Table of Contents
Introduction ................................................... 1
Our Goal ............................................................................ 1
Those Who Labored .......................................................... 1
After All, What is in This Book......................................... 1
The Source of All Evil ....................................................... 2
Open Content Notice ......................................................... 2
Life in the Shadow ........................................ 3
Corith Damage Revised ..................................................... 3
Black Magic....................................................................... 3
History .......................................................................... 4
Using Black Magic ....................................................... 4
Accessibility ................................................................. 5
Fuelling the Spells ........................................................ 5
Learning Black Magic .................................................. 5
Side Effects: Corruption ............................................... 6
Corruption Points ............................................................... 6
Corruption Saves .......................................................... 6
Corruption & Insanity ................................................... 6
The Mechanics .............................................................. 7
Despair Points .................................................................... 8
Despair Saves................................................................ 8
Losing Despair Points ................................................... 8
What a DM Must Know................................................ 8
Fate Points ......................................................................... 8
Acquiring Fate Points ................................................... 9
Reputation Points ............................................................... 9
Gaining Reputation Points ............................................ 9
Using Reputation: ......................................................... 9
Threat Levels ................................................................ 9
Taint Mechanics .............................................................. 10
Option 1: Taint Rating ................................................ 10
Option 2: Taint Steps .................................................. 10
Exalted of the Shadow ................................. 12
Prestige Classes ............................................................... 12
Corith Adept ............................................................... 12
Feyscourge .................................................................. 13
Hound of Darkness ..................................................... 14
Legate Seer ................................................................. 15
Legate Warlord ........................................................... 16
Narandralud, ............................................................... 17
Soldier Legate ............................................................. 18
Legendary Classes ........................................................... 19
Class Mechanics ......................................................... 19
The Preparation ........................................................... 19
The Power ................................................................... 19
The Price ..................................................................... 19
Legate General ............................................................ 19
Greater Legate ............................................................ 20
New Core Class ............................................................... 22
Core or Prestige? ........................................................ 22
Kurasatch Udareen...................................................... 22
Paths of Darkness ...................................... 25
Villainous Paths ............................................................... 25
Villainous Path Mechanics ......................................... 25
Villainous and Heroic Paths ....................................... 25
Banshee ....................................................................... 25
Changeling .................................................................. 26
Demon Blooded .......................................................... 26
Dreadnaught ................................................................ 27
Fellborn ....................................................................... 28
Flesh Eater .................................................................. 28
Haunted ....................................................................... 29
Hot Blooded ................................................................ 30
Inflicter ....................................................................... 31
Painborn ...................................................................... 32
Sea Devil..................................................................... 32
Shadowblessed ............................................................ 33
Taintborn .................................................................... 34
Tortured Soul .............................................................. 34
Trollborn ..................................................................... 35
Vengeant ..................................................................... 36
Venom Blooded .......................................................... 36
Techniques of Darkness ............................... 38
New Feats ........................................................................ 38
Enhanced Astirax Companion Feats ........................... 38
General Feats .............................................................. 39
Sword of the Shadow .................................. 40
The Armies of the Shadow .............................................. 40
The Shadow’s Armies ................................................. 40 Goblins of Eredane ..................................................... 41
The Favored of Izrador Tribes .................................... 42
The Fall of the Dorin Clan .......................................... 51
The Dorin Clan of Dwarves ........................................ 52
What Dwells in Darkness ............................ 53
Creatures of Eredane ....................................................... 53
Astirax, Greater .......................................................... 53
Beast of Izrador .......................................................... 54
Black Elf ..................................................................... 55
Black Elf, Chosen ....................................................... 56
Cave Troll ................................................................... 56
Chaos Beast Spawn..................................................... 57
Corrupted Creature Template ..................................... 58 Doppelganger .............................................................. 58
Dread Knight .............................................................. 59
Dwarf, Black Blood .................................................... 60
Elementals of Aryth .................................................... 61
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