

Until Morganthe unlocked its secrets in the abyssal depths of Khrysalis.

Although traces of it have escaped into the dark regions of the Spiral, it was largely unknown. Shadow magic was forbidden for it touches the true essence of the Spiral. Shadow Magic is an ancient form of magic, so powerful and so dangerous that Bartleby and Grandmother Raven told Merle Ambrose not to delve into it, and especially not teach it to his students.

Shadow Magic can only be trained by spending Training Points, and cannot be learned as a Primary School of focus. There is another kind of magic in the Spiral, in addition to the seven primary schools and the three Astral schools – it is an underlying, reality-defining and bending magic known as Shadow Magic.
