Shadow

A Shadow is a vampire who has access to the Hazeworld. The name comes from the fact that a Shadow cannot be located with common Dark Gifts, therefore he remains as a plain shadow for the senses of other vampires. Only very, very few vampires are known to be Shadows.

Origin
Some vampires happen to turn in Shadows when in their human life happened an spiritual event, might be a close-death experience, spiritual or shamanic experiences or anything else similar to this.

Shadows are not recognizable immediately after their turning, only after several years when their mental transformation completed.

Characteristics
They are known to be emotional and sensible, sometimes even moody and hot tempered. They draw energy not only from blood, but also from emotions around them. As only kind of vampires they are able to die due to energy loss.

Their natural Realm is the Hazeworld. Their body still stays in the reality, but their mind moves in this Realm. In the Hazeworld they possess a sometimes completely different body which sometimes doesn't look humanoid anymore. some features however can be the same than the features in the reality. Young Shadows tend to look very similar to how they look in reality, older ones often possess rather demonic or animalistic shapes. While they are in the Hazeworld their body in the reality remains with only a minimum on somatic functions.

Links
The return into the Reality can be very painful for a Shadow as it comes along with flashbacks from their life. Often also traumas return to them and they live through it again. To compensate this they need a Link who is able to lead them safely back into reality. Often Links and Shadows know each other already long time before the first visit in the Hazeworld. They have a natural attraction for each other, however real realtionship between Links and Shadows are very rare.