The Shadow

The children of the Shadow are born at night, the midwives say, whatever the hour by the clock. They do not cry much. They are found, when they are old enough to walk, on the wrong side of doors that nobody opened.

A locked house is no house to them, and a lit room has always one corner where they are more at home than the owner. In a fight they are not where they were: the sword goes through the place, and they are a pace to the left, as a shadow moves when the lamp is carried. And when they wish it they are not to be seen at all. Honest folk mistrust the sign, and it must be owned that thieves pray to be born under it. But many of its people want only to be let alone, and are.

Details

• Shadow dancing: avoids up to a third of all melee attacks.
• Can turn invisible at will.
• Permanent passdoor.