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[WillowLuman]

Familiar Spirits?

[kj1225]

Maybe 'beyond the veil' or something to that effect.

Another forum game or RTD already has the word 'veil' in it in some regard. Maybe 'Spirit Bond'? 'Soul Bind'?

And? There's nothing saying that you can't use the same words as another game.

Familiar Spirits?

God no, that's an awful name.

[WillowLuman]

Well, I did accidentally use a forumite's name as a title once. "Veil" kinda makes it sound like dead-people-spirits, though.

[GiglameshDespair]

Spoopy Ghosts From Another Dimension.

You could call it something short. Other. Mirror.

[kj1225]

Maybe 'Hard spirits'.

[GiglameshDespair]

I drink hard spirits. Something else.

[Andres]

'Dual Spirit'?

[WillowLuman]

"Of Substance and Spirit" ?
"Duality" ?

[Andres]

"Of Substance and Spirit" ?

This is good. Maybe cut it to just 'Substance and Spirit'.

[WillowLuman]

Alright, I think I'll go with that title.

Ok, if we're going to start this soon, we REALLY need to see if we have enough for people to make characters.

Try this:

For both your Spirit and Human, provide a NAME, DESCRIPTION, and ABILITIES
Then provide their BACKSTORIES, including how they met and came to form a bond. Finally, a description of their COMBINED ABILITIES

[Andres]

Abilities? As in running and sword-fighting and stuff? What does a spirit do? What do we know about spirits in general to give them a backstory? What setting is this?

[WillowLuman]

Yeah, these are the kind of questions I was hoping to raise. Human abilities would be, well, whatever skills the human has. Go nuts, we'll see if it fits the flavor I'm going for. Spirit abilities should probably in general be some kind of influence over living things, or causing specific kinds of disturbances in physical matter (like elementals or other things focused on one thing). Now is the time to propose specific things to test the boundaries of the broad categories we've set up.

Spirit backstory: Spirits originally come from their own plane of existence, once a featureless, unified world. As their magic has seeped into the material world, structure an identity has seeped into their world. The links between planes exist as rifts in remote parts of the sky, which have gone undetected by humans thus far. Spirits often have their beginning as unformed globs of energy that fall from the sky like shooting stars, and gradually acquire their identity from interactions with the world (though sometimes they simply learn from other spirits). For the most part, they remain unknown by humans, existing in secluded areas or actively hiding themselves, though there are, of course, exceptions. Distrust of humans, stemming both from their alien natures and from memories of previous conflicts, is prevalent amongst many of them.

[Andres]

Could you make an example character sheet?

[WillowLuman]

Edited some general backstory for spirits into the last post.

Alright, here's an example character sheet.

Spirit
Name: Self-explanatory
Description: How the spirit often appears (it should be insubstantial in some way, like translucent or seeming to be made of light/energy, for instance), what their personality is
Abilities: The magical spirity things the spirit can do, on their own. Spirits may have some abilities in common, but they have unique specialization and style.
Human
Name:
Description: Physical and personality description. Their usual clothes, if you feel like it.
Abilities: Human skills. Athletic or strong? Smarts? People skills? Education or understanding of the world? Are they a fighter? Technical know-how?
Backstory:
The backstories of the human and the spirit, including how they met and how they came to form their bond.

[Andres]

I meant write up and fill in a character sheet. What can a spirit and human do together? What's the spirit's backstory?