The Deepborn Spirit

The Deepborn Spirit of Ink and Dirge, also known as the Shade, is a shifting shadow, formed from the darkness of the deeps hidden beneath the ocean waves. This shade is Meghzaal's avatar and formed in the ocean depths for millennia after the collapse of the ink tree of the god's birth brought about the ink ecosystem in the western Ku area.
It descends upon the heads of mortals and causes to burst therefrom words locked away in their hidden depths and is capable of taking on an assortment of shapes and forms by twisting and turning its form of gaseous ink and sloughing song.
== Appearance ==
The Deepborn Spirit is a creature of ink and song, and it generally takes on the form of a misty cloud of ink. It is capable of solidifying itself and taking on the general shape of any creature it observes. As it has observed humanoids ever since its rise to the surface of Galbar it tends to take on that shape when interacting with mortals.
== Persona ==
The Deepborn Spirit is a curious observer with an inborn love for all forms of art. However, it is a largely blank creature that has no truly defined personality of its own or much understanding of the world around it.
== History ==
On its coming into the world, the Deepborn Spirit inspired a drighina to sing a strange song that attracts a number of songplant-smoking draug. As they sang and danced themselves into a stupor, inspired them to carve their masks as beautifully as their songplant (commonly known as pipeweed) pipes. In their stupor, they were also able to access ink magicks, and so their masks were not only beautifully carved, but were also made colourful. Rituals of this sort are spread by more inspired drighina to the draug all over Toraan, causing it to become something of a draug coming of age mass ritual.
Following this, the Deepborn Spirit set out to explore the world and eventually found itself drawn to the upper Azumai valley on the Hreelcii Isles. There it was taken under the wing of mystic-songstress Rinaas hli Awqar, who gave it the name Ganisundur and defined his gender.
== Abilities ==
The Deepborn Spirit is creative and excitable by nature and, being the avatar of the god of song and poetry, will take to art like a fish to water. However, it is not a font of artistic knowledge, merely very capable of learning and developing artistically. The Spirit also has the ability to take on a gaseous form of ink or solidify itself into the general shape of any creature it has observed.
== Creations ==
The Deepborn Spirit has inspired the formation of the draug coming of age mass ritual.
== Relations ==
Rinaas hli Awqar - this mystic-songstress is currently Ganisundr's spiritual mistress and teacher in the ways of song and dance, and he her willing disciple.
== References ==
Category:Avatars