Elemental Ulgu is dawn and dusk and fog and shadow, and that doesn't really make for much of a personality. It's also confusion itself and the sensation of being lost, and that makes for people that embrace that emotion within themselves - wanderers, explorers, and esotericists. Mystical Ulgu is ambiguities and edge cases and misdirection, and it makes for mystics and showmen. Spies and assassins generally don't want to confuse people - they prefer them to be confidently wrong - and they absolutely don't want to be confused themselves. Spymasters would be a good fit for Ulgu, but that's generally not something you train someone up from scratch to be. It also makes for charlatans, but the Grey Order discourages that.
But that's not Ulgu's fundamental nature, that's the current mainstream Grey Order understanding of it. There are others. A lot of others. There's at least nine splinters of the Hedgefolk, some religious and some secular, there's the Shadow Warriors of Nagarythe, possibly the Mist Walkers of Yvresse and Mist Mages of Lothern, there's Ulgu-wielding Vampires, there's Spellsingers and Branchwraiths of Athel Loren, there's Bray-Shamans and Chaos Sorcerers and Kurgan Shamans that wield it. Morathi uses it. All have a different understanding of it, and most would argue quite strenuously that theirs is the truest.
But that's not Ulgu's fundamental nature, that's the current mainstream Grey Order understanding of it. There are others. A lot of others. There's at least nine splinters of the Hedgefolk, some religious and some secular, there's the Shadow Warriors of Nagarythe, possibly the Mist Walkers of Yvresse and Mist Mages of Lothern, there's Ulgu-wielding Vampires, there's Spellsingers and Branchwraiths of Athel Loren, there's Bray-Shamans and Chaos Sorcerers and Kurgan Shamans that wield it. Morathi uses it. All have a different understanding of it, and most would argue quite strenuously that theirs is the truest.
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