A disembodied spirit of a dead mortal.
General[]
A ghost was one form of undead, in the form of the disembodied soul of a dead mortal. They could no longer change.[1] They were also called the spirits of the restless dead by at least some Practitioners.[2]
According to at least one Practitioner, unfinished business and sudden deaths were usual traits among ghosts. This meant that people who died of old age or after a long illness seldom became ghosts. Funeral rites in various forms might also have helped prohibit the soul turning into a ghost.[3]
There were necromantic rituals that could bind a person’s soul to a place soon after death. This could be used to create a supernatural guardian for a building or location.[4][5] This could be similar to the way souls were bound to gargoyle automata.[6]
Wards held off ghosts. Burnt sage could be used to banish both spirits and ghosts, and ghosts also avoided large numbers of the living.[7][8]
Known examples[]
The Practitioner who tenanted House 12573 murdered Greg Fisher and bound him to the house to serve as its guardian. Molly and Onyx released him before they took residence there.[4]
Katerina Sorrow titled herself a Ghost-Queen and called herself a ghost at times, but considered herself distinct in type from the ghosts she has met.[1]
Anatole bound Frank Crosby to the cellar of Christian Miller’s house, to protect Cornelius’s stolen treasures.[9]
The four criminals Lucas Cline, Eduardo Beltran, Antonio Muñoz, and Gregory Ward became ghosts after they were betrayed and murdered by Elijah Cole, a vampire in Las Vegas.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Past Due, chapter 24
- ↑ Good Intentions, chapter 14
- ↑ Devil in the Details, chapter 17
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 “More Than Friends”
- ↑ Grand Theft Sorcery, chapter 13
- ↑ “Authenticity”
- ↑ Past Due, chapter 17
- ↑ Natural Consequences, chapter 5
- ↑ Grand Theft Sorcery, chapter 15