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-Name: Shadowsmith

-Introduction: User is able to turn their shadow solid.

-Description: When solid, the user's shadow stands similar to a cardboard cutout, and can 'walk' similar to a person. They are able to take hits and attack, though fade back into being a normal shadow after only a few.

-Range: Personal, can only travel up to 10ft away from the user.

-Type: Conjuration

-Purpose: Utility

-Visual Cue: The users shadow rises from the ground. The user has no actual shadow while the semblance is active.

-Tier 1: Shadow becomes solid, 'standing' up from the ground as it appeared. Cannot change shape or pull out shadow copies of the user's weapon.

Tier 2: User can reshape the shadow, condensing the shadow into objects or flattening it as a wall or covering.

-General Limitations: Reliant on how large the user's shadow is when they make it solid. If the user's shadow is unable to be seen due to being inside another shadow, a silhouette of the user's body rises from the ground instead. Shadow is unable to take sustained hits or damage, and is doubly weak to attacks which create light such as fire, lightning or lasers. If the shadow goes beyond the range limit, it reverts to being a normal shadow and reattaches itself to the user.

-Applications: User can pull the shadow up in front of them to block an attack as a makeshift shield, wrap the shadow's arms around a person to temporarily restrain them, or slap an enemy with a limb.

In Tier 2, the user can shape the shadow into weapons or shields for more strategic attacks, which are similar in strength to hardlight weapons. They can also create cover or a 'blanket' to hide behind and blend with other shadows in an area, though this is not perfect.

-Dust Interaction: Most Dusts add the elemental effect to any attacks made by the shadow or shadow weapon. Hardlight Dust gives it more structure, making the shadow twice as durable.

-Notes: Been reading through some of the expanded DnD books, such as Tome of Magic and the Shadowcaster class, as well as it's Prestige Classes. This one is inspired by the Shadowsmith class, hence the name.

It's similar to Commander Ghost's Yami semblance, but different enough since this one uses only the user's shadow but does not have variable strength, while his uses darkness around the user and is weaker in light. Or, that's the impression I got from reading the conversation after the semblance between Ghost and Vedran...the actual semblance itself is barely a blurb.