You can resurrect the shadows of fallen creatures and keep them as soldiers to fight under your control. In the case that you are a spell caster this replaces the spell animate dead. As a action, you can attempt to extract the shadow of a creature (using their statblock) within 5 feet of you. In the case of usage outside of animate dead you must make a Arcana check. The DC for this check is 20 to 35 based on difficulty of the creature as determined by your DM. On a failure you can no longer extract the creature's shadow.
You can issue orders telepathically to your Shadow Soldiers as long as they are within the same plane as you and they follow all of your commands unquestioningly. If given no commands, they will simply defend themselves and await your next orders or do what is most beneficial to you within the moment.
As an bonus action, you can choose to store any number of Shadow Soldiers within your shadow (functioning as a demi-plane). They remain there until you use an bonus action or reaction to summon them. When you do, they appear in unoccupied spaces you can see within 60 feet of you.
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