These spellcasters had a predilection for illusion and shadow magic. Shadar-kai favored the path of the rogue, and these were the most frequent among them. Some shadar-kai enjoyed watching other creatures succumb to despair, as their very presence brought about feelings of sadness and the awareness of one's own mortality. They preferred to attack from ambush and steal without being seen. Thanks to their strong affinity with the Plane of Shadow, shadar-kai were a deceptive and subtle people. In their search for personal glory, most shadar-kai ignored comfort, morality, and safety, traits they considered banalities. Shadar-kai embraced living to the limits of pleasure, while striving for personal greatness, so that when they fell, stories of their great deeds would grant them a sort of immortality. Their affinity with the Shadowfell defined them as a people and influenced every aspect of their culture. Often viewing a present incarnation as but one in an endless cycle and death as foretold and impossible to change, they had grown jaded and careless with their bodies. Shadar-kai had very little regard for their own lives. They were often seen as cold and pitiless to outsiders. They were known to be bitter, grim-natured, troubled, and driven, with souls tainted by darkness. Personalityĭue to their prolonged exposure to the Shadowfell, shadar-kai were nearly devoid of emotion. Their pairings produced shadar-kai offspring, as well as the pairing between a human and a shadar-kai. For that reason, many shadar-kai wore masks to conceal their decrepit state while in the Shadowfell. They appeared visibly aged and withered, with swollen joints that gave them an overall corpse-like aspect.
ĭespite having a somewhat youthful appearance while in the Prime Material plane, being in the Shadowfell revealed the shadar-kai's cursed state. Many shadar-kai displayed all kinds of iron body piercings in nose, ears, eyebrows, shoulders, and other parts of the body, and purple-inked tattoos on body, limbs, and face. Shadows on their bodies or clothing always seemed to be deeper and darker than shadows elsewhere, and shadow seemed to follow them and reach out, especially when they were angry.
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They had dusky gray skin and colorless complexions that varied from alabaster to dark gray black hair, with few shadar-kai having pale hair, that ranged within human hair colors and dark eyes lacking any sclera or clear pupil. They were usually slender and ranged from slightly taller to slightly shorter than humans, exhibiting graceful movements well suited to stealth. Some shadar-kai resembled blighted elves, in a perpetual state between life and death, while others were human-like in appearance.