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MonkeySage
2015-07-19, 02:41 PM
The Villain is a vampire, but has to keep up good publicity and so must hide his vampiric state.

One way to do this, I figured, was to have him bind a shadow to his service through the power of a magic ring. In so doing, he can appear to cast a shadow. This way he just has to avoid mirrors.

The vampires in my setting are not particularly harmed by sunlight, but they become fatigued during the day, and in direct sunlight their powers are weakened considerably. The effects stack.

I'm thinking that the ring is basically enchanted, and then used to capture a shadow. From that point on, the only way to set the shadow free is to break the spell that binds it, either by destroying the ring or using disjunction on it. Killing the shadow also breaks the spell. During the day, the shadow is protected from sunlight by staying close to the ring.