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** There's also the ''mirror of opposition''. Any character who gazes into the mirror will create an identical twin of opposing alignment, with identical levels, skills and equipment.
*** There's a very powerful (Solar Circle Sorcery) magic spell with this effect in ''[[Exalted]]'', with the twist that the original is trapped in the mirror while their [[Evil Twin]] runs loose.
** ''[[Pathfinder]]'' has the alter ego creature template that consists in an artificial copy of a character created from an undesired personality trait during a moment of trauma. The alter ego is a walking manifestation of this personality trait, retaining every of its originator's memories but with a personality limited to this single trait taken to an extreme.
* The Ebon Dragon in ''[[Exalted]]'' ''is'' this trope. One of his titles is "the Shadow of All Things," and he exists to oppose heroism wherever it may exist and corrupt it into villainy.
** Which just leads to layers of complexity, when one considers that the Ebon Dragon instigated the creation of the Unconquered Sun to provide him with an overarching 'light archetype' to define himself against. This, of course, resulted in the emergence of Five Days Darkness... best described as the Unconquered Sun's Shadow Archetype, and effectively the Ebon Dragon's grandchild.
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