a shade was once a human, but because of tragec effects has been posessed by demonic entitys that it could not controll. it is now close to a undead but remains the apperence of a living creature. they are incredably skilled fighters and can only be killed by a sword through the heart, anything else will only banish them temperarily, they are incredably adept at adapting to strange or even hostile enviroments and can be extreemly stubern when they whant, they useualy run in sword swinging without a seond thought and kill all those in there way, they alsow have no fear of death wich makes them extreemly deadly, they are for those who prefer strait action to thought, but have strokes of pure genious from time to time.