OOC: So feel free to do whatever with your classes and minor features… we can also dither race if you wish, but that is more tricky. We should be quite relaxed though, as it should be easy enough to manage challengingly satisfying encounters whatever party setup we have. To suspend disbelief, we’ll say that you’ve been ‘changed’ by the shadows digesting you, or have absorbed something from the shadows you’ve digested. You can basically still have changes, or new characters, on request at anytime though, which we can either work into the plot or retcon.