BadMoon Animistic Spirit Research

Animistic Spirit Lore (Main Topic)

Skill: Occult

Animistic Spirit Lore, Basic

Obscurity: Occult •
Progress: Neona, 20 successes

• 2 successes: Animistic thought maintains that everything in creation has a spirit of some kind. Though each system has a different criteria for what possesses such a spirit, the animistic world is one highly populated by a wide variety of spiritual entities of differing power. These spirits are called hithim (or hith singular) in the First Tongue.
• 5 successes: Spirits subsist on Essence (ulal in the First Tongue), a type of spiritual energy that moves with a kind of behavior similar to water: flowing, pooling, collecting, evaporating and re-condensing elsewhere. This energy is called Essence by many, although individual cultures also have names for it. Essence also has a "flavor" referred to as its Resonance.
  • Resonance (•)
• 7 successes: Spirits can most often be found at Loci (nahdar in the First Tongue), well-springs of Essence that occur in the world. They gather here to consume the Essence in the same way animals might gather at watering holes in the wild.
  • Loci (•)
• 10 successes: Though naturally occurring, spirits are somewhat rarely found. They primarily interact with the world through different Manifestations, or methods to reach out to the world of flesh. Spirits are all hungry for this kind of interaction, pursuing it the way addicts pursue a fix. Spirits are native to another realm, an animistic spirit realm often called the Shadow (Hisil in the First Tongue.
  • Manifestations (•)
• 12 successes: Spirits are native to another realm, an animistic spirit realm often called the Shadow (Hisil in the First Tongue.
  • Shadow (••)
• 14 successes: Animistic spirits wield two kinds of distinct power. The first is through their connection to specific themes and/or phenomena in the world, a power called Influence. The second are outright manifestations of spiritual power, called Numina.
  • Influences (••)
  • Numina (••)
• 20 successes: Animistic spirits can be roughly divided into five distinct "families" of spirits (although some refer to them as "nations"). These say more about the concepts they are associated with than any actual social structure. Spirits can, however, and do organize into several different forms of local social groupings, referred to as Broods.
  • Spirit Broods (••)
  • Spirit Nations (••)

Obscurity •• Topics

Consuming Fire (Fire Elemental)

Skill: Occult
Obscurity: ••
Progress: Elaine x successes, x rolls

• x successes: Consuming Fire spirits are shapechangers, though they often take humanoid forms, with brick-red skin, golden hair and burning gold-white eyes. They are surrounded in a nimbus of wavering, super-hot air.
• x successes: Consuming Fire spirits are entities of rage and destruction. They are vindictive and given to bouts of great violence.
• x successes: Consuming Fire spirits wield Influence over Fire. They are capable of peering past the Gauntlet, and of manifesting bodies for themselves.
• x successes: Consuming Fire spirits are capable of projecting gouts of fire, and of controlling open flames (even from the other side of the Gauntlet).
• x successes: The ban of the Consuming Fire spirit is that it must consume an object (of at least Size 2) with its fire at least once per month. Its bane is fresh spring water.