Shadow
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This article is about the story term describing split individuals. For the attribute, go to 
INFERNAL.
A Shadow is one of the products of the splitting of an individual's essence.
Shadows and their originals and siblings
Often, the Shadow is the discarded remnants that were unwanted by the original individual. They may represent the discarded guilty past, emotional weakness leading to misuse of power, or perceived weaknesses of the original. In contrast, the non-Shadow may carry the intentions of the original but live as its own individual. In either case, however, both the Shadow and non-Shadow products retain the some mental features of the original, and in fact either may continue living on with the identity of the original. The products of the splitting typically resemble each other.
A split may produce more than one non-Shadow, as in the case of 
Shino.
Sibling Shadows and non-Shadows may be unrelated in mythology to each other, such as in the cases where 
Azathoth reconstructs Shadows from their shattered pieces from a plane of nihility.
Relation to Infernal attribute
Characters that are Shadows often have a Sacred Artifact with INFERNAL attribute. However, some Shadows may not necessarily have this attribute (such as 
Shino (Valentine)), and some characters whose cards are Infernal may not necessarily be shadows (such as 
Takemaru).
Notable Shadows instances
Below is a list of Shadows, non-Shadows, and pre-split individuals.
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Trivia
The concept of Shadows is likely borrowed from the Jungian concept of the Shadow Archetype