Spirit

*Not to be mixed with Item Spirit.*

A **Spirit** is the form that takes the soul of a deceased person in the world, which can be freed to the afterlife or revived using the adequate rituals. A spirit is not a spirit anymore if it has been **resurrected** fully, which is impossible. Pain still exist for spirits even if death is not a possibility anymore, and spirits even have a particular relation to death, as it is part of them.

**Spiritism** is the occult science that studies spirits, though most who are considered as actual spiritists are spirits due to the preponderant presence of charlatans pretending to practice it among the living.

## Description

Spirits are not their own species but a state between life and death for the soul of a sentient individual, and are aberrant entities having a great link with death yet they remain connected to the living. They consider themselves equals through death and this state is a way to keep watching their families or friends.

Unlike what is thought, Ouija boards and other human spiritist stuffs are fake ways to communicate with spirits : most are not powerful enough to interact with the reality, other disapprove and ignore them, and thus only Poltergeists make them "work" as pranks. A spirit makes contact with the living in a direct manner without the need of interface, by appearing.

A major notion for spirits is the Trauma, the spirit's death that is both the key part of her common ability and also their fatal weakness for Incarnated spirits.

### Spiritual Plan

The **Spiritual Plan**, or the spirits' plan, is an alternative plan of reality within the world in which Ghosts roam and can enter or leave if they have the ability to. Anything that is in the spiritual plan can't be seen nor detected by anything in the physical plan, and this is the only plan where ghosts can exist.
Anything here doesn't respect the laws of physics, can't interact with the physical world without enough power, nor can fight anything else. Thus, it is often used by Revived and Divine Spirits to explore the world or spy without fearing detection. An incarnated spirit in the physical plan can feel when a ghost is nearby in the Spiritual Plan, but the rarity of incarnated spirits tend to make that risk negligible.

If a Ghost affects an object or a place from the Spiritual Plan, the affected subject is said to be haunted, regardless of the morality behind.

### Abilities

#### Curse and Bless

A spirit is capable of cursing or blessing someone, by condemning or avoiding it a certain fate or impeding or helping an action or a condition. The power of the spirit influence the importance of the effects and the number of persons affected.

#### Trauma Haunt

The Trauma Haunt is an ability every spirit has. Simple in concept, it changes the appearance of the spirit to the one it had at the moment of death, with all it implies: showing the wounds and possible missing parts in all their damage. This is made in order to freak someone out but its efficiency depends on the spirit's death, and the target's fears and gore tolerance. This ability is unavailable though to spirits whose death was the body's total destruction, and to True Ghosts that never died in the first place.

Thus, a spirit who died of sickness due to age which implies little physical alterations will its ability efficient against few people. At the opposite, a spirit that lost limbs or organs, and died in any gore manner will freak out and disgust lots more of people.

As most spirits are kind, poltergeists are the only spirits to use Trauma Haunt frequently as not even for a prank a regular spirit would like to use this ability. It is said that spirits have this ability to remind the living about the fragility of life, and thus such ability is more a warning than a real attack.

#### Fog Screen

In order to protect themselves, powerful enough Incarnated Spirits such as Fallen Angel Spirits as well as True Ghosts can surround themselves in a kind of static which camouflage them in their environment. They become half-ghost half-incarnated, and they interact using their ghost, appearing as telekinesis from an outside perspective. They become insensitive to everything except explosion and shockwaves.

## Types of Spirits

Spirits exist in different types divided into the disembodied and the incarnated categories. For a ghost buster or a serious spiritist, having a body or not, an usual behavior and abilities are the main keys to distinguish them and for one type deal with it.

### Disembodied Spirits

#### Ghost Spirit

The **Ghost** is the base archetype of the spirit, as it is the most starred kind in fiction. It is a disembodied that exists only in the spiritual plan and has low possibilities to interact with the reality. All spirits are capable of following a live person and serve as a protector spirit, using their bond to help and inform the subject's intuition.

As the basic form of the spirit, it serves as a secondary form for the incarnated spirits to which they switch when forced or at will. Ghosts are the most common spirits as the other types are pretty rare and exceptional.

Table of Ghost Powers

Known Ghosts

#### Poltergeist Spirit

The **Poltergeist** is a variant of the Ghost possessed by hatred, regrets or revengeful feelings that are powerful enough to appear to anyone they want, typically a living person tied to their despair for them. When they find one, they will haunt, and eventually harm if possible, the target while ensuring to leave few evidences to make the target disbelieved and considered crazy. They are evil spirits undetectable through conventional wishes, but they always possess behind their harmful motives a deep wish, which will have to be satisfied in order to appease them, first by paying attention to them.

A poltergeist only acts for its motives and thus can't be friendly nor have any affiliation. It harms for its own account until appeased, in such eventuality their harmful motives will be nullified and they will become standard Ghosts to not become poltergeists again.

#### Doppelgänger Spirit

The **Doppelgänger** is a variant of the Ghost that takes the appearance of a living person to warn it about about a danger through its sole apparition. It is similar to the Poltergeist but unlike it haunts people for their safety and not for their own motives.

### Incarnated Spirits

Incarnated Spirits are spirits that were partially resurrected and could gain their own physical body again to interact with the world like they would during their living.

The spirit's body take by default the appearance they had and serve as a soulless shell unaffected by any other damage than the Trauma. On the body, the places concerned by the Trauma are sensitive. An incarnated spirit also tends to have a halo floating above the head, serving as a switch for spirits with multiple personalities. When this utility is absent, the halo can be hidden.

Dealing an Incarnated Spirit its trauma will kill its body and forcefully force it to its ghost form until the body is healed. Similarly, an incarnated spirit can switch to its ghost form and leave its body in comatose. An incarnated spirit's ghost form can't be linked to anyone.

#### Returned Spirit

A **Returned** are the most basic kind of incarnated spirit and thus their capacities don't exceed what they could do during their living, if forgetting the spirit abilities part. They are always the result of a partial resurrection and have for only characteristics as a type an Incarnated spirit's.

Known Revived Spirits
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#### Guardian Spirit

The **Guardian** is an incarnated spirit possessing supernatural powers and resulting from a particular revival. It has many great abilities that allow it to significantly alter the reality and even itself. They also gain the ability to turn a living being into a spirit of a equal or inferior power, which can be done to give immortality to a loved one or to create an undead army.

It is unknown how Returned turn into Guardians, and they are pretty rare, but despite their powers Guardians will always be sensitive to their Trauma and won't be able to alter it.

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#### Fallen Angel Spirit

The Fallen Angel is an unique type of incarnated spirit that was or became a Divinity. Featuring both a Guardian and a Divinity' abilities, they have greater powers and even can change the border between their body and ghost forms, and can thus go fully into the spiritual plan like a True Ghost can.

### Special

#### True Ghost

The child of a spirit and a living being is a mixed entity called **True Ghost**. Their bodies are immortal and totally part of themselves, but they also see everything that happens in the spiritual plan and can possess things without being on the spiritual plan, fusing the incarnation of a revived spirit with a ghost, with the power of its spiritual parent. In short, they are a revived spirit with a blurred border between the spirit and human parts.

However, True Ghosts are very contrasted entities. They have their personalities and all their opposites that they enable when fighting or threatened. A generally kind True Ghost can thus turn into a kind of monster in a fight and a generally evil and bold True Ghost a cowardly wimp.

## Miscellaneous

### Spiritual Essence

The **Spiritual Essence** is the source of energy found and generated in revived and divine spirits to allow them to possess their own physical body. A conflict between this and another essence can leads to the spirit being ejected as a ghost until the essence returns to balance. It is typically contained in one's blood.

Relations:

* Weaker than and incompatible with Eldritch Essence (In large amounts)

### The One Ring

The One Ring is a golden ring capable of giving a living being or an incarnated spirit the access to the spiritual plan when worn. It is an unique artifact made for by a Fallen Angel and named such because of its similarity to LOTR' iconic one ring.

## Trivia

* The Returned, Guardians and Fallen Angels can be affected by potions with effects that are not made to harm them but it only effects their bodies, not effecting their ghosts in any way.
	+ Similarly, if a Spirit was under the effect of such potion at its death, it will be permanently affected by its effects whatever the duration it was supposed to take.
* A Spirit still age in body and mind, through their bodies' age will freeze at 25 years old. The age that comes after is considered as chronological age, the time it existed in total.