11/10/2023 0 Comments Shadowrun types of spirits![]() ![]() There were all kinds - at least half of which I'd also never encountered. "right behind it came a big, boiling mass of more spirits. watergate rift (in 2061) see year of the comet p.58: "but they had some bone-numbing "I'm going to chew away your sanity" feel that made most folks just steer clear." "In Ghostwalkers wake. Wraiths have been called harbingers of the horrors and sometimes even minor horrors (i think in the barsaive book).Ĭitations for novels (triology of power, worlds without ends, house of the sun, perhaps just compensation and those about the bridge) may take long since i don't have them here: ![]() Seems like those shadowy spirits that sometimes slipped through have been called Wraiths (among others), just like Miaos/Craftys mother called them in HK, and have been classified as shadow spirits in 2070 (i guess thats in street grimoire). Anyway, the term vanguard is already quite suggestive, isn't it? Yes, i doubt they'd care for beliefs unless they could exploit those, which they need to do as long as their influence and power is as limited as it is right now. i think that was most clearly uttered in the atzlan sourcebook on the part of state religion, where they tried to hurry the arrival of the tzizimine. But for IE and Great Dragons, they needed to be a great enough threat to be taken seriously. I think as long as they sacrifice human life to corrupt and feast, they can be called (minor) horrors. Also note that Qian Ya's servitor critters are purely a HBS creation already at the conceptual level - "minion spirits" wouldn't even make much sense under the PnP Karma dynamics. (Autochtonous "wild" spirits are debatable as it can be argued they're the *source* of many such paradigms.) There would seem to be preciously little reason to think the even more fundamentally alien Horrors would cared a jot more of human belief patterns, except inasmuch the cannier examples could exploit them.Īlso "Shadow" is just a classification category for the kinds of Free Spirits that actively prey on metahumanity in some fashion (much of it has to do with the peculiar relationship Free Spirits have with Karma in PnP). Note that "vanguard" spirits (one notes that the 5th ed Street Grimoire has arbitrarily changed this term to mean free spirits on a vigilante gig against perceived abusers of spirits) from the Deep Metaplanes like Insect Spirits and Shedim are wholly independent of metahuman cultural paradigms, unlike spirits summoned by magicians. But as i read, there is actually a distinction between "Free Spirit: Shadow" and uncategorized Shadowspirits, the latter were seen coming through the Bridges, and were asssumed to be helpers/agents of the horrors (i think they came through at the hawaii bridge, crater lake, the ghost dance bridge and the watergate rift). maybe you are correct, perhaps they increase their empathic draining powers when they are attuned to their prey, so they adapt to culture, but i think i like Watchmans explanation better. ![]() Since they are so like metahumanity, i don't really like to accept them as serious horrors. But that goes for spirits, not necessarily for horrors. Yes the SR makers first tried to rationalize this as either humanity remembers magical things correctly in mythology because they are based on something we might have seen, or that some spirits appear the way they do because the summoner calls them with expectations that affect his formula/summoning. ![]() Maybe if the game took in another country/culture the Horror that appears may be based on that culture's mytha that said horror feels attracted to. ![]()
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