BadMoon Spirit Lore Research

Spirit Lore (Main Topic)

Skill: Occult

Obscurity: Occult 0 (General Knowledge Test applies)
Progress: Elaine 9 successes, 4 rolls

1 successes: Simple awareness of the notion of supernatural entities of all kinds without natural physical bodies. The most common are probably Ghosts.
- Ghost Lore (0)
2 successes: Thanks to the prevalence of Church-going populaces, the other two most-commonly known sorts of spirits are angels and demons. Different cultures define these in different ways, but generically angels tend to be spirits aligned with powers aligned with mankind, and demons are spirits aligned with powers antithetical to mankind.
- Angel Lore (0)
- Demon Lore (0)
3 successes: Some cultures maintain belief in deities and other spiritual entities of great power who share similarities with spirits, including the lack of a physical form and some kind of interaction with humanity.
- Topics arrayed by Religious System (• - ••)
6 successes: With a bit of Wikipedia and anthropology, knowledge of animistic cultures' ideas about spirits: disembodied entities often in communion with the world of men, but not always part of it. Broadly, it includes animistic and totemic spirits of many tribal cultures, Japanese kami, European faery spirits, and the populace of the Dreamtime.
- Animistic Spirit Lore (•)
- Topics arrayed by Animistic System (• - ••)
9 successes: There is also a host of other spiritual entities, usually associated with deeply esoteric systems of thought and philosophy.
- Topics arrayed by Esoteric System (•• - •••)

Obscurity: Occult •
Progress: Elaine 9 successes, 2 rolls

3 successes: Spirits have two forms of limitation: Bans and Banes. Bans are injunctions that either force them to perform some kind of action, inflicting harm or other limitation if they fail to do so, or that forbid them from performing some kind of action, inflicting harm if they do. Some kinds of forbiddances just make it literally impossible for the spirit to perform that sort of action. Banes are symbolically connected items or substances of the world of flesh that harm or otherwise limit a spirit.
7 successes: The more potent the spirit, the rarer the Ban or Bane. By the same token, however, the rarer the Ban or Bane, the more potent its effect on the spirit in question.

Obscurity: Occult •
Progress: Elaine 8 successes, 1 roll