Shadow Weaver (She-Ra)

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Shadow Weaver is a female character who features in She-Ra.

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Biography

Light Spinner was a female inhabitant of the planet Etheria where she was once a practicing apprentice sorceress originally from the Kingdom of Mystacor. Along with a rival sorceress named Castaspella, she was being trained by a great Etherian sorcerer named Norwyn. When Hordak arrived on Etheria, he promised Shadow Weaver vast power in exchange for information, she agreed. Only a second-rate sorceress herself, her powers were greatly increased through a magical gem which was responsible for a devastating unforeseen physical transformation. While absorbing the power of the Horde's "dark gem", Norwyn discovered her and realized her great betrayal. He then destroyed the gem, severing her link with the gem but not before she had taken only a third of its power, inducing an irreversible change in her mentally and spiritually. She betrayed Norwyn and Castaspella and joined the ranks of the Evil Horde who then set about conquering the entire planet.

She then came to be charged with caring and watching over the young Adora. This saw Shadow Weaver using her magic to keep her under control and helped shepherd her to the position of Force Captain within the Horde.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Shadow Weaver wore a red hood/veil and robe which covers most of her body. Her face was never shown, with only two yellowish eyes visible. Her hands were a pale green color. Once young and beautiful, her conversion to evil dramatically altered her appearance and voice. Originally, she was known as Beatrix before taking the name Light Spinner though she abandoned this after she joined the Horde where she came to be known as Shadow Weaver.

It was shown that she had a pet familiar named Styrax who was a green-feathered vulture.

Upon joining the Horde, she came to swear allegiance to Hordak and served as his lieutenant on Etheria.

Powers and abilities

Shadow Weaver was shown as a powerful wielder of magic where her abilities stemmed from her use of Shadow Magic. This allowed her to cast a range of spells that included Shadow Coils, Shadow Cells, the Sleeping Shadow, and Shadow Bubbles that she often used against her enemies. She also has extensive magical knowledge relating to myths and legends.

Her dark skills allow her to weave her mystical abilities as dark force-bolts, mind-control, telekinesis, teleportation, transmogrification, weather manipulation, and just about any other feat she sets her mind to, such as assailing Castle Brightmoon itself through means of a magical replica in the episode "The Crystal Castle". She moves about solely by levitation, having never been shown to walk or run in the series.

It was shown that she was at her most powerful within her home at Horror Hall. She owned a huge cauldron that she was able to use to scry for distant events and communicate with other worlds.

As a member of the Evil Horde, she was often seen at their headquarters on Etheria which was the Fright Zone. However, she maintained her own lair that was Horror Hall which was located in the darkest regions of the planet.

Notes

  • Shadow Weaver was created by Filmation where she was created for She-Ra: Princess of Power.

In other media

Television

  • In She-Ra: Princess of Power, Shadow Weaver appeared in the setting of the 1980s animated television series where she was voiced by actress Linda Gary.
  • In She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Shadow Weaver appeared in the setting of the 2018 animated television series where she was voiced by actress Lorraine Toussaint. She was once Light Spinner, a sorceress from the kingdom of Mystacor. Her history is revealed in a flashback sequence in the second-season episode "Light Spinner": as Light Spinner, she was a mentor to Glimmer's father Micah during the early days of the Horde's invasion of Etheria. Though she succeeded in using a forbidden spell that allowed her to siphon magic to increase her power, it rebounded and disfigured her. She left the Sorcerers' Guild soon after and joined the Horde. Shadow Weaver used her position to gain access to the Black Garnet runestone, learning to draw power from it. As Adora and Catra's guardian, Shadow Weaver favored Adora and was dismissive and emotionally abusive toward Catra. In the first season, after Adora defects to the Rebellion, Shadow Weaver is obsessed with recapturing her, ignoring Hordak's orders. Hordak dismisses her as second-in-command for this insubordination, replacing her with Catra, and she is imprisoned for refusing to relinquish the Black Garnet to her former subordinate. Shadow Weaver later manipulates Catra into helping her escape the Fright Zone. In the third season, she defects to the Rebellion and becomes a prisoner in the Rebellion stronghold of Bright Moon. She tells Adora about Hordak's plan to open a portal to bring the full Horde army to Etheria. Shadow Weaver is later freed by Glimmer to help rescue Adora after the Horde captures her and aid the rebels in stopping the portal. She begins training Glimmer in sorcery, contributing to Glimmer's conflict in the fourth season with Adora, who does not trust her former mentor. When Horde Prime makes his appearance on Etheria in the final episode of the fourth season, Shadow Weaver continues to work alongside the resistance, despite the rebels' lingering distrust towards her. She leads Adora and her friends to the failsafe for the Heart of Etheria in the catacombs of Mystacor, doing her best to protect them from the traps set in the place, and explains that only She-Ra would have the chance of wielding it. In the fifth season finale, when Adora travels to the Heart of Etheria in order to shut it down before Horde Prime can use it, Shadow Weaver protects her and Catra from a guard monster and sacrifices her life in order to destroy it.

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  • She-Ra: Princess of Power:

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