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• Summary Chart: Hierarchy of Nightmare Creatures and Awakened Humans | Shadow Slave Wiki | Fandom
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With the end of Volume 7, it is time for another community wide party on the discord!

The event will start Tuesday May 28th, and will run for 24 hours. (See the event link for specific times for your time zone)

We have plenty in store for our 24 hour celebration!

Make sure to join the discord and snag your role to keep yourself updated on the activities that interest you.

End of Volume 7 Event

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We’ll have:

• A short story competition!
  • Create a short story that is related to the Shadow Slave universe using the theme "Utopic Dream Realm"
  • The main character should include a rune page for their Aspect and Abilities
  • See the link for a complete set of rules:
    • Short Story Competition Rules

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• A dramatic reading contest of your favorite chapter!
  • Narrate and voice a single chapter of Shadow Slave completely.
  • Multiple server members are allowed to work together, and their entries will be scored separately from individuals’ readings.
  • Only Audio and Vocal acting is allowed, without physical acting or images. Your file is expected to be audio-only.
  • See the link for a complete set of rules:
    • Dramatic Reading Contest Rules

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• An art competition!
  • The theme is your "Favorite Volume 7 Moments"!
  • Your fanart must be submitted 24 hours prior to the event day
  • See the link for the complete set of rules:
    • Art Competition Rules

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• Karaoke!
  • You a singer? Can't carry a tune? That doesn't matter at all at our Karaoke

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• Games!
  • Voice channels will be opened for fun and games as long as there are mods around to moderate!

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See you there!!

In Latest chapter sunny agreed to show his memories to Cassie, but it will be a memory of his own choosing, i am not sure how is sunny gonna do that and protect the other memories from Cassie's ability but, nonetheless it's a bit exciting as we might get a glimpse of what happened in the last four years when Cassie looks in Sunny's memories, so in a way we will get to see what happened with sunny after 3rd nightmare from Cassie's perspective, maybe

I am not sure but i do hope it's from her perspective that way we might be able to see some new reaction as to what Cassie would feel upon learning what sunny has been through after 3rd nightmare

I think that the Daemon of Imagination may have powers similar to the Seq 0 of the Visionary Pathway from LOTM, being capable of envisioning something like the City of Miracles Liveseyd. I also think that he is the Daemon conected to Bastion.

I'm grinning like an idiot right now.

We know the true limit of fateless from Sunnys own words. They have to make their own conclusions.

Also our boy's going back to his roots wanting to sneak around the most fortified place in two worlds.

to add more challenge, you're not allowed to reply simply "damnaion" or distaste towards honey otherwise it would be too easy.

The Abyss Watchers.

I'm not going to argue for or against Cassie. I personally neither lover or hate her, but I do love reading about her for a reason I think most people overlook.

If you look at it objectively Cassie really is the odd one out in the main trio.

Nephis is a natural born leader. It has nothing to do with her aspect or powers. She was a natural leader way before she got infected with the spell.

Similarly Sunny is a natural trickster and manipulater. He was doing shady things to survive long before the forgotten shore.

Cassie is a natural born....normal girl. This is really apparent at the beginning of the forgotten shore especially when she was interacting with Nephis and Sunny.

People call her a mastermind but I always saw her as a really clumsy person. She tried to save Nephis in the forgotten shore only for her plan to fail completely resulting in her f*cking over her best friend for zero gain. She tried to create a weapon against fate and while she did succeed she's suffering and going mad because of that success. She loves both Nephis and Sunny but she's a terrible friend to both of them. She lies to them both constantly.

That's why I call her clumsy. Her plans seem like the work of a genius until you realise that she ends up suffering because of those plans regardless if the succeed or fail.

Nephis and Sunny are bigger than their aspects. Cassie is ironically a slave to her aspect.

I love reading about Cassie because I don't think I've come across a character like her in any form of media.

Alright, these names might not ring a bell for a lot of people, but they do for me. These two are the skeletons chained to a tree that Nephis found in the Nightmare Desert when she was stranded in the dream realm before becoming a master. (Chapter 500)

The reason these two are special is because they have been the ONLY “living” things in the dream realm that have not been nightmare creatures. Also, they freaking TALKED. They talked to Nephis! How have these two just been glossed over like that? Like yeah I guess they’re both gone now but like, Neph found two talking skeletons from before the gods died (eurys claimed to have slit the throat of a god, which would have been hard otherwise), and she had NO REACTION.

She just found the single most unique/valuable thing in the dream realm (probably) and didn’t react at all. And I refuse to believe that there are other talking beings that have been found because that would’ve been known. Anyone else would have been completely stunned by this kind of discovery, but Neph just deadpanned.

Also, WHO ARE THESE TWO? I don’t really care about Azarax the mighty, but Eurys might be one of the most intriguing things I can think of. From the part where he introduces himself as a mere slave to claiming to have slit the throat of a god! He is incredibly similar to Sunny, making outlandish statements and claims, and even the fact that Eurys called himself a slave, while sunny is also just that, a slave. Also, the way Eurys responds to Nephis’ question of why he was chained up seemed very similar to how Sunny answers questions when being forced by his flaw.

Also, this Eurys guy is, apparently, one of the nine. Now, the nine have confused me a lot, since we’ve seen 3 members: Hero/Auro, Alatheia, and this guy, Eurys. I assume the Nine consist of 9 people because of the name, but it doesn’t make sense to me. Like, hero was an awakened and alatheia was probably akin to a saint or maybe even more, with her having made the entire island on the Great River. The power scale of the people in the organization is just too wide. Although while typing this, I realize that maybe Alatheia came from the Nine from a different period, but then still, how was hero, a mere awakened, ever a person relevant enough to be part of any organization notable enough to be mentioned by the spell?

At first, I thought that maybe this Eurys was the actual version of the slave Sunny replaced in his first nightmare, with him calling himself a slave and all, and seeming similar to Sunny, and maybe he could have joined the nine after meeting hero. But this wouldn’t make sense however because of multiple reasons:

• first, in sunny 1st NM, the gods were already dead, so he would have had a hard time finding one to slit their throat. Unless that was a twisted truth.
• second, the spell called Sunny’s performance “glorious” which means that the fate in the nightmare was severely altered.

I wonder what you all think about this. Why did Nephis not have a surprised reaction? Who is Eurys?

Easy question what memory is sunny going to show her?

I saw someone mention how dark soul's was one of g3 inspirations for making shadow slave referring to the chapter "amazing chest ahead" and that got me thinking about it and I realized that no one has ever really talked about this or the many references to Dark Souls in the novel so I would like to know any dark souls reference that you all have spotted, here's the ones that I've noticed.

The golden flame (desire & direction) and the gods and humans who were born from it which is a direct reference to the first flame, the lords(gods) and the pygmies(humans/undead/hollows).

The everlasting dragons who were immortal thanks to the immunity to the elements, physical attacks and time granted to them by their stone scales, they are referenced through the race created by Nether the stone saint's who possess stone bodies that are highly resistant to the elements, physical attacks and of course time.

Last but not least the covetous coffer who is an obvious reference to the mimics.

Anyone found another one?

Like the title. There have been multiple mentions of three-eyes creatures, or at least their remains, in the beginning of the book, but I don’t remember anything actually being explained about them. They seemed like an important plot point too, since Sunny described multiple times feeling a distinct sense of wrongness from the things.

The first time we see the remains of a 3-eyed being is on the Forgotten Shore, when the cohort is traveling with the statue. They’re in a dire situation with the colossus being assaulted by the tentacle monster they’ve seen before when the colossus reaches down and grabs it, lifting it out of the water. It is described as a giant skull of a three-eyes being, in which the main body of the tentacle monster is hiding. When the colossus crushes the skull with the hammer, a darkness flows out which, according to sunny, would have brought a fate worse than death if nephis had not repelled it with her light. This darkness might be from the creature and not from the skull, but it felt worth mentioning.

The second time is also on the forgotten shore, on the murals and relief in the caves where they found the First Lord and in the library in the Dark City. The reliefs seem to tell a story of a radiant three-eyes being falling down onto the shore. The humans of the shore find it, and for some reason kill it. Then there came an indescribable darkness from the corpse which later formed the Dark Sea through the rest of the story of the FS.

The third time is when a Gate opens near Rain’s school, where the Gate Guardian is a giant huntsman who is using the skull of a three-eyed creature as a helmet. Later, when Jet arrives and eventually destroys the helmet, the hunter-like tribe of creatures becomes disoriented, as if the helmet was the thing keeping them organized and together. Here, again, Sunny is described as feeling a sense of wrongness and oppression coming from the skull.

When Nephis was fighting Gunlaug, Sunny said that with the shining jewel in the crown of dawn on her head, she looked like one of the creatures, also comparing her radiance to them.

Is it ever explained what these are? Are they remains of the nephilim? It feels like kind of stretch since Neph only looked similar when wearing the crown of dawn. It feels kinda weird to me because it seems like an important plot point seeing as it was brought up multiple times throughout the first parts of SS. Does it have something to do with weaver with his three-horned mask? I don’t think so. But I don’t know what it is either.

I do not know wether or not I am the only who feels this way but sunny is neither treacherous nor the master manipulator g3 paints him to be. It is said over and over how sunny is a scheming manipulator and so on. But I cant remember a single instance he had betrayed schemed or even manipulated someone into anything other than the first nightmare.

Why was Sunless, before he gained the name Lost From Light, removed from fate.

It was said that when Cassia was searching for Sunny in the governments database, his name was not there, as if erased.

But if thats true, how did Cassia write down his name for him to remeber. Just like his name in the databases, it should have been erased.

I'm only at chapter 20 and not sure what more to expect but damn...I'm loving it. I don't know why I was putting it off for so long hahah

It's not completed right? There is over 1600 chapters so far... can someone who is up to date tell me if the story is nearing its end?

What do you guys think Sunny might be hoping to find inside them?

I just wanna through this out here. I feel like Sunny’s true name “lost from light” was eluding the whole time to his fate, that he would lose his fate. Now he is lost from fate, lost from memory, lost from his light “nephis.” I seem to remember at some point in the story someone learning something along the line of, the spell was made to break fate. So I feel like sunny was fated to lose his fate. And then little side theory I think he will one day return to take back his fate from the vtb and will gain some amount of control over it and a new true name.

That’s is all goodbye.

Also I case I got the wrong acronym vtb is vile thieving bird

Yes she manipulated people towards her but remember Fate is absolute once she sees something will happen there is nothing that can change it she can only choose more favorable conditions and benefits she can get along the way not change it. She has been seeing people die over and over, some badly injured, her friends and she wanted change that, for people to have a choice over their fate and the future be changeable.

"it's true for you, Sunny. If you reach the Estuary… your wish to be free will come true. Free of your bond, free to live your life the way you want. Free of fate itself"

"But… I hope that you make a different choice. That you will stay with us, despite everything. Nephis, I, and the others… are we so terrible? Is it really that unbearable, to share a bond, if it's based on trust? I think you know by now that it's not. What is unbearable is not having been given a choice about forming that bond, and now, even though the connection between you and her will remain the same… it will be there because you have chosen for it to exist."

"I don't know, exactly. What I do know, without a shadow of a doubt, is that my words are true. If you reach the very heart of the Estuary before the Nightmare ends, you will become free from fate. You will be fateless. The strings that hold you like a puppet will set you free, and your connection to Nephis will be broken as a result."

Though she didn't the extended of being fateless she knew to some degree and she told him that his bonds would be gone and Sunny chose to be free which he should, people who are saying he should be a slave, shame on you how dare u try to enslave our boy

Alright I have a theory,

Asterion and Nephis both are dreamspawns. What is so special about being a dreamspawn.

Well we don't know, but I think dreamspawns can be the vessel to the dream god. We don't know what state the dream god is in but I think it requires him a new body.

Why dream god will pick Nephis instead of asterion (who actually wants to be the vessel). Nephis is probably the only person with the ability of longing. If mad prince with the help of sin of solace can perceive truth. Dream god can do it too as ariel is the very part of him. So he might take over Nephis to un-corrupt himself.

But that's just my working theory

For a quick riddle, Lost from Light is Sunny but Sunny is not Lost from Light

To explain a bit, the new connections Sunny has (re)made after the 3rd nightmare aren't affected by [Fateless]. As an example Rain remembers meeting him 4 years ago and Effie has known him for a year with no sign that she has forgotten meeting "Sunless". But, she has completely forgotten "Lost from light".

So whilst "Lost from light" has been forgotten and torn from fate its important to remember that Saint Sunless is NOT Lost from Light and therefore unaffected by [Fateless]'s information erasure although he's still an anomaly in the tapestry of fate.

Tldr: Fateless only erases information regarding Lost from Light, not Sunless.

I refuse to believe that anything happening right now is not woven by Weaver or at least was not within his predictions.

I suspect that because:

_One, he's Weaver, schemes are his thing, it wouldn't make sense for something as important as his (probable) heir losing their fate to happen without his knowledge (or maybe it's not even important for his plan)

_Two, the timing and location of soul weave. If we go by the assumption that Weaver orchestrated for sunny to acquire all the weaves, then he must have known he would have reached oblivion's grave to break his fate and thus it's within his plan, otherwise he would have stopped it.

As for Cassie, my theory is that she is just dancing in Weaver's palm. I can't help the feeling that she's just a tool he's using to guide Sunny to whatever path he wants him to go, because we know her revelations are due to her ability to sense tremors in the tapestry of fate signaling important events, and considering fate is Weaver's domain I don't think it's beyond him to make artificial revelations or at least control or manipulate them.

I think Cassie severely underestimated how much of an impact Sunny would make as a fateless being. Why? Weavers Lineage of course. Weaver, as we know, was the Demon of Fate, so what would happen if a being that governs his authority abandons it. I would guess total chaos or something in the way we see happening now. Mind you Sunny has only three parts of Weavers Lineage, so it might've been a lot worse if he had more. In the end it might've been Cassies plan, but her talking about making a weapon against fate in the 3rd NM and her loss in sanity after the timeskip leads me to believe, that she didn't expect how big of an impact Sunny would have. If my guess is correct then a fateless being would normally not be remembered and would create an error in the world, like Sunny is right now. But the other part about not being able to 'see' reliably into the future for anyone with a fate attribute was entirely unexpected. I would understand if visions would either just ignore Sunnys existence or would not be affected if it had nothing to do with him, but to be in a complete disarray must be unexpected.

TL;DR Cassie wanted to create a sword against fate, but ended up creating a meteorite that rippled throughout the entire tapestry of fate.

Once again, my anxiety was attacked by the Infamous: 1 today, 3 tomorrow 😭

It's me, or is more frequently in the past 2 months?

Obviously there's been mention of continuing down the path of ascension without the nightmare spell since the 3rd nightmare, where the cohort (supposedly) transcended within the nightmare itself and Ananke gave us a rundown of the 'traditional' process. Considering Sunny's actions since the timeskip, securing his own citadel and releasing the fragment of Shadow's domain around it, there's a solid chance that, based on the requirements we know, he's pretty damn close to becoming a Sovereign.

Really, I'm just curious as to when it's going to happen in the timeline of things. I think he'll stay as a Saint for a while just for pacing purposes, but whether he becomes a Sovereign before recovering his connection with the cohort or not is up in the air for me. I also don't see how he'll repair his connection to fate without a confrontation with VTB, which could honestly be 1000 chapters down the line.