Ex-Human

Ex-Humans are entities which are created from mortals who have lost their humanity (whether in full or in part) one way or another. Although some Ex-Humans maintain a degree of free will, their slide into entitydom makes them vulnerable to certain mystical forces that humans, even practitioners are unaffected by.

## Types of Ex-Humans

* ***Digital Ghosts:*** Digital Ghosts are a modern creation, borne from humans who have lost all personal identity and contact in the isolation of the modern world, clinging to the internet and computers as a lifeline. Some of these poor souls actually lose part of their souls to the machine, which becomes a sort of Ghost trapped in digital form.
* **Lich:** A Lich is a Deathless practitioner who has undergone magical rituals to mystically remove weaknesses from themselves, typically taking them and sealing them in some secure object or location, much like Koshei of russian legends.
* **Hag:** Hags are the evil witches of legends, those who eat children to prolong their youths. Hags are deathless practitioners who have made the decisions to steal the life force of others in order to prolong their lives and to become stronger, a few method exist; cannibalism, bathing in blood, or a more abstract form of psychic vampirism. Despite the name, Hags may be of any gender.
* **Stitchers:** Stitchers are a type of deathless practitioners (and their victims) who replace human parts of their bodies with that of an entity, granting them supernatural abilities at the cost of their humanity eroding.
* **Possessed:** The Possessed have some form of spiritual hitchhiker within their soul, whether a spirit, specter, or demons, the possessed are locked in a perpetual battle for control of their own body, making them unwilling mediums.
* ***Therianthrope:*** Therianthropes are similar to the possessed, but their soul is home to an animal spirit which alters the nature of their ordeal; when the animal spirit takes control the Therianthrope's body is transformed into that of an animal. While many therianthropes fight this, others have learned to balance their and the animal spirit's needs and form a symbiotic relationship.
* ***Hosts:*** Hosts are mortals who act as the host for an entity, unlike a possession a Host is a more physical ordeal, where something is growing inside of them. Many hosts are temporary, until whatever is parasitizing them no longer has a need of them. A host may however be able to take some of their parasite's power for themselves.
* ***Conduit:*** Conduits are strange humans who through various means have become natural and unwilling channel for some power which naturally seeps out of them. A conduit may naturally flare fires, bring rain, or bear some more abstract force such as lust, violence, or sloth. A Conduit can attempt to willingly channel these powers, maybe temporarily restrain them, but they must at some point let the power out.
* ***Subhuman:*** Subhumans are grotesque humans who made the decisions to abandon civilized ways breaking ancient taboos (cannibalism, incest, necrophilia), sometimes out of necessity for survival, sometimes for darker reasons, Subhumans are alike twisted hillbillies of fiction, most are deeply depraved and vicious.
* ***Wendigo:*** From Algonquin mythology, the Wendigo is both a form of dark spirit of cold, greed and hunger, and the name of the wretched souls possessed by these spirits, turned into hideous monsters who are cursed with eating the flesh of their kin.
* ***Morlock:*** Morlocks are humans who have lived in darkness so long that the sun has become anathema and dangerous to them, most are ancient clans, but every so often people dwelling in the darkness of a city's underground tunnels, sewers and abandoned places devolve into such a creature.
* ***Moreau:*** Named after Philip Moreau of the Island of Dr. Moreau fame, Moreaus are part human and part animal beings, some become such due to being affected by entities or a realm's forces, but others are wholesale created by particularly callous Lifecrafters.