Darkness and Summons with Ultravision

[Diz-e]

Casting Darkness over summons (bearing the effect of Ultravision) causes the summons to aggro the caster - even if the caster is the summoner.

I've noted that this usually only happens when the summons are in the AoE when the effect is initially thrown down; when throwing Darkness first and sending them into it, this does not seem to occur.

[Hugs&Kisses]

The summons also do not turn red, they remain blue.

[Fritz]

It is because darkness is a hostile AOE spell and if you hit them and they don't have aggro on something else they will attack you sometimes.

[VanillaPudding]

This is somewhat recent. Normally they would just turn into awkward pacing creatures going between the target / darkness / summoner. It's odd that they attack the summoner.

[granny]

I can confirm this as an old issue.

Mriri used to have her own shadow punching her face when she called for her dark mantle.

[Fritz]

Familiars and animal companions are known for doing the same thing, statistically I see it the most from panthers out of my nwn experiences.

[Diz-e]

Ahh, yes. I do remember that happening with companions under Ultravision. But they never attacked their respective character, when it was they who cast the darkness, the way I recall it.