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Roleplaying a Sciomancer
The Sciomancers are mages trained in the dangerous but powerful manipulation of shadow.

What is shadow?
Czjetija, the Plane of Shadow, is the source of the elemental shadow that naturally weaves part of the Prime
Material Plane. A dangerous and treacherous element, its nature is consumption and corrosion, entropy, and
insatiable hunger. Its imbalance in mortals is what allows for Undeath. Access to Czjetija is gated through
Severn, the Manipulator, who wards off the Shadow Mother, Ohlsana, imprisoned within.

How you access the elements:
- Direct channel to Shadow (limited through Severn)
- Singularity manipulation
- Ambient elemental manipulation

Sciomancers are first and foremost masters of the element of shadow, manipulating it directly and with greater
potency than other mortals. Through their training, they can create stable singularities and control their
phenomenons, as well as curse others with different applications of maddening, corrosive shadow. They bargain
with their own wellbeing for power.

Visual style of the class:
Repeated use of shadow would darken the skin. Notably, eyes blacken, especially when actively using certain
skills. There are martial, forceful gestures indicative of intense willpower, as well as a frequent trailing
black miasma reminiscent of smoke.

Side effects of the class skills:
Shadow is by far the most temperamental and dangerous element to directly manipulate. Repeat use and exposure
can both grow beyond the wielder's control to devastating effect, as well as risk corrupting the user to
Ohlsana's influence. Those who become inflicted with the shadowplague will slowly become one of the
Shadowbound, a facsimile of who they were, grown monstrous and under Her control.
** Note: This is a mechanical disease!

Repeated use will have physical changes that cannot be easily hidden. The eyes will become black and nearly
solid, and the corruption will be visible in the veins sprawling outwards from them. Fingertips will also
darken, and skin texture may change from something porous and organic to something strange and irregular.
There are chances of whispering voices becoming more present in the back of the head, in a language you don't
understand, and the world losing the vibrancy of its colour.

Roleplaying the class:
It is important to understand and recognize the pendulum tradeoffs of a Sciomancer. To take the risks with the
environment and with themselves that they do, to use such a dangerous and volatile element so wantonly, is no
small feat. It is not something any should take on lightly, for a weak will shall surely succumb to Ohlsana.
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