“Well imagination is certainly required but shadow magic stems from a different source than your probably used to its not a BAD magic per say that depends on how it’s used but there are multiple sources of magic the most common ones being good, neutral, and evil. Again how bad they are solely depends on how the user uses them although oddly enough it’s incredibly difficult for a person who is affiliated with the darker arts to learn good magic and for good magic to be used for bad purposes but since shadow magic comes from the source it does learning it is much different and learning a darker art generally means more difficulty and some sacrifice to use it as the source is rather reluctant, nuetral magic is the easiest to learn and at most simply requires a lot of practice and how easy good magic depends”