The Shudderkin are mages who have spent too long in the shadelands and become enthralled with an entity known enigmatically as 'the shudder'. Shudderkin have psychic abilities and will often mentally attack their victims pushing them towards insanity, feeding on their consciousness, their powers growing as their victim lose their ability to think, their rational mind and eventually their sense of self. They have no specific interest in killing their victims, they leave them husks, drained of their ability to differentiate themselves as individuals, into this vacuum pour the dark energies of the shadelands or of the shudder itself.