The air explodes with shadowy tendrils that slice like blades.

Targets of ephemeral storm must make a Fortitude save or die. Those who succeed take 5d6 points of damage.

Your foes suddenly find their bodies infused with shadowstuff, weakening them greatly.

This mystery functions like the mystery flesh fails, except that you can affect multiple subjects, and you deal either 6 points of Strength damage, 6 points of Dexterity damage, or 4 points of Constitution damage. You must deal the same kind of ability damage to all subjects.

Draining shadows erupt around your foes, funneling their essence and energy into the Plane of Shadow.

Your touch deals 1d6 points of nonlethal damage per caster level (maximum 20d6) and causes the subject to become exhausted for 1 round per caster level. A Fortitude save reduces the damage by half and decreases the exhaustion to fatigue. This mystery does not stack with itself, so a creature fatigued by saving against one casting does not become exhausted by saving against a second casting.

Reaching into the shadow of the creature, you grasp the shadows of the deleterious things that affect it and tear them away.

You open a conduit to the Plane of Shadow, leaching out energy maintaining an ongoing effect.

This mystery functions like the spell break enchantment.

This more potent version of the mystery shadows fade functions like the spell greater dispel magic.

You reach into shadow and draw forth a reflection of active magic, merging it with that magic and causing them to cancel each other.

This mystery functions like the spell dispel magic.

From a sudden rift into the Plane of Shadow, a cold wind begins to blow. Torrents of shadow arc out, draining the life from nearby creatures.

This mystery creates a blast of electricity and cold energy, much like some of the most fearsome weather found on the Plane of Shadow. The storm strikes one target initially, then arcs to other targets.

You break the boundaries between worlds, opening a path into the Plane of Shadow.

This mystery functions like the spell plane shift, except that your destination or origination must be the Plane of Shadow.