Lore of Shadows

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Darkling Sorceresses casting dark sorcery.

The Lore of Shadows, also known as Grey Magic, refers to a class of magic and spells that show the dominant colour and hold the elemental characteristics of the Realm of Ulgu, the realm of shadows.[1][3a] The secrets of the magic of Ulgu are legion, for it is smoke, and subtlety, and lies. Grey magic is the art of illusion, of elusive possibilities, hidden within obscuring mists and hazy intentions. It is the magic of charlatans, with misdirection and shadow wrapped about its daring trickster heart. It can also bring hidden justice to those who have escaped retribution.[3a]

There are none who possess greater mastery of the magic of Ulgu than Morathi, save perhaps the Shadow King Malerion.[3a] It is for this reason that the worship of Malerion extends to the Battlemages of the Grey College wise enough to know the true source of their power.[5c] Since the Age of Myth, the High Oracle of Khaine has taught her many disciples, the Daughters of Khaine, how to weave deadly illusions and summon lethal darkness using its power.[3a] Amongst these disciples are the Bloodwrack Medusae, serpentine creatures, which are in fact Daughters of Khaine blessed by a portion of Morathi's power. These creatures can be found being borne into battle atop Bloodwrack Shrines, where they utilize a stange mirror known as a scáthmre. Not only does this mirror reflect the medusae's sinister gaze, but also a shadowy projection of their hatred.[3c] The males found amongst the Daughters of Khaine may also occasionally grow into potent sorcerers of shadow known as Doomfire Warlocks. Born of weakened mind and spirit, some will grow to be nurtured by the shadows themselves, developing an affinity with the darkness and an ability to absorb the mystic energies of Ulgu.[3d] Amongst the denizens of the Cities of Sigmar, the Darkling Sorceresses of the Darkling Covens are known to utilize the Lore of Shadows.[7e] Hailing from the lands of Ulgu, these powerful sorceresses and wizard-queens remained apart from the other refugees fleeing to Azyr during the coming of Chaos, and formed their own cults and hidden orders rather than granting their expertise to the various aelvan conclaves or the Collegiate Arcane.[6a].

While present in the Realm of Ulgu, some spells in this lore become intuitively known to wizards in addition to their other spells.[1][2]

List of Spells

Name Casters Description Sources
Labyrinth of Sorrows Wizards in the Realm of Ulgu The wizard traps the enemy in a prison of their own despair. Malign Sorcery - Spells of Ulgu, pg. 77
The Enfeebling The wizard saps the energy from his enemies, draining them of their will to fight. Malign Sorcery - Spells of Ulgu, pg. 77
Phantasmal Guardian The wizard summons a creature of pure shadow to protect himself from harm. Malign Sorcery - Spells of Ulgu, pg. 77
Bridge of Shadows The wizard summons a portal of pure shadow. Allies that march into this gateway emerge from a shadow elsewhere on the battlefield. Malign Sorcery - Spells of Ulgu, pg. 77
Aetheric Tendrils Insubstantial tentacles unfurl from the shadows to grasp and drag the enemy towards their doom. Malign Sorcery - Spells of Ulgu, pg. 77
Judgement of Shadow The shadows of Ulgu are alive, and they hunger. By speaking thirteen whispered words of power, one for each of the realm’s great Dominions, a caster can bid the darkness to swallow up their enemies. General's Handbook 2020 - Realm of Battle: Ulgu, The Realm of Shadow, pg. 107
Umbral Leap The caster becomes one with the darkness, traversing the battlefield in a flicker of shadows. Broken Realms: Morathi - Realm of Battle: The Helleflux, Ulgu, pg. 76
Mystifying Miasma Wizards that know the Lore of Shadows
Wizards in the Realm of Ulgu 		The wizard creates a numbing fog that causes their foolish foes to listlessly stagger and stumble. Age of Sigmar: Core Book (2nd Edition) – Realm of Battle: Ulgu, the Realm of Shadow, pg. 260
Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
Crown of Asphyxiation Noxious fog surrounds the wizard, causing nearby foes to stumble and choke. Malign Sorcery - Spells of Ulgu, pg. 77
Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
Magical Gust Wizards fighting within an eldritch mist of sorcerous shadows. The caster summons a gust of wind to lift a patch of eldritch mist. The Realmgate Wars: Quest for Ghal Maraz - Battleplan: Out of the Mist, pg. 98
Mistcaller A patch of eldritch mist is expanded around an area. The Realmgate Wars: Quest for Ghal Maraz - Battleplan: Out of the Mist, pg. 98
Steed of Shadows Wizards that know the Lore of Shadows A coal-black creature with wings of night materialises from the darkness and swoops across the battlefield. This can carry the caster swiftly above the battlefield or hasten the movement of Khainites it passes above. Battletome: Daughters of Khaine (2018) – Lore of Shadow, pg. 54
Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
Faction Pack: Daughters of Khaine (2024) - Spell Lore
Pit of Shades The wizard opens a rift to the infamous Pit of Shades. Terrified warriors fall screaming through the portal, plummeting to a shadowy noplace filled with the incessant wailing of 'those who dwell beyond'. Battletome: Daughters of Khaine (2018) – Lore of Shadow, pg. 54
Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
Mirror Dance The wizard chants a spell of shifting, revealing a shadowpath between two distant allies that allows them to switch places in a heartbeat. Battletome: Daughters of Khaine (2018) – Lore of Shadow, pg. 54
Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
The Withering The wizard plants overwhelmingly vivid images of frailty and doubt in their foe's minds. Battletome: Daughters of Khaine (2018) – Lore of Shadow, pg. 54
Soulbound: Champions of Order - Grey Spells, pg. 99-100
Mindrazor The wizard summons spectral blades into their allies' hands, weapons whose edges are honed by the wielder's faith as much as the victim's fear. Battletome: Daughters of Khaine (2018) – Lore of Shadow, pg. 54
Soulbound: Champions of Order - Grey Spells, pg. 99-100
Broken Realms: Morathi – Warscroll: Morathi-Khaine, pg. 99
Faction Pack: Daughters of Khaine (2024) - Spell Lore
Enslave The wizard weaves the shadows of Ulgu into the mind of another, controlling their every action. Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
Illusion The wizard manipulates the shadows of Ulgu, creating an illusion to mislead and deceive. Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
Mindslip The mists of Ulgu worm their way into a creature's mind, leaving them with no memory of the caster's presence. Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
Veil of Shadows The wizard draws a veil of shadows across their form, distorting it so that they appear as someone else. Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
Word of Pain The wizard utters a forbidden name, wracking their enemy's body with pain. Soulbound Core Rulebook - Grey Spells, pg. 276-277
Blind Spot Ulgu's magic clouds a mind, rendering it selectively oblivious. Soulbound: Champions of Order - Grey Spells, pg. 99-100
Infiltrate Dreams The caster spins shadowy threads of whispered magic to seek out a sleeping creature, intruding upon its slumber and tampering with its dreams. Soulbound: Champions of Order - Grey Spells, pg. 99-100
No Escape With narrowed eyes or a confident sneer, the caster's magic implants a waking nightmare into their enemy's mind, convincing them their own shadow violently accosts them. Soulbound: Champions of Order - Grey Spells, pg. 99-100
Shroud of Despair Daughters of Khaine Wizards that know the Lore of Shadows Numbing darkness descends upon the battlefield, smothering the foe's will to fight. Battletome: Daughters of Khaine (2018) – Lore of Shadow, pg. 54
Black Horror of Ulgu
Arnzipal's Black Horror 		A roiling black cloud of energy swirls into existence, smoking tendrils lashing out from it to drag those nearby to their doom. Broken Realms: Morathi – Warscroll: Morathi-Khaine, pg. 99
Doomfire The caster conjures a bolt of blazing black flame that they throw at their foes. This spell goes stronger the larger the targeted unit is. Faction Pack: Daughters of Khaine (2024) - Spell Lore

Wizards

The Wizards able to cast these Spells are:

Sources


Magic in the Mortal Realms and Beyond
Background Arcanum Optimar
Realmstone Aetherquartz • Amberbone • Celestium • Chamonite • Cyclestone • Emberstone • Falsestone • Grave-Sand • Nullstone • Varanite • Warpstone
Magic Crafts Alchemy (Aether-Khemistry • Dark Alchemy • Necro-Alchemy (Soul Alchemy)) • Chantoo • Runecraft
Other Blood • Daemon-binding • Geomancy • Grudge • Minor Cantrips • Moon-lore • Null • Void
Spell Lores
Magic Spectrum Heavens {{{3}}} • Beasts {{{3}}} • Fire {{{3}}} • Metal {{{3}}} • Life {{{3}}} • Death {{{3}}} • Light {{{3}}} • Shadows {{{3}}}
Chaos Hedonites of Slaanesh Despoiler • Extravagance • Forbidden Sorceries • Magnificient • Pain and Pleasure • Pursuer • Slaanesh
Other Beasts of Chaos (Twisted Wilds • Dark Storm) • Disciples of Tzeentch (Fate • Change) • Maggotkin of Nurgle (Malignance • Virulence • Foulness) • Skaven (Ruin • Warpvolt Galvanism) • Slaves to Darkness (Damned • Ruinous Sorcery)
Death Flesh-Eater Courts (Madness) • Legions of Nagash (Sorrows) • Soulblight Gravelords (Deathmages • Undeath • Vampires) • Nighthaunt (Underworlds) • Ossiarch Bonereapers (Necrotheurgy • Ossian Sorcery)
Destruction Gloomspite Gitz (Clammy Dank • Frazzlegit • Moonclans • Spiderfangs) • Ogor Mawtribes (Great Maw • Gutmagic • Sun-Eater) • Orruk Warclans (Weird • Savage Waaagh! • Savage Beast • Swamp)
Order Cities of Sigmar Cinder • Collegiate Arcane • Dark Sorcery • Eagles • Ghurish Heartlands • Illumination • Leaves • Phoenix • Smog • Umbral Spite • Whitefire
Aelven Daughters of Khaine (Shadows) • Idoneth Deepkin (Deeps) • Lumineth Realm-lords (Hysh • High Peaks • Winds • Zaitrec)
Other Seraphon (Ancient Domains • Celestial Domination • Celestial Manipulation • Primal Jungles) • Stormcast Eternals (Drakes • High Azyr • Invigoration • Storm) • Sylvaneth (Deepwood)
Unaligned Realmsphere Magic (Eightpoints • Shadespire • Twilight) • Izotz Ice Magic • Jotunberg Ice Magic
Other Common Spells • Units Spells
Prayer Lores
Chaos Idolators • Khorne (Blood Blessings • Gifts of the Blood God) • Great Horned Rat (Echoes of the Great Plagues • Noxious)
Death Nagash (Miracles) • Ushoran (Rites of Delusion)
Destruction Bad Moon (Miracles) • Everwinter (Everwinter Prayers • Miracles) • Gorkamorka (Living Wilds • Miracles • Warbeats) • Gulping God (Miracles) • Kragnos (Miracles) • Spider God (Miracles)
Order Ancestor Gods Rune Lore • Grimnir (Miracles • Zharrgrim Blessings) • Grungni (Miracles)
Aelven Ethersea (Isharann Rituals • Miracles) • Khaine (Khainite Cult • Miracles) • Morai-Heg (Prayers) • Teclis (Miracles)
Other Alarielle (Miracles) • Morrda (Prayers) • Sigmar (Miracles • Draconith • Scripture • Stormhosts) • Vulcatrix (Vulkyn Gifts)
Universal Universal Prayers • Unit Prayers
Manifestation Lores
Endless Spells Chaos Bestial Manifestations (Doomblast Dirgehorn • Ravening Direflock • Wildfire Taurus) • Manifestations of Doom (Bell of Doom • Vermintide • Warp Lightning Vortex) • Manifestations of Depravity (Dreadful Visage • Mesmerising Mirror • Wheels of Excruciation) • Manifestations of Malevolence (Darkfire Daemonrift • Eightfold Doom-Sigil • Realmscourge Rupture) • Manifestations of Tzeentch (Burning Sigil of Tzeentch • Daemonic Simulacrum • Tome of Eyes)
Death Chthonic Sorceries (Mortalis Terminexus • Shyish Reaper • Vault of Souls) • Horrors of the Necropolis (Bone-tithe Shrieker • Nightmare Predator • Soulstealer Carrion) • Manifested Insanity (Cadaverous Barricade • Chalice of Ushoran • Corpsemare Stampede)
Destruction Dank Manifestations (Malevolent Moon • Mork's Mighty Mushroom • Scrapskuttle's Arachnacauldron • Scuttletide)
Order Blood Magic (Bladewind • Bloodwrack Viper) • Manifestations of Hysh (Hyshian Twinstones • Rune of Petrification • Sanctum of Amyntok) • Manifestations of the Deepwood (Gladewyrm • Spiteswarm Hive • Vengeful Skullroot) • Manifestations of the Storm (Celestian Vortex • Dais Arcanum • Everblaze Comet)
Universal Forbidden Power (Horrorghast • Lauchon the Soulseeker • Shards of Valagharr • Soulscream Bridge) • Morbid Conjuration (Malevolent Maelstrom • Purple Sun of Shyish • Soulsnare Shackles • Suffocating Gravetide) • Aetherwrought Machineries (Aethervoid Pendulum • Chronomantic Cogs • Quicksilver Swords) • Primal Energy (Burning Head • Emerald Lifeswarm • Ravenak's Gnashing Jaws) • Twilight Sorceries (Geminids of Uhl-Gysh • Prismatic Palisade • Umbral Spellportal)
Invocations Chaos Judgements of Khorne (Bleeding Icon • Hexgorger Skull • Wrath Axe)
Order Invocations of Khaine (Heart of Fury) • Magmic Invocations (Molten Infernoth • Runic Fyrewall • Zharrgron Flame-Spitter)
Incarnates Krondspine Incarnate
Other Balewind Vortex
Daughters of Khaine Order Icon.png
Background Hagg Nar • Invocation of Khaine • Languages (Aelfish) • Society (Leathanam • Scáthborn)
Festivals and Other Celebrations Death Night • Khielt-gadh • Yaith'ril
Sapients Aelf
Magic Lore (Lore of Shadows) • Prayer Lore (Prayers of the Khainite Cult • Prayers of Morai-Heg) • Manifestation Lore (Blood Magic • Invocations of Khaine) • Unit-Specific Spells & Prayers (Daughters of Khaine Prayers • Daughters of Khaine Spells)
Khainite Sects
Khainite Sects Dathu Nar • Draichi Ganeth • Elrith Ceyl • Eluathii • Hagg Nar • Khailebron • Kharumathi • Khelt Nar • Kraith • Zainthar Kai
Units
Priestesses of Khaine Avatar of Khaine • Cauldron of Blood • Hag Queen • Slaughter Queen • Bloodwrack Medusa • Bloodwrack Shrine
Sisterhood of Blood High Gladiatrix • Sister of Slaughter • Witch Aelf
Scáthborn Khinerai (Heartrender • Lifetaker) • Melusai (Blood Sister • Blood Stalker • Ironscale)
Shademarked Khainite Shadowstalkers
Leathanam Doomfire Warlock • Dark Steed
Special Unique Gryselle's Arenai • Krethusa • Morathi (Morathi-Khaine • Shadow Queen) • Morgwaeth's Blade-coven • Shadeborn
Manifestations Blood Magic (Bloodwrack Viper • Bladewind) • Invocations of Khaine (Heart of Fury)
Characters
Deities Khaine • Morai-Heg • Morathi
Aelfs Anhil • Belleth • Cesse • Druthara • Faonora • Galene • Gryselle's Arenai (Gryselle • Retaria • Kalexis • Thrialla • Traxya) • Krylla • Lariah Heartseeker • Malekandra • Morgwaeth‎'s Blade-coven (Morgwaeth‎ • Khamyss • Kyrae • Kyrssa • Lethyr) • Rhaelanthe • Ry'kara • Selendti Llyr-Xiss • Shadeborn (Slythael Shadestalker • Drusylla Viserax • Sylarc Greyblood • Valyssa Umbrael) • Thaelire • Trisethni • Vhorskaya • Yelena
Armoury • Artwork • Miniatures

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