Editing Spirit world (section)

==Spirit World outside the cities==

Despite their belief in spirits, very few nomads, including shamans, have actually seen a spirit. In the wilds, away from themed cities, spirits are felt as presences. The Wandering Peoples listen with shocked disbelief, when they hear tales of mirror-wights and doppelgangers. 

Ghosts, however, have been seen by the Wandering Peoples. As former humans, ghosts do not have the strange habits of spirits. Some shamans suspect that ghosts can not choose their forms as spirits do.

--shanoxilt

Away from the cities, the borders to the spirit world are more fixed, and the spirit world there may shift from the Other Side to the Shadow World or the Invisible World -- or may be a mix of all. There are shamans in the wilds who have a smattering of lore, enough to peer into reflective pools, or see invisible spirits, or perform other tricks considered petty and mundane in the cities. However they are the only ones away from civilization capable of dealing with the escape of a rogue mirror-wight, or of tracking a shadow-beast, or of exorcising an unseeable color.

The followers of the [[Religions|Clear Prophet]] have speculated that a spirit may change its nature if taken from, say, Iridos to Narcissus -- but the only entities capable of answering that question, the invisible citizens of Diaphane, were gravely offended to be asked it, and the questioner disappeared soon thereafter.

Amidst the ruins of the [[other kingdoms|Thousand Flowing Waters]], there is no spirit world of any sort, of course. It was eaten or corroded by the undead in ages long past. There, mirrors are only mirrors, shadows only shadows -- unless one of the [[Religions|Empty Masters]] or a [[Religions|vampire]] is around...

To enter the spirit world of the [[Religions|Cult of the Opaque]], one does so through shadows -- but only particular shadows, special ones formed by the intersection of specific geometries under specific illumination patterns. Most of these have been discovered by accident (when someone goes missing, having accidentally fallen into the Shadow World), but are recorded and kept secret by the Cult of the Opaque. Shadows and opaque things glow there, whereas the sun is black. Spirit entities of the Shadow World seem to be regular creatures, plants, and objects -- but their essential properties are exaggerated. There are apparently no strange entities as there are in the other spirit worlds (e.g., mirror-wraiths, color spirits, etc.)

--Kakita Kojiro

====Ghosts====

Ghosts are the incorporeal remains of a human. They appear as brief glimpses in reflective surfaces. Much to the dismay of the ghost, they are usually mistaken for dangerous doppelgangers. 

Unlike spectres, normal ghosts do not have fragmented souls. The seven souls of a ghost are completely integrated. A spectre may become a ghost, if it can ever manage to unify its souls. Normal ghosts appear as the white ghosts of traditional ghost stories.

--shanoxilt

====The Invisible Typhoon====

The Invisible Typhoon is a reflection of a storm from the spirit world that crossed over due to a sacrifice of an unwilling victim, and a misguided Cabal in the [[Bachariko|Spice Kingdoms]], it is said it follows a strange path along the world, appearing and disappearing along the sea, and in and out of season, raining down odd items and high winds, yet with no sounds, producing an area of complete silence, and other times takes the sounds and smells and thoughts of one area, and produces then in another, across time and distance. It dries up lakes, and drowns deserts, however luckily it only affects an area of around a mile, and has never appeared in a city. The voices of the cabal's screams are carried before it, and serve as a warning of its approach.

--stephen_dean