Zelda Universe RPG

Long before becoming a Subrosian Poe, Shady was once a Kokiri living happily within Kokiri Forest. He was part of a family of three Kokiri; consisting of himself before he died, Summer Night before she went to the dark side and Sleepy before she became a Skull Kid. Like most wood sprites, his life was full of joy and happiness. That is, until Ganondorf attacked.

When Ganondorf’s army attacked the unprotected Kokiri Forest during the seven years where the Hero of Time was sealed away, a large proportion of village was wiped out. While Summer and Sleepy escaped the onslaught, Shady was among the victims who perished. Set ablaze by a pyromanical Fire Wizzrobe, Shady wallowed in agony in a hollow tree stump before falling all the way to Subrosia.

Fallen into the Temple of Seasons in Subrosia, Shady’s charred body and spirit burning with anger and despair was attended to by Blaaz and Fraaz. Blaaz placed a red Subrosian cloak over while Fraaz covered his face in a veil of Shadow and then proceeded to teach Shady how to become a Subrosian Poe.
Now that Shady is now a Subrosian Poe, he has forgotten his pain and suffering he endured leading up to his death as a Kokiri and started enjoying life as a Poe; exploring the world, teasing the inhabitants of Subrosia, gathering all sorts of weird and wonderful trinkets that he sells.

When the portal to Hyrule opened up in Subrosia, Shady was among the first to take it. However, unlike Subrosians, the residents of Hyrule City were afraid of the Poe; a suspicious shadowy figure going around the city and teasing everybody. He was quickly caught by the Hylian Guard then sent to prison. Being a Poe, he quickly phased out of prison but was then caught and locked into a magical prison by Princess Zelda herself. After confirmation of his nature from Subrosians, Shady was released.

After a week of being let out to do whatever he pleases, Shady was caught by Impa after numerous complaints from townsfolk in regards to teasing and was forcibly assigned the role of training new adventurers in the Training Grounds; where she saw Shady being able to put his talents as a Subrosian Poe to good use.

Not long after being assigned to train new adventurers the ropes on combat and exploration, everybody started fearing Shady. As it turns out, he can summon powerful and fierce creatures like Wizzrobes and Darknuts. However, people quickly came to realize that these monsters were merely illusions; the worst they could do is cause people to pass out. Because of these illusions, he became the first person everyone in Hyrule City turns to for training and testing their skills against monsters.

As time passed, he slowly gained the ability to create more and more complex and elaborate illusions. He learned how to set up tutorials, trials and eventually even small dungeons using just the illusions he can conjure. While he has been warned by Zelda for causing too much mental damage by accident at times, he is generally well received by the population of Hyrule City.

Through the events of In the Frozen Mind’s Eye, Shady was seen out in the training grounds in a horribly twisted-looking state. He and the area immediately was completely grey and frozen in time with a strange portal behind him. This was the result of him using his Signature Skill: Monochrome Eclipse. Whatever it did, it opened a portal into his mind; which was then accessed by a party of adventurers wishing to fix the situation. They fixed the situation and snapped Shady out of Monochrome Eclipse and return everything to normal by the end of the quest.

The exact details behind why Shady cast Monochrome Eclipse is unclear, but it is likely to be related to saving Fraaz. As recalled by Fraaz in the Temple of Seasons’ Winter Dungeon, she was attacked by Summer Night and the only thing she remembered between that and her waking up in the dungeon was that Shady cast Monochrome Eclipse. This theory is reinforced by the fact that the party of adventurers brought Fraaz out alive from Shady’s Mind and recovered her to full health.

In the events of The Final Shard, Shady guided Sephiroth to the entrance of Hyrule City Catacombs. Sephiroth was able to enter the dark, corrupted ruins safely, but Shady refused to enter because he feared that the ruins could corrupt him. This indicates that, as a Subrosian Poe, that the evil part of him is dormant inside his soul which could potentially be awoken and take over him and that Hyrule City Catacombs has something in it that could potentially trigger it.

Prior to the events of In the Frozen Mind’s Eye; Shady’s sister, Summer Night, set out to assassinate Fraaz for some currently unknown reason. Whatever the reason was, Summer backstabbed Fraaz, knocking her out for a while.
When her home, the Temple of Seasons’ Winter Dungeon, opened up; a party of adventurers dove into the dungeon to find her spirit dozing off in the snow and she woke up. At this point, the all she was is a spirit; she believing that she was dead while her real self being somewhere in inside Shady’s Mind.

Meanwhile, in Shady’s Mind, a party of adventurers stumbled across her real body. She was found in a dire, barely alive, state; completely unresponsive to anything that anyone did to try to mend her wounds. The adventurers carried her all the way through the rest of the dungeon to the end and brought her out alive. Now back in the real world; Fraaz’s wounds were able to be mended and she fully recovered.

Afterwards, Fraaz decided to move out into Hyrule City after learning that her old home in the Temple of Seasons is overrun by monsters. At first, she ran a shop filled with weird and wonderful stuff that came from completely foreign lands that she had no idea of how she got them; but that wasn’t turning enough money and then she closed it down. While the shop no longer exists, it is rumored that many of the wares she was selling can be found elsewhere in Hyrule; despite being completely foreign.
Bored and lonely, Fraaz mulled around Hyrule City for a while before she came up with another one of her great ideas - A gambling venue! Deciding to put her eccentric nature to use, she set out to establish a gaming venue. This proved to be a wild success, as both the games she set up and her attitude drew in large crowds of people; pheasants, nobles and adventurers alike, to bet their Rupees in the hopes of it winning big. As popular as the place is, it has won and destroyed hopes and dreams and as a result certain circles of people have grown to hate Fraaz over it.

Directly after Blaaz became insane, he went onto a murderous rampage; killing several people and mugging who he didn’t kill. A party of adventurers then tracked him down and defeated him, taking several powerful protective Artifacts from him in the process. Despite being defeated, they were not able to arrest him and bring him to the Hylian Guard.
Later, Blaaz fled Subrosia and into the Fire Temple, before sealing the place off with magical lava.

During the events of Attack on Death Mountain, Blaaz was part of the army of monsters attacking Goron City and was one of the major threats during the attack. Darunia and a couple of other Gorons engaged him in a fight and forced him to retreat, preventing him from causing a lot of trouble while others struggled to hold off the monsters.

After then, Blaaz has never been seen again.