Phoenixes

**Phoenixes** are a powerful and rare supernatural species believed originally to be a myth, even by hunters like the Winchesters.

## History

### Origins

The ancient Egyptian diety known as Bennu who is linked with the sun, creation and rebirth had sex with fifty sisters in one night with his virility producing seventy two sons and a single daughter. When the children grew up, monsters began to attack them for Eve had feared they would develop powers similiar to their father whose ash is her only poison.

Only one of them survived by rising from the ashes of his combusted corpse. This man lived for 500 years before he suddenly died but it was revealed Bennu's other children sired offspring of their own and became sort of a succesor line waiting to inherit the power of the Phoenix as there could only be one Phoenix at any given time who would last, immortal, for 500 years.

## Overview

While technically human, with some deity DNA in their ancestry, they are regarded as monsters. Despite their supernatural nature, they surprisingly hold no innate magic but rather accumalate it the more they die as a by-product of resurrection. Which explains why the time of resurrection decreases the more they die and the more abilities of Bennu they develop. It is because of this that Phoenixes are renowned as *potentially* limitless sources of magic with near-infinite capacity.

### Known Powers

* **Enhanced Stamina:** They're advanced musculature structure is considerably more efficient than that of a human which means their muscles produce far fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity compared to those of humans.
* **Enhanced Strength:** Phoenixes have superior levels of physical strength compared to humans and other lesser creatures, however, this strength starts off very weak but then grows with each resurrection.
* **Pyrokinesis:** Though limited to a degree, Phoenixes have pyrokinetic abilities related to their internal fire. A Phoenix could incinerate anyone or anything with a single touch; their ability was so strong, they could reduce a whole man to ashes in seconds.
	+ **Flight:** Advanced Phoenixes can sprout majestic wings of fire from their backs that enable them to soar through the air.
		- **Levitation:** Without their wings being extended, Phoenixes still possess a limited form of gravity defiance being able to float off the ground which is seemingly related to their dopamine levels.
* **Self-Resurrection:** They have the unique ability to resurrect from the dead an infinite amount of times within their long lifespan being impossibly difficult to actually kill. The Phoenixes body will spontaneously self-combust only for them to be reborn from the ashes, fully restored yet with their clothing destroyed. During the time the Phoenix is dead, their soul will be locked inside their body but their mind will be psychically transported to a shared mental plane that contains the knowledge of every previous Phoenix in the form of spirit avatars who are noted to not actually be them. The ash generated by the fire harbors mystical properties being poisonous to Eve - a Leviathan/Deity hybrid.
	+ **Longevity:** While they are alive, and reach their prime, Phoenixes are incapable of aging like normal humans instead remaining youthful for their 500 year lifespan.

### Weaknesses

Activated Phoenixes are incredibly and notoriously difficult to kill due to their self-resurrection and unaging complexion during their lifespan.

However all Phoenixes are limited to a five hundred year lifespan which at the end of they die, letting the power transfer into another.

There is only two physical weapons known to be capable of permanently killing a member of this race with the first being the Colt and the second being The Golden Arrow. The Golden Arrow is a gold casted, slender arrow imbued with Pagan magic by Eve that is capable of felling a phoenix by nullifying their powers and thereby being vulnerable to the mortal wound it inflicts.

Phoenixes are unable to touch iron with it burning their skin and can thereby be used to contain them.

### Members

1. Elias Finch
2. James Kirby (partial)
3. Bennu (godly progenitor)

## Trivia

* Upon true death, a Phoenix soul will be delievered to Purgatory by the Reapers where they experience cruelty by the other inhabitants due to their toxicity to Eve.