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Spirit

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　Your power comes through commanding spirits: you give orders and the spirits do the work.
Since only those with powers of their own are likely to realize this, it’s often hard to distinguish your abilities from chi, psi, etc. But there are some important differences.

　Spirits are fickle (-20%), and whether they answer your summons at all depends on an unmodified reaction roll. You can command them, but you must show basic respect. This imposes a -5-point disadvantage (-5%) – typically Disciplines of Faith (Ritualism), Sense of Duty (Servitor Spirits), or a simple Trademark in the form of a small offering or token. If you fail to live up to this, the spirits turn against you, depriving you of your power at the worst possible moment (-5%). Since they ultimately want you to turn them loose on the world, though, it’s easy to make amends – a minor sacrifice, such as a food offering, is usually enough (+5%).

　The spirits associated with an individual ability might be more or less friendly, giving from -4 to +4 on reaction rolls. If so, that one ability has an extra -5% modifier per -1, or +5% per +1, on top of the basic power modifier that applies to all abilities.

　In some settings, spirits aren’t this capricious and the GM might dispense with the reaction roll. This reduces Spirit to -5%.

　A spirit is another type of intangible entity ――a supernatural one that doesn’t need to be stored in a physical medium. As such, it has no physical needs and usually doesn’t age.

Intangible Spirits
　Many spirits inhabit the material world without themselves being material: they can perceive it from some point of view and have a form, but lack substance. The most limited spirits can’t be seen, touched, or attacked (unless the attack has Affects Insubstantial), and can’t speak or manipulate objects. More capable spirits may be able to speak or become visible, to manipulate objects telekinetically, or to cast spells or influence minds. Some of them can even solidify for a short time. Various meta-traits encapsulate these capabilities.
　Some intangible spirits are linked to parts of the natural world, such as trees, bodies of water, or even planets. Others were formerly living people; in some worlds, every sapient being has Potential Form (Spirit) ――see Features and Taboo Traits
(p. 12). A more specialized case is that of tulpas, or thought-forms (GURPS Horror, p. 81), created by a living person through prolonged meditation or similar processes. A tulpa typically has Automaton (p. 9), acting only according to its creator’s will.

Embodied Spirits
　Other spirits enter the material world through embodiment, gaining a physical form after being summoned by magic or sent by a greater supernatural power. Common examples of embodied spirits include angels, which typically look human but are more powerful; demons, which may look human but are often monstrous; and elementals, which animate a particular substance. At the GM’s option, an embodied spirit may be defined by two partial templates: the vessel for the material form (based, for example, on an elemental meta-trait; see pp. 20-21) and the animus for the mind. Animi are Unaging and may be Reprogrammable, if speaking their true names grants power over them.

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