Nightshade

**Race** | * Heteromorphic Race

While many beings across the realms have speculated about the darker side of material reality, none have ever learned of it's truly terrifying power. Although many can brave the very void that it is, few have ever survived to tell the tale without some kind of madness setting in. What horrors have they seen in the dark abyss void of all light? What powers have they uncovered and have accidentally unleashed upon the worlds?

**Nightshades** (ナス科) are a type of undead beings that are effectively living shadows. While there are creatures that can become living shadows in similarity to the Nightshades, Nightshades are forever different as they are the darkness that they were born from and always will belong to that darkness.

## Background

Nightshades are undead summons brought forth by anyone with some knowledge of shadowmancy to serve them. Thus, there exist several variant types among their ranks, depending on how much power the Magic Caster invested in summoning.

By YGGDRASIL standard, while any race could be turned into the effective equivalent of a living shadow, there were certain exceptions among some races that are exempted from such change. Races like a Angels for example whose bodies radiated divine light and had to be corrupted first, couldn't become a vessel of living shadow.

There are nightshade variants like:

* Creeper
* Enderin
* Gloomwing
* Phantom
* Spook
* Stalker

### Appearance

While nightshades vary in appearances, the one commonality that they have is that they are equivically living shadows with a near ghost-like nature.

### Abilities

Nightshades possess a wide variety of abilities that make them quite powerful adversaries. Such abilities are as follows:

* They have a high tolerance or in some cases a full immunity to most elemental damage types.
* They also have an incredible regenerative factor capable of regrowing lost limbs.
* Possess near ghost-like capabilities of passing through walls, objects, and other such obstacles.
* While they aren't exactly immune to bludgeoning, slashing, or even piercing damage, they did display a high tolerance for those particular damage types.
* Like ghosts, some nightshades have a weakening touch that can deal damage. However, those tend to be low-level monsters that are typically easy to dispatch.
* Such races have an ability called "*Shadow Jump*" which is similar to that of a shadow demon's "*shadow warp*" ability, but far superior, especially at night, as most Nightshades can teleport further distances between shadows than most other races that have mutated their bodies into living shadows.
* Also similar to shadow demons, Nightshades are capable of making themselves appear as ordinary shadows if they so desire, but this ability is only able to be performed during the night and they can't pass through walls or objects while doing this.
* The bane of all nightshades is light. Whenever a nightshade is in direct sunlight or bright light created by a fire, a nightshade's regenerative factor would drastically decrease as well as some of their other abilities they may possess as well. So naturally when a nightshade is subjected to fire or holy damage, many of their powers tend to function less efficiently than if they hadn't been subjected to those damage types at all.
* Most nightshades also possess an ability to become completely invisible in dim light, or complete darknes, even while under the light of the moon. Because of this, many spellcasters with knowledge of shadowmancy often use nightshades as cheap, but effective assassins.
* Furthermore, because of the nightshades near ghost-like nature, it is often difficult to pin them in a specific area without using any kind of magic relatively specific to those needs.