You summon up to two Shadows which appear in unoccupied spaces of your choice that you can see within range. Each Shadow disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.

The summoned Shadows are friendly to you and your companions. Roll initiative for the summoned Shadows as a group, which has its own turns. They obey any verbal commands that you issue to them (no action required by you). If you don't issue any commands to them, they defend themselves from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no actions.

Unlike normal Shadows the ones you summon through this spell cannot create new Shadows by killing non-evil humanoids with their Strength Drain attack.

The DM has the Shadows' statistics and they can be found in the Monster Manual.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using certain higher-level spell slots more Shadows appear: twice as many with a 5th-level slot, three times as many with a 7th-level slot, and four times as many with a 9th-level slot.