Tree's World of Spirits #2 - Beasts and Creatures
More than 95% of all spirits in the world belong to trivial spirits such as trees or blades of grass. However, beings gravitate towards Karmas similar to their own. Humans Spirit Users will mostly see the spirits of other similar beings.
Likewise, monsters have spiritual affinities toward other “lower-level” spirits, and can create their own spiritual bonds.
I. Beasts of Instinct
- Like human demographics, the world has numerous beasts with no spiritual bonds of any kind. Wolves, wild dogs, giant rats, etc. make up the majority of common threats. To ordinary people, these still pose significant danger.
II. Beasts of a Covenant
- Some beasts can develop spiritual bonds just like people do.
- Most commonly, they make covenants with spirits of other beasts.
- These covenants grant Karmic abilities just like a human’s karmic bond.
- These bonded beasts are many times stronger than their unbounded brethren, and will usually require a Spirit User to subjugate them.
III. Beasts of Enlightenment
- Spirits belonging to “higher levels” of Karma almost never bond with living beings from lower levels.
- Ex. a wolf would have great difficulty bonding with the spirit of a human
- However, on extremely rare occasions, a beast can attain a higher level Karma.
- In these cases, the Beast will turn into an Enlightened Beast.
- The power they gain is many times greater than a beast with a regular spiritual bond
- Beasts who are enlightened will experience a physical and mental metamorphosis that brings them closer in-line with the spirit they inherit. They are forcefully molded into a form with high affinity for their newly acquired karma.
- Most commonly, they gain cunning and intelligence equal to the spirit they inherit
- Some believe that humans may have originated from ancient apes who attained their higher level cognitive function by binding with spirits of sentient beings.
IV. Beyond Humans
- Conventional wisdom asserts that humans, as a sentient species, lie at the pinnacle of the Cycle of Rebirth. However, some believe that there may be beings on a higher level.
- If spirits from such beings exist, then the same transformation that occurs in Enlightened Beasts would occur when a human bonds with these higher level spirits. They would transform into something unrecognizable from man.
- Their thought processes and ambitions would evolve, into a sentience beyond human comprehension.
Table of Contents
- Tree's World of Spirits #1 - Power System
- Tree's World of Spirits #2 - Beasts and Creatures
- Tree's World of Spirits #3 - Guild System