: Not all shades are avatara, all archmages can become
: ones. I think that both GURPS and Myth II manual says
: this. Also you could have a choice in your
: shadification, since I think it has to be pretty
: immediate after your death. So you could say
: "Sure I'll let you kill me and bring me back to
: life as an evil magic unead thingy, if I can use those
: powers to take revenge on my disloyal subjects.
“...her spirit disconnected from her body, set adrift on the ether... gathered up by Soulblighter and... made corporeal with the terrible power of Tramist’s Mirror.”
i think shiver has a lot in common with shades, i figure that shades were created about the same way shiver was created.
in TFL we are told that shiver was very vain, although she was evil and Tramists mirror reflected what was in her heart and made her really ugly and gave her more powers than she already had, but actually it was after a battle with one of the nine that her spirit disconnected from her body and soulblighter saved her by using tramsits mirror. maybe tramsits mirror is what made all the shades, perhaps some evil sorcerer in the blind steppes or something has this mirror and let soulblighter borrow it to save shiver, but its main purpose, before and after soulblighter borrowed it, was to make undead creatures of of still living people who were willing to undergo the transformation. This is how shades and myrmidons were created. shades are the result of tramsits mirror used on sorcerers and myrmidons are from warriors.
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