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New Orleans/London Profile: Riley Mirchev
By: Coolcat207 Date: December 27, 2024, 1:54 pm
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Name:
Riley Mirchev
Age:
19
Gender:
Male
Species:
Hybrid (Human/Death Wraith)
Height:
5'11
Weight:
172 lbs.
Appearance:
Riley has medium brown skin with dark brown eyes and long
dreadlocks which are normally in a ponytail. He has some tattoos
on his forearms and some jewelry such as a golden chain around
his neck and a golden watch on his right arm. He has a lean yet
athletic build and he is usually in normal attire such as a
black tank top, baggy jeans and black timberland boots.
Family:
Birth Mother: Enenra Kea (MIA after defecting from Drakath's
group; Presumed Deceased)
Birth Father: Unknown
Foster Father: Pavel Mirchev
Organization:
The Bratva
Death Wraith Job:
Dark Spirit Hunter
Powers:
Half Spirit Physiology:
~The user either is or can become hybrid of solid being and any
spectral being (such as ghosts, poltergeists, wraiths,
revenants, spirits, etc.). Beings who possess an semi/full solid
humanoid body as well having spectral characteristics, since
their a half-spirit they can have access to a bunch of spiritual
powers but limited due to them having a physical physiology.
Making the user unique because of their physical and spiritual
heritage to both sides.
Death Wraith Spiritual/Darkness Nature:
~The death wraiths were spawned of the shadow realm by
Toranoraos, and are spiritual beings who are the very
incarnations of darkness. Death wraiths were designed for
reaping souls, with most of them being born into the order of
death wraiths that have learned over time to harness their
abilities for their job of reaping souls. However, their other
main part of their darkness and spiritual nature comes from them
being of the shadow realm, and their other job of keeping the
denizens of the shadow realm, the dark spirits, from invading
the living world. They are beings of shadows, but also of death,
due to the nature of their job. A death wraith's main power is
that of darkness and their ability to use the power of their
spiritual nature to purify and battle lost souls, but most have
other abilities as well that the race as developed over time as
they learned about their heritage and how to use their power.
Death wraiths usually serve one of two purposes, either hunting
lost souls for the Hall of Souls, or hunting dark spirits who
try to enter the human world. For the most part, the shadow
realm is the life of a death wraith, and all death wraiths have
a darkness nature. Because of this, all death wraiths, even
hybrids, are incarnations of darkness and have strong darkness
natures. However, being beings of darkness means that they are
more vulnerable to beings of light, or natures of light since
light is the natural counter to darkness. For the most part
death wraiths are beings of darkness, with only a few exceptions
ever being born. However, as spiritual beings, they are also
vulnerable to blessed sea salt and iron, which can do damage to
their more spiritual natures. Depending on how it's used and the
severity of how much exposure, death wraiths can be killed if
blessed sea salt or iron end up in their systems, which act acts
one of the biggest weaknesses.
Death Energy Power/Manipulation:
~Just as demonic beings have demonic energy, or angelic beings
have holy energy, death wraiths have death energy flowing
through their bodies that powers their ability to use their
darkness abilities. This energy powers a death wraith's
abilities, and can be used in battle against enemies as a basic
energy all death wraiths have. Those familiar with death energy
know how it works, as it is the opposite of life energy and
given off by beings of death. Death wraiths radiate this as one
of their main energies, and this energy is a basic power source.
Death wraiths only radiate enough of this to use their
abilities, and don't have negative effects on the environment of
the living world like most think due to death wraiths learning
control of their minds and bodies from an early age that they
learn to keep this under control. Death wraiths use this much
like other races use death energy when using it on its own, such
as using the rotting effects of death energy or using the
necromancy abilities that allow one to create undead using death
energy manipulation. When used on its own, death wraiths can use
the death energy properties of death energy, and can use it like
any other energy in battle. Unlike those like grim reapers
though who manipulate both life and death energies, death
wraiths only manipulate death energy, and cannot manipulate life
energy. Due to this, life energy is a good way to counter this
power, and life energy can be used against a death wraith's
deathly nature. As one might expect, those that can manipulate
life energy can counter death wraith's death energies, or other
energies that counter death energy can also be used to counter a
death wraith's death energy as well depending on the energy.
Shadow Manipulation/Primordial Shadows Manipulation:
~Thanks to the death wraiths being created from shadows of the
shadow realm, they are able to manipulate/control shadows and
even manipulate primordial shadows from the shadow realm. They
are able to use shadows much like other shadow users, being able
to use shadows to attack opponents. However, unlike other beings
that use shadows, there are few that are more masterful of the
use of darkness than the death wraiths. Being masters of
shadows, death wraiths are masters of not only attacking with
shadows, but using different forms of shadows. They are able to
do things like creating special unique shadow techniques based
in their skill-set, change the physical form of shadows into
liquid or solid, or even change the acidity of shadows. Certain
people have even developed unusual darkness abilities, sometimes
even being variations of typical shadows depending on their
abilities as some can combine other abilities with their
darkness to create unique abilities. Their base darkness powers
are normal shadows and primordial shadows, despite how their
manipulations are used, but among other darkness types to learn,
death wraiths can learn to convert their natural darkness into
other darkness types depending on their training and what
darkness variations they choose to learn from their training.
Normal shadows don't cost as much power to use but are less
powerful, while primordial shadows are more powerful than normal
shadows but cost more power to use as a result. Of course, as
one might guess, most types of shadows are countered by light,
or in some cases, life energy in the cases that certain shadows
can't be dispelled by light alone. Darkness can also be
countered by fire and lightning if one knows how to use the
elementals properly.
Shadow Meld/Planeswalking:
~This technique, which death wraiths refer to as "shadow
walking", lets a death wraith travel around using shadows, as
they are able to fuse into shadows and go anywhere in the world
as long as there is access to a shadow, granted there is no
supernatural warding for teleportation or anything blocking them
from connecting to the shadows in the area. By using shadows,
they are able to travel through the shadow realm using the
shadows, which connects every realm as every realm has shadows
in some form. In addition to being able to go anywhere in the
world, they are also able to go between afterlives as well, in
which they are able to also go between the Veil where human
souls remain after they die, since their job requires taking
souls to the afterlife. They also have a special connection to
go to the Hall of Souls, in which they usually bring lost souls
or souls that aren't recorded to go anywhere else as part of
their job to protect the living world. This technique requires
only a death wraith to know where they want to go, though since
they are born and raised in the shadow realm, most death wraith
know their way around instinctively. This can also be used in
battle to a degree, if the death wraith can meld into a shadow
if they want to teleport around the battlefield, with some
having special techniques using this. However, it is worth
nothing that the death wraith has to enter a shadow in order to
use this, and destroying a shadow can damage a death wraith if
one does something like using a flashbang to temporarily negate
shadows. This technique uses the shadows in place of
teleportation techniques, and death wraiths can teleport using
almost any kind of shadow and use it to connect to any other
shadow as long as the area they are or want to go is not warded
or guarded against teleportation or shadow travel (which some
races can ward and protect against teleportation). Unlike dark
spirits who can fuse into darkness without a light source, death
wraiths cannot enter shadows in pure darkness without risking
accessing the Deep Shadow Realm, as pure darkness often acts as
a conduit for the Deep Shadow Realm because of how Xeles's
darkness connects to the universes unlike the death wraith's
side of the Shadow Realm, who's side of the Shadow Realm is
connected to the shadows of the living world. However, this also
works in reverse, where the dark spirits usually disappear in
pure darkness rather than accessing shadows because of the fact
they risk going into Toranoraos' realm where they could be
hunted down and killed by death wraiths. However, one should
know that one cannot access the Deep Shadow Realm in pure
darkness without some sort of supernatural shadow movement
ability, and this only happens to those that try to shadow meld
when in pure darkness.
Shadow Stealth/Shadow Presence Suppression:
~Another technique using shadows, in which death wraiths can use
shadows to hide their presence. Death wraiths are able to blend
shadows around them, in which they are able to not only become
invisible in the shadows, but they are also able to hide their
presence from other supernaturals, not even being able to be
sensed by anyone other than another death wraith or a dark
spirit that uses shadows. Death wraiths' natural ability for
stealth and shadow melding make this a fairly simple technique
to them, where they are able to do it fairly easily if they have
enough shadows to work with and are able to blend into the
shadows. To most people, they will just see a typical shadow,
which would normally not draw any suspicion. Though if the death
wraith doesn't have enough shadows to work with, the shadow they
blend with might appear unnatural, or not blend with them all
the way to make them unable to be seen. This is a technique that
death wraiths are able to use once mastering shadow melding,
making stealth even easier. This makes many death wraiths
masters of stealth, where they are able to use darkness and
shadows to their advantage, and this technique makes them even
harder to spot when they are trying to hide from opponents or
threats. However, just like shadow travel, this requires
blending with the shadows completely, and destroying the shadows
with something like intense light can damage the death wraith if
they don't get out of the shadows before the shadow is
destroyed. Usually, light is the main thing to worry about, but
certain other powers that destroy shadows can also damage death
wraiths, such as some special fire techniques that burn shadows
or holy power that purifies shadows.
Shadow/Darkness Regeneration:
~This power has two stages, in which death wraiths are able to
use the power of shadows to heal and regenerate themselves. The
first part of this is that they have a normal regeneration which
they are able to heal from injuries passively, having
supernatural regeneration similar to other supernatural
creatures, except that a death wraith's regeneration is
completely powered by darkness and shadows. This regeneration is
able to regenerate damage by using darkness as it's power
source, whether it is from the area around the death wraith or
if it comes from the death wraith's own dark nature. This lets
them regenerate most wounds, though it doesn't let them
regenerate organs, their brain or help them against iron or
blessed sea salt (their biggest weaknesses) unless they use the
second stage of this regeneration. The second stage however, can
be used to heal them completely, granted they aren't killed by
the injuries they have. Once the death wraith melds into the
shadows, they are able to heal much more quickly as they absorb
the darkness of shadows or darkness they are melded into, even
being able to heal their organs and heal from iron and blessed
sea salt damage that can overwhelm their first stage
regeneration. This second stage regeneration can heal far more
than the first stage regeneration. However, due to the nature of
this, the second stage is easier to interrupt as all one has to
do is destroy the shadow they are melded into in order to
prevent the death wraith from using the second stage ability. It
is possible to interrupt the first stage regeneration with
powerful enough light to destroy any darkness the death wraith
might use, forcing them to use their own power to regenerate.
This can also be interrupted with varanium and other
regeneration negation abilities (both stages), and can keep the
user from regenerating. Also, this doesn't work against spirit
infections or spiritual based poisons, as either stage cannot
fix these problems in a death wraith.
Shadow Weapons:
~Every death wraith can create shadow constructs to a degree,
but this is an ability that uniquely creates darkness weapons
that a death wraith can use. While each death wraith still has
their soul bound weapons, death wraiths can create their own
weapons made from shadows. This could be as simple as making
swords out of shadows, or making bows and arrows out of shadows,
or making projectile weapons like throwing knives or similar
projectiles, or even making guns out of shadows (though the user
has to know how guns work and be able to replicate that with
darkness). The weapons function much like normal weapons (as
long as the death wraith understands how the weapons work) and
are powered by their shadow power. There are a number of options
depending on the death wraiths given the number of weapon
possibilities, and the weapons can be formed to have special
darkness abilities as well. For example, a sword made of
purifying darkness could destroy a dark spirit, or a deathly
darkness weapon could do more damage to a lost soul. Death
wraiths can also do things like create weapons that can release
waves of darkness in attacks (such as a darkness sword being
able to fire a darkness slashing wave) or shapeshift their
weapons (like turning a sword into a chain whip), depending on
how creative the death wraith gets with this power. Some have
been known to create shadow scythes, shadow claw gauntlets, and
some can even form more complex weapons depending on what the
death wraith prefers to fight with. This offers a variety of
options to attack when a death wraith isn't using their own
darkness abilities. Of course, as one might expect, these
darkness weapons are vulnerable to weaknesses to darkness such
as light, and other creative ways to counter darkness like some
that use fire and lightning. It is also worth noting that those
with aura breaker weapons and energy negation abilities or items
can also break these weapons easily since the weapons are made
of shadows.
Soul Reaper Kido:
~Despite not being soul reapers, death wraiths have worked well
enough with the soul reapers that death wraiths can use the
spiritual power of kido that the soul reapers typically use if
they train with the soul reapers. Since death wraiths are
spiritual in nature, death wraiths can also learn this ability
through training with soul reapers, as soul reapers and death
wraiths usually work together to take on hollows at times. This
allows them to learn certain kido techniques that they might
have an affinity for depending on their skillset and the soul
reaper they train with. Soul reaper kido is broken down into two
different sections. The first is Hado arts, which are attack
abilities using spirit power in different ways. Depending on the
art, each art has it's own abilities, strengths and weaknesses,
and are mostly focused around offensive attack. The second is
the Bakudo arts, which are focused around defense and restraint.
These arts focus on defensive techniques, and also have thier
own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Depending on the skill
level of the death wraith, some are able to learn more advanced
kido arts if they are advanced enough at learning these arts.
Typically, the higher the number of the art, the harder it is to
learn, with higher level kido arts being far more powerful than
lesser arts. The highest level hados are in the 90s, which are
very difficult ones to learn that usually have a heavy cost to
use (such as one that requires sacrifice of the body in order to
use). There are some that act similarly but are different in
nature. As an example, Hado 33 is Sokatsui, but Hado 73 is Soren
Sokatsui, a much stronger version of Sokatsui and much harder to
learn. Typically, each has it's own counter options, and death
wraiths can only learn powers they have an affinity for (for
example, a death wraith with no ability to manipulate ice is not
going to be able to learn an ice-type kido attack). These work
the same way as they do with soul reapers, and each one is
countered the same way. These are very useful against not only
lost souls and hollows, but are also very useful against dark
spirits as well (as long as it's not one that can absorb energy
like a consumer) so it is often favored by death wraiths who
work with soul reapers.
Ghost Sight, Ghost Touch and Ghost Sense:
~Since the death wraiths were made to interact with the spirits
of dead mortals, supernaturals, and deities as one of their
primary purposes, death wraiths are able to interact with almost
any manner of spirit or ghost, including dead souls and dark
spirits. For the most part, death wraiths have multiple
abilities dealing with their interactions of ghosts, where they
are able to interact with them in ways most mortals cannot.
Since ghosts don't typically manifest in the living world until
they've become vengeful spirits or hollows, death wraiths have
to be able to interact with ghosts in the veil, which they can
do even from the living world to a degree using their special
ghost sight ability and ghost sense. They are able to see
ghosts, and see their essence even when they are not manifested
thanks to this ability where most beings other than reapers
would not be able to see ghosts. This includes ghosts not
physical manifested in the physical world, in which death
wraiths can detect any kind of ghost or spirit using their ghost
sense that lets them sense almost any form of ghost or soul that
they might encounter. They are also able to touch, grab and
attack ghosts including ones not physically manifested, in which
they are able to attack them in any form and can physically
interact with ghosts and souls no matter what form they take.
Death wraiths are also able to sense ghosts as well, having the
ability to sense the difference between ghosts and certain
angelic or demonic entities that possess creatures. However,
death wraiths cannot interact with ghosts that have possessed
people, and usually have to use their soul sword to attack a
ghost if it has possessed a person. Ghosts and lost souls are
typically the death wraith's main opponents besides dark
spirits, in which some are able to even generate abilities to
counter death wraith natural abilities to contain and interact
with ghosts.
Soul Storage/Collection:
~Since it's a death wraith's purpose is to collect and shuttle
souls to the afterlife, death wraiths must have their own ways
to take souls to the afterlife. Every death wraith has some way
to store and collect souls, in which they are able to use this
to take souls with them in some way. For the most part, this
skill is pretty self explanatory, at least as far as it's
purpose, which is to make souls easy to carry and take with them
so death wraiths can more easily take souls to the afterlife.
But when it comes to functions, this is different for each death
wraith, as each death wraith typically has their own way of
doing this. Some can do things like storing souls in bottles,
some use other objects to store souls, or some can even store
souls in their bodies temporarily through soul absorption
(though this is a forbidden art for most due to the dangers of
devouring souls). This mostly depends on the death wraith, as
they all have their own ways of collecting souls for transport
to the afterlife. Usually, this involves some sort of object
that they can bind a soul to. Souls typically cannot break out
of this type of containment on their own, unless they have some
sort of special ability that affects space and time, like
space/time distortion energy. This also only works on dead
souls, and cannot be used to take a soul out of a living body or
even remove a possessing soul from the body. This ability is
only for storing dead souls and can only be used as such. It is
possible for others to destroy the objects holding a soul as
well, so this is another thing that plays a part on trying to
keep a soul contained, such as someone might be able to shatter
a glass bottle holding a soul by dropping it, or destroying it
with an attack.
Soul Purification/Corruption Removal:
~Another aspect of a death wraith's job to ferry souls to the
afterlife is soul purification and removing corruption. While
soul reapers usually take on hollows and use their zanpakutos
after defeating them to purify them, death wraiths are able to
remove corruption from souls using their ghost touch and
interaction abilities. When using this, a death wraith is able
to interact with souls and remove things like corruption from
them in the form of ripping out the corruptive energy, or using
their purifying shadows to purify a soul of corruption. Usually,
this also depends death wraith, as some have unique purification
techniques for purifying souls depending on who they are and
their skillsets, such as some who might use magic could use
magic based purification abilities. A soul must be purified
before transport to the afterlife, and any risk of being turned
hollow or higher level specter must be removed before taking
them to the afterlife or the Hall of Souls. Typically, souls
will resist being purified, given that they typically get
corrupted from not wanting to leave and stay in the living world
after rejecting a grim reaper taking them to the afterlife. It
is difficult to purify a soul not willing to be purified, so
death wraiths often have to fight in order to defeat a corrupted
soul before they can purify it. Thankfully, their soul swords
have a main function to purify souls if they cannot do it as
easily, and defeating a soul or hollow typically will allow them
to pacify it long enough to remove the corruption if they defeat
it in battle. However, death wraiths have to be careful, as they
can become corrupted themselves if they don't discard the
corruption or if they are affected by corruption due to special
abilities, which is something many death wraiths take very
seriously and try to avoid.
Dark Spirit Hunting, Dark Spirit Trapping and Dark Spirit
Destruction:
~The other primary function of death wraiths is to hunt dark
spirits of the shadow realm, in which death wraiths are designed
specifically to fight dark spirits. Death wraiths know easily
how to hunt all dark spirits of the shadow realm, and know most
of the strengths and weaknesses as it is their job to keep them
from entering the living world to try and interact or kill
mortal beings. Death wraiths are not only able to hunt them, but
they are also able to use their soul collection and containment
abilities on dark spirits to trap them as well, where they are
able to trap them in the same way as souls. Typically, this
allows a death wraith to trap and contain a dark spirit in a
similar way, where they will often use this to capture stronger
dark spirits they cannot destroy, and will often use this to
take a dark spirit back to the shadow realm and throw them
deeper into the shadow realm where they are less likely to make
it to the living world. In addition to capturing though, death
wraiths possess the ability to destroy dark spirits, in which
all death wraiths are usually able to destroy dark spirits with
their soul sword and with their purifying darkness, though some
may develop other special abilities for destroying dark spirits
depending on their skillset. Death wraiths have to fight dark
spirits quite a lot, and have to sometimes take on enhanced dark
spirits that might get enhanced by mortal interference, such as
those like Vobu and Zenrael (in some universes) who use their
power to strengthen dark spirits. Typically, dark spirits aren't
fought like normal beings, as most of them are typically not
able to be hurt or destroyed by most mortals given their unique
and usually intangible nature. However, death wraiths are able
to counter that with their ghost touch and dark spirit
destruction abilities, where they are able to fight dark
spirits. While they can destroy dark spirits if they can
overpower them, dark spirits also specialize in fighting death
wraiths, as they are the shadow realm antithesis to death
wraiths, and many dark spirits come in a variety of abilities
and types, just as death wraiths have had to by learning
adaptability and elemental abilities, so death wraiths have to
keep up with the kinds of dark spirits that exist, and sometimes
have to adapt if they meet a new type of dark spirit they don't
know (which death wraiths are used to doing as there are a lot
of ways new dark spirit types are being created).
Death Wraith Shadow Arts:
Shadow-Infused Death Energy Manipulation (Basic Darkness Type):
~This is a very common shadow art among death wraiths, and a
fairly basic ability they can learn. Since death wraiths are
beings of death, they are able to learn to use death energy by
drawing darkness from their deathly nature and focus on the
death energy nature of their darkness. This power works as a mix
of darkness and death energy, in which these shadows are infused
with death energy that can be used in battle. These shadows can
be used just like normal darkness, but have the effects of death
energy such as rotting away objects. The death energy works
great against living opponents, working against almost any kind
of true living opponent. This is mostly used among the soul
collection teams, as this power is typically used against lost
souls to wear them down more quickly, thanks to the death
energy's effects on souls. Typically, death energy can also be
used to strengthen creatures with natures of death, such as
other death wraiths and grim reapers, being very useful for when
death wraiths work alongside grim reapers to take on certain
lost souls. Since death wraiths are creatures of death, they
don't have to worry about the balance of life and death in their
body, as they don't use life energy in them at all like reapers
would use to take human form. However, this means that life
energy can be used to counter this in addition to light or holy
power, since life is death energy's natural opposite. Unlike
most beings, most death wraiths cannot use life energy, similar
to who most cannot use light power. It is also worth noting that
this shadow infused death energy cannot use necromancy
techniques, not unless a death wraith gets to the intermediate
skills and chooses to learn the shadow puppet technique. This is
more just a basic energy manipulation that utilizes the
properties of death energy but combined with darkness
manipulation. As such, this can also be countered by light
energy, holy power (if the holy power can counter the death
power), and other counters to darkness and death energy
manipulation.
Purifying Darkness (Basic Darkness Type):
~One of the more unique shadow arts of a death wraith, in which
they were granted this power by Toranoraos in order to fight
dark spirits for the dark spirit hunter death wraith teams. This
is a form of darkness power that purifies presences, and works
on those with corrupted or dark presences similar to how holy
power works on unholy presences. This power was designed
specifically to destroy dark spirits of the shadow realm, in
which this power works like a positive spirit power that is
combined with darkness to create a darkness that can even be
used to destroy dark spirits. This darkness works just like
normal darkness, except that it is a positive nature and a
unique form of darkness not many races other than death races
can use unless they are empowered by a death wraith or a special
weapon that uses purifying darkness. Typically, this darkness is
just like normal darkness in both strengths and weaknesses, in
which this can be countered just like normal darkness as well.
While this darkness isn't as strong as primordial darkness, it
can even be used to purify other darkness users of darkness and
hurt those that use darkness power, making this a dangerous
power to use on any darkness user, which is the reason it works
so well on dark spirits. Light is capable of countering this
darkness, and unholy or corrupted light works best at countering
this darkness. Death wraiths are also vulnerable to this, in
which other death wraiths can hurt each other with this power,
given it's nature to purify and destroy darkness using darkness
power. However, death wraiths can only be hurt with other
purifying darkness, and are not hurt by their own purifying
darkness. Things like corrupted darkness can still hurt them,
and counter this power fairly easily.
Shadows of the Shadow Realm (Basic Darkness Type):
~For death wraiths, they are born of the shadow realm, and some
are even able to learn how to summon shadows of the shadow realm
that have Toranoraos' presence in it, or some can even store
them and take these shadows with them. These shadows are similar
in nature to primordial shadows, in which the shadow realm is
home to powerful darkness. While they cannot tap deep into the
deep shadow realm like the dark spirits can for fear of drawing
on Xeles's presence that could corrupt them or worse, they are
able to tap into their portion of the shadow realm which
contains more powerful shadows granted by Toranoraos which is
far more natural to the death wraiths. These shadows are useful
for stronger enemies, since the shadows of the shadow realm are
similar to primordial shadows but don't require as much power to
use. These shadows also tend to have certain positive
properties, in which this darkness is able to hurt those with
demonic or negative power, even if they're immune to the power
of darkness abilities. While these shadows are more powerful
than most forms of shadows, the shadow power is very chaotic and
not always controllable even by the strongest death wraiths
depending on how it's used. Because of this, death wraiths must
be careful when using these shadows. Typically, this is favored
by those that fight lost souls, since this power can help
against certain higher level powers like Abyss energy or divine
light powers, though this is not usually used by death wraiths
who hunt dark spirits due to the fact that dark spirits are
normally immune to this darkness and have darkness far more
powerful at their disposal. This is also countered by the Deep
Shadow Realm darkness manipulation, as it draws on a different
source of power, but this does also counter Deep Shadow Realm
darkness, also making it good for stronger level death wraiths
that hunt dark spirits but can also be very useful to those
hunting lost souls as well since the darkness power works on
lost souls almost as effectively as it does on dark spirits.
Burning Darkness:
~This darkness is another of the elemental darkness types that
uses darkness. By utilizing this ability, death wraiths can
utilize the ability to create heat using darkness by absorbing
light to generate heat, and combining it with certain emotional
natures. For those that have trouble controlling their emotional
natures, this often provides a good outlet for emotions to turn
them into power without them being a bother to the death wraith.
Instead of learning ice manipulation from a perfect emotional
control, this is more for those that have trouble controlling
their emotions. By using the emotional energy and powering it
into the darkness manipulation (usually using anger/hatred),
this can turn darkness into a burning darkness that can ignite
like a flame. This power is somewhat similar to dark flames in
nature, except that this is pure darkness that takes the form of
a burning flame style darkness. This darkness can be used just
like fire attacks, such as using explosive darkness attacks,
creating burning darkness to burn or melt things, or even
creating blast type attacks of darkness. This power is designed
to replicate fire using darkness, and works as a variation that
utilizes emotions. This also is useful against opponents that
use fire or are immune to fire abilities, as this bypasses fire
immunity and users of fire cannot absorb this burning darkness
(some can use it and absorb theirs, but cannot absorb other
people's burning darkness). This also is useful in the fact that
this burning darkness can use darkness as fuel for this
flame-like darkness, in which this can convert other darkness
into darkness (with certain exceptions). This can also be used
with other darkness types to create a powerful variation of
burning darkness, such as purifying darkness based burning
darkness could be used to burn a dark spirit, or deathly
darkness based burning darkness could be used to burn a lost
soul to do more damage to it. For the most part, this darkness
is best countered with light, though it can also be countered
with ice abilities since it is essentially fire in darkness
form. This can be countered with anything that counters fire,
and can also be countered with certain holy energies as well
since the flame is pure darkness.
Darkness Barrier (Advanced Art):
~This art is an advanced art that allows a death wraith to
essentially create an invisible dark barrier around themselves
to protect them from light. After getting inspiration from
certain vampire clans, the death wraiths adapted a similar
technique to protect themselves from light attacks. This ability
is an advanced art not because it's hard to do, but because
death wraiths have to train for a long time in order to build a
barrier they can keep up as a passive skill which takes a long
time of keeping a barrier maintained around them. Once they have
trained enough though, the barrier becomes second nature, and a
death wraith can maintain this barrier as easily as many aura
users maintain their aura defense. If used properly this grants
passive defense against attacks, but also protection from light
and certain other darkness entities, such as using purifying
darkness in their barrier to protect them from dark spirits or
holy or grim darkness to protect from certain holy or unholy
abilities. This is a passive skill that can be used as long as
the death wraith has energy, and can protect them as long as
they have the energy to use it. This skill is very useful for
protection, and can dampen attacks so they don't do as much
damage, and if a death wraith reaches elder status and learns
black hold darkness, they can even focus this to absorb light
attacks if they are skilled enough with this technique (though
this is very difficult to maintain). This technique is purely
defensive, but some death wraiths can extend the darkness from
their body and attack using the darkness, such as using the
darkness around their arm to form things like blades or tendrils
of darkness depending on what the death wraith wants to do. When
used, this barrier can only be used as long as the death wraith
has the darkness energy to keep this going, and once they run
out of energy, they won't be able to use this until they
recover. At first when they learn this, death wraiths may have
to concentrate to use this, but once it becomes passive, they
can use it without having to concentrate. However, in order to
change what darkness the barrier uses, this does require
concentration, as does require concentration to attack using the
barrier's darkness using shapeshifting of darkness energy. If
attacked with certain energy negation abilities, this barrier
can be broken with enough force, just like any other barrier.
The biggest counter to this is light and some kinds of fire
attacks (depending on the darkness used), as well as physical
attacks that can eventually overpower this ability.
Kea Family Arts:
Smoke Manipulation:
~The user can create, shape and manipulate smoke, collection of
airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases emitted when a
material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the
quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the
mass. It is commonly an unwanted by-product of fires, with smoke
inhalation being the primary cause of death in victims of indoor
fires. The smoke kills by a combination of thermal damage,
poisoning and pulmonary irritation caused by carbon monoxide,
hydrogen cyanide and other combustion products.
Smoke Generation:
~The user can generate smoke in various ways and amounts. Using
smoke on an enemy can cause disorientation and deoxygenation as
well as smoke poisoning.
Smoke Aura:
~The user can release and surround themselves in/with smoke for
defensive and/or offensive purposes, possibly becoming almost
untouchable and granting them various abilities/attacks. The
aura may also give the user enhanced physical capabilities such
as speed, strength and durability.
Smoke Empowerment:
~Users become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. when they
come in contact with smoke, possibly unlocking abilities related
to the affinity and enhancing the existing powers. Some users
may be able draw sustenance from the smoke or even slow or stop
aging.
Typho-Telekinesis:
~The user can move, manipulate or otherwise interact with matter
using smoke.
Smoke Swarming:
~User can disperse their body into a swarm of smoke, scattering
into large area while retaining control over their fragments
instead of staying in relatively cohesive form and reforming
from any part.
Smoke Detection:
~User can sense the presence of smoke and possibly gain detailed
understanding about the smoke they are sensing, including the
amount/size of smoke they are sensing and whether it is hidden.
Smoke Healing:
~he user can heal themselves or others by using smoke, either by
absorbing or being in/around smoke.
Vapor Manipulation:
~Users can create, shape and manipulate vapor, a gas phase at a
temperature where the same substance can also exist in the
liquid or solid state, below the critical temperature of the
substance.
Fog Generation:
~The user can create fog, making it hard to see them or
anything. The user could use the fog generated to blind their
foes so they can escape. They could also use it to fight, hit
and run as their foes cannot see them.
Dark Smoke Manipulation:
~User can create, shape and manipulate smoke of a darker,
detrimental nature; that which damages, destroys, and consumes
anything/everything they come across, representing the hazardous
destructive side of gas, which in turn ignores most of the
limitations and weaknesses of the normal smoke. In essence, this
is about solely controlling the negative powers of smoke.
Primordial Smoke Manipulation:
~User can create, shape and manipulate smoke of an ancient
primordial nature. As opposed to regular Smoke Manipulation,
users of this power are deities, avatars, or living embodiment
of smoke. In many cases users of this power will be able to
override other forms of Smoke Manipulation as smoke is the
domain of the user. Similar to other primordial elements, the
raw potency and primeval nature of this power enables the user
to easily overpower immunities & resistances to smoke-based
abilities.
Spiritual Smoke Manipulation:
~The user can create, shape and manipulate smoke formed from
one's soul/spirit. Due to being comprised of spiritual power,
the smoke aren't only stronger than usual darkness/shadows, but
also have the power to affect one's soul in varying ways.
Chi Smoke Manipulation:
~The user can create, shape and manipulate smoke formed from the
chi energy. Due to being comprised of chi power, these winds
aren't only stronger than usual smoke, but also may have the
power to affect one's life-force in varying ways.
Combat Abilities:
Death Wraith Todesgeister Style Mastery:
~This is the style of basic combat taught to all death wraiths
that has been passed down among death wraiths. This style
combines basic defensive and offensive movement with death
wraith shadow power, where the death wraiths learn to combine
their physical combat with their shadows in order to attack
opponents with a combination of physical abilities and darkness
abilities. This could be as simple as extending a punch using
shadows to throw a punch at an opponent, or turning a shadow
into a blade to use a weapon-esque style. Typically this style
can be mixed with mortal martial arts, or can be mixed with
other supernatural power as well to make a more unique style.
This style is very adaptable, depending on the death wraith and
what they prefer in fights, as well as depending on how
adaptable the individual death wraith is in their combat style.
This is a fairly basic style to most, but allows a bit of
customization depending on the death wraith and their skill at
combat. Masters of this style are able to use this for attack
and defense using fluid motion and depending on the death
wraith, can focus on their durability, strength, agility,
flexibility and/or speed, depending on the death wraith's own
individual abilities. Typically, this style can mix supernatural
power and physical combat in a variety of ways, such as certain
abilities giving physical attacks more impact, or some extending
a fighter's reach, or even some that can be used for more
mobility and speed. This style can be used on it's own for pure
physical combat, a mix of supernatural and physical power, or it
can be used as a weapon style to mix weapon combat with
supernatural abilities of the death wraiths. Since each Death
Wraith is different, how they use this is typically different
and tailored to each death wraith just like their soul sword is.
Typically this style is taught to a basic death wraiths, and
they usually find their own ways to use the finer points of it
and develop their own variation of the style that they master as
they continue training.
Dark Spirit Hunter Combat Masters:
~Those death wraiths that are part of the dark spirit hunter
teams are trained specifically in this type of combat, where
death wraiths are taught as much as possible about dark spirits,
dark spirit types, and the abilities of dark spirits. Users of
this combat training are trained specifically to fight dark
spirits, and can handle combat with almost any kind of dark
spirit. Fighting dark spirits takes more than just a soul sword
and purifying darkness, as death wraiths have to learn the
abilities of dark spirits and how to counter them in order to
not be overtaken by certain unique spirits that have strange and
unique abilities. For example, a consumer's ability to absorb
energy means that most typical energy type attacks like elements
or other energies would simply be absorbed, and that means most
unique soul sword projectile attacks wouldn't work on a
consumer. Death wraiths are taught specific abilities and
weaknesses of dark spirits, and how to counter almost any dark
spirit ability they know of. Users of this are experts in dark
spirits, and specialize in hunting down dark spirits of the
shadow realm. Thanks to this training, those trained in this
combat are able to focus specifically on destroying dark
spirits, and usually are able to focus enough to identify and
often find weaknesses in a dark spirit they hunt down. While
soul collector death wraiths are trained in this to a much
lesser degree, dark spirit hunter death wraith teams have to be
specifically trained in this combat training, and quickly have
to learn how to become masters of battling dark spirits, lest
they be overwhelmed and killed by dark spirits. Many death
wraiths who don't take this seriously have been killed by dark
spirits, or worse, been consumed by dark spirits. This style is
focused on dark spirits though, and not so much on any other
kind of creature, so it's useless against anything not of the
shadow realm. Masters can apply certain aspects of this to
fighting other darkness users though, or other abilities similar
to darkness abilities that operate on similar principles.
Ninjutsu Mastery:
~User are masters of Ninjutsu, the historic style of martial
arts, tactics, strategy, and espionage of unconventional and
guerrilla warfare. Contrary to popular culture, real-life ninja
were mainly spies, saboteurs, and assassins that rarely appeared
on the battlefield. Depending on the school and source ninjutsu
focuses on different disciplines.
Systema Mastery:
~The user, either innately or through training, is a master of
systema, a lifestyle of Russian martial arts that advocates a
straight-edge and instructs fighters to discard ego, fear, and
tension in the heat of combat. Training includes, but is not
limited to, hand-to-hand combat, grappling, knife fighting, and
fire-arms training.
Silat Mastery:
~The user, either innately or through training, is a master of
silat, the collective term for a class of indigenous martial
arts which tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation,
weaponry, or some combination thereof.
Smoke Bomb Proficiency:
~The user is incredibly skilled in using smoke explosives, using
them as distractions or means of escape.
Typhokinetic Cloning:
~The user can create clones of themselves, others and/or objects
using smoke.
Death Wraith Stealth Combat Master (Stealth and Tracking Evasion
Master):
~Death wraiths specialize in stealth, and this shows in their
combat thanks to their specialized combat training. They are not
only able to fight with stealth, but they have the ability to
avoid tracking of most kinds thanks to their natural abilities.
For the most part, death wraiths are masters of stealth, being
able to hide from anyone around them, usually through the use of
shadows, though masters of combat are able to hide without using
shadows and using just their combat abilities. For the most
part, when one tries to track down a death wraith, they
eliminate most things that would normally give them away to
trackers, such as causing things like blood, hair and skin
particles to disappear into the shadows, or even being able to
stay silent so that others cannot hear them. Most death wraiths
are able to avoid trackers to a large degree, and are able to
use their abilities in stealth in ways most normally wouldn't.
Advanced death wraiths and master level death wraiths are able
to use this style to hide even in plain sight, where they can
use the environment to hide themselves from opponents. For the
most part, the only times a death wraith is found is when they
want to be, they are facing a powerful tracker that knows how to
track death wraiths, or they are being tracked with a
supernatural spell. This is taught to all death wraiths, and is
useful in both the shadow realm and in the living world whether
they are soul collector teams or dark spirit hunter teams.
Death Wraith Combat Speed Art: Stealth Step:
~This style is a stepping method focused around stealth, in
which it was developed similarly to a soul reapers Flashstep, or
the hollow art of Sonido. This allows death wraiths to use
advanced speed arts, in which they are able to use high speed
stepping methods to get ahead of most opponents and move at
higher speeds. There are a number of arts that come with this
stepping method. The biggest one is the shadow replacement,
where a death wraith can leave behind shadows, in the form of
the user in order to fool opponents, allowing a user to use a
darkness form to fool an opponent into thinking they hit the
user, and opens them up to attack if the user falls for this.
This is similar to a replacement technique where people replace
themselves with things like clones or ninja art using logs. The
art makes no sound upon use, as it's designed for stealth over
anything else, and utilizes special stepping methods that are
meant to be completely silent. Upon using this, a death wraith
makes no sound at all, meaning that foot steps cannot be heard,
making a death wraith's stealth-based combat even more dangerous
when combined with their stealth arts. While this art is speedy
and can be used for stealth, it still works similar to other
stepping methods, where things like disappearing from view can
only be done while in motion. Typically, faster opponents that
can keep up with them aren't fooled by this though, and this
typically works best against opponents that can't keep up with
their speed. However, this style is meant more to be the
stepping method that is the basis of most of their combat
styles, since stepping methods are extremely important in combat
styles and often form the basis of a good combat style, since
legwork is one of the most important basic aspects of moving
around in battle.
Supernatural Strengths and Weaknesses Expert:
~Since the death wraiths have fought for so long and fought so
many supernaturals both dead and alive, they have learned
everything they can about other races and have become experts in
almost every kind of creature, even knowing a lot of creatures
that have been forgotten by time and knowing most creatures in
the world. Typically, death wraiths specialize in dark spirit
and lost soul hunting, but they also have to learn about all
kinds of beings and how to collect their souls when in the human
world, since even supernaturals have to be taken to the
afterlife. The death wraiths have entire libraries on all
manners of supernatural lore and creatures, and they know the
strengths and weaknesses of almost every race that has ever
lived in their universe (not counting some creatures from other
universes or some creatures from the space between dimensions).
This is a very useful knowledge base, which includes spells,
exorcisms and traps used against almost all manners of
supernaturals. For the most part, the death wraiths as a race
have been around since before most races in the world and have
had the time to record a lot of information for other death
wraiths on how to hunt down and fight specific types of
supernaturals. Though the death wraiths are not specifically
supernatural hunters in the traditional sense, they do have to
know how to fight supernaturals when they are collecting souls
of dead supernaturals, as many death wraiths would testify. As
many death wraiths will mention, simply collecting souls isn't
just about countering spirit power, but supernatural powers of
the beings they have to fight. Master level death wraiths have
even been known to be able to collect full size dragon souls,
and fight full size dragons that have died (depending on the
universe), due to someone having to take the souls to the
afterlife.
Supernatural Hunting and Tracking:
~Though not supernatural hunters, the death wraiths know a lot
of the tricks supernatural hunters use through research into
supernatural hunting techniques and observation of mortals, and
picked up a lot of tricks to track people down partially through
experience of hunting down supernatural souls, but also through
the knowledge that the death wraiths have gained since they were
established by Toranoraos. This has left them with not only a
great sense for hunting down opponents they need to hunt down,
but also left them with an innate ability to track opponents as
they have to track down souls. Typically, they specialize in
tracking ghosts, dead souls or hollows, but also learn to track
living beings depending on what they end up having to do. They
are able to learn to do very subtle things, like tell whether a
foot print is his target or not by things like the shape of the
boot and how deep the boot-print is, as well as also being able
to tell where their opponents go thanks to circumstances like
walking on plants, and animals that are unusually silent being
signs of predators in an area. They usually have a sense of when
opponents are near, as well as usually knowing which way an
opponent is going. And thanks to supernatural senses as well as
enhanced normal senses, almost all werecreatures have a great
sense of where things are around them. Depending on the death
wraith, most often learn either to track supernaturals and
souls, or they may learn to track dark spirits depending on
their job, so this is a very important skill to have since death
wraiths have to be able to track down targets whether its in the
Shadow Realm, The Veil or the living world.
Supernatural Hunter Training: Exorcism, Weakness and Trap
Knowledge:
~All death wraiths are trained in how to use demonic exorcisms
and traps for a multitude of creatures and mythologies, due to
their need to know how to counter other races. During their time
working for Toranoraos as soul collectors and dark spirit
hunters, they were taught many manners of exorcisms and traps in
order to take advantage of other races weaknesses that other
species use. For example, the death wraiths know that holy oil
works well for trapping angels, and know to make demon traps to
trap demons. For the most part, they also know how most
supernaturals operate, in case they should find themselves up
against the souls of supernatural beings. The death wraiths are
fully trained on every recorded way their order has on taking on
supernaturals and they use this knowledge to make their soul
collection jobs easier. Typically, this is taught mostly to soul
collection teams, since dark spirit hunting teams have their own
special training. Death wraiths have had a long time to record
ways to trap, exorcize and find weaknesses of many of the types
of beings that live in the mortal realm. As death wraiths will
testify, knowledge in exorcism, trapping supernaturals and
knowing weaknesses has made their jobs collecting supernatural
souls so much easier, and some masters of these arts can easily
trap or exorcise beings while using their ability to trap souls
to contain a soul without needing to fight a long and lengthy
battle to weaken the soul first.
Murderous Intent Sense:
~This lets those with this sense when an attack is coming. This
is a skill warriors get by fighting constantly for many years,
learning how to sense someone's murderous intent usually through
encountering it first-hand. This lets the user read their
environment as well as the spirits of people around them in
order to see what attacks might be coming their way by reading
an opponent's body language and the "sense" of people around
them. This gives them a passive sense of reading people who
might try to hurt them, as they can sense when someone is ready
to attack. Some can sense this literally, but most sense it in
an instinctive way once their instincts have been developed
through constant fighting and battles. This gives the user time
to dodge or avoid an attack, and to some extent, helps the
person predict what opponents will do in a fight. For example,
by reading an opponent's body language, such as how they move or
how tense they might be, a user of this can read opponents.
However, this sense is not perfect, and some opponents can't be
read if they have similar skills or can disguise their murderous
intent or they learn skills that can trick people with this
sense. This sense is usually pretty reliable unless one can
suppress their murderous intent, and is usually instinctive
among people who have seen a lot of battle and those that have
fought for their lives multiple times. The only real way to
develop this is experience, as no amount of training can truly
grasp how this sense truly works. Death wraiths, as they get
older and more experienced, can hone this to great degrees, as
death wraiths can live for much longer than most creatures would
be able to.
Passive Abilities:
Ninja:
~Ninjas are mercenary assassins, spies, and saboteurs in feudal
Japan. They practiced the art of ninjutsu which focused on
numerous disciplines like spiritual refinement, unarmed combat,
tactics, escaping, concealment, water training, and so on and so
forth. They also equipped many different weapons and tools such
as swords, staffs, sai, nunchaku (chain sticks), kusarigama
(chain sickles), shuriken, kunai, etc. Ninjas were masters of
disguise and they usually dressed like civilians in order to
avoid suspicion. Ninjas also existed in China.
Gangster:
~The character is a gangster that are either a part of or lead a
criminal syndicate. They use brutal tactics and methods related
to the criminal underworld/belly of their society that range
from drug dealing, protection racketeering, money laundering,
and etc.
Sign Language Mastery:
~The user, either innately or through training, is an expert at
using/communicating with sign language, a system of
communication using visual gestures and signs. This can aid in
communication with those who can't hear and/or speak.
Lip Reading Mastery:
~The user, either innately or through training, is a master of
understanding others' speech by visually interpreting the
movements of the lips, face and tongue, allowing them to
understand what others are saying even if they can't hear them.
Body Language Analysis:
~The user can intuitively read others' body language and
expression, allowing them to anticipate their actions and
respond accordingly, often allowing the user to predict
opponent's attacks.
Death Wraith Affinity for Darkness Abilities:
~Death wraiths have a natural affinity for darkness
manipulation, and have a natural ability to pick up new darkness
techniques and powers depending on their skill sets. Many death
wraiths can pick up how to utilize darkness techniques that
opponents might use, or learn to counter almost any kind of
darkness. The only darkness that death wraiths have trouble with
is whispering darkness, which comes from Xeles and drives even
darkness users crazy if the darkness doesn't kill them first.
Death wraiths are among the most natural darkness users in the
multiverse, designed specifically for darkness over light. While
they do have limits, death wraiths natural affinities for
darkness make them among the best darkness users. While they
cannot copy all darkness types and abilities (as their ability
to learn new darkness abilities often depends on their own
capabilities), they do learn how most darkness powers work
quickly, and can learn ways to counter most darkness abilities
that they may not have. One such example is corrupted darkness,
which death wraiths know how it works, but cannot absorb
corrupted darkness due to it being like poison to darkness
users. Depending on the user and their knowledge, some darkness
techniques might prove difficult to analyze and try to
replicate. For example, a spirit user that combines darkness
with spirit energy isn't going to be able to be used by a death
wraith who cannot manipulate spirit energy, though they may
learn how it works and know how to counter it if they analyze
it. The only darkness that death wraiths often have trouble with
are those used by dark spirits, as dark spirits darkness doesn't
always follow the normal laws of darkness, such as how dark
spirits can access the deep shadow realm from pure darkness
(darkness that is devoid of all light.
Death Wraith Immunity to Shadow/Death Effects:
~Due to the death wraiths being born and created in darkness,
they are completely immune to most darkness abilities and the
effects of death energy due to how powerful their darkness is.
For the most part, death wraiths are able to resist almost any
form of darkness as well as death energy effects like rotting or
acidic shadows, or the rotting effects of death energy. While
they can still be hurt by the physical force of attacks, or they
can be hurt by impact or slash damage of attacks, they are
completely immune to any specific extra effects of darkness or
death energy. Usually, darkness powers are dangerous to use on a
death wraith since most darkness attacks don't do any real
damage other than physical damage, and some death wraiths might
not take physical damage from shadow attacks (such as shadow
slashes or shadow blasts), other than slight impact damage. Of
course, one should know that beings born of darkness would be
almost completely immune to the power of darkness. There are a
few exceptions to this, such as corrupted light and corrupted
darkness, which can still be used to damage death wraiths,
certain dark spirits can overpower this as well depending on the
dark spirit or certain death abilities like a death scythe or a
grim reapers mix of life and death energies may still be able to
hurt a death wraith depending on their skill. Of course, with
this immunity, due to them being creatures of death and shadows,
death wraiths are more vulnerable to light and the effects of
life energies, since these forces can counter their natures.
Death Wraith Resistance to Dark Spirit/Dark Arts/Dark Magic:
~While not immune to dark spirits and dark magics, death wraiths
do gain some resistance to them thanks to them being made of
darkness. Most death wraiths have heavy resistances to dark
arts, dark magic or any power that uses darkness. While most one
would think death wraiths would be immune to these kinds of
abilities, some of these abilities utilize other aspects that
can damage death wraiths. However, over time, death wraiths have
learned to reduce the effects of dark arts and dark magics used
against them. Dark arts are fairly simple, as they are powered
by darkness, and often are used by creatures like dark spirits
or other primordial dark entities. Because the dark arts were
originally developed by Xeles, they are specifically designed to
fight death wraiths as the dark spirits main enemies, so death
wraiths cannot gain complete immunity to dark arts used by those
that are empowered by those like Xeles or Phantom. In terms of
dark magic, it mostly the same situation, except that dark magic
is powered by darkness to utilize magic, so death wraiths cannot
become completely immune to dark magic unless they have a magic
immunity in addition to their darkness effect immunity. Dark
spirits are among the most dangerous as they specifically are
designed to kill death wraiths, so most dark spirits have ways
to counter death wraith immunities to darkness effects or have
darkness abilities that can hurt them. While they do have
resistance to most dark spirit based abilities, death wraiths
don't have immunity to Xeles's whispering darkness, and some
more powerful darkness abilities that some dark spirits possess.
While they can counter these abilities, these abilities are some
that cannot gain resistance to.
Death Wraith Soul Weapon Bond:
~All death wraiths have soul weapons in some form, which are
connected to them directly. Like many races ability to connect
with their unique weapons, death wraiths gain a special bond
with their weapons, which works similarly to soul reaper's
zanpakuto bonds. A death wraith has to bond with the spirit of
their weapon, which allows them a permanent connection that
grants a few abilities. The first is that the death wraith can
summon and desummon their weapons at any time. Depending on the
weapon, some may have unique ways of calling their weapon, like
some death wraiths call their weapon from their shadow, or some
may manifest it using some kind of energy. Regardless of the
method, their weapons are always able to be summoned and
desummoned in some manner. The other ability is that death
wraiths can control their weapons, usually through almost
telekinetic means, by working with the weapon's spirit. When in
harmony, the death wraiths weapons become not only an extension
of themselves, but the weapon spirits can also help their
owners, such as some weapon spirits being able to hold together
injuries using their power or some weapon spirits who might be
able to grant their energy to users to help keep them from dying
in dire situations (if they have energy to give their hosts).
The most common though is telekinetic control, where death
wraiths often are able to control their weapons by working with
their weapons spirits. While they don't speak or communicate in
a traditional sense, the user's bond with the weapon can help a
death wraith understand their weapon's moods, as weapons can
reflect moods by how they act, such as some weapons might only
activate under certain circumstances. This also allows a death
wraith to fix their soul weapon if it is broken by desummoning
it and letting it absorb spirit energy until it repairs itself.
Overall, this bond requires the weapon and death wraith to keep
their spirits harmonized together, and if this balance falls
apart, the death wraith may lose the ability to use the weapon's
abilities, or in extreme cases, might not be able to summon the
blade at all.
Death Wraith Supernatural Lifespan:
~The death wraiths are different from mortals, and live far
longer than most creatures. Death wraiths live over a million
years before dying of old age. This is mostly thanks to their
regenerative powers of shadows and the fact they spend most of
their lives in the shadow realm. The longest living death wraith
lived up about 1.5 million years. Aside from creatures like
angels and demons with no definite life span, death wraiths have
the longest life spans of any known supernatural creatures. This
means that most death wraiths age extremely slowly once they hit
a certain point of their life cycle, and only once they reach
about 950 thousand years does the age start to degrade their
abilities, including their regeneration, in which they start
aging until they die of old age over the course of the next
100,000 years. For the most part, depending on the strength of
the regenerative power, some can live past a million years, but
most usually die somewhere around the million year mark due to
the fact they lose the ability to use a lot of their powers, and
their lack of regeneration can longer keep them from getting
weaker from old age. Until they reach the point where their
abilities weaken, they typically remain very strong in their
abilities and are usually in what many would consider a prime
age range. The reason this is hard to predict is partially due
to how, even weakened, aging death wraith still regenerate,
still slowing their aging, so exact life spans are not easy to
calculate for a race that lives over a million years. This also
doesn't prevent them from being killed by enemies, as they can
still be killed by enemies or by sicknesses depending on the
situation. They can still be killed as most other creatures can
as a whole, but this more just covers their natural life span.
Due to Riley being a half mortal, it's unknown how long his
lifespan is, even though he can live as long as his supernatural
friends.
Multilingual and Ancient Language Experts:
~Death wraiths have been around for a very long time and have
had time to travel the world doing their job protecting humans
and collecting souls or hunting dark spirits, so they have had
plenty of time to learn other languages in order to interact
with people. Some older death wraiths may even know certain out
of date dead languages (languages with no new words being added
and aren't spoken anymore), with some even being familiar with
certain older languages that most wouldn't know. However, the
time they have spent fighting supernaturals has also led to them
learning other languages they need to understand other
creatures, such as learning Enochian to learn more about angels
as a whole, or learning Hebrew to learn more about fallen angels
and demons. Of course, that's not to also mention the fact that
all death wraiths have at least a few spoken languages they have
to learn, with English, Spanish, and French being among the most
common language families for them to learn. Because most death
wraiths have been around for a long time, most death wraiths
have also developed an affinity for learning new languages, and
there are many with a collection of languages they know. It is
also easier to learn a language if one is familiar with the
language tree, such as Spanish and Portuguese being very similar
languages due to being in the same language tree (though some
might find the similarity between similar languages a bit too
difficult to learn at times). Overall, death wraiths always have
multiple languages they can speak depending on where they live
or spend their time, whether it's for learning about
supernaturals, learning to write and read in other languages, or
just learning it to be able to communicate with other people who
speak other languages. Regardless of the initial reason, most
death wraiths know at least a few languages, and have an
affinity for learning new languages due to having to learn
multiple languages that they learn to pick up on other languages
much more easily.
Although Riley normally speaks English, he also speaks and
writes Russian and French along with learning sign languages for
Evelyn's sake.
Supernatural Telepathy:
~This ability lets a supernatural creature communicate
telepathically with anyone they can connect to. Typically this
power uses their supernatural power, in which they use it to
tune to a person if they know where they are in order to
communicate with them. This lets them communicate with other
people without having to speak, with them being able to share
thoughts directly with others when the creature isn't speaking
out loud. However, usually the creature has to know where the
person is to use this basic telepathy since they have to know
where to send their thoughts and communication. However, this
doesn't apply to those who establish permanent connections (as
this allows those with permanent connections to always be able
to communicate with someone they have this permanent connection
with), such as connecting to other family members and close
friends. This lets creatures not only communicate with those
they have a permanent connect with, but can also tell them where
they are at any time should they require to find them or need to
be summoned to them (which some supernaturals can learn to
summon those that they have special connections with). Those who
are set up with permanent connections have to accept the
connection, and even then, they can sever it if they choose to.
However, there are ways to block telepathic communications, such
as certain frequencies that may confuse the mind's ability to
process telepathy, or certain wards that might prevent
telepathy. There are also certain types of opponents who can
listen in on communication done telepathically (it is rare, but
sometimes it does happen sometimes with certain psychic
opponents).
Death Wraith Enhanced Intelligence/Memory:
~Depending on the death wraith, most death wraiths have enhanced
minds thanks to their supernatural power. The first thing that
is enhanced is their intelligence, in which some death wraiths
gain certain intelligence boosts depending on the death wraith.
This has a few uses, such as allowing a death wraith to more
easily learn information, or might help death wraiths develop
strategies for certain situations. Depending on the death
wraith, some might gain stronger intelligence than others, and
depending on the family or training they get, they may gain
unique ways to utilize this (though this typically varies
depending on the death wraiths born heritage and their
capacities). The second enhancement is to the death wraith's
memory, where death wraiths typically have very good memory
thanks to their supernatural enhancement of the brain. Most
death wraiths have a hard time forgetting things, and some
smarter death wraiths may even have a photographic memory
depending on the death wraith. Death wraiths usually have a
balance of enhancements to intelligence, memory, and reflexes.
Death wraiths usually have enhancements in most regards, but may
suffer reduced stats in one aspect to balance their minds. For
example, a death wraith that is focused in intelligence might
have bad memory, or a death wraith with great reflexes and
memory may not have high intelligence. Overall, each death
wraith has a unique balance, that is usually determined by the
family and the capabilities of the death wraith. Part of this
also is determined by their training and the influences on their
lives, such as combat training might enhance the reflexes of the
body in combat, or a thorough education might increase
intelligence. Overall, while death wraiths are smart and have
good memory, they can be outclassed by other races, specifically
humans who are known to be far smarter in order to compete with
strong supernatural creatures.
Death Wraith Enhanced Reflexes:
~The last enhancement that death wraiths gain is the enhancement
of their reflexes, which allows them to react much faster than
most creatures can due to many death wraiths often having a
major talent and end up training specifically for combat.
Depending on the death wraith and the training some death
wraiths are able to utilize their enhanced reflexes to react far
more quickly, with older and more experienced death wraiths
sometimes even learning to train their reflexes to allow them to
dodge attacks without thinking, a highly advanced combat skill
among supernaturals and even martial artists. Typically, all of
these enhancements work in unison, and depending on the death
wraith, the balance of enhancements may be different depending
on the specific death wraith, and their natural abilities (such
as smarter death wraiths might gain better intelligence, but
more combat-based death wraiths could gain stronger reflexes).
Death wraiths can not only gain this through supernatural
enhancement, but combat oriented death wraiths gain further
enhanced reflexes through training in combat. This ability is
something that many death wraiths gain, with advanced death
wraiths and higher level death wraiths being able to react to
attacks almost instantly depending on their training. Typically,
most death wraiths are either balanced with a slight increase to
all their enhanced mind stats, or they can specialize in
specific stats for higher stats, but this usually means lesser
stats in certain other aspects as a result (Like an enhanced
intelligence and reflexes might have poor memory).
Death Wraith Darkvision and Enhanced Senses:
~Death wraiths have highly enhanced vision, and gain highly
enhanced ability to see in the dark. Death wraiths are able to
see in the dark as easily as in the light thanks to their dark
natures, and are able to operate even in complete darkness
thanks to their supernatural vision they gain from being death
wraiths. Some death wraiths may have varying degrees of this
power, with some having stronger vision than others in the
darkness and some can strengthen this vision over time and
training, but all death wraiths have this to some degree. In
addition to this though, death wraiths also have highly enhanced
senses depending on the death wraith. Each death wraith may have
a different balance of senses, but all of their senses are
enhanced to some degree. This depends mostly on the death
wraith, and partially on how they train their senses as they
grow. Most death wraiths specialize in vision and hearing, with
some even learning to see in total blinding conditions depending
on the death wraith and what they can do. However, while most
death wraiths do have highly enhanced senses, death wraiths
enhanced senses can be overwhelmed by certain things, such as
enhanced sight could be overwhelmed by a flashbang (which can
work quite well against a death wraith), or a strong sense of
smell could be overwhelmed with a strong enough smell such as
chlorine gas. This depends on the death wraith and their senses,
but most death wraiths can be overwhelmed in their senses in
some way with almost all being vulnerable to flashbangs due to
their darkvision and enhanced vision. Some that are more
balanced in their senses may not be as easy to overwhelm, but
they may not be able to keep up with certain enhanced senses as
a result. Depending on the death wraith, some may even gain
special senses that are unique to them if they are hybrids or
have the power of other races, such as a werewolf/death wraith
hybrid would have a werewolf sense of smell.
Death Wraith Presence Sense:
~Much like other supernaturals, death wraiths can sense the
presence of other beings, and sensing who and what they are.
This can sense not only one's presence, but their levels of
energy and how tough they are, allowing the user to gauge how
they stand against them, as well as often being able to tell
what they are by their presence if the user recognizes what kind
of presence it is. This is a passive skill that many
supernaturals possess, including death wraiths. This skill works
by using the mind's connection to the world around them,
harnessing their connection to the world through this sense.
Most consider this like a sixth sense, and some users of this
can even use this to sense the presences of ghosts and other
spiritual entities thanks to the ability to sense presences.
This not only allows one to sense the presence of someone, but
this allows one to sense energy as a whole as well, making it a
way to overall get a picture of the energy around them and can
identify living things based on their presence and energy.
However, this can be deceived by skilled opponents, sometimes
not appearing correctly if the user can't sense the opponent's
full power or use powers that fool this sense like how ki users
can suppress their power. There are also skills that hide one's
presence, whether fully or partially which can also be used to
deceive this kind of sense. Most death wraiths are able to use
this to sense not just what's around them, but they are able to
use this ability to sense what's going on around the world
through the shadows, and when big presences appear, like
Lucifer, or higher level angels and demons due to their
connection to the primordial realms (specifically the primordial
darkness).
Death Wraith Emotional Manipulation:
~One of the biggest laws of death wraith culture is the
controlling of one's emotions, which all death wraiths have to
learn. And in doing so, they suppress their emotions, with most
using cold logic instead of emotions so that emotions will not
hinder their ability to combat enemies, or fall under the
influence of things like dark spirits, which is usually a big
danger for them. For the most part, death wraiths can feel
emotions, but are taught to suppress them in order to not only
help with controlling themselves, but also to help their stealth
since not having emotions can hide them from certain opponents
that can sense emotions or killing intent. This emotional
manipulation is the main method death wraiths use to keep
themselves from having to worry about their emotions, and use
this to always keep their emotions suppressed, as they see
emotions as "corruptive" influences due to their long history of
dark spirits using emotions against them. The only time that
death wraiths are allowed emotions are typically under special
circumstances, such as choosing mates, which even then many
death wraith choose mates through logic rather than emotion.
This can be a danger to death wraiths though, since they not
only don't deal with emotions, they rarely allow powers that
rely on emotions due to the death wraiths viewing emotions as
corruptive. However, there are powers that are designed to help
more emotional death wraiths learn to harness their emotions, so
death wraiths do have plenty of options for learning different
ways of controlling their emotions. This can be overwhelmed by
those like Xeles though, or stronger psychic abilities might be
able to overpower this as well depending on the abilities. The
strength of this skill depends on the strength of the death
wraith's will, which determines how strong this training can be.
Despite being half human, Riley was taught how to control her
emotions. Not only this helps during his hunt against dark
spirits but also when doing certain assassination jobs.
Death Wraith Self-Control Manipulation:
~Like soul reapers, death wraiths have to train inward in order
to unlock their soul swords, and protect their minds from things
like corruptive energies and dark energies. In doing so, they
are able to go into their mind/spirit's world, which is unique
for each person. Similar to some supernatural creature's mind
training, like the disciplined mind art of the Darkfires, death
wraiths are able to learn how to control their inner world,
using it for controlling things like emotions and helping them
avoid certain psychic abilities. Death wraiths use this to help
keep their emotions suppressed when they need to as a second
stage of their emotional suppression, so that they are able to
keep themselves from letting too many emotions cloud them. Since
many death wraiths consider certain emotions of humans to be a
hinderance rather than a strength, they aim to suppress emotions
that might hinder a death wraith's abilities or could fall under
the influence of dark spirits. Most death wraiths learn this as
a means to do so, though this also helps against those with
psychic abilities as psychic powers that affect the mind won't
effect death wraiths with this training. Overall, this also
helps against dark spirits who try to influence emotions, since
dark spirits typically frequent the death wraiths. Overwhelming
this training is very difficult, and only beings like Xeles can
overwhelm this training. Just like the normal mind training, the
will of the death wraith determines how strong this is, and how
much effort it would take to overpower.
Enhanced Death Wraith and Combat Training Physical Stats:
~All death wraiths have enhanced physical stats, thanks to their
supernatural natures. However, death wraiths also have enhanced
combat training which hones their physical stats to their
fullest. All death wraiths have to be trained in combat, whether
its as a lost soul collector or as a dark spirit hunter. For the
most part, all death wraiths are unique in their specific
training and capabilities, usually specializing in certain
stats. For example, some stronger and more bulky death wraiths
might focus more on strength and defense, while smaller and
skinnier death wraiths may focus more on speed and agility.
There are a number of ways training can hone death wraiths, just
like humans and other supernaturals, so just like humans and
other supernaturals, each death wraith is different in how they
fight and how they use their enhanced physical stats. There are
usually two ways most beings train their physical stats. The
first is to focus on one or two aspects, which focuses them to
extreme degrees. The downside to this training focus is that
while their focused aspects are trained to great degrees, this
causes other stats to suffer as a result. For example, someone
who focuses on strength and defense won't be as fast or as agile
as someone who specializes in speed. The other focus is a
balanced skillset, where users focus on training all aspects of
their physical stats to a fairly balanced degree. In this
method, all stats are focused on in training, and the user opts
to hone all aspects of their combat stats to gain enhanced stats
in all of their physical stats. However, the downside to this
training is that those that utilize this are balanced, but won't
be able to enhance all their stats to the levels of those that
specialize in specific stats. While some balanced fighters can
keep up with those that specialize in stats through training,
typically those that specialize in stats might overwhelm
specific stats (though smart users can utilize weaknesses in
specialized stats to counter this to a degree). No matter how
the death wraith is trained, there are advantages and
disadvantages to their stats. It is usually up to the death
wraith how they train and what they focus on, and depending on
age, some death wraiths can learn to better hone their stats
more effectively through things like using objects to help them
(such as those not as strong might use gauntlets to help give
their attacks more impact).
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