Editing DFRPG Ghosts:Apparitions (section)

==Origins and Nature==

According to those who have researched the topic extensively, this inanimate appearance is misleading. Apparitions are a form of "collective haunting", most frequently generated when multiple people die in one incident, and an abnormal number of them become ghosts in the process (more than one ghost from any given incident probably counts as sufficiently abnormal).  Rather than resulting in several individual ghosts, such an event can result in the weaker Echoes blurring together to take on the appearance of a shared element of their demise, or something not present that is of immediate importance to the people that died.  Apparitions, then, are literally the fused-together Echoes of a number of distinct people.  This is why they "inanimate" ghosts often seem to possess a dim awareness, willfulness, or emotions like anger, without actually being truly intelligent.

The formation of an Apparition depends on a vast number of factors, including the number and manner of deaths, their simultaneity, the local nature of the NeverNever, how "spiritually charged" the area is, the mental state of the deceased and how hard they cling to life, the time of year, and so forth and so-on. It is by no means certain.

'''Note:''' Despite their frequency in legend, due to the presence of water, ghost ships and other watercraft are actually very rare Apparitions. But they do happen, and possibly as a requirement of their formation, they tend to be some of the most durable and far-ranging of ghostly phenomena, persisting for centuries in areas hundreds of miles across, if not globally.