Esoteric Darkness Manipulation The user can manipulate the esoteric side of the darkness/shadow, with special properties and a mystical nature to it. With mastery, the wielder could use the esoteric element for a variety of magical effects, rather than direction physical control of darkness, such as physical empowerment or transferring darkness into a physical format, user instead uses Darkness as a proxy for powerful, more esoteric magics such as teleportation, age manipulation, mind probing, and alignment shifting.