Guide on Novels and Games - FANTASY - MONSTERS - SPIRITS

APPEARANCE:

Spirit monsters can have any type of appearance so we can mainly divide them into "energy like ones", that appear like some kind of ghost, and the "manifestation ones" that appear like they have a physical body.

BIOLOGY:

They are basically energy-based life form and have a body only when they possess something or someone so if they have a "biology" is the one of the possessed thing.

I'll say this just in case but spirits that appear like they have a physical body don't have a biology so if a ghost appear like a human don't mean that have human biology.

LIFESPAN:

Since they are energy based life form, our concept of lifespan can't be applied so say that a spirit can die of old age don't make any sense... but if some type of dispersion in time is applied then is possible for us say that spirits monsters have a lifespan.

REPRODUCTION:

Spirits are not able to reproduce like us... at least when they are monsters... for this reason they can only born via a natural process where energy condense into a single point of the space and then become "sentient".

In the case they procreate while possessing a living being, they can have "children" but the result is not a spirit but a member of the possessed being's race.

Aside the way I said here, is need to say that in some stories spirits can be created by humans and demons and that is an artificial way of "reproduction"... till now I saw an alchemist that made a spirit so that it would grant him a wish and a monster east small spirits for fuse them into a single new one.

VARIATION:


 * Lesser	Spirits, they have an undeveloped instinct and roam normally and	freely in the environment, they are unable to attack or hurt anyone	and are attracted by certain type of magical energy, thanks to this	they can be used as "source" for a particular type of	magic called "spirit magic". This type of spirits can't	be see normally and it's need to develop a special ability for see	them but certain sensible people are able to feel them when they are	around certain people or are numerous in a certain area.
 * Minor,	they started to develop an instict, they are quite see-through, like	is some kind of light smoke, and are relatively weak.
 * Normal,	they have a full developed instinct and can become violent if	something or someone disturb them, their appearance is more visible
 * Superior,	they are the most visible one and the hardest to found, their	instinct are very powerfull and contrary to the other type is	possible "talk" with then to a certain extent making	possible settle problems and situations without fight