Ghost Flaws

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General Ghost Flaws • Spectre Flaws

Ghost flaws refer to inborn disabilities, problems, or aversions that are only exhibited by ghosts. They generally represent problems or struggles unique to them because of their existence as bodiless spirits, and many of them, if visible, immediately indicate that the user must be supernatural in origin (not that this is usually in question for ghosts, if anyone sees them at all).

Some ghost flaws are even more specific, being most often manifested only by members of a specific Guild or Legion, although it is not always certain whether it is impossible for other ghosts to have these flaws or simply very, very unusual.

General Ghost Flaws

Antagonistic Family: This ghost's living family is involved in a major feud with another ghost's family, causing them to have to act out the conflict in the Underworld as well.

Creature of the Deep: This ghost died at sea and appears as a hideous waterlogged corpse even to other ghosts.

Debt of Honor: This ghost owes a major favor to another ghost and must repay it when asked or suffer significant public humiliation and loss of power.

Dysfunctional Family: This ghost's living family is embroiled in major dramatic problems, forcing them to try to focus and help them.

Kuei Attractor: This ghost is extremely attractive to kuei, which flock to them when they use their powers or pass through an area with a lot of them.

Spectre Flaws

Blurred: This spectre's accelerated speed is so much that others have trouble understanding their rushed speech, and they are often frustrated by the glacial pace of everything else around them.

Decayed Corpus: This spectre's inevitable decay toward Oblivion is beginning to be physically visible as they look rotted or are missing pieces.

Foul Presence: This spectre's presence causes plants to wither and die and animals and sensitive humans to become uneasy and frightened, even if the spectre never manifests so that they can perceive it.

Hunted: This spectre is the target of a Hunter that can harry them even beyond the Shroud.

Strong Psyche: This spectre's psyche is powerful enough to constantly plague them with the emotional torment of who they used to be.

Wraith Flaws

Embittered Shadow: This wraith's bad memories are focused on a particular fetter, making them want to destroy or damage it by any means necessary whenever their Shadow is in control.

Endless Hunger: This wraith suffers from a supernatural hunger that cannot be sated, often driving them to gorge on energy or possess humans just to feel the sensation of eating.

Shadow Haunt: This wraith's Shadow side has a secret Haunt of its own that the wraith usually does not know about and cannot access, allowing its worse urges to be fulfilled whenever it is not in control if itself.

Unregistered Relics: This wraith possesses relics that have not been reported to their superiors, making it likely that they would be punished if caught.

Mnemoi Flaws

Delusional: This Mnemos cannot tell the difference between what they actually remember happening and what they wish had happened, making them often recall events incorrectly.

Forgetful: This Mnemos is incapable of remembering details and may lose context for even major events.

Fragment Junkie: This Mnemos loves over peoples' memories and is prone to trying to eavesdrop on, trade for, or even steal them if they seem at all interesting.

Identified: This Mnemos has been identified and outed as their true guild and is being actively hunted by other ghosts.

Unstable Memory Palace: This Mnemos has built a memory palace that is unstable, inaccessible, or otherwise not very useful, and anyone who enters it may be trapped in it until they can construct a stable way out.

Wandering Mind: This Mnemos has trouble focusing on the here and now and often drifts into memories, losing sight of what is happening around them.

Risen Flaws

Autopsied: This Risen was subjected to an autopsy before rising from the dead and, while now healed, has very visible and distinctive scars from it.

Decapitated: This Risen's head is no longer attached to their body.

Mortal Fame: This Risen was famous when alive, making it a major problem that they are now very recognizable after resurrection.

Scent of Decay: This Risen smells powerfully of decaying flesh, no matter what they do.

Unhealed Deathwound: Whatever killed this Risen did not heal up when they resurrected, causing them to constantly deal with an active wound or condition.