Esoterians

Esoterians are an OC species created by Ravenmore with a complicated set of abilities, history, and culture.

## Esoterians

Depiction of the invisible, malleable aura around an Esoterian

## Information

### Location

Only surviving members are located on Earth in Australia and New York.

### Members

Clove Winters (Half), Lillian Winters (Half), Claire Winters (Half), Clove Grey (Half), Dr. Winters (Half), Chive (Erased), Clove (Erased), Corabelle Winters (Erased), Clover Winters (Erased), Lillian (Deceased)

### Defining Characteristics

Full-blooded Esoterians tend to be naturally passive in nature. Half human individuals have more aggressive tendencies.

## History

### Creation

It is unknown wether they came into existence via natural evolution, genetic engineering, or by some other means.

### Rainforest Society

At some point, they developed a hunting-gathering society in the rainforests of South America and a symbiotic relationship with an isolated tribe of humans. The Esoterians would be allowed to take blood from selected human individuals, while the tribe of humans would gain protection from predators and competing tribes.

### Pacifism

They soon grew distain towards humans as a whole as they watched the displays of violence towards different human tribes. In order to avoid being pulled into such drama, they chose to isolate themselves as much as possible by keeping their human tribe separated from outside influences. Because if this, they developed a sense of superiority over humans, who in their eyes are weak for succumbing to their violent urges. This led to the creation of a set of laws and taboos that prevented mingling with the humans and treating them with anything other than apathy.

Coinciding with this change was the discovery of a strange rock with unreadable markings on its surface. The Esoterian leader at the time claimed to have received a dream of what was written on the stone, detailing a prophecy. This prophecy detailed the destruction of their entire race by an individual that was half human, half Esoterian which further solidified their distrust towards the human race.

## Physiology

### Two ‘Bodies’

Esoterians have two bodies: their matter based, physical body and their energy based body. This energy body can be known by multiple different names, including their soul, spirit, life force, Ki, mana, and/or similar.

#### Physical

The physical body is practically indistinguishable to a human’s, though there are internal and some external characteristics to note.

##### Enhanced Attributes

Esoterians have higher average stats than a human, with higher strength, speed, and agility. They also have enhanced senses which allow them to easily detect their prey. Unfortunately, this leads to a lower tolerance level for such things and to behaviors like being nocturnal and avoidant of loud sounds.

##### Claws and Sharper Canine Teeth

At full nutrition, their nails naturally grow into a strong, pointed shape similar to a claw or talon. They are capable of slicing through wood and even some metals in order to climb. Their canine teeth are naturally designed to be a lot sharper and slightly longer in order to draw blood easier. ￼ Half human Esoterians have these set of claws, but lack such features in their teeth.

When they are malnourished, their natural claw strength weakens, though still can slice through flesh and draw blood.

##### Ear muscles

Similar to early humans, Esoterians have the ability to move their ears in response to auditory stimuli. Half Esoterians have little to no control over ear movement, but remnants of this characteristic can be seen in head tilting behavior.

##### Sensitive Scalp

Compared to a human's, an Esoterian has a particularly sensitive scalp that is subject to greater feelings of pain and/or pleasure.

##### Eyesight

Their eyes are hypersensitive to all sorts of energies instead of just the visible light spectrum. This allows them to view sound, auras, spirits, emotion, and much more. Normal Esoterians are able to focus their eyesight to control what they see at any given time, but Half-humans have an extremely limited ability to do this. For them, this causes them to often feel overwhelmed and pained

#### Spiritual

Their soul body is unique in that they can consciously and unconsciously move, manipulate, and control it. This allows them to perform many feats, such as energy absorption, energy manipulation, and energy consumption. Small parts of their spirit can also be used to create various tools that help shape energy, such as creating stable orbs or other shapes filled with a particular energy type, or even interfacing with the energy in matter to augment its properties. This allows for more types of uses involving the manipulation of energy.

##### Energy's Effects

Depending on the type of energy currently being metabolized, the individual gains various affects. This list is in no particular order.

###### Water/Hydraulic Energy

Highly calming and healing. Can be used to heal both physically and mentally. Also is one of the more variable types of energies, as it can take on different subtones based on it's environment. If it's poor-quality water, for example, then it will have poor quality effects. If an extremely terrible event happened near or within a body of water, it can take on that energy and pass it through the individual.

###### Lifeforce

This has the effect of creating a more communicative, agreeable, and friendly individual. *Note: Half human Esoterians can also gain various skills, abilities, and such from a person's lifeforce being absorbed.*

###### Fire

Fire is an energy that causes a faint glow in the eyes. It also causes a higher-than-average body temperature in the Esoterian, and amplifies passionate emotions like, well, anger, hatred, and lust for example.

###### Electricity

Though not a common one outside of human civilization, electricity has its own effects all the same. An individual on electricity will be especially jittery and have enhanced reflexes. It is similar to coffee in that it gives a big boost in energy followed by an even quicker energy low. This can potentially have the person passing out if they aren't careful.

###### Seismic Energy

Seismic, or Earth's energy, originates from the movement of the planet's tectonic plates. Absorbing this movement during an Earthquake, Eruption, Avalanche, and more will give a boost in the person's physical strength.

###### Lunar Energy

Energy from the moon has calming and focusing capabilities. This makes it good for meditating and enhancing someone's energy manipulation powers. This effect is at it's highest during the full moon and the weakest during the new moon. *Note: a lunar Eclipse combines the effects of both Lunar and Seismic energy.*

###### Solar Energy

This energy has a similar effect to both the energy of plants and the energy of fire: it boosts someone's positive emotions.

###### Gravity

This has the effect of making the person, or things being affected, feel heavier than they are.

###### Wind

The energy from moving air can be absorbed to make the individual feel lighter than usual. This also increases speed.

###### Soundwaves

Absorbing this can deafen the area the sound is being drained from, since doing so prevents soundwaves from reaching the ears. All that sound has to go somewhere though, and this leads to the person who absorbed it having magnified noise output, like when talking.

###### Light

Absorbing or messing with this messes with the sense of sight.

##### Esoteric Aura

An Esoterian has the ability to move and shape their own aura or soul. This can range from hardening it against mental and emotional energy that may be around to reaching out with invisible tendrils of it to absorb other energy. It can also be used to contain energies and shape them if the person is skilled enough to do so.

## Culture

Due to their physiology, Esoterians have developed their own unique culture and way of living.

Being naturally peaceful, they live all together in one giant "tribe." They lack the advanced technology of humans, and consider a hunting and gathering way of life to be better. However, they avoid using weapons whenever possible and instead prefer to kill swiftly and painlessly by draining the energy of their prey.

Because of their view on humans, strict laws have been put in place as a way of protecting their society. Due to their ability to see spirits and such after a person dies, they aren't as scared of a concept such as Death and view pain before such fate to be worse. Thus, many of their laws involving developing relationships with humans are stopped by death from energy absorption. The most gruesome of punishments would be to deny someone access to blood, as one doesn't die from it but instead experiences agony and a gradual loss of rational thinking until their primal need is satisfied.

The hair and scalp are considered to be sacred, and they have social rituals where close friends and family care for and style each other's hair.

They raise children collectively, each adult having something they can pass on to the next generation.

## Trivia

* Full-blooded Esoterians have their powers develop during infancy, while Half-Human Esoterians appear to be human up until puberty, which is when their powers start to develop.
* In order to have full health, the blood of sentient things and some form of energy must be consumed regularly.
* Oftentimes, Esoterian foods incorporate blood and sometimes other raw animal parts in their dishes. to them it tastes extremely delicious.