Description
- School: illusion / shadow (shadow)
- Classes: bard 5, skald 5
- Casting Time: 1 standard action
- Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
- Effect: phantom singer
- Duration: 1 round/level
- Components: V, S
- Dismissible: No
- Shapeable: No
- Spell Resistance: No
You conjure up a quasi-real phantom singer that is visible as a shifting, shadowy duplicate of yourself. The singer follows you automatically, moving as you move even if you teleport.
The singer cannot be damaged, but can be dispelled. When a shadowbard comes into being, it immediately begins a bardic performance of your choice-it has access to all of the bardic performances that you do. It continues that bardic performance until you direct it as a move action to switch to a different performance. Rounds spent by a shadowbard creating a bardic performance do not decrease the number of rounds you can use your own bardic performance, nor can a shadowbard's bardic performance be used to trigger spells that require you to begin or cease a bardic performance.