Yūrei

The specter known as a **Yūrei** also known as an **Obake** is the result of a human or humanoid being unable to pass on properly due to intense emotions/need for revenge, love, jealousy, hatred, or sorrow. These souls will either seek rest or revenge and must be forcibly freed from their eternal torment between the veils. A **Yurei** will never, ever respond positively to their haunts being disturbed.

## Physiology

A **Yūrei** will wear white clothing often used in Okamese burial rites, as well as no matter the hair color the soul had in life it will turn black upon becoming a **Yūrei**, they become more transparent the lower on the body with the feet and sometimes even the legs being invisible. Though lack of feet or legs doesn't matter, **Yūrei** floats through the air anyway. Though capable of making them invisible **Yūrei** are often accompanied by Hitodama or floating flames, known on the Continent as Will'O Wisps.

## Abilities

* **Ghost Physiology**: As a type of Specter, **Yūrei** have the abilities of one.
	+ **Energy Independence**:
	+ **Ghost Fire**: A **Yūrei** is able to attack offensively using the Hitodama as a medium for different types of Ectokinetic attacks.
	+ **Inaudibility**:
	+ **Inodorosity**:
	+ **Intangibility/Conditional Tangibility**:
	+ **Invisibility/Conditional Visibility**:
	+ **Shapeshifting**: For the sake of their curse, a **Yūrei** is capable of altering their corporeal form into a disguise or more effective offensive forms to enact revenge on those who wronged them in life.
		- **Ectokinetic Shapeshifting**: A **Yūrei** can transform/reshape their ectoplasmic form as desired to adapt to varying situations, impersonating others, enhance their body to combat, turning into animals, monsters, etc.

### Weaknesses

###### Incense

Burning incense can be used to calm spectral entities if the entity is nearby, the effectiveness of this is determined by the distance from the entity.

###### Specter Oil

As a specter, the sword oil known as specter oil deals more damage to a **Yurei**.

## Evidence of a Yurei haunting

##### Cursed Object

The **Yurei's** presence is recognizable by the presence of an object which is cursed, this curse is not visible to the naked human eye however a witcher can discern its cursed nature and some priests or druids can feel the unnatural energy of the object.

##### Footprints

The **Yurei's** presence is recognizable by the presence of footprints both the sound and the presence, these prints however are not visible to the naked human eye a witcher can make these prints visible with the Draig Potion alongside their witcher sense, or a being can spread out a powder to provide proof.

##### Writing

Due to the maddening nature of their existence and death, a **Yurei** is compelled to write details about their death around their haunt such as their name, and the date of their death. Clever witchers can glean information from them by bringing wooden blocks with letters, also ink or paint works which the **Yurei** will move about (or draw with) giving information about their fate.

## Notes

* The Specteral entity known as a **Yurei** is a pure fanon creation as such there is no official proof of their existence in the Witcher works outside the fanon community.