Homebrew shadow Demon Species Details

Neither elemental, physical or incorporeal... Maybe all, maybe none. They are... Shadows, darkness, chaos... The Yang to Yin... They are demon. They are people, they are society and monster alike. No one knows. 

But one thing is certain... They crave, they lust... They are more human than you know... Yet still... They are  creatures and they all want something... Different things yes, but always something. Yet..Not even they know what it is. How do you become a partner to someone who doesn't know its own mind? Maybe it was lost... And that is why this one dwells so close to the surface? 

None the less... You've met one. and wonder... Has death come to claim you? Or is it just... watching... Always watching... Waiting for something? Maybe nothing... Who knows?

 

The shadow shifters are fiends, fiends that came from... Well... No one knows. But every dark place, they can be found in, every dark realm, every broken world. These fiends were either once elves or humans or simply made from pure darkness. No one seems to know for sure. 

Most have two forms, or just the one, where they either look like entities of shadow while some could "Wear a Skin Suit", so to speak, having been able to keep some semblance of what they might have been, or try to be...

 

Some even believe these were creations of humanoids made in the image of Kali, and his son, Yomoko. The God of Beginning and the God of Destruction. The first king of the fiends, a pointed by Yomoko and Kali, built a city for them in the Underplanes called Monium. A place much like Hell or the Underdark, or even Shadowfell, or the Dark Lands. But it is the biggest and first city made for fiend kind, who weren't all ****, death or plunder and trickey. A safe haven for them that was once lost, forgotten by time. It had long since been swallowed by Shadowfell sadly, a new city to be claimed by the forever darkness

Your brotheren still live there though, along with a few other Shadowkind. Like the Shadow Seekers, and Shadow Dragon Drows. But the city is only a whisper if what it was... 

 

Specifically your Kind are much like Demi-Eemental's that retain some innate ability to take on a human like appearance and are classified as demons for the sake of Race. You have control of shadows, and other dark senses. As well ass some infinity for spell-casting. Most of your kind remained in Shadowfell since the Demon city fell to its grasp of infinite shadows after the Second Great War that Lucifer foolishly waged against human kind. However being that your kind are now so in tune with Shadowfell, most of you can only be contracted to get out of that Dark plane most Humans call Hell.

shadow Demon Traits

You are shadow demons of... A unique creation.

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Age
Most Shadows Demons are 10,000+ and they can't truly be killed but might choose to pass on at some point

Ability Score Increase
Your Dex increases by 3.
Your Con increases by 2.
Your Cha increases by 1.

Size
You are medium for the reason of "having a human-like a skinsuit" That you shift in and out of.

Shade Rend
Harden shadow to form a body as well as items

Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 ft.

Condensed Darkness
Shadow's don't need to sleep. Instead, they rest similar to elves, but instead of meditating they must sit down, preferably in darkness, for 3 hours a day.

Amorphous

You can move through any opening the size of 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Keeper of knowledge
Because you have been around for so long you have picked up a few "techniques" in doing so you have had time to learn and study all the languages in the world and due to that you can read and speak all languages.

Combat abilities
You have great proficiency with the melee weapons and attacks.

Once a man, Always a Demon
You gain racial proficiency in Arcana, Deception, Insight, and Stealth.

Deadlier Than the Sun, or Stronger Than the Earth?
While your immune to necrotic, you are vulnerable to radiant.

Being a shadow, it is hard to hurt you with normal attacks. you have resistance to Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Thunder, Necrotic, Poison, and Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks, and vulnerability to Radiant damage.

Lastly, you are immune to these conditions: Exhaustion, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained, Blinded.

 

Darkvision
You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 ft. as if it were a bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can unlike most with this ability discern color in darkness, not just shades of gray.

shadows acrobatics
advantage when rolling acrobatics, while no it direct sunlight.


Multiattack. The demon makes two claw attacks.

 

Shadow Stride
A Dark Shadow of 8th level or higher can vanish from his current location and reappear in any shadowy area within 90 feet. This is a move-equivalent action.

Shadow Stealth
While in dim light or darkness, the demon can take the Hide action as a bonus action.

Shadowed Armor
Shadows are difficult to hit in shadow, and as a result, gains a +2 to their armor class while in darkness.

Shadow Magic Initiate
The Dark Shadows innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 18, +10 to hit with spell attacks). The Dark Shadows can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

At will: detect thoughts, disguise self, mage hand, minor illusion

3/day each: charm person, detect magic, invisibility, major image, suggestion

1/day each: dominate person, fly, plane shift, true seeing

Shadow Knights Arsenal

All of your character's weapons are transformed into shadows and absorbed into your bodies shadow realm allowing you to summon them at will.

Shadow Realm

You are able to use your shadow realm to store anything within you similar to the way your weapons are stored but with this, you can change them back

Ranged Shadow attacks

At 7th You are able to shoot shadow blades from any shadow within view

Deaths Door
At 10th Allows you to pull souls from the afterlife and tether them to either homunculi or a body of your choosing.

 

 

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