Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

concepts, or creating them in the minds of others, that
the conceptuals have grown strong enough to merge with
each other and start forming their own courts.
As the most human-formed of spirits, the conceptuals
are the most likely to take on a mockery of human form,
and the most prone to wearing changing human cultural
context as their skin. One hundred years ago, a spirit
of murder might well have looked like Jack the Ripper.
Now, it might be reminiscent of a slasher-flick villain or a
recently executed serial killer.
Conceptual spirits are rarer than those with physical
analogues, but their nature makes them influential all the
same. Their interactions with other spirits are frequently
random and almost mad, even more so than the usual
skewed politics of the Shadow Realm. It is rare that they
prey on anything but other conceptuals — or that they are
devoured in turn — but when it happens, it creates some
of the more bizarre magath to stalk the spirit world. Conceptuals
often come into conflict with Lunes and Helions,
with the latter spirits often attacking on sight. Quite why
this should be, no werewolf knows.
Some conceptuals attuned to negative emotions
or suffering are simple creatures who lash out blindly
in their suffering, trying to spread their misery to those
around them. All too many, though, are subtle, thoughtful
creatures, given to hiding in areas and slowly growing
their power on both sides of the Gauntlet under the noses
of both werewolves and spirit courts. Yet, as loathsome as
they are, these spritis aren’t unnatural entities. The horrible
truth is that the pain, misery and degradation that
feeds them isn’t alien to the world.
EXAMPLES
Choirs Descants
Emotionals Fears, Loves, Greeds, Joys
Ideologicals Nights, Murders, Worklings, Obligations,
Responsibilities, Revolutionaries
Reactionaries Pains, Lusts, Hungers, Thirsts
MAGATH
The bizarre and shunned magath are the outcasts of the
spirit world. While they aren’t hated and feared, they have
no place within the mainstream of the spirit courts. Their
crime? Defying the natural order of things. Odd crossbreeds
might be the stuff of children’s fantasy for humanity, but in
the spirit world, a poorly chosen consumption of one spirit by
another can produce a car-spirit with aspects of a holly-spirit.
This crossbreed is shunned by natural and artificial choirs
and is on its own from the moment it comes into being.
This isolation leads many magath to seek power by
forcibly consuming other spirits that it encounters, heedless
of choir or descant. The more powerful the magath is,
the less likely it is to resemble anything found on Earth.
Types of Spirits
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