The Shadowed

The Shadowed

"I feel the shadow- and I like it!"

Introduction

The Shadowed are a faction of spirits, coming from the Shadowlands and headed by The Anax. Their intent is revenge upon those that did Anaximanes Ravenhurst wrong all those years ago.

Lead Positions

The Anax

The Anax is currently enslaved through his fetter.

Evelyn Addams

Evelyn Addams alone survived the night at Ghost Nook, and found a way to enslave The Anax through his fetter.

Unit Types

Shadow Lord

The Shadow Lord is a being of immense power from the Shadowlands. Able to warp its appearance, a shadow lord usually takes on the look of a shadow person. They have the capability to create additional shadowed, twisting their souls into the model of perfection they seek. They have long, tendril like claws and are able to use the darkest, most powerful of magic. The most notable known shadow lord is The Anax.

Shadowed

The Shadowed are spirits whom have given up their soul to The Anax. The Anax reaches into the victim's mind, discovering their primary fear. He then exploits that fear, making his victim live it. Each one is slightly unique, based on the fears of the person transformed. He subjects them to their most petrifying thoughts, and only relents when they have agreed to give up their souls. The instant they do, they become Shadowed. Gray skinned, green eyed, servants to a Shadow Lord.

Reanimated

With the addition of Evelyn Addams, the Shadowed are reinforced with any matter of reanimation. Using shadow magic, life itself is renewed in the dead. These have an extension of the necromancer's will.

Notable Shadowed

• Brittany Addams
  • Fear: Autophobia

• Clare Thorndike
  • Fear: Claustrophobia

• Farrah Foster
  • Fear: Acrophobia

• Harper Jones
  • Fear: Genophobia

• Moonbeam Sunflower
  • Fear: Tyrannophobia

• Chelsea Moretti
  • Fear: Nosophobia

• Lexus Kingsley
  • Fear: Trypophobia

• Mercedes Everett
  • Fear: Odontophobia

• Madison Lee
  • Fear: Automatonophobia

• Kaya Dabrezil
  • Fear: Pyrophobia

• Shiloh Hazeldine
  • Fear: Arachnophobia

• Sadie Garner
  • Fear: Pediophobia

• Angela Johnson
  • Fear: Gerascophobia

• Gloria Addams

• Luella Addams

Shadowed Units

Acrophobe

Acrophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared heights in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to watch themselves fall an infinite number of times, until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, acrophobes grow leathery wings from their defiled backs. Where once they feared heights, now they relish nothing more than soaring into the sky, flocking into great black clouds of darkness.

Arachnophobe

Arachnophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared spiders in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to watch themselves covered in crawling, biting spiderlings, until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, arachnophobes have bulbous spidery abdomens and six chitin, armored legs. They can spray their prey with shadowy webbing, climb any surface, and inject a glowing poison into the victim’s body who will then become a shadowed arachnophobe as well!

Automatonophobe

Automatonophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared statues and mannequins in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to watch themselves petrify and harden, forever frozen and silent, until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Unlike other shadowed, these minions have no claws and make much more powerful defensive units due to their rock hard skin. They grab their prey and the same rocky surfaces that cover them forms wherever they touch the victim until those hapless souls become a shadowed automatonophobe as well!

Autophobe

Autophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared solitary loneliness or abandonment in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to watch themselves alone and forgotten, ignored until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, autophobes have the unique ability to become invisible. They make up the assassins of the Shadowed. Sneaking up on their prey, they stab their claws into the victim’s body who will then become a shadowed autophobe as well!

Claustrophobe

Claustrophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared confined places in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to endure being trapped in ever more cramped spaces until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, claustrophobes have the unique ability to trap their foes with their own bodies. Some will wrap around their prey like amorphous blobs and others will make a part of their very spiritual body into a cell of some kind. They make up the jailors of the Shadowed.

Coulrophobe

Coulrophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared clowns in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to endure being assaulted and teased by clowns until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, coulrophobes have the unique ability to use props to convert others into shadowed clowns. A pie, a squeaky nose, even a terrifying rubber chicken can all be used insidiously so that the last laugh is the coulrophobe’s! No, not that coulrophobe, the other coulrophobe!

Gerascophobe

Gerascophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared growing old in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to watch themselves age an infinite number of times, until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, gerascophobes usually are deceptively weak looking. Resembling extremely elderly humans, they walk slowly with hunched backs and thin limbs, but the moment their victim’s guard is lowered, they pounce, running, jumping, or climbing as quickly the strongest mortal athlete. Once they close in, it is only a matter of time until they share their curse with their victim, tearing out their souls for the Anax and leaving a shriveled gerascophobe in their place.

Horror

In the dark foreboding Shadowlands wander creatures of unspeakable evil. Tormented souls of bygone eons and aliens from other worlds whose souls wound up in the same accursed place and those of humanity stalk the darkness. These alien souls are often called horrors as their very makeup and aura make them unnatural or inconceivable by the perceptions of mortal humans. Of varying shapes, sizes, and powers, horrors are macabre monsters, and are generally powerful. However, the Anax and other Shadow Lords of the Outer Darkness have collected enough human souls that they can actually face and even enslave these unthinkable monstrosities. The minds, however, of these aliens are beyond comprehension and so are their powers. They may kill a human, steal its soul, or literally mutate their body and spirits unsettling into mockeries.

Nosophobe

Nosophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared illnesses in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to watch themselves become infected with debilitating and horrific infectious diseases, until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, nosophobes also have the ability to spread a shadow disease to their victims. They can spew noxious clouds, and the infected mortals will eventually die and become nosophobes as well.

Odontophobe

Odontophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared dentistry in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to watch their teeth pulled an infinite number of times, until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, odontophobes carry rusted, twisted dental tools with them, brandishing them to their victims and using them to elicit absolute fear. They usually have massive mouths full of teeth or have teeth growing from multiple places on their bodies.

Pediophobe

Pediophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared dolls in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to endure dolls or having themselves being nothing more than a doll an infinite number of times, until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, pediophobes generally have plastic, wooden, or porcelain flesh. Their joints are artificial and they are generally silent, though occasionally one may have a mouth like a ventriloquist dummy. They can attach shadow strings to a mortal to control them like a marionette puppet in order to terrify and take their souls.

Pyrophobe

Pyrophobes are shadowed, who irrationally feared fire in life. When faced with the Anax or one of his minions, the victim was forced to watch themselves burn and their flesh boil and sizzle an infinite number of times, until their minds broke and they exchanged their souls for peace. Like all shadowed, they have sharp, glowing claws and swarm with black ink-like shadows on their bodies. However, pyrophobes are wreathed in shadowy flames. These fires burn the soul and mind, leaving the flesh completely unblemished. Basking in the unholy glow, everywhere that they walk, their freezing flames follow.

Biography

The Anax: Call of the Cursed One

In The Anax: Call of the Cursed One, the Shadowed are slaves of The Anax; tortured spirits who traded their soul to avoid fighting their worst fear. On the night of Halloween, The Anax comes to add more souls to his collection.

Desideratum: Blood Bonds

In Desideratum: Blood Bonds, the Shadowed and The Anax are used in addition to the reanimated from Evelyn Addams to claim the Scepter of Osiris. They face off against Absinthe Van Gothen at the Portland Museum.