Magic, Spirits and Demons

Things such as spirits, demons, and otherwise were always ideas of old-world concepts of what was called "magic." While what the Unbound could do seemed close to typical concepts of "magic," it could be analyzed, taken apart, and understood on a molecular level -- though, of course, the actual manipulation seemed to be willed, so wondering how far the concept of reality could be bent via will or visualizations in the mind was indeed an interesting question.

Apparently, the ideas of humans that had been formed even at the beginning of their genesis lingered within the threads of energy that now were a part of the planet itself -- bodies giving life to Axxenith, Axxenith itself becoming a part of the dreams, ideas, and creative energy that humans who once lived had.

Because of these memories, thoughts, and ideas becoming a part of the nature to the planet, it seemed the energy of the world had been influenced more as humans lived, died, and so on. Originally, the phenomenon of deja vu, recorded therapy sessions documenting strange "past lives" in which individuals could even speak languages they had no previous knowledge of, "Ghosts," and so on were thought to be a result of this rooting into Axxenith, but apparently, they weren't the only surfaced phenomena.

## Spirits and Demons

Because of the influence on the planet, and with the now ever-present manipulation present of the Unbound, human spirits -- whether truly deceased individuals or manifested via lore and the like -- were found to exist on a similar existence as the Unbound Mediums who found themselves able to tap into the energy linked to these spirits.

It seemed that this was a strangely useful ability, though it was a bit of a double-edged sword; while some spirits that were reached seemed simply lost, without aim, others seemed quite vengeful.

What was particularly of interest was the ability of these spirits to take the intuition the Mediums that reached them posessed and to utilize them tenfold -- if the Unbound had no ability to manipulate their surroundings, they were suddenly "posessed" by this entity, and displayed impressive, intensive abilities that surpassed most of their peers.

The issue was, however, that most of these spirits had no concept of keeping their mediums from focusing on too many abilities at once; some of these mediums ended up comatose after being pushed far beyond their physical limitations.

Among the most interesting of some of these spirits were individuals that called themselves demons; they represented specific aspects, used old-world names, and, when these entities were "channeled" by Unbound, seemed to linger in the body of their mediums, ever-lurking in their minds until the individual expired -- due to the demon's meddling or otherwise.

## Spirits and Experimental Tampering

Because these beings seemed to unlock an innate, powerful ability in the human form, but seemed to have no reasonable methods of control, many applications were researched to properly force these spirits into a sort of mental "box" that would prevent them from overloading any individual beyond their mental capacity.

Early methods included nanotech that once implanted within the Medium's brain, would induce a sleep-state so that the individual would no longer have any capacity to focus on the spirit or otherwise, thus giving the spirits no power to further manipulate. This worked, however, as tests continued, it seemed quite obvious that it would only do so much good, as spirits would simply attempt to short the nanotech with an electric jolt, rendering it useless.

Self-replicating nanotech was later created, being able to survive intense electric pulses by simply relocating and re-positioning, giving the spirits no choice but to cooperate. Of course, this did not mean that the effort a Medium would have to endure was any less; there were still great physical limits being pushed, and quite often harm was difficult to avoid.

With demons, the applied precautions were similar -- however, because of the vast array of abilities demons seemed to force upon individuals, the idea of allowing demons into human bodies -- bodies without true minds, thought of as physical husks so to speak -- was a controversial, but quite spoken of one. Eventually, a powerful unbound and their colleagues looked into this practice, seeing what would come of these bodies that were made in the likeness of unbound, being given no conscious mind.

The idea was quite complex; it seemed that to work with demons, a thinking, focused mind would have to be in working order so that the demon could be contacted, then rooted to the mind of the body. The idea was that, instead of using the mind within the body to contact the demon, a mind outside of it would contact said demon, and attempt to tie it into the mind of the "husk" instead.

The results were unstable. Demons seemed to be far stronger willed than spirits alone, and thus, forcing them into an outer vessel was nearly impossible. There were some instances of Unbound making "pacts" with these entities to bind them to other bodies, though the details aren't openly shared.