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Haha, I think I get what you're asking. Without spoiling too much...

As things currently stand, MC knows a little shade magic. Very little. He is still out of balance. At our currently released point in the story, MC is the carrier of the white flame. The white flame is where fade magic comes from. With that logic, shade magic must come from somewhere, yes? That is explored in this next episode that I'm nearly finished with. Plus, we'll learn just where it all began. Fade (the character) and Shade are 'products' of their related magic. Goddesses (Fade Goddess, Shade Goddess). Fade magic is more focused on love, while shade magic is more focused on lust. But both are fed by sexual energy, and... something else I don't want to spoil yet.

MC (the 'King') rules over all of the dream world universe, fade and shade. Even though he is mostly out of balance (mostly fade magic) he has absorbed the white flame (when he saves his mom, then sees her again - and he gets hit with all the lightning and shit). From that point on, he became ruler of all of it. Even though he hasn't mastered shade magic, the Shade Goddess is still one of his subjects.

Anyway, yes I wasn't good with the plot on some of the earlier part of the story. But it sounds like you pretty much got the gist of it.

Now that I think about it, I do remember Karen refering to him  as "ruler of the void" at one point (can't remember if it was before or after she is actually written in Serenity in her true self, but Ido remember this one piece of dialogue). So it was kind of specified, you just have to be damn attentive to dialogue itself and connect dots every now and again. 

Soooo if I had to guess... (and I have to, for now) I'd say shade magic was probably never really linked to evil and/or negative things, at least not until dark writting began. Because Shade herself isn't evil and never was, she doesn't want to plot against the king or anything, she just wants balance. And since shade magic is ALSO focused on lust (I previously thought it was purely focused on negative feelings and thoughts), I imagine that it's origin also isn't necessarily linked to any form of "primal evil". But I can't quite imagine what it would take to create the opposite form of magic to fade, which by itself originates from something even more mysterious and could very well be involved.