Editing Xia: Parchment Eating Phantom (section)

=Description=

Most ghosts encountered are the spirits of dead humans, whose descendants failed to show proper respect for them, or whose graves were desecrated. However, human ghosts are not the only sort.

It is also possible for ghosts to form from the destruction of animals, or even things. The ''Parchment Eating Phantom'', foe example, is a ghost of lost knowledge, created when a repository of rare knowledge (such as a famed library) is spitefully and purposefully destroyed.  

The phantom, when visible, has a vaguely humanoid form and could be mistaken from a distance to be an elderly scholar. The scholar will show some marks of how the knowledge was lost. As an example, if a library was destroyed by fire (which is most often the case) then the scholar would have burnt skin.

On closer approach the phantom is more clearly not human. In place of eyes it has gnashing sharp teeth in its eye sockets, and the ghostly gauze from which it is made is semi-transparent.

Parchment Eating Phantoms are feared because they seem driven to spiitefully destroy further repositories of knowledge, and thus multiply their kind. 
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