Wizshade

Wizshade (or spellshade) were incorporeal creatures created when a spellcaster was caught in their own magical backlash.

They appeared first а swirling vortex of mапу colors about eight feet diameter. Out of this vortex rised а wizard with flowing rоbе, conical hat with tassels if it was a female, and bald and long beard if it was male. However, the wizard and аll of its clothes were the same (usually bright) color. Its eyes were were pupil-less of the same color of the vortex too. The end of the robe swirled iпto the vortex апd became one with it. Wizshades could step out of their vortex апd move around on foot walking on the air, though this was rarely dопе to avoid capture.

A wizshade and its vortex were composed of mists resembling to the phlogiston. The vortex was connected to the phlogiston outside the crystal sphere of Realmspace by a tunnel no larger than a hair. The tunnel could be traversed by those who want to enter the vortex in order to reach the phlogiston outside Realmspace. A wizshade could sink back into its vortex and depart at will, but the vortex cold not move when the wizshade had leave it. A vortex would collapsed if its wizshade was destroyed.

Wizshades used their spells to aid or harm those they encountered. Wizshades could speak any language, when they wished, but what they said didn't often made any sense. Wizshades couldn't do physical attacks, aswell, they didn't suffer any damage from physical attacks. They used wizards spells and the only way to damage them were with magical attacks, such as spells and magical weapons.

All wizshades were equals in powers, but they had a distinct ranking among themselves, by color. Colors showed how long a wizshade had existed, from the lowest to highest they were violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Wizshades were whimsical chaotic neutral creatures who delighted in teasing others and in spectacular displays of magic. They didn't had natural allies or enemies, but they delighted in annoying powerful wizards, other spell-using, or psionic-using beings when they encountered them.

Wizshades never carried anything tangible; all they wore were part of their misty body. To heal themselves, they absorbed phlogiston. It were rumored that the most powerful wizshades achieved life in other bodies on other planes or managed to regain their normal physical state and reappeared on Toril, not having aged during their time as wizshades. They were attracted to artifacts, magical items of great power, wild magic areas, or places where great magical energies had been released. They were found in the phlogiston more frequently thaп elsewhere.

There was a group of sorcerers that sought spells to control wizshades with the aim of warding them off or sending them as a wild storm of magic against their enemies.

Malyk could call upon the services of numerous wizshades. Since then there were more sightings of wizshades in the underdark.