Essence of theShadow King

By imbibing this Essence that tastes like teenage angst, abuse from your parents and introversion, you gain the power of the ultimate little edge-lord.

• Whenever you kill something, you can summon a shadowy copy of them that mimics them in every little way, down to the last minute detail, even perfect and full powered replicas of whatever equipment they possessed upon defeat.

• Similar to Sung Jin Woo and the Fairy Queen, these shadowed soldiers possess all of the personality, power, skill, knowledge, abilities, wisdom and all other traits they possessed in life, only their priorities have been changed to be absolutely loyal to you and to always place your own wishes and safety above all else.

• If their powers or abilities are the results of outside forces or equipment then they will be perfectly copied and internalized so that your shadowy subjects are free of them but can still operate as they normally would outside of their home setting.

• There’s no limit to how many Shadows you can possess or have out at time, if you want them to be out of the way then they can be stored in your own shadow and called upon whenever you want or need. You can instantly teleport to the location of any Shadow or teleport them to your location.

• Each Shadow will regenerate 10% of their lost mass per second, meaning that regardless of how big or small a shadow it will take exactly 10 seconds to go from complete annihilation to fully recovered, any internal energy or power reserves will recover half as quickly as their bodies do.

• You share a psychic connection to your Shadows that allows for instant mental communication between you and your soldiers, as well as the ability to share each other’s senses and experiences.

• If you choose to, you can share your Essences and their abilities with your soldiers, even this one, allowing them to use them as the same level of potency as you yourself do. Granting them access to an Essences that would counteract their servitude to you won’t free them or cause/allow them to turn against you.

• Anything you or your Shadows kill is automatically added to your retinue of servants and soldiers.

• As for the defensive benefits of this Essence: should you ever succumb to mind control then your Shadows will free you, should you ever die even down to the soul then you can sacrifice a Shadow and be reborn in its location. Doing this will consume the Shadow, you will not be able to summon that exact Shadow again. Finally, you can bind the Shadows of entities you didn’t kill by gaining access to some of their corpse: a single bone or pinky worth of flesh would be enough.