Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-35530747-20190402005729

Family: Spirit

Type: Elemental

Habitat: Among the shadows of ruins

Personality: Capricious and mischievous sometimes domineering

Diet: Men's spirit energy

The shade is an elemental demon that resides within the shadows of ancient ruins and is able to pass freely from shadow to shadow.

The shade appears as a beautiful spirit that appears from the shadows and whose body hair and clothing are all the various shades/depths of shadow. Although the shade has no true body, she is able to manifest not only herself physically but can also manipulate the shadows at will.

The shade is often capricious and mischievous in nature and delights in following the men they are interested in from shadow to shadow. They enjoy scaring the man with whispers and light shadowy touches and as the man finally panics and runs, they then grasp them with shadowy tendrils and pull them into the shadows to slowly and pleasurably take their essence.

Once a shade has decided that the man in question is her husband she will reside almost entirely in his own shadow and unless she chooses to take physical form, her existence is entirely invisible to the untrained eye. Whilst in her lovers shadow the shade is able to lightly feed off of her husband’s essence but she will almost always take physical form to enjoy a more substantial meal.

Although dependent on the man and on the shade, living a life outside of constant copulation is possible and in fact there are some advantages to having a shade as a partner (despite the constant teasing) and these include the fact that the shade can craft items such as shadow blades or clothing. The shadow blade is both incredibly strong and has very little weight and the shadow clothing is also very light and offers much more protection than normal cloth; the true reason for the shadow clothing is more to do with the ease of access it offers the shade to her husband (wearing nothing but shadow clothing might be unwise considering the shades often mischievous nature).

Although it requires a lot more energy, the shade is able to transport her husband from shadow to shadow over significant distance. The side effect of using this ability, is that it leaves the shade in a ravenous state and it has been known that her recovery has left her husband with his hands full (of her) for several days after. 