Shades were humanoids who had merged with the essence of The Netherveil. They grew more powerful in areas of darkness or shadows, including gaining the ability to leap from shadow to shadow, to create shadowy duplicates of themselves, and even to become entirely invisible. They could also decrease the amount of light in an area and could see through darkness, even of the magical variety. Most infamously, the floating city of Netheril's citizens were turned into shades over many thousands of years of living within The Netherveil after escaping the Continuum Crisis.
