Chhaya

Guardian of Shadow

ShadowBinders were created in the image of their brooding diety. Their creation was completely accidental when Shadowbinder was trying to manipulate the shadows of all of Sornieth, she inadvertently corrupted a clutch of eggs. When the little hatchlings were born they looked nothing like their parents, who were brightly colored, the hatchlings were perfect copies of Shadowbinder. When Shadowbinder realized what she had done, she wanted nothing more then to hide her mistake. She quickly swooped in and took the hatchlings, intending to hide them from the world, as well as the other Deities. As we all know though nothing stays hidden forever and ShadowBinder had no idea how far her Magic had reached.

News spread of these odd hatchings, these ShadowBinder favored dragons. These young hatchlings were revered and any clan who produced such a hatchling believed it was a sign of Shadowbinder's favor. The hatchlings were so very proud to be chosen by their Shadow mother, these little tricksters were the best of spies for their deity. Nothing happened in Sornieth, that these shadow creations didn't know about. They happily reported back to their Shadowbinder, hoping to gain favor of their aloof Shadow Mother.

Over time Shadowbinder saw the usefulness of these accidents, information was flowing in from her adoring children. Time passed uneventfully and with no more hatchlings, she finally began to relax. Then the unthinkable happened, months after the first incident another hatching! Shadowbinder sent her children to investigate and found the same unusual hatching. Her children being creation of magic and shadow could feel residual magic all around them. One could actually hear giggling from within the shadows. It was found out that on the day of the incident, some of Shadowbinder’s magic had created sentient shadows. These shadow’s held some sparks of Shadowbinder’s magic, as the shadows blanketed incubating eggs the magic did its work.

The parents of these anomalies began showing their love by naming the males Shadow and the females Binder. Shadowbinder was not amused and when her children began to exhibit their own bit of magic she was less amused.

Chhaya can percieve things through their own shadow, but can't manipulate it.