Shadow Bending

Background

It is said that an ominous family clan of elves used to use this ability but it was never proven.  According to lore, the family would give a newborn kin an attuned family crest tattoo that was warded by 10 of the clan's elder mages so then the tattoo could never be undone or taken off by any means.  Each clan member that had this tattoo is unable to attune more than two items.  This tattoo appears to be solid black absorbing all light around it.  This tattoo allows the user to train and be able to use the feat known as shadow bending, but only elves with blood relations are able to bring out the full potential of this technique.

Description

     - After training with this ability the user is to manipulate shadows around him/her with a rang of 120ft.  The ability can't detach shadows from the objects they are connected to but can be manipulated to have different shapes or have a longer reach.  The user cannot make or produce shadows and can only manipulate the number of shadows given.  The percentage of shadow to light never changes but the shape and how that light and shadow are distributed can be manipulated.  Shadows are not given material form and have to always remain on a surface and abide by that surface's rules.

     - The user can change the grade of darkness based on the volume of the shadow.  If a shadow has a darkness scale of 25% the user can half the shadow's area to double the darkness scale with 100% being total darkness, 50% being a normal mid-day object shadow, and 10% being a faint shadow.  The reverse can be done too, but to use any shadow ability the darkness of the shadow has to have a darkness scale of at least 50%.

     - After training the user is able to manipulate surrounding shadows at will using solely concentration and is considered a free action.  If the user is stunned, incapacitated, or for any other reason, that concentration has broken all manipulation done to shadows is broken and is returned to a normal state.

     - The user has a better understanding of shadows and the darkness to the point he is able to use shadows to store items comparable to a bag of holding.  Only the user is able to reach into the shadows and either store or get items, the user can't trap creatures or enemies in shadow store only the user is able to reach into the shadow.

Notes:  This ability only works on shadows and darkness that the user can see so if the user is blinded for any reason or the shadow is behind a wall the user cannot manipulate it.