Spirit

A spirit (Art by Wilfredor)

**Spirits** are a classification of pan-dimensional supernatural entities who have power over the entire Megaverse.

## Overview

Spirits are beings who's bodies are made up of immaterial substances such as Spiritual Energy. Their nature allows them to cast magic and control the natural forces of the universe. They have exactly no variants, and there is only one of them within the Megaverse. While there appears to be variants among them they're more so distant cousins than actual parallel universe selves.

Spirits have the ability to feed on the belief mortals have in them, leading to several battles and wars between spirits for control over mortals.

## Appearances

As the term spirit is a wide net there is no one appearance for spirits as each race and group look drastically different.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Consumption of Belief**: Spirits are capable of consuming the belief of mortals, increasing their power drastically. This consumption of belief comes from an energy emanating from the Collective Unconscious, which is a life-giving and empowering energy, serving to strengthen the gods, angels and demons.

## History

### Genesis

The original Spirits were created by God, Khaos, and Azathoth as Arcutha, Primordials, and Old Ones respectively. The Spirits were made during the three way war between God Khaos and Azathoth, their purpose was to fight against the other factions. However after God won the war, he spared the Primordials born from Khaos allowing them to watch over the Mortal world.

There were other spirits created around this time; God eventually created the Angels, with Barbelo they created the Aeons, Ayin alone created some of the first Demons, Life created the Fae, Death created the Reapers, Ouroboros created the first Dragons, Vitriol created the Credentials, and through the "death" of Therion came the creation of the first monsters.

### Post-Genesis

As God and Khaos rested the Primordials quickly went about shaping their own worlds and realities, giving birth to many more races of Spirit. However independent of the Spirits creation life began to form and eventually take shape. When the Spirits finally realized that life had formed they quickly began to lay claims on the newly discovered beings. As life grew the spirits found out that the concentrated thoughts and belief of the organisms offered great power to those who received it.

Eventually a species of primate eventually evolved into what we know now as humanity, humans offered up a level of belief that dwarfed all other known sources of thought. Because of this the Spirits waged war after war with each other for control over humanity. Eventually the Primevals enacted a system to protect humanity from those who only sought out after their belief. These Primevals eventually became known as gods to humanity who subsequently worshipped them, driving their power to new levels.

## Myths and Legends

Spirits have been found within vast amounts of myths, religions, and legends, mainly because the term "spirit" has come to mean a variety of different things. Spirit could mean the supernatural essence of ones being, an intangible sentient entity, or just translating it as a god or deity. Angels, Demigods, Demons, Djinn, Fairies, Ghosts, Gods, Machine Elves, Rephaites, Shadows, Yaoguai, and Yōkai have all been described as a "spirit" (atleast according to wikipedia), and any other entity described as a spirit on the *GaD wiki* is a variation of the previously mentioned. Due to all of this, it was decided that the term "spirit" on the *GaD wiki* should be used as an umbrella term rather than a definitive species.