Trollocs
Myrddraal
Draghkar
Darkhounds
Gray Men

    Before the Dark One started the war of the shadow he prepared for it by trying to make a creature that would be powerful and quick in battle yet intelligent enough to take orders from superiors.  To do this he got his scientists to genetically combine humans and animals.  He used animals such as boars,  bears, wolves, goats, wildcats, rams and eagles to make his creation be aggressive and strong.  His creations had the face of their particular animal and the most of the body was that of a human and were called trollocs.
    Because they were made from abnormally large humans the trollocs averaged ten feet tall.  They where very quick and very ferociuos, killing for the pleasure of it.  Beside all their good atributes, they were first considered a failure to the Dark One as they lacked the ability to take commands.  Usually, their only orders were taken if the commander could make the scared of the results of disobeying.  Also if the trollocs were more afraid of their enemy the would flee from combat, often trampling authorities on their way.
    The shadow searched long for a force that could command their trollocs and was finally discovered in Myrddraal.

    As trollocs are made of two totally different beings, they will often produce a throwback to one of the beings that they were created from.  The throwbacks to the animal part would always die; the trowbacks to the human part would usually survive, though corrupted by their original makers. These offspring are called Myrddraal.  Other names for these beings are halfmen, shadowmen, lurks, fetches, fades, neverborn and the eyeless (as they lack eyes).
    Their names are in the trolloc tongue, but there are very different from either trolloc or human.  Every myrddraal is the same; tall, muscular and handsome ina  dark way.  They move with the speed of a serpent.  Their skin is the white color of a dead fish; their blood, black.  The most frightening difference between myrddraal and humans is their lack of eyes.  Even without eyes, myrddraal can see like an eagle in any light.  Their eyeless stare puts fear into ones mind that paralyzes, thus they were the perfect generals over the trollocs.  The trollocs are terrified of myrddraal and will therefore obey them.
    One skill that the nyrddraal had was the ability to link themselves to the trollocs they are in command of.  In doing so they can make is so that if they die, all of their trollocs die as well. They use this mostly so their trollocs will be forced to protect them.
    The weapons they use are forged at Shayol Ghul and are tainted is some way so that one cut of their sword and the victim will die.  Although their weapons are so powerful, they wear out in time and there is a limited supply of them due to the lack of makers.

    Like trollocs, draghkar were purposly made at Shayol Ghul.  Their danger is not found in their fighting ability but in their "kiss of death".  From a distance, a draghkar can be mistaken for a tall man.  They  have dark, shoulder length hair that is slicked back.  They fly with large black wings.  Their body is like humans except that their skin is too pale and they have talons at the end of their fingers.  They have guant cheeks and large black eyes.
    The draghkar kills with its 'kiss".  They sing a luring song to draw their victim in and then suck their soul out of them with their lips.  Then they will kill their victim.  If the victim is saved after the kiss but before being killed, they will be a lifeless blob for the rest of their life.  Draghkar work best at night as they don't work good in light or with alot of people around.

    Although most shadowspawn are made to look human, darkhounds are totally different.  They resemble hounds in shape but are the size of a small horse.  Thier cry sounds almost like a wolves but as they are twisted from the shadow it is a sound that could never come from a living soul.  At first, they were used as guard-dogs for Shayol Ghul but were later found to be great stalkers.  When stalking prey, they travel in packs of ten to twelve.  If they travel in larger packs, they will turn on themselves before getting their prey.  Darkhounds will leave no mark, even on the softer of soil except if they walk on stone, they leave deep depressions which smell like sulphur.
    One small bite from a darkhound will bring death.  Even their saliva is poisonous.  If you get one drop of it on your skin, you will die slowly and very painfully.  It is rumoured that a new breed of darkhound has been made that can only be killed with the One Power.  Some people say that, even if cut into small pieces, they will reform and attack better than ever.

    Gray Men, unlike other Shadowspawn, were born as normal human beings.  When they pledge  their soul to the Dark One, they give their soul to the dark, instead of merely pledge it to him.  When they do this, they lose their ability to think like a normal human being.  The Dark One uses them as assassins because of their ability to look like very ordinary people.