Spirits

### Types of Spirits

Spirits are the source of magic in this world. A magician without a spirit would be nought but a man. Magic is the practice of making pacts with spirits for power, giving them something in return.

**Nature Spirits** These beings represent all aspects of nature and grant powers related to it. Due to their neutral disposition and broad range of powers, these are perfect for new magicians wanting to practice their trade and build a power base.

**Decay Spirits** These spirits represent the eventual breaking down of all things. If you want to be destructive but not outright violent, you would choose these.

**Afterlife Spirits** These Spirits are what remains of us when we leave this mortal plane. Magicians dealing in them are no dark necromancers with skeleton hordes but rather shepherds of lost souls. They are quite weak but also easy to deal with once you understand their unique psychology.

**Humane Spirits** are fundamentally linked with the human experience. They are as varied as humanity itself.

**Emotion Spirits** are, as the name suggests, representations of emotions. They deal in these, so if you seek to manipulate people, or even yourself, you will have to look here.

**Pseudo Spirits** There are some ways a magician can produce beings of magic that are similar to spirits.

**Lost** are Magicians that have in some way or another lost their humanity. Now they are more spirit than mortal.

**Purity Spirits** are what some would call the representation of good. They are hard to please but powerful if you manage to do so.

**Fundamental Spirits** are the wardens of what keeps this universe together. They range in strength from minute to all-powerful, though do not expect to deal with the latter as mortals are beyond their concern.

**Hellion Spirits** There are some forces that seek to break down and extinguish this universe. Not just plunge it into chaos, but unmake it entirely. They may grant you immense power, but in some form or another it will have a cost and the universe will be worse off for it later.

**Cryptids (Playable)** are not entirely spirit, but I will include them for the sake of completeness. They are of mortal flesh but born with magical power. Unlike Spirits, they can lie but for some reason, they can not make pacts with them.

### The Life and Death of Spirits

#### **Birth of a spirit.**

An excerpt from a short letter written by Timothy Hodge to St. Edith

**Excerpt Begins**

*Dearest Prudence,*

*My legs grow weary and my eyes strained. I will have to keep this brief as my candle is running out. I have witnessed the birth of a spirit that I now know to be a fire jinn.*

*It was at the pit of summer when I found myself in Wisteria. Money has been evading me as I have told you and word on the town is that Wisteria is the new budding bastion of civilization in New England. So you’ll understand my surprise at finding a lovely house that I could afford. Looking back, it was too good to be true.*

*The only downside to this new arrangement was the landlord. Prudence you must understand that it isn’t slander when I call Davenport a conniving bastard. It is just a fact of the matter, when I saw his short squat physique and evil grin I should have left right there and then. Looking back I believe he had the circular mark on his hand that you warned me to avoid.*

*It was a Sunday afternoon and I had taken to the bed, quite ill when I saw the smoke pouring out from under my bedroom door.  Fear overtook me and I froze for a moment. I checked my available routes of escape and exited through the window. So far this shouldn’t concern you, what happened next is what I believe to be the work of the devil himself.*

*As I watched my house burn up in flames, I noticed a commotion from inside the house. Against my better judgement I jumped back through the window covering my mouth with a piece of cloth. When I say the sight I was met with was unholy, I mean it. Davenport lay there, his flesh twisted into a beast-like appearance. He was burning but if his body knew that, it didn’t show. An abnormality in the fire appeared behind him, a creature made of pure fire was being formed slowly. It binded with him and the creature that was now not Davenport wrose from the flames.*

**Excerpt end**

This letter shows the birth of the notable spirit “The Beast on Fire”. More notably this shows the birth of a fire jinn. The death of spirits is quite well documented through the years but a birth of one, to my knowledge has not been seen by mortal eyes. It seems spirits are birthed in places where it would be right for them to be born in. A fire jinn in a fire, a sprite in a place of immense light.

#### **Death of a Spirit.**

From what I have observed a spirit can die in two different ways.

**Fading**

Fading is a process of death which is widely considered the “natural” way for spirits to die. It is simply when their metaphorical “fire” runs out. Whether this be a loss of purpose, a Dryads home being completely destroyed with no chance of regrowth. Or simply living too long. A fading spirit will gradually lose it’s powers and eventually just cease to exist.

**Bursting**

When a spirit is killed through any other means besides fading it “Bursts”. When a spirit bursts it explodes with their respective element or “thing”, in a violent manner.  A fire jinn explodes in a flaming inferno, a draugr would cause anyone around to act unnaturally greedy for a period after their death ect.