Shadower

A Shadower dims light, softens an outline, and passes unremarked through a lit room. The work does not remove a person or object from sight. It makes attention less likely to settle there, placing the classification at the common and narrow end of Gloam’s concealing braid.

That modest effect is difficult to separate from ordinary skill in moving without notice. Shadowers encourage the uncertainty, which keeps the practice common and informal. Night crews, couriers, and anyone whose work benefits from being forgotten by a doorman hire them without ceremony or a standing contract.

Ysil’s holds are said to employ many Shadowers, but Ysil neither confirms the claim nor supplies a register by which outsiders could test it. Its neighbors treat that silence as evidence. The classification itself establishes no public authority, and most of its work remains an arrangement between practitioner and employer.