Banshees

Banshees are incorporeal forms created from the fusion of all three animi at the moment of death.

## Overview

Banshees are unique in the fact that they seem to exhibit all the traits normally associated with the different types of immaterial undead such as the ability of possession, haunting and telekinesis.

Banshees have the ability to speak and are noted for their weakness to smiles and gold (the latter being a prime reason why they are so distressed upon creation).

## Traits and abilities

### Possession

*Main article: Possession*

Like Spirits, Phi and Tau specters, Banshees can possess lifeforms

Banshees have an unsettling ability to force their way into the bodies of living creatures, thus replacing the creatures spirits with their own. This ability causes the banshees' bodies to dissipate the more bodies it possesses.

### Haunting

*Main article: Haunting*

Like Souls, Zeta and Tau specters, Banshees can possess and enchant objects

### Telekinesis

*Main article: Telekinesis*

Like Spirits, Phi and Zeta specters, Banshees can perform telekinesis

### Screaming

Banshees can produce a high-pitched scream that causes their intended victims to bash their own heads in to relieve themselves of the pain. People in a wide radius can be rendered deaf through exposure to the banshee's scream.

By channeling the powers of their unholy screams, banshees can cause their enemies to temporarily lose their honed combat skills. As a result of this terrible curse, the victims of this cry find themselves unable to hit their targets.

### Invisibility

Unlike other incorporeal forms, Banshees are the only animi that cannot become invisible.

### Sense of death

Banshees can detect medical defects in individuals and can often tell people of what they will die. The fact that they can know how so many people will die is also a cause of their psychological torment.

### Acapella Music

By melding the powers of necromancy and the warped music of their screams, banshees can form protective shells that disrupt electrical currents. The uncanny shell makes those creatures impervious to most technology and energy based attacks for a short period of time.

## Other Race Banshees

In legends, specters and banshees only return when the deceased is an orphan, the last of its clan, and is without children. As such its debt cannot be repaid by its children or its family, and will do so himself as a banshee.

### Black sun Witch cult

*Main article: Black Sun Witch Cult*

Sixty women born with powers supposedly to end the world. Their powers manifest as banshee voice powers, or siren voice sorcery.

## Dalmer Banshees

Since Banshees are essentially three personalities in a single entity with dangerous powers, Necromancer and Seers will try to capture and then separate a Banshee once it is calm as banshee meltdowns are incredibly dangerous to themselves and everyone around them.

Banshees, upon creation often exhibit recklessness, meaning their powers can unwittingly be triggered by emotions, thoughts, dreams, causing the user to be unable to control or possibly even access their ability. Banshee meltdowns are often used as an example of recklessness.

Generally necromancers use soul containers first and ask questions later when dealing with a banshee given the dangerosity of the entity.

Since access to necromancy is unequal over the empire this made Specters and Banshee meltdowns a black spot on undead/living relations. However after a Banshee had a meltdown that caused an entire block to suffer from hearing loss, public funding was provided to develop necromancy and seer programs in hospitals.