Voidentities

## Introduction

Voidentities are a unique type of spirits created inside the eather rather then the material worlds. They are often strange and alien in powers and nature. It is rare for them to enter dimensions and those that do are either of great power or let in by wounds in the worldwalls.

## Types

Information regarding Voidentities is scarce to say the least as it is impossible for humans to walk the immaterial planes of the Eather. While there have been mages attempting to enter the Eather with their bodies or through spiritual projection, most of these journeys are rich with mad gibbering and doubt-raising descriptions. The only defined types of spirits that exist are observed in the material world or through records from Apocryphal.

### **Psychologial Parasites**

These Voidentities are by far the most common in the material realm. Their exact number is unkown, but studies by the Dawnbringers, stored in the Black Acadamy, state that one in a few thousand people had contact with such a creature and one in a million is possessed by one of them. This is by all means a rough and most likely unsterstated estimate.

Psychological Parasites are entities from the eather which are in nature very common to a soul, yet they have a unique type of conciousness and are able to move freely like most stronger spirits. How they pass through the worldwalls is unkown as how often this occurs. There are two major types of Psychological Parasistes- Voidhearts and Infestants.

Voidhearts simply replace a creatures or humans soul since their birth. It is presumed that they enter the material realm together with a soul and manage to take its place during the childs birth. The outcome of such an event is known as Voidborn. Voidborns are rarely self-aware of their state and often learn of it during the course of their lifes. While some might be cruel, aggressive or animalistic; others are peaceful or intellectual. People will often feel uncomfortable around a Voidborn, sensing that something is wrong with them without being able to tell. All of them display some kind of atypical behaviour, experiencing trouble with expressing normal emotions or feeling empathy. They act in inhuman ways and find it difficult to percieve or contemplate human nature or actions. All Voidhearts experience some form of thirst for knowledge together with a hedonistic vein as material delights seem overly exciting to them, be they pleasure, pain or simple food.

Infestants are far more gruesome. Should Voidhearts enter like souls, Infestants entered without an available host. Instead they will search for a befitting vessel to take possesion of. Ousting a soul is no easy process however. Such an infestation is a terrible process for any material being. Once such a spirit enters a host body, they will experience some form of invasion and since then carry on the feeling that there is something inside of them that is utterly stranger and foreign. The first symptom are heavy moodswings increasing as time passes. Over the ensuing time a host will experience nightmares, visions and a lite form of schizophrenia as they can hear the Infestant talking to them. It will take some further time to realise that there actually is something alien inside ones flesh growing stronger with each day. The host will develop insomnia, depression or a personality disorder. Once an Infestant starts claiming controll, the host will be subjected to daylight visions, often accompanied by epileptical attacks. Then there will come a time when the Infestant gains full controll over a victims body. While many use this time to indulge in material joys such as free walking or moveing, others will use it to commit attrocious acts that will further weakend the hosts willpower and confindence. Once a victims will is broken, they will factually die as their soul is ousted and fully replaced by the Infestant. It is possible to fight this possession and even render oneself free from it, yet it requires immense willpower. There are some cases where Infestants would remain dormant within a host or satisfied with possessing without claiming a body, hiding in the shadows like a worm. Others wait for an opportunity to leave the host through childbirth where they can fully possess the newborn and turn it into a Voidborn. Such a parasite can only increase the magical resiliance for a creature. Some Xaarian sorcerers invite these entities into their body and fight them off with their willpower, massivly benefitting from their powers as long as they are stable enough.