There are few magics more powerful than shadow magic, for just as even a dim light may cast a huge shadow, so too can the smallest of magical efforts generate the most spectacular of effects. It is for this reason that the practitioners of shadow magic are never at a loss for eager students clamoring to learn their arts. Indeed, one of the benefits of such magic is the ability to harness it to avoid detection by such cloying supplicants.

However, once every hundred years or so, one student stands out above all the rest and is accepted into the college for training. Once every thousand years, one of those same would-be practitioners graduates as a master shadow mage and goes out into the greater world to make their own indelible mark upon it.

Shadow Mage Lilith of the Grotto is just such a witch.

Beyond simply being a peerless practitioner of such magic, Lilith is a brilliant example of the Shadow College’s organizing principles in action. In the way that a small candle can project an expansive shadow, Lilith uses her small phylactery - a vial of virgin blood - to cast immensely powerful spells of unmatched skill. Just as the shadow takes on many shapes, so too is Lilith an incredibly versatile young witch, just as comfortable in rough and worn leather armor during her time amongst the Gauldira raiders of The Brine as she was in the luxurious silks and elaborate masks worn by the secretive Court of the Dawn. And, just as shadows are ubiquitous, so too does Lilith seem to have traveled nearly everywhere in her already storied life.

Although this peripatetic lifestyle might seem to be given to loneliness, for Lilith, it has not been. For there is not a piece of this world that Lilith has tread over without her own personal shadow and loyal companion, the beast of shade-made-flesh, her onyx wolf Umbra.

When not traveling abroad, Lilith calls a small seaside cave on the shores of Kelpie’s Bay home. Lavishly decorated with trinkets and keepsakes from her many quests, the Grotto is a sanctum for Lilith. It acts as both a peaceful respite from the chaos of the outside world and a fortress against the many evils Lilith has combated during her journeys.

There is, of course, one nostalgic keepsake that Lilith does not keep stashed away in the Grotto with all the others: her timeworn green cloak. It was a battle trophy given to her by her longtime friend and erstwhile mentor, Azamoth the Specter, in a duel. It reminds her of a simpler time in her life while also being a well-earned point of pride.

Above all else, Lilith is a witch who desires challenge and adventure, never settling for long in one place or upon one project. Today she might be advising a king on the finer points of magecraft, while tomorrow may find her pursuing seadragons for their hoards of pearls or banishing demons back to the fires from whence they came.

In Lilith’s life, only one thing is truly certain: nothing ever stays the same for long.

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