Category:The Fraternity of Shadows
Canon Information
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The Fraternity of Shadows was described in Domains of Dread as a neutral evil secret society of wizards dedicated to discovering the secrets of the Land of Mists. Only neutral evil male wizards who can cast illusion spells are allowed membership, and the upper echelons of the society are composed entirely of illusionists.[1]
Members of the Fraternity identify themselves by their possession of a signet ring in the shape of two intertwining asps whose mouths form the setting for an onyx; this ring can cast a darkness 15' radius spell once per day.
In Van Richten's Arsenal it was revealed that the leaders of the Fraternity are known as the Umbra, and that Lord Balfour de Casteelle, president of the University of Dementlieu, is one of the Umbra. In Gazetteer II "S" reveals that her attempt to join the Fraternity was rebuffed because of her gender, and that the Brautslava Institute in Darkon is a center of the Fraternity's power.
Noncanon Information
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Prestige Class
The prestige class for members of the Fraternity appears in the articles Scholars of Darkness[2] and Perilous Pursuits[3]
The Umbra
As detailed in Quoth the Raven volume 13, the present leaders of the Fraternity of Shadows are, in order of seniority, Tarnos Shadowcloak, Count Wilhelm von Lovenhorst, Lord Balfour de Casteelle, Malcolm Scott, and Jan Mikkelson.
Women in the Fraternity
Countess Karla von Lovenhorst, daughter of Count Wilhelm von Lovenhorst, a member of the Umbra, was allowed to join[4], but it is unclear whether this is an exception or a precedent. Professor Viktor Hazan indirectly addresses the matter while slandering Professor Mirella Agrippa: "I chuckled over and annotated her errors, emotionally-based comments and weak hypotheses. (No wonder that women are rarely accepted into our Fraternity. That’s just how it is, I guess.)" [5] Professor Viktor Hazan also shed light on the ambition of "S" to join the Fraternity, describing her in these terms: "a stern scholar for whom I once sat as token out-ofbranch examiner in Darkon. She tried to impress the Brautslava cell’s admissions committee by her superior wit, yet failed the second figment quiz. Her own arcane interests, she’d sullenly retorted, lay elsewhere. It’d been a while since I saw her work in the occult journals; I wondered what had happened to her and what kind of trouble she was involved in now." [6]
Real World Organization
The Fraternity of Shadows is also used as the real-world name for the moderators and managers of the Fraternity of Shadows website, presently the largest active Ravenloft site on the Internet.
- ↑ Under the Second Edition rules for specialist wizards, this meant that necromancers could not join the Fraternity, and the highest ranking members of the Fraternity could not cast necromantic spells.
- ↑ USS2002 - p15
- ↑ Quoth the Raven X - p45
- ↑ shown in the framing fiction to the Undead Sea Scrolls 2001
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer, p119.
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer, p119.
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Pages in category "The Fraternity of Shadows"
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