've decided to make it so that you will get that form's racial buffs, as you turn into them, flesh, bone, brain and all. Turning into a "dark one" will render you completely and utterly infertile. This is not a combative magic, this is sort of a disguise type of magic. It's meant for deep cover, and all things of that manner. Changing will take place by using your personas to change forms. Debuffs Weakness to golden weapons: All forms. The Ritual leaves you weakened, making you quite fragile and weak.: All Forms Extreme Weakness to golden weapons: Shadow form. Ritual physically alters your appearance: Process of Ritual leaves the user with tattoo like markings on their back, which means that someone could find them out. Due to all your feedback, the original three will not be played. In addition the whole idea with the mental link has been removed, as it does create some form of unity between the "Dark ones"

To whomever this may concern, Thank you for bringing this to my attention. My skill set offers me tools, such as deception and a knack for surveillance. I've also been combat skills, such as various stealth take downs, hand to hand combat, and small weapons combat.I believe these skills could benefit the guild in the area of infiltration and intelligence. Hoping you are well- Yulna Delario

Given name(RP name): Yulna Delario (Skype name if you have one): You already have it. True name(MC name): xXVenomCastXx Race: High Elf Authentic magic user?: No. If so what form of magic ye use?: Not applicable Do ye seek adventure, knowledge, and companionship?: Yes. Mageshield, Vigils or Apprentice(if other detail)?: Mageshadow. For Mageshields only: Do ye swear solemnly to put your life upon the line to preserve that of your arcane brethren? What combat skills have ye? Short Response for all Applicants, write how ye would respond: You come across a massive ruin of ancient design, strange sounds and lights emanate from within. I send out an bird to anyone that might be of assistance, and I wait for them to arrive. I do not know what could be hidden there and I best wait for backup. While at a local bar you see two dark hooded figures in the corner discussing in a whispered conversation. You can't quite make out what they're saying but you clearly hear the word "artifact". I step closer to them, trying to maintain a low profile. I act as if i'm heading over to the bar. I walk slowly, trying to cancel out most of the other noise to try and get more of an idea as to what they're talking about. Walking down the Anthos Highway you come across a masked man with a sword threatening a hooded figure, claiming he is a necromancer. I wave him off, telling him he's crazy and acting skeptical. When he walks down the road, I follow him, making sure he doesn't do anything...regrettable. If any of ye readers are still left with inquiries, seek out the Arcane Vigils in ((3.5.5 for new location)) or feel free to post a note upon whatever message board ye are seeing this on. Rest assured it will be seen…

10/10 I've seen you many a time

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5/10 Probably not

1/10 I've honestly never seen you

6/10 I've seen you around the forums a lot, but not at all in game