You open a conduit to the Plane of Shadow, leaching out energy maintaining an ongoing effect.

This mystery functions like the spell break enchantment.

This more potent version of the mystery shadows fade functions like the spell greater dispel magic.

You reach into shadow and draw forth a reflection of active magic, merging it with that magic and causing them to cancel each other.

This mystery functions like the spell dispel magic.

The environment grows immediately more comfortable as you surround yourself with an aura of protective shadow.

You protect the subject from low temperatures and cold energy with a thin layer of that energy’s shadowy reflection. This grants the subject immunity to normal extremes of temperature and absorbs cold damage from attacks and effects. When an aura of shade absorbs a total of 12 points of cold damage per caster level (maximum 120), it expires.

You inundate the area with strange energies from the Plane of Shadow, warping the effects of magic.

A flood of mystical shadow-power renders casting more difficult. To cast most spells while in, or into, an area affected by flood of shadow, the caster must succeed on a Spellcraft check (DC 15 + spell level), or the spell is lost with no effect.

You reach out with shadowy energies, banishing your foe's spell or mystery into the Plane of Shadow, while replacing it with its dark reflection.

You can cast this mystery as an immediate action to warp another caster’s spell or mystery. In this case, warp spell must be used at the moment of the other caster’s casting. To be successful, you must beat the other caster on an opposed caster level check (1d20 + caster level). If you do not, you have failed to take control of his or her spell or mystery, and it manifests normally.

Semisolid shadows rise up and serve as protectors, flickering around you and absorbing some of the damage you might otherwise have taken.

You can cast this mystery as an immediate action. You gain damage reduction according to your caster level (see table below). This DR lasts until the beginning of your next turn.

You cloak yourself in sharp spikes of darkness. Although they are weightless and do nothing to impede you, your foes soon discover that they are not so lucky.

Darkness coalesces about your body, forming a shadow-shape of armor and another that looks like a shield. Although they are as weightless as the air, you know they'll protect you as well as if they were made of steel.

Steel shadows grants you a +3 armor bonus and a +3 shield deflection bonus to AC, but without weight, armor check penalty, arcane spell failure chance, or speed reduction. The effect is not a force effect, and attacks from incorporeal creatures ignore it.

A shifting whirling field of semisolid shadows and tiny rifts in the air rises around you.

Caul of shadow faintly darkens your form, but does not provide any bonuses on Hide checks or similar efforts. You gain a +1 deflection bonus to AC, with an additional +1 for every six caster levels (maximum bonus +4).