por Ankou Qua Out 07, 2020 6:26 pm
SIX URBAN SPIRITS
Blightlings (Iri Thim) are spirits of urban decay,
feeding on the Essence of once-proud cities
rotting. They resemble street people with broken,
ruined bodies made of torn asphalt and garbage.
Glass eyes (Anzah-Haz) are spirits of surveillance
cameras, serving as lookouts and watchdogs
for more powerful spirits. Each resembles a tall,
thin human made of steel with a cyclopean glass
lens-eye, looking down on passersby. Glass eyes
are notorious gossips and snitches, always eager to
offer up things they’ve seen in exchange for Essence.
Vermin (Nihhilim) are rat spirits, gathering in
huge broods beneath the streets and behind alley
fences. Many packs suspect that Nihhilim serve
the Beshilu, but they’re too cowardly for that. They
prefer to avoid werewolves’ anger, creeping into
the aftermath of hunts to pick at the remains.
Travels Below (Thifulmatha) are the spirits of
subway systems, resembling skeletal, steel serpents
with wide eyes. They are punctual to a fault, forcing
anything that tries to delay them aside.
Allholders (Gibsur) are the spirits of big-box
stores and supermarkets, the corpulent landowners
and slum-lords of the spirit courts. Unlike their
smaller, shadier cousins such as the spirits of gas
stations and quick-marts, the spirits of out-of-town
mass retail pride themselves on fair dealing, and
see themselves as genial hosts for lesser spirits
of money, family, and the many goods that pass
through their doors. Packs more often see them as
parasites, extorting Essence from the hursahim too
weak to escape their clutches.
Darkenings (Uthsu) are some of the most
common emotion spirits, drawing Essence from
human grief. They congregate in hospitals, graveyards,
funeral parlors, even war memorials. They
appear as dark fog banks with churning black coils
barely visible inside.