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shadow_creature
📅 Updated:2025-10-03
🕒 Created:2024-03-08
🆔 ID:57928
Description
Dark, mysterious, sinister, unfathomable.
Shadow creatures come from literal shadows, darkness, and other negative spaces and anti-substances. They are darkly colored, usually with deep blacks and sometimes purple highlighting, and often have just a few defining traits, such as empty, white eyes, a mouth with white teeth, claw-like fingers, and may emit a dark, smoky energy.
Shadow creatures can take on a variety of appearances:
- indistinct forms emerging from and spreading darkness
- forms with clear outlines but unusual or simple bodies
- darkly colored versions of normal, recognizable creatures
Do not confuse with
- disembodied_eyes - eyes without a body, they may indicate a watching character who's otherwise completely shrouded in darkness. Shadow creatures do have a body of some sort, however indistinct that may be.
- shadow_face - faces enshrouded in darkness, but usually with normally colored bodies. Shadow creatures should have uniformly dark bodies.
- silhouette - a simple outline of what is usually a background character. They are often shadowy representations of characters but lack the otherworldly qualities of shadow creatures.
