Wraith

**Wraiths** are corrupted spirits, created from the souls of sapient creatures that for various reasons,  be it refuse to pass on into the afterlife, or the negative emotions/fear collected by sapience.

## Overview

Wraiths are a race of spirits that inhabit Astriga, their natural environment and Spectrum. A mirror to the physical world. Their creation revolves around pure negative emotions that are considered unbearable or unsatisfactory. Such as having a powerful will to defy acceptance or to fear something that can cause death, or lead to strong negative emotions. They roam as creatures unyielding with the desire to correct their mistakes, unfortunates in life or even to cause issues that have created them in the first place.

## Biology

The body structure solely depends on what the wraith reflexes, so most of the wraiths are bipedal. Although, this doesn't always apply to wraith that are naturally born by fear. These Wraiths takes aspects of things that would instill more fright, enabling them to acquire numerous limbs, faces etc.

Despite being spirits given physical forms they seem to exert a dark green fluid from their bodies when bleeding, this is their maja diluted and polluted so much by negativity that they condense into fluids.

All wraiths possess masks for faces, which not only functions as a head, but their consciousness, brain and place for memory and thought. It is essentially their con-links that became materialized into a mask. The body on the other hand is an extension of the mask, functioning like a vehicle for the actual mask to use. Masks themselves can be removed through various means, which would disable their powers and mobility. This mask also hides the guilt and what innocence they have left.

Some could see the masks like parasites that can latch onto the faces or heads of bodies, allowing for possession or nourishment. Wraiths can be attached to other sapient beings as long as the mask fits on the target,  allowing for the user to obtain their attributes. Or the wraith taking over the user as a new vessel which can be slowly altered by the waja infecting their body.

### Creation

Once a soul perishes with an abnormal amount of will or regret to refuse death.  Their soul does not pass on. Rather it gets sent to Astriga, where their maja and essence gets corrupted by the miasma that makes up the Spectrum. Which naturally takes a few days, depending on the mental state of the soul, within the soul center.  Once a soul has been converted into a wraith spirit, the remnants of their souls turn into a tangible body that resembles their cause of defiance in moving on. Which is followed by their face, taking on the appearance of a mask.

Although, there's another method for a wraith  creation which doesn't require a soul. Which is 'Fear'. Special kinds of Wraiths can be created  solely from negative emotions from a concept, either feared and revered  by. This is caused by the con-link of sapient creatures, emitting maja (with negative emotions) in small amounts unintentionally, these maja samples collect into a cluster of energy in Astriga. That soon takes shape to resemble the negative emotions or fear that made them.

## Types

* **Arrepentirse Wraith:** These are wraiths created from the souls of those with strong will to defy their death after being killed, being sent to the 'other world' to be transform into malevolent spirits that revolves around their defiance to pass on.

* **Impure Wraith:** Impure wraiths are those who are infected with waja. Thus, transforming them into a negative version of themselves. They suffer from gruesome pain as the waja within them infects their bodily functions and soul, making them mindless and aggressive beings who will dwell on the path of what is most negative in their lives.

* **Demi Wraith:** This is a classification of sapience obtaining the attributes and powers of a wraith. Via wearing Wrath masks, this would allow users to channel their negative emotions with that of the wraiths' in order to use their powers. But long exposure to wearing the masks can lead to; the wraith taking over the body.

However, Demi wraiths can be wraiths who possesses human bodies without having a body for themselves.

## Abilities

All wraiths possess superhuman strength, speed and endurance. Making them stronger than the norm. But these capabilities deviate into supernatural abilities ranging from.

* **Waja:** Waja is a supernatural fluid generated from wraiths. Waja is a corrupted version of maja given physical form once the soul is tainted by Astriga. It has healing properties, able to turn sapience into impure wraiths.

* **Possession**: Wraiths can possess sapient beings by having their masks worn by them. But, this only took shape once the host had been wearing the masks for a large amount of time (Time depends on the wraith).

* **Ethereal**: Wraiths have the ability to enter Astriga from the material world and from the material world to Astriga. But, this requires them making themselves completely intangible, reverting them back into a pure negative spirit. This although rids them of the quick timing to revert back to tangible.

* **Reflective Powers**: Wraiths powers reflect the negativity they represent and are created from.

* **Fear reflection**: Miedo wraiths powers/appearance reflects the fear they represent and are created from.

* **Impure Inducing**: Wraiths are capable of inserting their waja into sapient beings, corrupting their souls with negativity that they transform into incomplete wraiths. If this corruption.

* **Regeneration**: Wraiths' waja allows them to regenerate from wounds and torn off limbs, negativity of what they represent can allow the healing to be faster.

## Weakness

* **Mask Destruction:** Their masks are the brain and self, as the body is merely an extension for it. If the mask was destroyed, it essentially destroys the spirit, ceasing it from existence.

* **Vessel/Host destruction**: If the body of a wraith is damaged severely, a wraith mask is forced to find another vessel or a host sufficient to support it.

* **Lack of Host**: Without a host, the wraiths cannot maintain function, resulting in the spirit to go dormant until it is able to create a body with its waja supply.

## Known Wraiths

* Mazaeta
* Cecillet
* Ravanti
* Illilu (Formerly)

### Impure Wraith

* Gibbit
* Eugene (Formerly)

## Trivia

1. Wraiths are based off masks or customized ones.
2. Wraiths were originally supposed to be ghosts that haunts places from Urban Legends, but it was changed to be a custom race of threats.
3. A wraith is a ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death.