Patience
Shadow Magic
Soul and Ancient Knowledge
The school of the soul. Shadow magic works with spiritual essence, with the part of a person that exists beyond flesh and mind. Dark gray energy preserves knowledge across centuries, studies the nature of existence itself, delves into mysteries that other schools cannot touch. Shadow-moon hosts scholars who have spent lifetimes mastering what cannot be rushed or forced. Understanding that some truths only reveal themselves to those willing to wait.
Practice
Sit in silence. Not empty silence, but the kind full of observation. Watch. Listen. Feel the dark gray energy settle around you like a cloak. Everything in you that wants to rush, to act, to move. Quiet it. The answer will come. The moment will arrive. The truth will reveal itself. But only if you can wait. Not passively. Patiently. With every sense alert and every doubt suspended.
Philosophy
Fire acts now. Water flows constantly. Earth stands immovable. But shadow waits. Not because it is weak. Because it understands something the others do not. That rushing leads to mistakes. That true wisdom cannot be forced. That the soul, unlike the body, does not age or fade or die. It endures. And those who work with souls must learn to share that endless patience.