Editing Xia: Parchment Eating Phantom (section)

=Resilience Pools=

* Physical Resilience 14
* Mental Resilience 16
* Social Resilience 12

A ''Parchment Eating Phantom'' is immune to physical effects of most sorts - weapons and fists just pass straight through them! To harm a ghost in physical combat requires a weapon blessed by Tao Alchemists using the [[Xia: Tao Elementalism|Burn the Hungry Ghost]] spell.

A Xia with a ghost-banishing spell of some sort can engage in ''Mental Conflict'' to try to return the ghost to its grave, where it will sleep and become a restful ancestor again.

For Xia without recourse to such spells, ''Social Conflict'' is the best bet, persuading the ghost into leaving them alone. Being the ghosts of knowledge, ghosts don't really respond to human social cues though. They might agree to leave in exchange for offerings of burnt knowledge, but would be hard to frighten or plead with. A successful ''Social Conflict'' will persuade the ghost to leave, though it may return again another night.

A better option can be to engage in scholarly debate with the ghost, or to challenge it to a test of intellect, and thus draw it into a ''Mental Conflict''. To engage the ghost's attention, the challenging Xia must recognise what sort of information the destroyed library contained, and then tell the ghost that it need not rage, as the information it contained exists still, in the mind of the Sage and others like him. He must then of course go on to demonstrate this knowledge to the ghost's satisfaction - hence the Mental Conflict!

Parchment Eating Phantoms, being the ghosts of libraries, aren't easy to defeat in this way, but should a sage do so, then the ghost will fade away with a smile on its face, as its own wretched existence is turned to bliss by the reminder of contact with truly great minds.
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