Spirit

are spiritual bodies used by the Planet as a sense of touch, and anything that interferes with them is considered a contradiction. There are several types of Spirits, and despite the fact that they can be found everywhere, only those humans who possess a spiritual affinity can perceive them. 
Spirits are generally harmless to people, but those of the Elemental class are of such a dimension that they can interact with people by taking a physical form. Presently, science cannot interfere with Spiritual Bodies and modern magecraft cannot reproduce Mysteries of such scale.
==Characteristics==
There are many Spirits born from human folklore and human traditions due to humans being able to "engrave" a upon the World ─ a body of preestablished rules, fomented per the faith of the populace. If the topic of a Mystery is believed to "exist", the World permits its existence. Definite affirmation of said belief is not required, so even though the majority of modern humans reject the existence of ghosts, modern science cannot outright demonstrate that they do not exist, and, thus, within the unconscious, there lurks the vague suspicion that "they might indeed exist." This sort of "suspicion" falls under the category of "faith." "Ignorance" is the force that opposes "faith". If the existence of ghosts is itself utterly unknown, faith cannot foment. Elementals are the exception to the rule as they don't need human "faith" in order to exist. This engraving creates a , or and acts as the foundation for a Spirit's existence.
Beings without physical form have a , that with spiritual properties where a shape is constructed without components with physical properties. Differing from a Material Body, that which is identical in structure to flesh bodies, that cannot walk through walls and becomes injured when beaten, Spiritual Bodies are capable of completely disregarding such physical interference. Without conceptual or magical properties, those with a Spiritual Body cannot be harmed with a baton or sword, and such attempts will only hit empty space. Those that can switch between both properties, such as Servants, have advantages and disadvantages in both states. While their material bodies may bleed and take damage to their organs, their true being resides in a they obtain upon first materializing. The Spiritual Core is described as "their center, their heart, their CPU" that dictates their every function.
==Categories==
===Divine Spirit===
===Heroic Spirit===
===Elemental===
An is a general category for a variety of . It is a class of Mystery whose foundations can't be replicated by magecraft, and a rare number of Phantasmal Species were capable of advancing to becoming Elementals. 
There are a few types of Elementals: Nature Spirits, Animal Spirits, and the artificially created Guardian Spirits. Lower class Spirits such as Wraiths and Apparitions are not included in this category. Most of these Spirits do not take the shape of a human.
Despite being a general category for all sorts of Spirits, the term "Elemental" usually refers to Nature Spirits when used by itself. In this case, the Elementals here acts as part of the Counter Force and exists as the sense of touch for the Planet. Great Mother/Father-class Fairies such as Morgan le Fay/Vivian, Lugh Beowulf, the True Ancestors, Viy, Tengu such as Kiichi Hougen, Zhenren such as Consort Yu, Divine Spirits (a weakened state of Gods) and other mediators of nature are first and foremost Elementals before being part of any other category.
Elementals are "power" granted form using human imagination as a container and they don't need human "faith" in order to exist. Still, even if their shape turns out to be close to that of humans, their values and logic are still unlike those of humans. Fairies that grow to a scale that can be perceived by humans become Elementals. True Ancestors, who are classified as a type of Greater Fairy, fall into the category of an Elemental. Incarnated Elementals like Hinako Akuta are even capable of "dying" and being recorded into the Throne of Heroes, as they can choose how they wish to incarnate themselves. 
The mediators of nature are capable of using Marble Phantasm and just like Daemons, use Reality Marbles.
===Nature Spirits===
 is, as the name states, a Spirit born from elements of nature such as plants, soil, gemstones, natural phenomena, etc. Ores and jewels that have been beneath the surface for an extended period of time generally carry powerful Nature Spirits. These Spiritual Bodies are formed by the will of the planet earth and they gain energy from nature itself. 
Only those Nature Spirits, who are wanted by the Planet as a defense against the resource-plundering actions of humans, can receive a body made out of flesh from the Planet. These supernatural entities are known as the Transcendent Kind, one known member of this category are the True Ancestors who are said to be Planet-class Spirits, a rank higher than Divine Spirits.
====Djinn====
 are a broad category of being that includes Elementals, , and Solomon's Demon Gods.Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Salem: Forbidden Advent Garden - Section 5: Fourth KnotFate/strange Fake Volume 5 - Interlude: "Mercenary, Assassin, Vampire I"
One of the Hassan-i-Sabbah had the Zabaniya Unfeeling Patrolling Spirits which allowed them to summon many Djinn to attack the enemy. These Djinn took on numerous shapes such as massive beasts, great serpents, beautiful women, and giants. Hassan of the Cursed Arm's Protection from Wind is a prayer to God to ward off wind Djinn, who are said to create typhoons.
The Queen of Sheba is a half-blood between a male human and a female Djinn, and inherited her future sight from her Djinn heritage. Her three familiars named Achat, Shtayim, and Shalosh are also types of Djinn.Fate/Grand Order - Queen of Sheba's profile, translated by roadromancer at Reddit.
===Animal Spirits===
 are the Spirits of dead animals. Differently, as by the souls of dead humans, who are generally formless existences, animals retain their form from their former lives. But they are, just as Human Spirits, able to consume the Souls and minds of people and convert them into Magical Energy. The basic abilities they had from the time when they were alive still remain, but they don't change from such nourishment, as they only become tougher as their magical energy capacity increases.
Fiore Forvedge Yggdmillennia's Mystic Code Bronze-Link Manipulators are possessed by four Animal (dog) Spirits.
====Kitsune and Inukami====
 js the traditional nine-tailed fox and dog Spirits of Japanese folklore, they are attributed of being the source of people’s insanity by possessing them. Also, in cases where a possession causes the emergence of multiple personalities due to the host surrendering his rights of ego, the resulting alternate persona is said to be these Spirits themselves accordingly with Japanese beliefs. 
They are also able to give a host their abilities and are therefore used as familiars in Beast Magecraft. However, unlike the nonsensical accidents that are the Western Daemon Possessions, there is a definite reason and "will to curse" behind the cases of possession that are brought about by these spirits.
====Neco Spirit====
===Guardian Spirit===
 is a classification of Spirit that comes from the result of merging an Animal Spirit or Nature Spirit with a human Soul. It is not something that happens naturally, but rather is something that is made by the hands of men in order to give human values to something that is not human. The Spirits of humans are of a much lower rank, than Nature Spirits or Animal Spirits and are thus absorbed in, but as a result, it acquires knowledge as a human, and gradually acquires a human's value. These Spirits must be bound to objects or to places in order for them to stay in this world. It also takes quite some time for the human Spirit to gain control of themselves as well as to gain their own spirtual body.
In order to materialize themselves, they require a supply of magical energy beyond that of most people. Guardian Spirits cannot be observed in spirit form by anyone, except for the master they are connected with. They can talk with each other and the Guardian Spirit can go scouting, by flying in their spiritual form. 
The best examples for Guardian Spirits are Nanako who inhabits the Seventh Holy Scripture (Remake) from the Church and the Argon Coin possessed by Medea.
The Guardian Spirits are considered to be below other types of Elemental, but have the potential to become . These Holy Spirits can possess Mystic Eyes, which are designated as Jewel under the Noble Colors System. They surpass the Gold-ranked Mystic Eyes of the Dead Apostles and are exclusively possessed by Holy Spirits and Magical Beasts from the Age of Gods.
===Lower-class Spirits===
 are vague, generally formless existences that can only acquire a definite identity by "possessing" an image.
====Apparition====
, also referred to as , are fragments of an already departed Soul wander without a will and filled with nothing but the most primitive drive to live, which can group together to form a whole until they become a Wraith.Kara no Kyoukai Volume 4: Void Shrine (「　　」) - /4 
They can also be the projection of someone’s past records which were stored in the surroundings and walk around as illusions, preserved by their shared memories with the only ones who can see them, namely their parents and friends. The traditional ghosts in the popular sense of the world, generally harmless as almost nobody can perceive them.Kara no Kyoukai Volume 1: Overlooking View (Fujoh Kirie) - ／Overlooking View／ 
Technically, the Apparitions can still interact and even attempt to possess those with spiritual abilities, as they look for a body to inhabit, but if their target has enough willpower they won’t be able to take over. Magi who make a living out of talking to ghosts protect their egos with a shell, so it's very rare for them to be taken down by them. Apparitions are frequent in hospitals.
Examples include the Spirits of the Fujou Building, the False Fairies controlled by Misaya Ouji, and Len were made out of these kind of Spirits.
====Wraith====
, also referred to as or Human Spirits, are souls of dead people that remain attached to this world due to past grudges, regrets and other sorts of unfinished business that they had during life. As such, they tend to haunt places, items or people that are related to their unfinished business. Areas filled with grudges and remnants of strong regrets are like Reality Marbles to spirits.Fate/stay night Prologue - Day 2 
Normally, direct physical intereference on the part of these Ghosts are low. As Spiritual Bodies they usually have to act through some sort of medium, by putting it under its domination, in order to conduct interference. In Kara no Kyoukai, a Wraith possesses a dead corpse in order to claim the body of Shiki Ryougi.Kara no Kyoukai Volume 4: Void Shrine (「　　」) - /5 Zouken Matou is a powerful Magus who uses a species of magical worms that can combine themselves to take a human form. This human form allows him to interfere with the physical world as it binds his soul, on this plane of existence. However, as they are no longer something that belongs to this world, their existence is something that degrades with time and they are bound to disappear eventually.
But as they are Human Spirits they are able to consume the souls and minds of people and convert them into energy. The basic abilities they had from the time when they where alive still remain but they don't change from such nourishment, as they only become tougher as their magical energy capacity increases. Some people close to becoming Heroic Spirits are Wraiths, and some Wraiths also share characteristics with legends that allow them to be called when there is no existing hero.
The figure of a Wraith wouldn't be reflected on a mirror, unlike living humans.Clock Tower 2015 - 02 The Record of Lev Uvall
The Dead Apostle Ancestor (Remake) Stanrobe Calhin is referred to as the First Wraith, a disembodied soul who will not dissipate for at least another two hundred years.
In the World of Fate/EX, there exists the special circumstances of the SE.RA.PH, an artificial environment located within the Moon Cell. SE.RA.PH is a world where souls are transformed into information. On Earth, one cannot live without "Mind" or "Soul". However GHOSTS can survive in SE.RA.PH as . They are records reproduced of their last moments before dying. The regret etched in them won't go anywhere.Fate/the Fact - CYBER GHOST They are beings without bodies, wandering to seek life.
== Unclassified==
===Evil Spirit===
Not much is known about the nature of , but they are known to be weak against exorcism.
*David has been known for performing with a harp in front of , the King of Israel to exorcise him from an Evil Spirit.
*Gazamy the Spook was locked away in the bottom of London Tower, but he escaped somewhen at the end of the 20th century.
*Jack the Ripper as the Assassin-class Servant is a special type of Heroic Spirit, they are an amalgamation of Evil Spirits, children who were aborted by the many prostitutes who lived in White Chapel, London.
*Tamamo-no-Mae as an Evil Spirit, will undergo a transformation into a large monster that can defeat even 100 Heroes.Fate/Grand Order material II - Tamamo-no-Mae, p.206-213 translated by WaifuHunter at redditFate/EXTRA CCC - Tamamo-no-Mae's Secret Garden 3
*The forest of the Einzbern Castle is haunted with Evil Spirits as one of its many defences.
*Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald used some ten-odd Evil Spirits and Apparitions as guard dogs at his Magical Workshop.Fate/Zero Volume 2: The Mad Feast of Kings - Act 5 Part 2 -149:47:12
*Waver Velvet causes an explosion on the dig site of the Magus Barzan, disrupting the local Ley Line and unleashing Evil Spirits to decimate the excavation workers and Barzan himself.Lord El-Melloi II Case Files: Grace Note - Episode 1: "Babylon, the Condemned, and the Memories of the King"
*Erice Utsumi has her body inhabited by a number of Evil Spirits known as Dread Spirits. Erice describes them as the souls of the dead, steeped in hatred and loathing. Nothing more or less than evil in its purest form, misbegotten creatures that the Throne of Heroes spat upon.Fate/Requiem Volume 1: The Boy Among the Stars - Chapter 5 
**Black Marie is one of Erice's Dread Spirits taking the form of Marie Antoinette in response to Erice's connection to Louis XVII. While the Spirits within Erice mock her by saying it's nothing like how the real Marie would be in such a form, the real Marie says the form of Black Marie is accurate, even replicating her mourning dress from her life.Fate/Grand Order x Fate/Requiem Collaboration Event: Board Game Apocalypse - Fifth Game: Togakushi Souryuden (8/8)
*The third component of Ashiya Douman is the vengeful spirit of Heian Japan, the Evil Spirit Left Minister.
*Kukochihiko was a sorcerer that tried to conquer Yamatai-koku after usurping his own kingdom. He resembles a red dog skeleton with long hair and a sword through its skull he uses a spell that controls Evil Spirits born from resentment.
*Ushi-Gozen
*Itsumade
==Variants==
===Ghost===
===Terror Ghost===
===Ancient Ghost===
===Mourning Ghost===
===Steam Ghost===
===Scarecrow===
===Metal Scarecrow===
===Gallû Spirit===
===Desert Ghost===
===Giant Ghost===
 also known as are demonic undeads that first appeared in the The Garden of Sinners/The Garden of Order event in Fate/Grand Order.
===Enigma===
 are undeads that appears in the Shinjuku Subcategory Singularity in Fate/Grand Order.
===Huge Steam Ghost===
 are demonic undeads that appears in the Patchwork London Singularity in Fate/Grand Order.
===Otsugi===
 are female demonic undeads that appears in the Edo Singularity in Fate/Grand Order.
===Great Vengeful Spirit Xu Fu===
 are female demonic undeads that appears in the Servant Summer Camp 2020 in Fate/Grand Order.
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