: Not really. The fact that they have enough willpower to
: learn how to cast a dispersal dream in the first place
: skeaks volumes for their abilities, even if they need
: magical gems to actually cast the thing.
yes, but as a Shade they become weak.
: Mm, nope. Unless you count having access to the vast
: armies of their Fallen Lord patron, which must be a
: pretty tasty carrot for yoour average power-mad
: tyrant.
Probably.
Then there's the little matter of never dying
: except by hostile force, and being totally immune to
: any kind of poison- certainly an attractive
: possibility to a few of the more insane and/or
: paranoid dictators who don't give a damn what anyone
: else thinks of them.
makes sense.
Shadification might also be
: attractive to an archmage who "just
: happened" to have been mortally wounded before he
: was given the offer of "eternal life".
lol...
Seraph