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====Wraiths and Hollows====
Hollows are humans without a soul. They can arise spontaneously in humanity. The one link that has been found is that the human who becomes a hollow is usually deeply depressed before they become a hollow. Once they become a hollow, there is no going back, they will forever be without a soul. Once they become a hollow they lose the ability to heal from damage normally and the ability to draw substance from food. Hollows universally will slowly starve to death or die from injuries that they are unable to heal though. They feel no pain. The only way to stave off their death is to consume other human souls. Once they consume a human soul they can use the energy to preserve their unnatural life.
These living Hollows still breath and their hearts beat and give the impression of life, but the motions of life are more reflexive than needed. They do not need to breath or have their heart beat, but most will do so to continue to blend into human society. If Hollows die, they must expend soul energy to maintain these human functions and most do not bother unless they need to blend in for some reason.
Hollows who have the energy of a consumed human soul can continue to exist after having starved to death or taken lethal damage. At this point the body is merely a shell, but it continues to animate and exist as long as it has the energy of a consumed soul. Hollows must consume a soul once every 28 days or die. Hollows can consume more souls than 1 per 28 days. If they do, they can use the excess energy to increase their physical and mental stats well beyond those of normal humans, even hitting levels like the huntress, but doing so takes a lot of soul energy to maintain, quickly burning out the hollow. They can also use soul energy to heal themselves. If a Hollow consumes a lot of souls in a very short ammount of time it is possible they can allow a wraith to cross over into their body.
A Hollow consuming a human soul, in most cases results in instant death for the human so consumed. Soul consumption takes place in the span of a round, and is heralded by a low wailing moan from the Hollow. The Hollow must be close or touching their target to consume their soul. Their victim can resist with their willpower. Hollows have never been know to consume the souls of meta-humans or carriers, it is not known why.
However Hollows can, if they so choose, consume the soul of a person and leave the person alive, but a Hollow themselves. The new Hollow is usually a slave to the first, mentally dominated, and doing the firsts bidding, to the point that the first Hollow can literally order the other to chop their own head off and the other Hollow will do so unquestioningly. However willful individuals can break free of this control, and it has been known to happen even years after the initial slavery, again what exactly breaks this control is unknown. Even killing the master hollow does not appear to “free” the slaves in all cases.
Hollows seem to have additional senses when it comes to sensing other humans. Many have theorized that they can “smell” the souls. However this sense is not linked in any way to the five senses. There have been reports of hollows with no heads unerringly steering towards their intended victims.
Hollows cannot be killed as long as they have soul energy. They can heal though any injury, repairing limbs and closing gaping holes in their body. The only appendage that they don’t seem to be able to instantly regenerate is their head. However, they can reattach a severed one if they lose it.
The most effective way to kill them is fire. They can heal though fire damage but fire damage is continuous, and unless put out will burn though all the soul energy the Hollow has, and then eventually consume the Hollows body.
The Hollows body cannot reanimate, if they are out of soul energy the Hollow is simply a corpse. However Hollows have been known to “play possum” pretending to be dead until a ready soul comes close, and when one does, they will take their opportunity to feed.
Hollows do not need to sleep, and cannot be knocked out.
Hollows seem to grow more sluggish or strong based on the phases of the moon, Hollows tend to be sluggish, like they just woke up in a full moon, and are tougher and stronger during a New Moon.
Hollows who have a lot of soul energy are naturally strong and tough, with skin that blows bounce off of and maxed out normal stats and can maintain those as long as their soul energy is high without spending any soul energy.
Running water burns hollows like acid, tearing away at their defenses. Knocking a Hollow into a fast flowing river is often as effective as fire. Hollows can cross water, but they are loathe to do it, and while on the water are very weak. Water with no current does nothing but even a slight shift changes the waters nature and burns them. Natural water, rivers and the ocean especially, are significantly more effective than water that has been transported or supernaturally created. The water must be in large quantities, (more than 100 gallons) to be of any real effect. Smaller bits of water have no effect at all. Rain does nothing to Hollows. Being burnt by running water does not consume the water, it just passes though them burning them away.
As was stated earlier, a Hollow who consumes many many souls in a short amount of time, fills with soul energy and this energy goes though a conversion turning into the stuff from which wraiths are made. The wraiths seem to be able to instinctively sense this soul energy from the shadow world, and will reach out into the hollows soul and instantly dominate them, connecting by feeding into this wraith energy inside the Hollow. The most popular theory is that there is a contest of wills between the wraith and the Hollow but the Wraiths possess a nearly unlimited store of willpower easily overcoming the Hollows mental defenses.
Hollows who are taken over by wraiths have any free will instantly destroyed. Their will never seems to return, wiped out by the transformation. This being the case, Hollows “in the know” will avoid consuming too much soul energy as they do not want to lose their individuality to a new Wraith overlord.
Free Hollows however are under constant assault from the shadow world, it appears that the wraiths can communicate with any Hollow, whispering directly to their minds, and trying to taunt them to do what they want. So while the Hollows remain free, the wraiths will constantly try to twist them, turn them to their purpose.
Once a Hollow has been taken over by a wraith he or she becomes a shadow puppet. A shadow puppet looks like the Hollow did, save they are filled with a shadowy form that moves on its own. The shadowy form is the wraith.
The shadowy form of the wraith can become intagable, and shape shift at will, growing arms, changing hands into swords, growing in size or shrinking inside of the Shadow Puppet. Wraiths haven been known to grow thousands of arms, shift their shadows into two dimensional swords, even grow wings to fly. The shadowy form can pass though any known object stopped only by certain rune structures, thresholds and running water.
Wraiths are incredibly dangerous, besides their own set of impressive skills listed above they can make the host body operate as if the hollow had an unlimited amount of soul energy to burn, operating at a huntress level full time. The wraith’s shadow body can act fully independently from their shadow puppet host body attacking seperate targets.
The wraiths shadowy energy does however seem trapped inside of the body, they can draw themselves up to incredible heights, but always remain linked to the body. This is their one weakness, if an incredible amount of damage can be leveraged against the host body it is possible to obliterate the body forcing the wraith back to the shadow realm, however if even as little as a fingernail remains the wraith can regenerate the whole body in a round or two.
Wraiths can spread themselves to new bodies incredibly easily. If they allow their shadowy essence to touch the still warm blood of a human they can instantly consume that humans soul, and turn them into a shadow puppet by forcing themselves into that body. Now there are two bodies for that one wraith. This is both a blessing for the wraith and a negative. The wraith can divide their energy between the two in any way they chose, and nearly instantly change the ratio between the two, however the energy is divided, only allowing part of the wraiths strength to be leveraged. The more bodies they split into, the weaker each individual body.
The bodies can be any distance apart, and are simply extensions of the same “body” all connected to the hive mind which is the wraith.
Wraiths can, when killing a human, consume their soul but not fill it with any shadowy energy, this leaves a corpse behind with a link to the wraith. Which the wraith can animate into a shadow puppet at any time. Instantly gaining a new body.
They can also when consuming a human soul create a hollow. This Hollow is different than a free Hollow. These Hollows retain their human minds, however they are totally beholden to the shadow puppet and thus the wraith. They cannot feed on humans or create new Hollows, they must return to the Shadow Puppet in to receive new food or they wither and die.
Legends tell that there are 13 wraiths, but all records of them only record 12 wraiths, one for each of the members of the Chinese zodiac. An individual wraith can be spread among any number of bodies and instantly communicate between all of them. Between wraiths communication is slightly slower, but does not appear to need face to face contact between shadow puppets.
Wraiths cannot cross running water under any circumstances. When forced through or into running water they will leave a corpse or hollow behind, instantly abandoning the body, forcing their energy into one of their other shadow puppets, or if no puppets are left back to the shadow world. If the body is moved out of running water the wraith can instantly repossess it.
Moonlight seems to also affect wraiths, like the Hollows, they are weak in a full moon and stronger in a new moon.
Clans:
[[TheDogClan The Dog Clan]]
[[TheDragonClan The Dragon Clan]]
[[TheHorseClan The Horse Clan]]
[[TheMonkeyClan The Monkey Clan]]
[[TheOxClan The Ox Clan]]
[[ThePhoenixClan The Phoenix Clan]]
[[ThePigClan The Pig Clan]]
[[TheRabbitClan The Rabbit Clan]]
[[TheRatClan The Rat Clan]]
[[TheRoosterClan The Rooster Clan]]
[[TheSheepClan The Sheep Clan]]
[[TheSnakeClan The Snake Clan]]
[[TheTigerClan The Tiger Clan]]
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Hollows are humans without a soul. They can arise spontaneously in humanity. The one link that has been found is that the human who becomes a hollow is usually deeply depressed before they become a hollow. Once they become a hollow, there is no going back, they will forever be without a soul. Once they become a hollow they lose the ability to heal from damage normally and the ability to draw substance from food. Hollows universally will slowly starve to death or die from injuries that they are unable to heal though. They feel no pain. The only way to stave off their death is to consume other human souls. Once they consume a human soul they can use the energy to preserve their unnatural life.
These living Hollows still breath and their hearts beat and give the impression of life, but the motions of life are more reflexive than needed. They do not need to breath or have their heart beat, but most will do so to continue to blend into human society. If Hollows die, they must expend soul energy to maintain these human functions and most do not bother unless they need to blend in for some reason.
Hollows who have the energy of a consumed human soul can continue to exist after having starved to death or taken lethal damage. At this point the body is merely a shell, but it continues to animate and exist as long as it has the energy of a consumed soul. Hollows must consume a soul once every 28 days or die. Hollows can consume more souls than 1 per 28 days. If they do, they can use the excess energy to increase their physical and mental stats well beyond those of normal humans, even hitting levels like the huntress, but doing so takes a lot of soul energy to maintain, quickly burning out the hollow. They can also use soul energy to heal themselves. If a Hollow consumes a lot of souls in a very short ammount of time it is possible they can allow a wraith to cross over into their body.
A Hollow consuming a human soul, in most cases results in instant death for the human so consumed. Soul consumption takes place in the span of a round, and is heralded by a low wailing moan from the Hollow. The Hollow must be close or touching their target to consume their soul. Their victim can resist with their willpower. Hollows have never been know to consume the souls of meta-humans or carriers, it is not known why.
However Hollows can, if they so choose, consume the soul of a person and leave the person alive, but a Hollow themselves. The new Hollow is usually a slave to the first, mentally dominated, and doing the firsts bidding, to the point that the first Hollow can literally order the other to chop their own head off and the other Hollow will do so unquestioningly. However willful individuals can break free of this control, and it has been known to happen even years after the initial slavery, again what exactly breaks this control is unknown. Even killing the master hollow does not appear to “free” the slaves in all cases.
Hollows seem to have additional senses when it comes to sensing other humans. Many have theorized that they can “smell” the souls. However this sense is not linked in any way to the five senses. There have been reports of hollows with no heads unerringly steering towards their intended victims.
Hollows cannot be killed as long as they have soul energy. They can heal though any injury, repairing limbs and closing gaping holes in their body. The only appendage that they don’t seem to be able to instantly regenerate is their head. However, they can reattach a severed one if they lose it.
The most effective way to kill them is fire. They can heal though fire damage but fire damage is continuous, and unless put out will burn though all the soul energy the Hollow has, and then eventually consume the Hollows body.
The Hollows body cannot reanimate, if they are out of soul energy the Hollow is simply a corpse. However Hollows have been known to “play possum” pretending to be dead until a ready soul comes close, and when one does, they will take their opportunity to feed.
Hollows do not need to sleep, and cannot be knocked out.
Hollows seem to grow more sluggish or strong based on the phases of the moon, Hollows tend to be sluggish, like they just woke up in a full moon, and are tougher and stronger during a New Moon.
Hollows who have a lot of soul energy are naturally strong and tough, with skin that blows bounce off of and maxed out normal stats and can maintain those as long as their soul energy is high without spending any soul energy.
Running water burns hollows like acid, tearing away at their defenses. Knocking a Hollow into a fast flowing river is often as effective as fire. Hollows can cross water, but they are loathe to do it, and while on the water are very weak. Water with no current does nothing but even a slight shift changes the waters nature and burns them. Natural water, rivers and the ocean especially, are significantly more effective than water that has been transported or supernaturally created. The water must be in large quantities, (more than 100 gallons) to be of any real effect. Smaller bits of water have no effect at all. Rain does nothing to Hollows. Being burnt by running water does not consume the water, it just passes though them burning them away.
As was stated earlier, a Hollow who consumes many many souls in a short amount of time, fills with soul energy and this energy goes though a conversion turning into the stuff from which wraiths are made. The wraiths seem to be able to instinctively sense this soul energy from the shadow world, and will reach out into the hollows soul and instantly dominate them, connecting by feeding into this wraith energy inside the Hollow. The most popular theory is that there is a contest of wills between the wraith and the Hollow but the Wraiths possess a nearly unlimited store of willpower easily overcoming the Hollows mental defenses.
Hollows who are taken over by wraiths have any free will instantly destroyed. Their will never seems to return, wiped out by the transformation. This being the case, Hollows “in the know” will avoid consuming too much soul energy as they do not want to lose their individuality to a new Wraith overlord.
Free Hollows however are under constant assault from the shadow world, it appears that the wraiths can communicate with any Hollow, whispering directly to their minds, and trying to taunt them to do what they want. So while the Hollows remain free, the wraiths will constantly try to twist them, turn them to their purpose.
Once a Hollow has been taken over by a wraith he or she becomes a shadow puppet. A shadow puppet looks like the Hollow did, save they are filled with a shadowy form that moves on its own. The shadowy form is the wraith.
The shadowy form of the wraith can become intagable, and shape shift at will, growing arms, changing hands into swords, growing in size or shrinking inside of the Shadow Puppet. Wraiths haven been known to grow thousands of arms, shift their shadows into two dimensional swords, even grow wings to fly. The shadowy form can pass though any known object stopped only by certain rune structures, thresholds and running water.
Wraiths are incredibly dangerous, besides their own set of impressive skills listed above they can make the host body operate as if the hollow had an unlimited amount of soul energy to burn, operating at a huntress level full time. The wraith’s shadow body can act fully independently from their shadow puppet host body attacking seperate targets.
The wraiths shadowy energy does however seem trapped inside of the body, they can draw themselves up to incredible heights, but always remain linked to the body. This is their one weakness, if an incredible amount of damage can be leveraged against the host body it is possible to obliterate the body forcing the wraith back to the shadow realm, however if even as little as a fingernail remains the wraith can regenerate the whole body in a round or two.
Wraiths can spread themselves to new bodies incredibly easily. If they allow their shadowy essence to touch the still warm blood of a human they can instantly consume that humans soul, and turn them into a shadow puppet by forcing themselves into that body. Now there are two bodies for that one wraith. This is both a blessing for the wraith and a negative. The wraith can divide their energy between the two in any way they chose, and nearly instantly change the ratio between the two, however the energy is divided, only allowing part of the wraiths strength to be leveraged. The more bodies they split into, the weaker each individual body.
The bodies can be any distance apart, and are simply extensions of the same “body” all connected to the hive mind which is the wraith.
Wraiths can, when killing a human, consume their soul but not fill it with any shadowy energy, this leaves a corpse behind with a link to the wraith. Which the wraith can animate into a shadow puppet at any time. Instantly gaining a new body.
They can also when consuming a human soul create a hollow. This Hollow is different than a free Hollow. These Hollows retain their human minds, however they are totally beholden to the shadow puppet and thus the wraith. They cannot feed on humans or create new Hollows, they must return to the Shadow Puppet in to receive new food or they wither and die.
Legends tell that there are 13 wraiths, but all records of them only record 12 wraiths, one for each of the members of the Chinese zodiac. An individual wraith can be spread among any number of bodies and instantly communicate between all of them. Between wraiths communication is slightly slower, but does not appear to need face to face contact between shadow puppets.
Wraiths cannot cross running water under any circumstances. When forced through or into running water they will leave a corpse or hollow behind, instantly abandoning the body, forcing their energy into one of their other shadow puppets, or if no puppets are left back to the shadow world. If the body is moved out of running water the wraith can instantly repossess it.
Moonlight seems to also affect wraiths, like the Hollows, they are weak in a full moon and stronger in a new moon.
Clans:
[[TheDogClan The Dog Clan]]
[[TheDragonClan The Dragon Clan]]
[[TheHorseClan The Horse Clan]]
[[TheMonkeyClan The Monkey Clan]]
[[TheOxClan The Ox Clan]]
[[ThePhoenixClan The Phoenix Clan]]
[[ThePigClan The Pig Clan]]
[[TheRabbitClan The Rabbit Clan]]
[[TheRatClan The Rat Clan]]
[[TheRoosterClan The Rooster Clan]]
[[TheSheepClan The Sheep Clan]]
[[TheSnakeClan The Snake Clan]]
[[TheTigerClan The Tiger Clan]]
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