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Multi-Community Race: Death Wraiths (Update)
By: Zorbak the Ebil Moglin Date: January 15, 2021, 1:01 pm
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COMMUNITY SPECIAL: Death Wraith Race Update
"Death wraiths are shadows in the background, and dismissed just
as quickly when they're doing their job right." - Kierran Black
and Anna Shadow's teacher, Hadeon Darkmore about death wraiths
staying in the shadows
"The shadows. It's normal to think of beings who hide there. But
few are as skilled as the death wraith at being literal
incarnations of darkness. That is how the death wraiths live.
Like the dark spirits, the Shadow Realm is their home, and they
own their own half of it. They not only help take souls to the
afterlife and the Hall of Souls, but they also protect the world
from the dark spirits of the shadow realm that constantly try to
enter our world for their own purposes. Death Wraiths are the
guardians of the darkness, and keep the darkness from devouring
the life of our world." - A book about death wraiths.
"We are the enemies of the dark spirits. We protect the living
world from Xeles's forces. Our war in the shadows protects the
realms from the forces of the Hell of Souls. We are always ready
to face down the forces of Xeles, and we strike them down
without mercy, just as they would do to us. Every dark spirit
destroyed by us is more souls saved from a place worse than Hell
itself." - Drakath, leader of the Shadow Realm's best dark
spirit hunter elite team.
Theme: Mystical Night Class (
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2b3BqKp-kI&list=PLD0076C47A1624000&index=6<br
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Bio: Like the grim reapers, the death wraiths main job they are
known for is taking souls to the afterlife. Unlike the reapers
who are the main ones ferry souls to the afterlife, death
wraiths specialize more in tracking lost souls that manage to
get away from the forces of the afterlife, usually being the
ones that refuse to go to the afterlife. The death wraiths are
created by the being known as Toranoraos, who created the death
wraiths similar to how Death created the grim reapers. Death
wraiths usually track these lost souls, some of which may not
have places in normal afterlives, or they may rebel against
going to the afterlife. The death wraith's main job is to get
souls before they are corrupted and turned into hollows, or
before they gain abilities that make them higher level threats
to the balance of life and death. If a soul has sought to avoid
the afterlife, the death wraiths will often track the soul down
and take them to either the afterlife, or will take them to the
hall of souls if they have no place in the afterlife. As such,
death wraiths typically have to deal with some tough people.
While they don't usually have to deal with hollows (as it is
normally the soul reapers who fight and purify hollows),
sometimes it is necessary for a death wraith to fight a hollow.
However, their job is not just to track souls, but they also
guard the living world against the dark spirits of the Deep
Shadow Realm. Many don't know much about dark spirits (though as
of late, many universes have been learning more about them, but
those like fallen angels who have tapped into the shadow realm
know how dangerous the Deep Shadow Realm is. Just as Heaven and
Hell are rivals, the Deep Shadow Realm and the death wraith's
home in the Shadow Realm are rivals of darkness. The Deep Shadow
Realm is the realm of Xeles, and of the Hell of Souls. Unlike
Hell though, Xeles and the dark spirits seek to send anyone
there they can get their hands on, and those that end up there
are not always deserving of their fates there. While the death
wraiths are mostly good and protect the living, the dark
spirits, which are created by Xeles as the anti-thesis to the
death wraiths, seek to exploit the life of mortals by taking
mortals, depending on the dark spirit. As such, the death
wraiths other main job is to defeat or destroy any dark spirits
that try to get to the living world, in which the death wraiths
act as a guard force standing between Xeles's forces and the
living realm. Because Toranoraos protects the living realms,
Xeles's forces always have to get through the death wraiths in
order to reach the living world. The death wraiths have a number
of special abilities and natures of darkness, in which they are
born and molded by the shadow realm, similar to how dark spirits
are born and molded by the Deep Shadow Realm. As such, death
wraiths have powerful dark natures, and a much more powerful
dark nature than most other beings. Death wraiths and dark
spirits are the very incarnations of darkness, and both act as
the wills of the two sides of the Shadow Realm. While the dark
spirits embody the negative and evil side of the Shadow Realm,
the death wraiths embody the more positive natured side of
darkness in the Shadow Realm.
Places Of Note in the Shadow Realm:
- The Twilight Realm: Closest to the living world but partially
in the shadow realm, this realm sits on the edge between the
living realm and the shadow realm. This realm is a mix of light
and dark, and acts like an in-between area. Those that use light
and dark to travel have often gotten stuck here, as once inside
the realm, one cannot shadow or light travel their way out
unless they can specifically manipulate and travel using
twilight. This realm is very difficult to get out of once
inside, and only a few have ever managed to get out of it. The
Death Wraiths use this realm as a prison, where they imprison
criminals who commit crimes against the Death Wraiths. Those
that are sentenced to life imprisonment are cast into the
Twilight Realm, where they live out their lives. For the most
part, death wraith society is far more strict with their laws
than humanity is in most places, and will send their criminals
to this realm without regret. Once inside this realm, death
wraiths and dark spirits specifically are not able to leave it,
and once inside the realm, the twilight energy not only keeps
them trapped, but their souls become trapped there after they
die of old age. While there is no food in the twilight realm,
the death wraiths and dark spirits usually feed on the
corruption there, where light and dark are combined and
corrupted by the mix of energies, which keeps them alive.
However, without a way out, most death wraiths and dark spirits
simply must live out their entire life and afterlife there as
only a few were ever able to move into the realm and retrieve
souls. At this point, the realm has become a place of being
trapped, and the only way into the realm is through a special
item in the Hall of Souls forged for Toranoraos to enter and
exit the realm that he had made specifically to retrieve anyone
or anything lost to the Twilight Realm that should not be. There
are a few with Twilight power who do learn how to harness the
power of this realm, such as some universes' versions of Hei
Long, or Kitsune Resei (a rare genetic mutation death wraith
with both light and dark natures). Those trapped in this realm
often see this as another version of hell, though none think it
as bad as Hell itself or as bad as the Hell of Souls.
- The Dark Road: This is the name of the path made by Toranoraos
that moves into the living world from the shadow realm. This
path was designed as a safe way for death wraiths to enter the
living world, as moving through shadow movement without the Dark
Road had a major risk of getting death wraiths stuck in the
Twilight Realm on the way to the living world. This road is the
best way to get to the living world without any issues, whether
the shadow creature is of Xeles's realm or Toranoraos's realm.
Both death wraiths and dark spirits use this to get to the
living world, and use this to safely avoid the risk of trapping
themselves in the Twilight Realm. There are usually always death
wraiths who guard this path, usually being dark spirit hunter
teams that patrol this road for any dark spirits making their
way to the living world. As such, this road will almost always
have a presence by death wraith teams that hunt dark spirits,
and is a necessary area to travel through if one wants to get
into regions of the Shadow Realm. All death wraiths going to and
from the living world always use this road, and any dark spirits
trying to get to the living world cannot do so without using
this path and either defeating at least one dark spirit hunter
death wraith team, or luring them away from this area somehow.
This is also a guarded road in that death wraiths also keep an
eye out for exiled members of the death wraith society who may
try to enter the Shadow Realm without permission. Overall, this
path is not as narrow as one might think, and there are ways to
get around the death wraiths that guard this road to the living
world. Those that use this can not only go to the normal living
world, but they can also use this to enter the Veil, a sort of
spiritual version of the living world where dead spirits stay
while waiting for a death wraith or grim reaper. While some
spiritual beings can learn to manifest themselves in the living
world, this is dangerous to do.
- The Tunnel of Ghosts: This is a special area of the Shadow
Realm, that was specifically set up by the death wraiths with
Toranoraos' permission. This area is a small society in the
death wraith controlled Shadow Realm where those souls that
prove helpful to the death wraith order will often be sent if
they wish to aid the death wraiths. This place is only
accessible by going through a specially designed road that is
known as the Tunnel of Ghosts. This tunnel is guarded by strong
death wraith elites, who are specifically tasked with protecting
the souls here from dark spirits. However, because the tunnel is
lined with purifying darkness, dark spirits usually cannot enter
this realm. The souls who come here are those determined by the
death wraith council to be beneficial to the death wraiths and
their interests. For example, in many universes, a human soul
blacksmith named Smithy is usually found in this realm making
weapons for death wraiths, such as making spirit purification
weapons, holy weapons for taking on demonic creatures, light
weapons for taking on creatures of shadows, and even dragon
hunter weapons for death wraiths who have to hunt down lost
dragon souls (Which is not fun for death wraiths or grim
reapers). There are many who live in this realm, and all that
are in this realm possess special charms given to them by the
death wraiths that protect them from corruption so their souls
don't turn hollow. This society of souls has come to be known as
a great place for death wraiths to go when they need some extra
help, from making weapons, to some teaching new skills, or some
even being able to empower death wraiths in some way. Depending
on the usefulness, some ghosts sent here are allowed to live
here as long as they desire, as it's essentially a peaceful
community where the souls have built a spiritual society that
allows them to live here and the death wraiths can move freely
to visit this society for any ghosts help when needed. The
ghosts who live here are often termed "Friendly Apparitions," as
they are termed as friends to the Death Wraiths.
- Keolza Isunogh (Death Wraith Homeland): This is the name of
the Death Wraith society, where the death wraiths are usually
born and raised. This is essentially the nation of death wraiths
that is not far from the Hall of Souls and Death's Library,
where Toranoraos and Death have their own areas of the Shadow
Realm. This area is specific to each universe, and this area
cannot connect to other universes, but most of the death wraiths
live in this area. As such, this is not only where death wraiths
are born and raised, but also where they live, and where they
are trained to fight. Death Wraiths born here are born and as
they get old enough, they are often to choose one of two paths:
Either becoming a lost soul hunter, or becoming a dark spirit
hunter. Because those are the two main jobs, the death wraith
society is mostly built on training and running the death wraith
people. Almost everyone in this society starts out as either a
dark spirit hunter or as a lost soul hunter, and eventually
death wraiths work their way up into other positions, such as
some working their way up to leading their own teams, some
working their way into teacher positions to train new
generations, and a rare few that may even go on to join the
Death Wraith council who act as the heads of the Death Wraith
society (at least, most of the time). Overall, this society has
it's own connections to Toranoraos and the Hall of Souls, and
most live their lives specifically for their specific job.
Because death wraiths have a very long life span, and given the
size of the Living world and the Shadow Realm, there are a lot
of death wraiths, making this a large society. There are some
smaller areas of this area, such as dark spirit hunter teams
forming smaller societies to help manage their teams more
easily, or places where death wraiths focus on response to
dangers that arise, like if a death wraith team detects dark
spirits on the way to the Living World. Typically, this area is
pretty well protected, except when storms of dark spirits come
from the shadow realm, which appears like a storm of darkness
that comes from Xeles's realm specifically to cause as much
damage to the Death Wraith realm. The dark spirits storms act
like what tornadoes and hurricanes would be to humanity, and is
one of the biggest dangers of living in this area.
- The Hall of Souls: This area is Toranoraos's main residence.
Toranoraos is the one that usually manages his portion of the
Shadow Realm, and uses this as his base of operations. Here,
lost souls, deity souls, and other souls that don't fit anywhere
else in the afterlife often are sent here and put into special
places so they no longer have to worry about their effect on the
living world. This area typically is guarded by Toranoraos
himself, who will stay here when he's not handling other
matters. In the rare event that dark spirits do try to enter and
infiltrate this area, Toranoraos has placed purifying shadows
around this area to make this an almost impossible area for dark
spirits to enter without taking damage. This is also pretty
protected from other creatures of the shadows by Toranoraos and
any death wraiths that Toranoraos trusts to help him protect
this area. This area is slightly unique depending on the
universe, which each universe having it's own version of the
Hall of Souls specifically designed for the universe. For
example, the Olympus universe has special places for the
demi-gods and deities who die, while places like the London
Universe might have specific places for angels and demons who
don't go to purgatory. It is very rare that anyone is able to
break in and steal souls, as Toranoraos is only ever gone from
this place when dealing with incidents like the The'Galin that
threaten all existence. There is another aspect of this place
though, and that is its connection to other universes.
Toranoraos, being multidimensional, has set up the Hall of Souls
to be a multidimensional place that exists in every dimension,
and each instance is all connected, allowing Toranoraos and
death wraiths (with his permission) to move between universes).
Typically, it's forbidden for death wraiths and other creatures
to use this connection without permission, as Toranoraos keeps
other universes from interacting with each other to avoid issues
with balance and how different some universes are.
- Death's Library: This is another special area of the Shadow
Realm. While every universe has a special place in the Veil
where each Universe's Horseman of Death will have their library,
the first generation Death's library is in the Shadow Realm,
where he has a special multi-dimensional library of his own.
Unlike the Hall of Souls where souls are sent, Death's Library
is more like the Horseman Death's library, where the library is
filled with books. Normally, mortals stories are told in these
books, and Death watches over all these books to maintain
balance in life and death. However, Death's library is a bit
more unique, in that it's not just mortals books that are kept
in this particular library. This library keeps the books of
deities, angels, demons, death wraiths and grim reapers, and
even some anti-god entities that don't fall under the normal
horseman of Death's job. Death also manages the Grim Reapers
from this area as well, in which grim reapers will often come to
Death's library for lists of souls to reap. Typically, death
wraiths don't interact too much with Death, but sometimes Death
will help coordinate the death wraiths and grim reapers and
sometimes will go after stronger lost souls himself if they
evolve to the point normal death wraiths and grim reapers cannot
defeat them. Just like the Hall of Souls, this also connects to
every universe, with each universe's Shadow Realm having it's
own version of Death's Library. Like the Hall of Souls though,
this connection is forbidden unless given explicit permission by
Death. No one in this area can access the books unless permitted
by Death himself, as if they try, the books will just be blank
or unreadable unless Death makes the books able to be read by
someone. There are some grim reapers who make their homes in
this part of the Shadow Realm, and can usually access this area
through the Horseman Death's library. This is another area that
dark spirits can rarely ever enter, and honestly, there is no
reason they'd need to infiltrate as there is nothing of value to
them since the books cannot be read by dark spirits or even
Phantom and Xeles, so unless they find and collect grim reaper
souls of those who might stay in this realm, there's no reason
for them to attack Death's library.
- Other Shadow People Territories (Forbidden Territory): In
Toranoraos's portion of the Shadow Realm, there are not only
death wraiths, but there are other races that also live in the
Shadow Realm. Not too much is known about these races, but among
known races are the shadow demon people, at least two species of
dragons, and a few other creatures native to the Shadow Realm.
For the most part, these races usually live separately from the
death wraiths. Some are enemies, some are allies, and some are
neutral. However, the one thing in common with all of these
territories and peoples is that death wraiths are not allowed to
go into their territories unless given specific permission by
Toranoraos. Since there are some enemies of the death wraiths in
the Shadow Realm besides the dark spirits, it is important that
death wraiths don't overstep the boundaries of their
territories, or they may risk starting fights with other peoples
in the Shadow Realm. Overall relations among some creatures are
quite tense, and incidents could easily ignite conflicts that
could cause problems for both the shadow people and the death
wraiths. If death wraiths were to go to war with another shadow
people, then it would make the dark spirits able to more easily
overwhelm the death wraiths, which would be a major problem.
Though the only good thing is that the dark spirits aren't
allied with many of these shadow people, so they are as much not
welcome as the death wraiths, and the shadow people are usually
not fooled when dark spirits try to turn the death wraiths
against the shadow people. Overall, death wraiths will usually
stick to their own territory, and stick close to either the Hall
of Souls or Death's Library for safety so to not risk conflicts
with other races. For the most part, this is a tricky subject,
as there are a number of other inhabitants of the Shadow Realm,
and summing them all up is a bit difficult with there being many
races (more information to come later or at some point on these
races).
- Xeles's Realm (Forbidden Territory): There's one last major
half of the Shadow Realm to note. While Toranoraos possesses
half of the Shadow Realm that surrounds the multiverse, the
other half in the deepest parts of the Shadow Realm are
possessed by Xeles (Which is often called the Deep Shadow
Realm). Death Wraiths are absolutely forbidden from entering
this territory, as Xeles's territory is completely controlled by
his presence, and dark spirits exist throughout most of this
territory that are far stronger than any dark spirits that the
death wraiths normally encounter. No death wraith that has tried
to infiltrate Xeles's territory has lived to return, aside from
a few who barely escaped with their lives and went crazy from
the experience as those that go into Xeles's realm not only have
to deal with dark spirits, but Xeles's presence that can drive
even death wraiths crazy upon exposure. Those few that have come
back went mad from Xeles's presence and the whispering darkness
that makes up that part of the Shadow Realm. Not even other
races like the shadow people demons and dragons really care to
get involved with Xeles, and most other races avoid Xeles's
Shadow Realm unless allied with him. In Xeles's part of the
Shadow Realm, there are places of note, but almost little is
known about the Deep Shadow Realm and how its set up due to
almost everyone who goes to scout that area never returning.
What is known though is that there is a place of note there
called the Hell of Souls, which is like an evil antithesis of
the Hall of Souls. What little is known about the Hell of Souls
is that it is a farm for dark spirits to utilize human souls in
different ways. Between twisting some human spirits into dark
spirits through torture and corruption by Xeles's presence,
there is also those that are constantly devoured, digested and
ejected by dark spirits, farmed for their spirit energy, as well
as areas where souls emotional energies are collected by those
like collectors. Xeles considers the fear of the souls like
artwork to decorate his home, and the Hell of Souls is a place
that many consider worse than hell itself. Death wraiths are
forbidden from entering this area, and even those like Death and
Toranoraos avoid this part of the Shadow Realm and cannot save
anyone who gets lost in this unless Xeles allows it. Even
mortals and primordial deities who are technically allied with
Xeles are scared of the Hell of Souls, and the few that have
seen it without going mad speak with the utmost fear of the
place. Dark spirits love this area, but no mortal or primordial
deity that has seen it has ever not been psychologically
tormented by it (at least unless they become a full dark spirit,
in which case they won't be affected anymore).
- The Dark Multiverse (Unexplored Territory): Almost like a
mirror, deep in the Shadow Realm, there is a dark reflection of
the multiverse that is made up of pure darkness. It is a world
without any form of light that exists within Xeles's presence.
No one knows much about this dark multiverse, aside from what
dark spirits and those like Phantom and Xeles have said about
it. This used to be a rumor among shadow people, but was never
fully proven due to the fact that no one has ever made it out of
Xeles's presence. However, its existence was confirmed by dark
spirits, once dark spirits learned to summon elements from the
dark multiverse. Not only do the elements work differently in
dark multiverse, but these elements seem to have chaotic energy
from Xeles's influence that counters most normal elementals and
react quite violently to their normal elemental counterparts.
For example, dark spirits have a dark element called black
water, which is like a corruptive acidic version of water made
entirely of liquid darkness that reacts violently and causes
water to bubble chaotically and turn into an acidic liquid
before exploding into acidic vapor. The elements of the Dark
Multiverse do follow some similar laws, but the elements in the
dark multiverse work differently and have properties that
differentiate them from normal matter. Dark spirits are usually
able to summon aspects of this dark multiverse, which they use
to counter death wraith elementals. Every now and then, people
from the dark multiverse may try to enter the real multiverse,
and some dark multiverse beings exist in different forms. Among
the two main known races of the Dark Multiverse are the Dark
Specters, who are people reflected in the dark multiverse
usually as pure chaotic evil versions that live for nothing but
causing as much chaos as possible or want to absorb the souls of
the living world for their own enjoyment, and the Heartless,
emotionless dark reflections of people's hearts that feed on
emotions of the multiverse and seek to bring out the darkness in
people's hearts. No death wraith, or almost any being outside of
Xeles's realm has seen the Dark Multiverse, but rumor is that it
is a place of chaos and pure evil that is worse than even the
darkest universes in the multiverse (even universes where the
universe is taken over by things like Hell opening up on earth,
or the Demon Realm taking over the universe). When those from
this realm go to the real world, they may take on a dark shape,
or some can learn to take on human forms when going to the
living world. The few that have appeared have had no light at
all in their nature and have no positive energy in their power
at all (as their natures are purely dark and negative natured).
For the most part, those from the dark multiverse are immune to
light effects, with many even being able to use their darkness
in flashbangs due to the difference in how their darkness works
since their natures are blotted out from the light completely.
Race: The death wraiths are their own race. In order to be a
death wraith, one has to be born one or be a death wraith
created by Toranoraos (which most created by Toranoraos have
died of old age by this point). There aren't many artificial
ways to create death wraiths, but there are a few ways to create
death wraiths through techniques like cloning and using death
wraith DNA to create new beings from the DNA using advanced
genetic modification techniques depending how it's done (like
how the wolf wraiths were spawned from combining the Ghostwolf
tribe with death wraith DNA to turn the Ghostwolves into a new
Ghostwolf/Death wraith hybrid). There are also rare mutations of
death wraiths, some that are born different from the rest (for
example, Kitsune Resei is a rare mutation born as an incarnation
of both light and darkness, and is a mutation no one understands
why this mutation comes about and why it is never passed on in
families). For the most part, the death wraiths are their own
race, born as such from death wraith parents. Hybrids do exist
even though there are rules against death wraiths having
relationships with mortals (since death wraiths see such
connections to mortals as weakness due to their emotional
suppression), and there are plenty of death wraiths with other
abilities besides just death wraith shadows, especially among
exiled death wraiths who live among humanity. The death wraiths
are known for being native to the Shadow Realm, which is their
home, and being creatures that are literal incarnations of
darkness that protect the living world from the horrors that
come from the deepest parts of the Shadow Realm. All death
wraiths are usually born in the Shadow Realm, and almost any
that live among the death wraiths will eventually have to chose
one of two career paths: either lost soul collection, or dark
spirit hunting. Even the ones in charge of the death wraith
societies start out at the bottom and have to work their way to
the top. It is also worth noting that the death wraiths live
much longer than humans, with them living for hundreds of
thousands of years.
Weapons and Items:
- Death Wraith Soul Sword: Every death wraith has some form of
soul sword, which is a soul weapon that is born alongside the
soul of a death wraith. Similar to how the soul reapers have
zanpakutos, the death wraiths are able to awaken soul swords,
with each one being unique to the death wraith in both form and
power. Usually, this reflects them in some way, reflecting their
natures in the weapon and it's abilities. This could result in
weapons coming in all sizes and shapes, even with some weapons
not even being swords. Among known variations have been axes,
blunt weapons, and in at least one universe, the death wraith
hybrid Amber Shadow-Rowe's weapon took the form of a broom.
These weapons are all bound to the soul of the death wraith,
being able to be summoned and de-summoned from their souls at
will. Death wraith blades, aside from their unique abilities,
all have some common abilities that are natural for death
wraiths, such as soul swords being able to destroy dark spirits
and can purify corrupted spirits (though some stronger
corruptions that cannot be purified can at least be weakened so
the soul can be collected). Every soul sword may be unique, but
their ability to destroy dark spirits of the shadow realm and
fight/purify ghosts and souls is something every death wraith
soul sword has. These weapons, even broken, can be repaired by
de-summoning and allowing the weapon to draw on spirit energy of
the death wraith, allowing the soul to fix the weapon as the
soul's power is absorbed by the blade. These blades typically
have a major weakness though, and that is blessed sea salt and
(with a few exceptions) light abilities. Typically, the weapons
being destroyed doesn't permanently destroy them, as their
remnants are just reabsorbed by the death wraith, but this can
be dangerous if the weapon is destroyed with blessed sea salt or
iron as this can poison the death wraith when they try to
reabsorb the weapon, and can only be absorbed once it has been
cleaned of any iron, sea salt or light energy that was used on
it. The weapons abilities also have their normal weaknesses
(like fire would be weak to ice/water abilities), and any
ability these weapons have can usually be countered somehow.
- Supernatural Weapons and Items: Thanks to friendly spirits and
allies recruited to help the Death Wraiths, the death wraith
order has access to other weapons and items that can be made for
them by other allies. One such example is the man known as
Smithy, who, in most universes, resides in the space between the
Shadow Realm and the Living World and has his own shop where he
makes supernatural weapons and items for people he is willing to
help. Similar allies have also set up shop in the Shadow Realm
in the safe area where the dark spirits are unable to invade due
to the strong death wraith presence. Thanks to this, all death
wraiths can usually find someone to commission weapons and
items. Depending on the maker, most can make unique weapons
tailored specifically to the abilities of a person, with some
advanced makers like Smithy even able to make intelligent
weapons or human form weapons. This mostly depends on the death
wraith and what they can commission to have done. Typically, any
weapons made are for helping the death wraith do their job and
take on enemies of the death wraiths, or for helping them reap
souls. The one major thing to note is that most allies of the
death wraiths are forbidden from making weapons that can destroy
spirits and souls completely without express permission from
Toranoraos or a similar authority. Usually, weapons made are for
more easily countering certain abilities or helping death
wraiths take advantage of certain abilities.
Death Wraith Abilities:
- 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 skillset, 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 counter-able 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.
- Death Wraith Elementals: Contrary to popular belief, death
wraiths don't use shadow elementals like people think, but they
use basic elementals based on what they have affinities for.
However, they don't use elementals the same way mortals do, in
which they have a different understanding of elements than
mortals and use them a different way. For the death wraiths,
elementals exist in one of four states of matter that they learn
to manipulate: solid matter manipulation, liquid matter
manipulation, gas matter manipulation, and plasma matter
manipulation. Depending on the power gained, most are able to
gain multiple abilities depending on the element used, in which
their understanding in elements is more based on the
understanding of the forms of matter than on the elements
themselves. Each has it's own benefits, with each having
strengths and weaknesses. Solid matter manipulation mostly
involves earth manipulation, where death wraiths are able to
control anything with solid structure, like glass, sand, dirt,
rock, and even metal or concrete. Liquid matter manipulation
lets a death wraith control liquid, in which they are able to
control anything from acid, to water if it's in liquid form,
even being able to control the temperature of liquids like
creating ice and boiling liquid. Gas matter manipulation is
similar to wind manipulation, where the user is able to control
anything in gas form with this usually meaning controlling the
air around them. This includes being able to control wind, but
can be used to do things like manipulate explosive gases, create
poisonous gases, or even create wind attacks. Plasma
manipulation involves controlling energy, which usually consists
mostly of controlling energy-based powers like fire, lightning
and even radiation energy. These powers, however, also come with
corresponding weaknesses, like solid matter manipulation being
counter-able like any other earth manipulation and each type
being counter-able by another form of matter manipulation in
some way.
- Adaptability/Power Users: Like most mortals, death wraiths are
adaptable and able to learn the same abilities as mortals can
(for the most part) thanks to the time they spend in the living
world, and how adaptable they were made by Toranoraos. This
includes being able to learn things like magic, mana, psychic,
or even holy/unholy abilities depending on what they have
affinities for (Example: Some death wraiths might have an
affinity for magic, while some might be more tuned to psychic or
holy/unholy abilities). A death wraith is able to learn these in
the same way as other mortals, such as learning certain arts
like mana user abilities or spirit energy user abilities
depending on their skill sets and affinities. Usually, they can
learn these from other death wraiths or from the mortals who use
these techniques depending on their training and anyone they can
learn from. Usually, death wraiths can learn special skills
depending on their affinities, where they are able to learn
usually up to two or three special skill sets depending on their
age and training. For the most part, most typically stick to one
or two though, since some of the skill sets require extensive
training and practice to be useful, and it is typically better
to master one special set of skills than gain a number of them
that one cannot fully master (though having more may mean more
ways to attack different kinds of enemies at the cost of not
being able to fully master multiple skillsets to maintain their
multiple skillsets). However, while a death wraith gains the
strength of whatever class power they gain, they also gain the
weaknesses, such as magic users being weak to magic negation or
their magic not hurting those immune to magic. This applies to
all abilities learned, which means death wraiths have to weigh
strengths and weaknesses of classes to find out what will work
best for them. They are able to learn the same powers as
mortals, and some death wraiths are even born with special
abilities, which is most common in death wraith hybrids.
- 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 their 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).
- Soul Absorption (Forbidden Art): This is a forbidden art among
death wraiths these days, in which death wraiths have gotten
away from this and this art tended to possibly cause corruption
or addiction to devouring souls. There was a time when death
wraiths would feed on the corruption of souls in the living
world, or feed on evil souls in order to survive and sustain
their power, but eventually the death wraiths adapted to mortal
forms of food, so they no longer need to use this. Now, these
two arts are forbidden, as they can come with more risks than
rewards. The first forbidden art is soul absorption where the
death wraith takes the whole soul and devours it, using it for
sustenance in the same way a human would eat their food. A soul
can restore a death wraith's energy, and sustain them for up to
four hours, and restore a death wraith's darkness power if they
are low on energy. This power works similar to other soul
eaters, but came with a major risk, and that was soul devouring
addition that would cause death wraiths to become addicted to
eating souls as they continued to devour souls. Because of this
addiction, this was one of the reasons death wraiths had to
adapt to mortal foods so that they could avoid the dangers of
this art. Those that use this art are able to use it just like
soul eaters, where they can use this to absorb souls and grow
stronger and can sustain themselves on souls. They can also gain
new abilities from this art if they devour a soul, gaining the
abilities it had. However, unlike other soul eaters, death
wraith natures didn't change when using this, meaning their
physiology didn't change. While this meant that they wouldn't
gain more weaknesses with physiology changes, it also means that
some powers cannot be gained by death wraiths, such as death
wraiths not being able to learn any kind of light abilities
(except for very rare mutations like Kitsune Resei who use both
light and darkness). These days, this art is forbidden, and
those that use it are often either exiled or closely monitored
for signs of soul devouring addiction to avoid death wraiths
devouring souls unnecessarily.
- Corruption Absorption (Forbidden Art): The second forbidden
and outdated technique death wraiths used for sustenance is
corruption absorption. It used to be that death wraiths purified
souls by absorbing the corruption into themselves, where they
would devour it as sustenance in order to help make sure the
corruption had somewhere to go. This made it easier to purify
souls, as the corruption would be more easily able to be removed
if it was able to go somewhere specific. This allows a death
wraith to consume corrupting energy, such as hollowfied soul
corruption, or other types of soul corruption that change mortal
souls or corrupt them in some form. The benefit is that the
corruption can not only restore a death wraith's power (though
not to the degree of devouring a soul), but the corruption
energy can make a death wraith stronger while it is in their
body, similar to how eating certain diets can make affect a
mortal's overall health. Typically, this used to be a good way
to remove corruption before death wraiths fully developed
certain purification arts, and worked as sustenance before they
adapted to mortal foods. However, the risk to this particular
art is that death wraiths can poison themselves with this way of
sustenance if they aren't careful with things like hollow power
or human emotional energy, as taking corruption into themselves
can be a double-edged sword. Some death wraiths, if they are not
fully capable of handling the corruption energy will be
corrupted and changed by this power. This was the main danger of
this power, as death wraiths could be turned into hollows or
twisted spirits if they were corrupted, which would turn them
into enemies of the death wraiths. Luckily, this art isn't
really used anymore, but those that use this art are usually
very closely monitored for corruption and are typically exiled
or killed if corruption is found in them. And many times,
corruption can be permanent in a death wraith if they are
affected by this, and can get worse over time depending on the
strength of the corruption.
- Dark Spirit Bonding (Forbidden Art): There have been death
wraiths that seek to utilize dark spirits to their advantage,
and some who have thought they could control some dark spirits.
Those that foolishly believed this created an art that bonds
dark spirits to a death wraith, which is a very dangerous art.
Users are able to use this to bond a dark spirit to themselves,
and call on it whenever they so choose to help them in battle or
empower them passively. For example, certain dark spirits will
trade dark arts in exchange for energy from the body, or some
might gain strength from certain energies. One death wraith even
managed to bond a consumer to themselves using this art that
allowed the death wraith to absorb energy, at least until the
consumer overpowered the death wraith and consumed his soul. If
the death wraith can overpower the dark spirit, they can use
this art to bond the dark spirit to them and essentially take
the power of a dark spirit. Whatever spirits are bonded to the
death wraith grant their powers to the death wraith, as long as
the death wraith can control the power of the dark spirit. This
in turn creates a fusion of dark spirit and death wraith power
that some death wraiths have become very powerful using.
However, the danger to this is that this art almost always ends
in the death wraith being overpowered and devoured by the dark
spirit, as dark spirits will always fight back to try and take
over the death wraith. Death wraiths can usually only bond one
or two dark spirits to themselves at any given time (one if it's
a stronger dark spirit like a collector or consumer). This is a
forbidden art for a reason, as there have been no successful
lives that didn't end in tragedy when using this art. When using
this art, the death wraith must remain in perfect control, or
they could become possessed by the dark spirit, or worse. If the
dark spirit completely overpowers the death wraith's spirit,
most dark spirits will consume the soul of the death wraith, and
then become a just a dark spirit possessed death wraith that is
forever lost to the dark spirit (which some refer to as a "Dark
Wraith" or sometimes a "Consumed Wraith"). While this is the
most powerful darkness ability a death wraith could use, it
always comes with a great cost, and the death wraith must always
live with the mind of the dark spirit trying to corrupt them (at
least until the dark spirit eventually wins and takes over the
mind). This art is forbidden to use, and those that do use it
are instantly imprisoned in the Twilight Realm due to how many
issues have been created when a dark spirit takes over a death
wraith (such as the consumer death wraith became a dark wraith
and killed three teams of dark spirit hunter death wraiths
before it was finally stopped).
Death Wraith Shadow Arts: (Death Wraiths can learn up to 4-5
skills alongside 2 basic darkness skills depending on their
skill level to include at least two basic darkness types (basic
users won't learn as much, but advanced users can possibly learn
a few extra skills or another basic darkness skill depending on
the death wraith), Death Wraith elders can learn more, but must
have permission from Raven and/or Anna to make a death wraith
elder)
- Death Wraith Shadow Arts Training: Death wraiths have had a
long time to learn the power of shadows, and have developed
their own shadow arts which death wraiths can learn. Usually,
death wraiths can learn special arts depending on what they do,
with the two main jobs for death wraiths being collecting souls
and hunting/fighting dark spirits of the Shadow Realm. Depending
on what they are doing, death wraiths are able to learn
different arts developed by the death wraiths. There are many
ways that they have learned to use darkness, and different arts
they've developed that allow them to use their darkness in
unique ways. Some have even managed to develop unique arts, like
Kierran Black, using their unique abilities in combination with
the darkness abilities or other abilities. These arts are
usually about manipulating darkness in unique ways, and all use
darkness in some way that can enhanced a death wraith's
abilities, such as using purifying darkness to battle dark
spirits, or using death energy to more easily wear down a living
being that is trying to kill them. Typically, these arts are
taught in a general capacity, and death wraiths are able to
develop them as needed using unique abilities, such as a magic
user being able to use dark magic and modify it for their own
needs, or some specializing in certain darkness techniques.
These arts are usually all forms of darkness, and most of them
are counter-able by using light energy equivalents or using
light in unique ways, or using any power that can counter
darkness. Typically, death wraiths fall into one of two
categories: Lost Soul Hunters or Dark Spirit Hunters. Depending
on their career path, most will choose the best options for
whatever path they choose.
- 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.
- Grim Darkness Manipulation (Basic Darkness Type): This is a
darkness art that uses the darker negative part of the soul, and
combines it with darkness to create a negatively powered
darkness. Many death wraiths have positive power in their souls,
but they have plenty of negative power that they can use for
this ability as well. This darkness is a negative power darkness
that is a type of enhanced darkness. Usually, this darkness is
used as a more powerful darkness to try and counter light users,
specifically holy light users. As one might imagine, this
typically is used by those that hunt lost souls, since they
sometimes must fight those that use light abilities. This
darkness is used just like other darkness types, except that it
is more powerful than normal darkness, and can be used to battle
holy abilities as well thanks to the negative side of the soul
that powers this ability. More advanced users of this ability
are even able to do things like absorbing and crushing solid
matter with intense pressure through gravity manipulation
(advanced users), or manipulate the darkness's destructive power
to make it able to overpower many other forms of elemental
abilities. More advanced shadow users, ones who can do things
like changing the consistency of shadows or making shadows
acidic, can find plenty of ways to make use of this darkness.
The negative powered darkness can also lead to other negative
powered darkness skills, such as those that can learn demonic
power might learn to fuse this with demonic power to create
their own makeshift demonic shadows, or some have used the
destructive power to fuse to shadow infused death energy to
create a more powerful darkness that can do more damage to
stronger lost souls. Typically, strong enough light can counter
this ability, and some more powerful fire abilities can be used
as well. It is also possible to use holy power to counter
darkness, which works great if light fails, or works great if
someone can use something like holy light.
- Holy Darkness (Basic Darkness Type): This is a darkness art
that uses the positive energy part of the soul, and combines it
with darkness to create a positively powered darkness. Many
death wraiths have positive power in their souls, and those that
don't learn grim darkness can learn this instead if they choose.
This darkness is a negative power darkness that is a type of
enhanced darkness. Usually, this darkness is used as a more
powerful darkness to try and counter light users, specifically
fallen light or demonic light users. As one might imagine, this
typically is used by those that hunt lost souls, since they
sometimes must fight those that use light abilities. This
darkness is used just like other darkness types, except that it
is more powerful than normal darkness, and can be used to battle
demonic abilities as well thanks to the positive side of the
soul that powers this ability. More advanced users of this
ability are even able to do things like absorbing and crushing
solid matter with intense pressure through gravity manipulation
(advanced users), or manipulate the darkness's destructive power
to make it able to overpower many other forms of elemental
abilities. More advanced shadow users, ones who can do things
like changing the consistency of shadows or making shadows
acidic, can find plenty of ways to make use of this darkness.
Advanced users might even be able to combine this with other
positive abilities like healing and purification, or some have
even combined this with purifying darkness to create an
empowered holy darkness that can fight dark spirits. Typically,
strong enough light can counter this, and some more powerful
fire abilities can be used as well. It is also possible to use
demonic power to counter this darkness, which works great if
light fails, or works great if someone can use something like
fallen light. Some can even use other negative power abilities
as well. The major counter to this though is typically the
darkness of the Deep Shadow Realm, which some call the
Whispering Darkness that is pure evil power.
- Freezing Darkness Manipulation (Can chose one of the three
elemental darkness abilities): This power is an ability that was
developed to utilize the absence of heat in the darkness, and is
one of three elemental type darkness abilities. But removing the
light and heat, the cold of the darkness is able to reach
incredible levels to the point of freezing objects. Normally,
this is a passive power of vengeful spirits, who utilize
negative emotions to use the energy of their emotions to create
a cold chill. When combined with the power of darkness that
removes heat from an area, this creates a power to call forth
ice using the combined power. However, when it comes to death
wraiths, the death wraiths utilize this by utilizing their own
cold natures as controlling their emotions to the point that
they don't let their emotions show. By combining this nature
with darkness, death wraiths learned to utilize a version of
freezing darkness that combines the power of ice with darkness
and allows one's darkness to freeze objects. This is a powerful
darkness art that can be used by death wraiths who have mastered
not only their own abilities to control their own emotions, but
this also works great with death wraiths that can utilize ice
abilities, such as those that can create ice from liquid, or
those that use heat absorbing plasma to create ice. This power
can be used to freeze opponents using darkness, but can also be
used to create frozen darkness spears, freezing dark tendrils,
or even be used to fire blasts of freezing darkness. This power
can also be used against ice users, as this is a pure darkness
power in the form of ice manipulation and not ice manipulate
like most people think. Another use of this is to use other
darkness types to utilize this darkness, such as purifying
darkness can become purifying freezing darkness. This is useful
against certain opponents, such as freezing purifying darkness
being useful against dark spirits or death-based freezing
darkness being useful to freeze lost souls for transport to the
Hall of Souls. This ability is best countered by fire abilities,
or those that can use intense light like flashbangs to
temporarily negate darkness (the best way to counter is with
both fire and light abilities combined). This power can also be
countered using lightning or anything that counters ice
abilities, and light based lightning can also be used to
effectively counter this power.
- Burning Darkness (Can chose one of the three elemental
darkness abilities): 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.
- Dark Lightning (Can chose one of the three elemental darkness
abilities): Rather than using emotions or control of emotions,
this elemental ability uses a mastery of darkness energy itself.
This is a power that changes the form of darkness, and changes
darkness energy into a static-like state. By changing the state
of the darkness, the darkness becomes like electricity, and can
be used similarly by those that learn this power. When using
this, this requires a heavy mastery of changing energy states,
and can be used on most forms of darkness to create a more
powerful darkness (for example, this could be used on primordial
darkness as well). This ability is used like normal lightning
skills, being able to do things like firing blasts of lightning,
creating piercing lightning attacks, and electrocuting people
with electrical energy. This works similarly to spirit
lightning's power, except that it uses darkness instead of
spirit energy. Another major aspect of this lightning is that it
uses darkness as a conductor, which means that shadows can be
used to amplify this dark lightning when used properly. When
combined with things like deathly darkness or purifying
darkness, this can be very useful against certain enemies, such
as purifying dark lightning could be used to do damage against
dark spirits as the dark lightning would run through a dark
spirit's body like a current, and with purifying darkness could
destroy a dark spirit with much less effort. Against lost souls,
deathly darkness based dark lightning can also do more damage to
disable a soul trying to fight a death wraith. Depending on the
darkness and the way it's used, this can be a very useful
technique, and is extremely dangerous if used properly. This
doesn't require emotional control, but does require perfect
energy control or else one could find themselves damaged by this
energy's current, as death wraiths are also darkness. If this
energy is not precisely controlled, it can be turned back on its
user, so it is a bit of a double edged sword if the user is not
skilled enough to control this power. This can also be countered
by intense light like flashbangs which can destroy this
lightning, or one can use counters to lightning to block it,
such as using earth that is non-conductive to stop the flow of
electricity.
- Umbra Telekinesis (Intermediate Art): Everything has a shadow,
and that shadow can exert a certain control over an object when
applied properly. When used, this skill is designed for death
wraiths to take control of a shadow of an object, and then use
the connection to the object to control the object using the
shadow's connection. For example, a box could be lifted up by
controlling the box's shadow, and using it's connection to the
box to move the box where the death wraith wants to move it,
even levitating objects. This is a very useful skill that can be
used to control objects, even if it's from a distance as long as
the death wraith can control the shadow of an object. Being
masters of shadow, most death wraiths can control the shadows
pretty easily, but only users that master the connections
shadows have to the real world are able to use this technique.
When used, this works like normal telekinesis where a death
wraith can stop objects or projectiles, or throw objects at
someone or something. Users can even learn to throw blasts of
telekinetic energy using shadows in their control. This skill is
very useful to death wraiths who can sense shadows around them,
and can even sense the world by how the shadows move. Masters of
this skill can even learn how to use this to sense attacks
coming at them, such as sensing the shadow of a projectile
moving towards them, or new shadows that appear if something is
created. Of course, the major problem with this skill is the
fact that light can be used to interrupt this skill, as light is
usually how the shadow is formed, and depending on the light
source, some light sources can be moved in such a way that the
technique is dispelled. This is also hard to use on living
beings, as most living beings will resist this skill, though it
can be used to temporarily restrain someone with some effort. It
is also worth noting that this works like telekinesis where it
does require concentration to use this, so attacking a user is
the best way to stop their use of this. And if there is no
shadow, such as during a flashbang, then this technique cannot
be used.
- Shadow Puppets (Intermediate Art): This technique is a fairly
unique art developed by certain necromancy users. By using the
death energy-based shadows on a dead body and fusing the shadows
into where the soul would be, a death wraith is able to learn
how to essentially create undead that can be used to serve their
purposes. When using this, the shadows take control of the body
and allow the body to use any abilities the body had in life,
with the exception of spirit energy based abilities (Due to not
having a soul). This art is difficult to master, as it requires
controlling the darkness used to resurrect the body, and users
usually have to spread their darkness power out if they create
multiple undead. However, by using their connection to the
darkness, they can control the undead from a distance, which can
make these great for scouting out an area if using a dead person
who can blend into a crowd. Once a death wraith learns advanced
abilities, they may also learn black blood which can corrupt the
blood in the body to grant an even better control of the undead
and make this easier to use. This is also good when used on
people with unique abilities, as their abilities can be used to
the advantage of the death wraith. The only abilities that pose
a threat to a death wraith's control are light-based abilities,
which can be used to destroy the darkness controlling one of
their undead. When used in battle, these undead are very useful,
as the darkness inside of them that makes up their spirit can
pull the body back together as many times as needed, assuming
the undead isn't destroyed completely or hit with a light attack
that would destroy or interrupt the darkness used to control the
undead. If the darkness inside of the undead is dispelled, or
the user calls back the darkness power used, the undead goes
back to being dead, and can no longer be used. These undead are
not weak to healing magic like most would think, but instead
destroying the body is usually the best way to eliminate these
undead. This also doesn't work well against living because the
darkness cannot take control of them as long as they have a
soul, and even if they don't have a soul, soulless beings can
resist this darkness control.
- Shadow Tamer Art (Intermediate Art): This technique creates
shadow familiars from the shadows, and allows a death wraith to
create familiars to help them. There are a few death wraith
clans, alongside other users of this that created and mastered
this art, and use it more effectively which are often known as
"Shadow Tamers" (a play on beast tamers since the shadows are
usually in the form of beasts) who often learn how to create
and manage this technique. This requires a mastery of the nature
of darkness, and is a difficult technique to learn. By using a
portion of a death wraith's spirit energy, they can influence
shadows to create beings of shadows that can take whatever form
the user wants. Once created, the shadows take a form and then
become like a familiar temporarily to the user, allowing the
user to use this technique to create creatures of darkness that
can help them out either in battle or outside of battle. As one
might expect, these are great for scouting areas, but also great
for battle depending on the form of the shadow creature. For
example, some death wraiths may use a bird like a crow or raven
to scout from the sky, or use a tiger or panther in battle to
help them fight. Depending on how its used, this can create
shadow familiars of many kind, which are connected to the death
wraith. The death wraith is even able to use the connection to
gain all the knowledge the creatures gain, such as using them to
scout an area and the information gained by the familiar goes to
the death wraith, or a death wraith may be able to transfer
certain techniques to their familiar, such as some might be able
to use certain shadow skills of their own. Once mastering
changing darkness natures (like grim darkness or holy darkness
for example), a death wraith can even learn how to use special
types of darkness to create their darkness creature, such as
using a purifying darkness to create a familiar to fight a dark
spirit. Some have even fused special spirits to create permanent
familiars from shadows, which can be useful to people with the
ability to create familiars using other methods as well. When
used, this art is best countered with light abilities or any
counter to the darkness ability used to create these shadow
creatures (such as fire being useful against certain kinds of
shadow), or using anything that can counter familiar spirits
like spirit destruction abilities. However it does require using
some energy to create these shadow familiars and to maintain
them, and if the death wraith exhausts their energy, they cannot
use this skill until they recover their energy.
- Darkness Form/Darkness Shapeshifting (Advanced Art): This is
the first of the advanced arts, which allows a death wraith to
shapeshift using darkness. This power requires a mastery not
only of darkness, but of the body of a death wraith in order to
change the darkness that makes up a death wraith body, and only
experienced death wraiths can learn to use this, as it's
fundamentally much harder than simply turning melding with
shadows as it requires shapeshifting the body and going into a
new form, something the death wraiths weren't really designed to
do beyond going between Death Wraith and human form. When using
this, death wraiths become able to become shadows, and are able
to go into a darkness form. There are a few purposes for this
form change, which can be used if a death wraith learns this.
The first is allowing a death wraith to go into this form as an
intangible form, allowing attacks to pass through them or become
darkness to attack using their bodies in the forms of things
like tendrils or spears with some even being able to take
animalistic forms like wolves and birds depending on what they
want to do. Using certain darkness types, death wraiths may even
become different kinds of darkness (though this is very
difficult to do and usually death wraiths only master one or two
darkness types in most of their life span) to allow this
darkness form to attack specific types of enemies (IE purifying
darkness form to attack dark spirits or death-based darkness to
attack lost souls). This also allows easier regeneration, in
which a death wraith can become darkness and reform their body
more easily while in darkness form as it. However, while in this
form, they are vulnerable to light, as well as form negation
abilities (like certain swordsman or martial arts combat focus
that attack someone no matter the form they're in). If they are
hit by concentrated light, they risk taking heavier damage, and
certain light attacks like a flashbangs might even destroy their
darkness-based bodies if they don't change back quickly enough.
Opponents who absorb darkness can also even absorb the death
wraith's darkness form as well, making this a risky move in
certain situations. However it does require using some energy
go into this form and maintain this form, and if the death
wraith exhausts their energy, they cannot use this skill until
they recover their energy.
- Black Blood (Advanced Art): This is an advanced art among
shadow users, in which some shadow users can fuse darkness and
shadows into their very blood to create a potent black blood
that runs through them that allows for a death wraith to
manipulate their blood with shadows. This is most common among
those with blood manipulation since shadow users with blood
manipulation more easily combine their powers together, though
some death wraiths can use this without blood manipulation due
to their mastery of darkness. This power is useful to death
wraiths, as they can infuse shadows into them that they can use,
and use this even against powerful light opponents since this
power was designed to use blood to absorb or reflect light, and
make light attacks harder to pierce through the darkness in the
black blood. Some black blood users even have certain blood
manipulation techniques that they can learn, making this
something death wraiths can use to learn blood manipulation
techniques, blood magic, or blood attack arts as well. The most
common techniques death wraiths learn are usually creating black
blood tendrils to attack opponents, or creating blades or blast
attacks out of blood. Death wraiths with this power can more
easily use darkness abilities with some even learning to fuse
their darkness to other types of blood in others to draw out
their blood, and master level death wraiths can even fuse other
forms of darkness like primordial darkness to their black blood
to create stronger black blood. However, this is countered best
with water abilities, which can wash away the blood, or anything
that can counter blood manipulation. It is also worth noting
that most death wraiths cannot regenerate blood easily, so using
this is dangerous unless they have a way to use it without using
too much blood, meaning that death wraiths usually have to learn
to create black blood in others (usually dead bodies) to
manipulate more blood. There is another weakness to this power
though, and that is how the body of a death wraith is based on
that of humans. Because humans have a certain amount of iron in
their blood, death wraiths have to be careful when using this,
as using this will cause small amounts of iron damage to their
bodies when used. Normally, their bodies can handle the small
iron content as long as it doesn't come out of their blood
stream, but moving the iron from their blood through their skin
can cause damage to the body when drawing out the blood, causing
iron damage.
- Shadow Soul (Advanced Art): This art is a special art that
allows a death wraith to manipulate their own shadow. When used
properly, this allows a death wraith to animate their shadow,
which takes a shadow form of the death wraith and can operate as
its own extension of the death wraith. This is somewhat similar
to the animated shadows technique, but instead of simply
creating a familiar from their own shadow, they grant an essence
to their shadow and allow it to operate independently from the
user. Typically, this shadow is an extension of the user, and
operates to help the user with whatever the user wants to use
the shadow for. For example, as one might expect, this can help
out a lot in battle, where a death wraith can use their shadow
to attack an opponent, or use the shadow to scout an area. The
shadow essentially becomes an entity of its own, and operates
within whatever the user wants it to do. The shadow also gains
all of the darkness abilities of the death wraith, such as being
able to use their shadow skills, and can even reform and
regenerate using darkness, as well as shapeshift due to it being
a darkness form. And when combined with the Shadow Tamer art,
this can allow a shadow to even create its own familiars to help
it out. This skill is very useful to a death wraith, allowing
them to manifest their shadow as a helpful ally to them. Because
the shadow is a part of them, their shadow will usually operate
within whatever the user wants, though the only real danger are
those that absorb other people's shadows. If encountering
someone who absorbs other people's shadows, this can actually
result in someone absorbing the death wraith's shadow if they
aren't careful, and doing so could result in the death wraith
losing their shadow. However, it is also worth noting that light
is a major counter, as strong enough light attacks can also
incapacitate this shadow, and prevent it from being used. If
destroyed, the essence returns to the user, and can be
re-manifested, but if absorbed by someone, the shadow cannot
return and may fall under someone else's control. This can be
countered with other abilities of darkness as well, such as fire
abilities that burn shadows. Depending on the darkness type
used, some other types of darkness can also be used against it,
such as corrupted darkness and whispering darkness, or other
powers like holy or unholy power depending on the darkness type.
However it does require using some energy to manifest one's
shadow, and if the death wraith exhausts their energy, they
cannot use this skill until they recover their energy.
- 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.
- Corrupted Light (Advanced Art): This art utilizes darkness to
corrupt light to utilize light against light users. This was
designed to counter light users which are usually darkness
users' main counter. Death wraiths use this art as well, which
allows them to use this if they can master the corruption of
light energy. Users of this art have to learn to manipulate
light using darkness to corrupt the light. When used, corrupted
light can do damage to light users, and if light users try to
absorb corrupted light, they will take physical damage. This
also allows darkness users with corrupted light to utilize light
for different techniques, like firing beams of corrupted light,
or manipulating different kinds of light. The only thing that
cannot be done with corrupted light are reflecting light off
mirror surfaces, and using light to create illusions because
some properties of light are lost when turned into corrupted
light. Aside from losing its reflective properties, users can
use corrupted light just like normal light powers. This
corrupted light can be countered by darkness users and light
users, and can still be countered just like normal light. This
art is extremely difficult for darkness users to learn, and
requires a mastery of understanding not only in darkness power,
but in how light energy works as well. This makes this art
something only advanced and experienced users of darkness can
utilize, and most have to train for many years in darkness and
being exposed to light attacks to learn how to utilize this
effectively. This is also a dangerous thing against darkness
users, as if they fail, the light can do more damage to them if
they do not do this with exact precision. This also requires
overpowering the light that the darkness user wants to convert,
so this might not always be usable against enemy light attacks
if the light attacks are stronger than the darkness energy
trying to corrupt the light. Some unsuccessful uses of this
could create an explosion of light and darkness, which usually
happens if the user cannot overpower the light energy and the
two energies react and combust.
- Twilight Realm Imprisonment (Elder Death Wraiths only): This
art is an art that is only taught among the elders of the death
wraiths. This art opens a path to the Twilight Realm, a place
between the living world and the Shadow Realm that is used by
the death wraith order to send their criminals due to shadow
walking and shadow travel not working in the Twilight Realm.
Because of its utilization of light and darkness blended
together, it is impossible to use light or darkness travel or
teleportation when in the Twilight realm. The only people who
can escape this realm are those that can utilize both dark and
light manipulation and can utilize both darkness and light
travel or teleportation. However, death wraith elders have an
art that allows them to open portals to this realm, which they
use to cast their criminals into this realm. Because this realm
acts like a prison for criminals due to how its used, this art
is only used by elders who have the authority to condemn
criminals in the death wraith order. When used, this allows a
death wraith to open portals, in which they then cast whoever
they want into the Twilight Realm. This portal is a limited
ability, but is used among certain death wraith council members
when deemed appropriate. This can open a portal to the Twilight
Realm anywhere in the realm, and can be used both in the living
world and the shadow realm in order to access the Twilight
Realm. However, even death wraiths with this ability cannot open
portals while in the Twilight Realm, so if an elder is trapped
there, then this can mean they can become trapped as well since
shadow walk/shadow travel doesn't work in the Twilight Realm.
The other major danger is that while they can open paths to the
Twilight Realm to push criminals into, it is possible for
criminals to escape when these portals open, if they are in the
area of the portal that opens and can get through before the
death wraith can close the portal. This works like most other
portal abilities, but only works on going to the Twilight Realm.
Usually, death wraiths who use this to cast prisoners have to
randomize where in the Twilight Realm this opens up, as they
have to try and make sure that criminals don't escape when
portals are opened.
- Diabolic Darkness Manipulation (Elder Death Wraiths only):
This power is one that only death wraith elders are able to
master, and involves becoming pure darkness. When using this
art, a death wraith elder is able to remove all of the light in
their power, leaving only pure darkness. This often creates a
pure darkness that is often referred to among death wraiths as
"the darkest shadows" that is meant to create darkness strong
enough to counter stronger darknesses used by dark spirits. This
darkness is extremely powerful, and stronger than most other
darkness. This darkness looks and feels evil to most, but this
is actually a neutral darkness type. This darkness can be made
to utilize other darkness types, such as deathly darkness or
purifying darkness, which allows them to create strong darkness
types that make them easier to take on the most dangerous
enemies that normal dark spirit hunter or lost soul hunter teams
cannot defeat. When used, this becomes a state of being, where
elders with this can radiate this passively, in which this
becomes their permanent darkness once they have trained
themselves to maintain this state. This is used much like normal
darkness, which can be used to control shadows, manipulate dark
energy, and be used to control the properties of darkness. The
major problem with this darkness is that it requires more energy
than normal darkness to use and maintain, which means that
elders with this power may have to put more power into
maintaining this darkness and have to keep power aside to
maintain this state. It is also worth noting that this darkness,
while it can be combined with deathly darkness and purifying
darkness, it cannot be manipulated using evil or pure darkness,
due to the fact that the darkness doesn't have any positive or
negative alignment (Being neutral darkness). This means that the
darkness is great for taking on positive or negative aligned
darkness and light powers, but doesn't allow to be used for
positive or negative power. This power counters most light
powers, but strong enough light can still revert this darkness
back to normal darkness if an opponent knows how this power
works. This power can also be countered by fire and lightning,
which can be used if an opponent knows how to use both powers to
counter stronger darkness manipulation. Some dark spirits also
have other darkness types to counter this, as well as some
spirits may have light powers that counter this. This is
dangerous to use against dark spirits though, as some dark
spirits can utilize this darkness to access the deep shadow
realm, so users of this must usually take precautions to protect
their power from dark spirits influence (though that's easy
enough if users have purifying darkness).
- Darkness Gravity Manipulation/Space and Time Manipulation
(Elder Death Wraiths only): This power is another ability that
takes a long time to learn, and uses darkness to create
gravitational effects. Users of this have to learn not only how
darkness works, but learn the science behind how dark energy can
affect space and time. When used, this allows a death wraith
elder to manipulate gravity, creating gravity attacks that can
be used against opponents. Some examples might include blasts of
gravitational energy, or releasing increased gravity to trap an
opponent over an area. Users of this usually have to learn
scientific knowledge in order to make use of this power, but
once they do, they are able to use darkness to create a variety
of effects. Among other abilities include the ability to
manipulate space and time using gravity, which has been known to
warp space and time. By controlling this, users can use this
manipulation to travel across space to other locations, with
some advanced users even being able to travel through time. This
is a very difficult power that requires a mastery of darkness
and science, and requires precise control to manipulate
properly. Without proper control, one might not get the effect
they desire, such as trying to teleport somewhere using spacial
manipulation might not work or might not go to the correct
location if not controlled properly. This can also take a lot of
energy to use properly in some cases, as darkness has to be very
potent to manipulate gravity. This often takes many years for
death wraiths to learn, and most take most of their lifespans to
learn this. This is countered like any other gravity or
space/time manipulation, with other space/time manipulation or
using energies that can counter gravity manipulation.
- Black Hole Darkness Manipulation (Rare Death Wraiths only):
Very rarely, some death wraiths can learn to collapse darkness
to create psuedo-black holes. This is a power that most death
wraiths are not able to learn normally, as it requires not only
a mastery of darkness and science, but also extremely potent
darkness energy that most normal death wraiths don't have. Very
rare death wraiths can learn this, usually after learning
gravity manipulation and space/time manipulation. When used,
this can use darkness to create small black holes that can
absorb energy. While the black holes cannot absorb physical
matter, a big enough black hole can temporarily restrain
someone, or crush them in the black hole if they are caught in a
big enough black hole. This can absorb energy and light,
allowing users of this art to use this to counter energy users
and even absorb stronger darkness and light types. Depending on
the death wraith, some may use this differently, such as one
could use a black hole to bend space to create a portal to
another location, or some may create small black holes in their
hands to absorb energy, darkness and light. Typically, this
works like one would expect a black hole to work, where anything
nearby is drawn toward the black hole, with energy, darkness and
light being drawn into the black hole with immense gravitational
force. These can be created at different sizes, and are also
sometimes used to trap opponents temporarily, though this
doesn't release enough gravity to kill most stronger opponents.
It is also worth noting that this takes a lot of energy, as it
requires very potent darkness to use. Most death wraiths use
this to draw in dark spirits without tangible forms, as beings
of energy like spirits, dark spirits and other ghostly beings
can be drawn into this since they are usually made of energy.
Usually, the larger the black hole is, the more energy is
expelled to use this, and larger black holes are not more
powerful (but are able to capture and contain larger matter) as
some think. This is also a power that affects the user as much
as the opponent, which means that the user cannot use any other
energy attacks while this is in effect or the energy will be
absorbed into the black hole as well.
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.
- Elite Soul Collector Combat Masters: A Death Wraith specially
trained is a skilled warrior and highly trained assassin. Those
with elite soul collector combat training can specialize in
several death wraith and human martial arts, and have an easier
time learning new combat styles thanks to their advanced
training for taking on mortals and lost souls. These Death
Wraith are at peak performance levels for their kind and train
for maximum control over powers and physical body, as this
training helps focus the things that hurt other combat
specialists, and most death wraith learn to minimize their own
body's distractions in battle. Those that are trained in this
are trained specifically to fight lost souls, hollows and other
forms of ghosts or specters that they might face in the living
world. This is specifically taught to those that are part of the
soul collection teams, and typically taught in lesser capacity
to those that are trained as part of the dark spirit hunter
teams in case they find a lost souls or specter they have to
face. This style also teaches other aspects of a death wraith's
abilities, and allows both males and females to shut down all
emotional and reproductive systems to allow for peak performance
and to keep down the chances for getting distracted, allowing
them to keep their minds focused on fights when they need to.
However, the biggest problem with this style is that being too
focused can lead to being surprised by sneak attacks or by
interruptions to fights due to how focused they become on
fights. However, advanced and master level death wraiths are
able to use this without losing focus on the environment around
them, having tuned to a balance between focus on the fight and
focus on what's around them so they don't find themselves too
focused or too distracted.
- 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.
- Death Wraith Human Fighting Styles: During their time on
earth, and to learn different combat abilities, most death
wraiths opt to learn human styles of combat. Depending on the
death wraith, their abilities, and their access to teachers who
can train them, death wraiths can learn almost any human
fighting style thanks to their human adaptability and can even
optimize some styles with their supernatural abilities.
Depending on the death wraith, there are plenty of options, as
humanity has a great number of styles taught all over the world.
Depending on the combat that the death wraith might be opting
for, some styles may work better than others. For example,
styles that focus on distance and not getting too close to an
opponent might be better to fight dark spirits who can affect
opponents through physical touch, or some that focus on bone
snapping or grappling might work against lost souls depending on
the style's effect on the lost soul. This is usually up to the
death wraith, and they can often learn multiple styles. Usually,
it is better to learn one and master it, but some can also learn
multiple styles and blend them together as well since sometimes
certain styles combined together can be more versatile than the
styles individually. Among popular choices are Karate (A style
that focuses more on fluid movement and attack), Jujitsu (a
style that uses grapples and throws primarily) Krav Maga (an
Israeli army favorite designed to kill opponents), Kenpo (a
style that may focus on strikes, grapples or other aspects
depending on the variation), Muay Thai (a style that utilizes
joints for deadly strikes in combination with normal attacks),
and Shotokan Karate (a style that focuses on minimal movement
and focus above all else). Each style is unique and can be
learned by death wraiths. There are also supernatural combat
styles that death wraiths can learn, such as swordsman death
wraiths could learn sword styles like Shingetsu (a style that
combines piercing with sword draws to create a fast and
versatile style), Gatotsu (A simplistic style that is easy to
predict but hard to counter for those that fight using simpler
attack styles), Hiten Mitsurugi (a style that combines
incredible speed and predicting opponents to allow users to more
easily counter opponents), Kenjutsu (a basic combat style that
is easily customizable and can be adjusted using an opponent's
preferred combat style), and Kendo (another simpler style that
focuses on how to properly utilize a sword in battle). Every
style has its strengths and weaknesses, and each style can be
countered by other styles depending on the style.
- 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, exorcise
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:
- 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 de-summon 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 de-summoned 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 de-summoning 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 hindrance
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).
Transformation:
- Human Form: Every death wraith can take a human form when in
the living world. Death wraiths learn to change forms into
humans so that they can live as humans while in the human world,
even being able to survive on human food. For the most part,
this human form looks and feels just like a normal human, except
for the soul of the death wraith who senses as a being of pure
darkness. Death wraith's shadow abilities still work, but are
used in a reduced capacity. When in human form, death wraiths
can reduce damage from light attacks (as their bodies aren't
pure darkness when in human form that can be pierced with light
attacks), and death wraiths can utilize human abilities more
easily when in human form (Like some that utilize human energies
like ki or mana). While their death wraith abilities do get a
little weaker, it is usually the form most death wraiths stay in
for their day to day activities outside of battle, and a form
they usually prefer to train in since the weaker form can give
them bigger gains when they are training. Just like the death
wraiths, every form is unique to the death wraith, and aside
from the times they may need their death wraith form to utilize
stronger darkness abilities, most death wraiths spend most of
their time in human form. Overall, when in this form, death
wraith darkness abilities are weakened, but death wraiths can
more easily utilize their human abilities, as well as them not
being as vulnerable to light (at least not anymore than any
other human would be). Death wraiths in human form are not only
less vulnerable to light and counters to darkness abilities
(since their bodies are like those of mortals), but they also
are physical in nature. While they still regenerate using
darkness and are still darkness natured, their human forms are
as solid and tangible as other humans compared to their death
wraith forms which are usually more intangible than normal
beings since they are spiritual in nature. However, this also
means that death wraiths are more vulnerable to physical attacks
when in human form, whereas their death wraith forms are harder
to permanent damage with physical attacks and often require
spiritual attacks to harm them.
- Death Wraith Form: It would be more appropriate to call this a
death wraith's true form, which is usually only used in battle
when death wraiths need stronger shadows or require a power
boost to take on an opponent. Death wraith forms usually are
described as a pure black form, with glowing rings around the
fingers, and glowing pupils that radiates darkness and death
energy. This form is stronger and has enhanced abilities
compared to the death wraith's human form. Depending on their
abilities, this form might take on unique properties, such as a
death wraith with demonic abilities may have red glowing rings
around their fingers instead of blue, or some might have unique
darkness that radiates from them (such as death wraiths with
demonic power might radiate unholy darkness instead of normal
darkness). When in this form, any limits on the death wraith
placed that holds back their mortal form are released, and the
death wraith can use their full abilities. While there isn't
much of a power difference between a death wraith form and a
human form, the death wraith form is still stronger since the
death wraith doesn't have any limits on their death wraith form
(unless Toranoraos or the Death Wraith council place limits on a
death wraith's power if they have abilities that could be
dangerous to the death wraiths or to the living world). When in
this form, a death wraith may have some trouble using human
abilities (Example, magic might be hindered if the mana changes
nature when the death wraith goes into death wraith form). Most
death wraiths learn ways to counter this, but some powers may
not be as strong. However, their darkness abilities are at their
strongest when in this form, as this form is meant to rely on
darkness as a whole. It is also worth noting that death wraiths
in this form are immune to almost all darkness and deathly
effects. The only darkness that can hurt a death wraith while in
this form is Xeles's darkness, or elementals from the Dark
Multiverse that are darkness in nature that have chaotic
elements that death wraiths cannot adapt to. It is also worth
noting that death wraiths are far more vulnerable to light
attacks when in this form (or any other counters to darkness),
and flashbangs do heavy damage to death wraiths when they are in
death wraith form as they are pure darkness (with certain
exceptions). Spiritual attacks also work more easily on death
wraith forms, as death wraith forms are more spiritual in nature
so abilities that hurt the intangible works better for attacking
death wraiths.
Weakness:
- Death wraiths pride themselves on using cold logic rather than
relying on emotions. There are a number of fairly good reasons
for this. The first is that they see emotions as corruptive, as
emotions can interrupt their focus and cause them to act
irrationally (or at least, death wraiths see it as irrational
behavior even when it might not always be). The second is that
many dark spirits affect emotions, and in order to compete with
dark spirits, death wraiths have to be in perfect control so
that they don't fall under the influence of dark spirits. If a
death wraith doesn't control their emotions, it becomes easier
for certain corruptions to affect them, such as some death
wraiths that have gained hollow power from not controlling their
emotions completely. This is a major training among death
wraiths, and those that cannot control their emotions may become
unbalanced, and may be susceptible to certain abilities as a
result. Due to the jobs the death wraiths do, they must make
difficult choices, which they do through cold logic rather than
letting emotions control their decisions. Death wraiths that
rely too much on emotions could find themselves exiled if they
refuse to gain control of their emotions, as death wraiths
cannot do their jobs with emotions. While there are many who do
embrace the concept of emotions and the power it could bring the
death wraiths, those people are often seen as corruptive
influences on the death wraiths. Overall, opponents can take
advantage of this, if they can get a death wraith to not control
their emotions. This can grant an opponent an edge if the death
wraith loses control of their emotions, and can have severe
consequences if a death wraith succumbs to the influence of
hollowfication or dark spirits as a result.
- Most lost souls and dark spirits have abilities that are
specifically designed to counter death wraiths. Lost souls know
that death wraiths will hunt them down, so in order to avoid
capture, they will often have to come up with ways to counter
death wraith's abilities. Lost souls can learn certain abilities
that can counter death wraiths, utilizing their spiritual
natures, though most lost souls will focus on countering their
deathly and darkness based natures. Dark spirits, on the other
hand, are the anti-thesis of death wraiths, so dark spirits have
specific abilities that are designed to take on death wraiths,
like their whispering darkness, and many who summon elementals
from the dark multiverse to counter death wraith elementals.
Dark spirits and lost souls, while death wraiths have many ways
to counter them, also have many ways to counter death wraiths.
The major danger with lost souls and dark spirits though is that
they may also be able to possess humans, which can catch death
wraiths off guard if the death wraiths don't sense the dark
spirit or lost souls (presence suppression is something many
dark spirits specifically use to avoid death wraiths, though
lost souls can also learn presence suppression when possessing
humans as well with enough practice of their ghostly abilities).
Overall, dark spirits and lost souls, once they reach a certain
level, become too much for normal death wraiths to handle, and
often require more elite teams to handle. These beings are the
two main beings that most death wraiths have to deal with.
- When in human form, most death wraiths are vulnerable to
things humans would be vulnerable to since their bodies are
almost perfect replicas of humans. This means that human form
death wraiths can be affected by toxins and gases that would
work on humans, such as gases toxic to humans or gases that
could cause reactions to humans (like some that irritate the
skin upon contact). For the most part, death wraiths can
regenerate most damage in their human bodies as long as they can
absorb darkness to regenerate (which still works in human form),
but they can still take damage like normal physical beings. For
example, stabbing the heart or brain could fatally injure the
death wraith, and they can die just like any other fatally
injured being if their regeneration is interrupted or doesn't
work. While death wraith forms are not quite so easy to kill due
to the fact they are more spiritual, their physical bodies can
be killed more easily. If they die in their physical bodies,
they will die, which makes their physical forms a bit easier to
kill than their death wraith forms. This means that death wraith
form is better against opponents fighting using means that do
physical damage, while their human form is more vulnerable to
physical damage. However, this also works in reverse, where
spiritual damage doesn't do as much to a death wraith in human
form, but does more damage when in death wraith form. Overall,
destroying their physical bodies is a good way to kill a death
wraith, though most death wraiths would go into death wraith
form before they let themselves be killed as their death wraith
forms are spiritual and don't respond as much to physical
damage. However, if affected by certain things like iron or
blessed sea salt, death wraiths could be forced to remain in
human form, which is also a problem for them. For the most part,
relying on their regeneration is vital for their survival in
human form, since they can die just like any other being.
- Blessed sea salt is one of the death wraiths' two biggest
weaknesses. All death wraiths are highly allergic blessed sea
salt, which can cause a wide variety of problems like
anaphylaxis/anaphylactic shock, breathing problems, or even lead
to death. This substances also interrupts their regeneration
completely, making them unable to regenerate unless they go into
the shadows. The only real way to overcome the effects of
blessed sea salt is for a death wraith to retreat into the
shadows, and let the regenerative properties shadows have on
them overcome it, which can be a painful process, or bleed the
sea salt out of their system if it is in their blood. Weapons
using blessed sea salt can do extra damage as well, and weapons
coated in this can possibly cause blood infections if the
blessed sea salt manages to get into their blood stream. Smoke
grenades using blessed sea salt are also very effective if the
opponent can get a death wraith to breathe in the smoke as used
by some death wraith enemies in the past, as well as mixing it
into water can make a special salt water mix that works on death
wraiths like holy water works on demons and unholy creatures.
This is one of the biggest weaknesses among death wraiths, and
if this gets into their systems, it can cause immense problems
for the death wraith. While death wraiths can get this out of
their system, it is a very painful process that comes with some
health problems. This is one of the most common ways to kill a
death wraith, and one of the most known ways. Users of this can
also create burning oil and mix blessed sea salt into it for a
Molotov cocktail that can light death wraiths on fire and do
severe damage to them. Usually, enemies of death wraiths will
find ways to get a hold of this and utilize it in some way, and
there are plenty of ways to utilize blessed sea salt compared to
some of their other weaknesses. Blessed sea salt is a very
versatile substances that can be used a variety of ways, making
it even more dangerous to death wraiths if users find new and
subtle ways to utilize it.
- Iron and ghost-fighting weapons are the second of the death
wraith's biggest weaknesses, due to being spiritual beings that
have some similar weaknesses to ghosts. Iron is harder to put
into a gas or liquid, but weapons using iron do extra damage to
death wraiths, which can help many who want to fight death
wraiths since iron can easily be forged into a weapon, and many
can find iron pretty easily. While not as deadly as blessed sea
salt, iron is a natural counter to ghost abilities, and does
damage to death wraiths as a result. Iron can burn their bodies,
enough that it can make a death wraith easier to damage. when in
human form, they gain some resistance to iron since their human
bodies have some iron in them, but overall, when in death wraith
form, iron does far more damage to them as intangible spirits.
Any weapon designed to fight ghosts or ghost-like creatures also
does extra damage to them. This includes other soul weapons used
by other races, like the zanpakutos of soul reapers and the
death scythes of the grim reapers. Iron can be used to poison
death wraiths as well if the iron gets into their blood, which
is harder for a death wraith to get out of their bodies.
However, if they do get iron in their bodies (usually in
unusually high levels of their blood), then going into human
form and remaining in human form until they can get the iron out
of their bodies can help them recover from iron effects since
their human forms are physical forms that don't take nearly as
much damage as full death wraith forms would normally. For the
most part, iron burns death wraith bodies on contact, and when
they are in death wraith form or darkness form, they can be
temporarily dispelled and unable to maintain a form (sometimes
being forced back into physical form). Iron weapons work best on
death wraiths who take their full death wraith forms, but can do
damage to death wraiths in human form in higher quantities or
higher quality (such as more potent iron can do more damage to a
human form death wraith. Iron is something that hurts most
spirits, and is pretty reliable against death wraiths.
- Light and life energies are also a good counter to a death
wraith, since they are creatures of darkness and death as light
and life energies are natural counters to death and darkness
abilities. Life energy is a natural counter to the death aspects
of their power, while light works to counter their darkness
(though experienced enough users can counter either of a death
wraith's abilities with light or life energy if they are skilled
enough). Items like flashbangs or concentrated light can
overpower many forms of darkness or shadows especially those
used by death wraiths. Death wraiths take heavy damage if they
are hit by concentrated light attacks (especially if they are in
their death wraith form), and their shadows can be dispelled and
negated temporarily thanks to light abilities like flashbangs.
Life energies can do more damage to them as well, due to their
death aspects, which makes life energy a good way to
specifically counter their deathly aspects. Weapons using life
and/or light do more damage, and can more easily cut or pierce a
death wraith's body. Typically, spirits are the ones that
utilize light and life energy, which can act as a counter to
death wraiths if they choose to oppose death wraiths (though
this is typically rare). Some beings who can use light or life
energies can use these pretty effectively, since death wraiths
rely heavily on their darkness and deathly natures. It is worth
noting that as mentioned, death wraiths in death wraith form
take far more damage from light attacks than they normally
would, since their very bodies are made of darkness. However,
when in human form, they are about as vulnerable to light powers
as any other beings (for example, normal light doesn't hurt
them, but light focused into beams could pierce them just as
easily as any other being).
- All death wraith elementals are counter-able by other
elementals. One needs to understand death wraith elementals
first though, as their elementals do work differently than other
races elemental manipulations. Unlike other races, death wraiths
focus more on manipulating the four states of matter, and this
must be understood before one can learn to counter a death
wraith. However, once understood, death wraith elementals can be
countered just like other elementals. For example, solid
manipulation is mostly earth manipulation, as solid states of
matter mostly fall into earth manipulation are countered as such
(usually by wind manipulation and sometimes fire manipulation).
Every form of matter can counter another in some form if the
user is creative enough, and all of the states of matter can be
countered by other elementals. Usually, the two major groups are
solids and gases (which act as major opposites to each other),
and liquids and plasma (which act as major opposites to each
other). However, countering isn't as difficult as requiring
specific elements, as each element can counter another in some
way. For example, earth can absorb energy from plasma
manipulation, or liquid manipulation could be separated by
wind/air manipulation into gases. Countering these elemental
powers only requires one to understand how elemental powers
interact, and figure out ways to counter them. Almost every
element can counter another in some way, and death wraith
elementals are no different. As mentioned earlier, another major
counter to the death wraith elemental power is the dark spirits
who utilize matter from the dark multiverse, who utilize a
chaotic power of elements that counter the elementals of this
universe. Because many of the dark spirits elementals have
violent reactions to the elements of the living world (such as
shadow lightning from the dark multiverse having a chaotic
effect that spirals normal lightning out of control and
interrupts the normal uses of lightning as the lightning becomes
chaotic and its destructive properties are amplified to the
degree that the user can no longer control it). However, it is
worth noting that death wraiths do counter this with their own
elemental manipulation.
Common Known Death Wraiths in the Multiverse:
- Anna Shadow: In many universes, Anna Shadow is an exiled death
wraith who lives in the living world. She is often known for her
hollow side, Shadowstalker, that comes out at times. Anna
Shadow, in most universes, is usually the husband/mate of
Kierran Black, and the second in command on his team of lost
soul hunters (at least until she gets exiled in some universes).
With Kierran, Anna and Kierran were among some of the most
skilled lost soul hunters the history of the death wraiths had
ever produced. Usually in most universes, Anna is often found in
the living world, where in some she has ties to the black
market, or she may live on her own (At least in universes where
she doesn't work with Kierran to incite rebellion against the
death wraith order). Alongside Kierran, Anna was trained by Teru
Mikami, a death wraith mentor and friend of Kierran's father.
She is often known for her unstable personality at times, but
overall, Anna won't hesitate to protect her family by any means
necessary since she is an exile from the death wraith order.
While Anna is often known as being loyal to her family, and she
usually ends up exiled, there are some universes where Anna and
Kierran work together to overthrow the death wraith leadership
or start a rebellion that is only stopped by Drakath's team (as
it seems to be the fate of Kierran and Drakath's teams in many
universes to battle each other over how death wraith society
should change or stay the same), or some universes where Anna
embraces her hollow side and eventually come to rule Hueco Mundo
(the realm of Hollows).
- Kierran Black: Kierran Black is a death wraith who doesn't
know his original parents in almost every universe. When he was
born, he was abandoned and left by his real parents who opted
not to raise Kierran. After being adopted by Revon Black, who
would become his adoptive father, Kierran would be trained by
Teru Mikami alongside Anna, and would become one of the top lost
soul hunters in the death wraith order, and would lead the lost
soul hunter team known as the Shadow Reapers. In most universes,
Kierran and Anna, working together, are often the ones to stop
Drakath's rebellion to change the Death Wraith order, though in
some universes Kierran and Anna are the ones who incite
rebellion after the exile of Kierran's father and are only
stopped by Drakath and his team (Most universes involve either
Drakath or Kierran inciting rebellion and their teams coming to
battle over the course of death wraith society). Kierran also
seems to get his body stolen in a lot of universes in some form
by Aeron Kazara in universes where he stops rebellions started
by Drakath, who tries to take over the death wraith order in
some fashion before eventually being stopped by Kierran and
Alathen in some form. Usually, Kierran is often known by his
assassin name afterward: Assassin Zero, which is a persona he
takes after choosing not to return to the death wraith order
after beating Aeron Kazara. However, there are a few universes
where Kierran rebels against the death wraiths after Anna's
exile, and seeks to destroy the death wraith order, such as one
universe where he secretly set up a Hollow invasion of the Death
Wraith home that eventually resulted in Kierran being stopped by
Anna herself after the death of their childhood teacher, Teru
Mikami. However, Kierran is often known for being a loyal death
wraith, at least until he decides to leave the death wraith
order in many universes (usually after having his body stolen
and realizing that he doesn't care about the death wraith
society at all during the experience and opts to live on earth).
- Teru Mikami: Teru Mikami is a friend to both the family of
Anna Shadow, and Kierran Black, and is often the one that trains
them how to hunt lost souls, and trains them in combat. Teru is
often known for his extreme views, in that he feels that justice
must be done no matter the cost, a few that he tried to pass on
to Kierran and Anna through training that they should never be
complacent with evil. Those that know Teru Mikami often know
that he will stop at nothing to avenge those he feels suffered
unjustly or are killed without reason. This often leads to his
dismissal and exile, where he eventually starts hunting down
killers and killing anyone he deems to be evil in nature. Teru
Mikami is also known in many universes to become a servant of
Atropos, better known as Fate by most. During his time with
Fate, he often gains Shinigami eyes, where he trades half his
life span for the ability to see people's names and birth dates,
which lets him record the identities of people that he will
often use to keep track of evil people that he hunts down. In
most universes, Teru ends up exiled, and in some he ends up
getting killed helping Revon Black when Revon Black tries to
change the death wraith views on emotions. For the most part,
most know Teru Mikami for his strange habit of always saying
"Delete" before killing someone, which seems to be some sort of
strange tick that he has. Overall, Teru is not as mentally
unstable as many think, as he only seeks to make the living
world a better place and help create a world where people won't
commit crime as he feels that humanity doesn't have enough
checks and balances to punish criminals which is why criminals
will always have more power than anyone else.
- Drakath Altairre: Just as Kierran is the best lost soul hunter
among the death wraiths, Drakath Altairre is the best dark
spirit hunter in the death wraith order in many universes.
Drakath leads the dark spirit hunter team Dark Vengeance, which
often becomes the top team among dark spirit hunters. In many
universes, Drakath is known for inciting rebellion against the
death wraiths, as he often comes to feel that death wraiths must
evolve to survive or they will be killed as he feels the death
wraiths have become stagnant in their growth, and complacent
with not getting any better. Drakath is often known for this
rebellion, and often known for what he does after his exile when
he goes to earth and sets up the wolf wraiths alongside
Constantin Petryovich in order to create a new wraith type that
can better handle fighting lost souls and dark spirits, usually
by embracing certain aspects of death wraiths that most death
wraiths try to suppress (like emotions). There are some
universes though where he loyally follows the death wraiths, and
ends up stopping Kierran Black's rebellion after Kierran turns
on the death wraiths for exiling his father after his father
tried to further the death wraiths to develop powers that
utilize emotions to help the death wraiths grow as a race.
Usually in these universes, Drakath and Kierran battle each
other until Kierran is taken down by Drakath. Drakath is usually
known for trying to further the death wraith order's interests,
whether it's by seeking out forbidden ways of empowering death
wraiths (which in most universes leads to him rebelling), or by
removing their enemies and staying loyal to defeating their
enemies (which usually leads to Kierran Black being the one to
rebel and Drakath having to stop Kierran).
- Kitsune Resei: Kitsune is the best friend of Drakath, and in
most universes, his second in command. In most universes,
Kitsune is a once in a million year mutation that is often
referred to as a twilight wraith, a wraith who has a genetic
mutation that makes them into a being of both light and dark. No
one knows why this is, but this leads to Kitsune becoming a rare
death wraith that can use both dark and light, and both life and
death energies. No one knows what causes this mutation, but they
do know that it only happens once every million years or so, and
those with it don't pass it on through their family (as the
mutation is usually a one and done when it comes to family
lines). Kitsune often becomes known for this, and is often
feared for what he can do. In universes where Drakath rebels
against the death wraiths, Kitsune is known for helping Drakath
alongside Drakath's team, and often is exiled after being placed
in a demon armor as a punishment for his crimes. The death
wraiths usually try to keep him trapped in the Twilight Realm
(to which he usually eventually escapes after gaining the
ability to combine light and dark while in the Twilight Realm,
and eventually makes it back to the living world with Drakath).
In rare universes where Kierran rebels, Kitsune is usually
working with Drakath to stop Kierran, where Kitsune usually
faces off against Anna in these universes. In universes with
Kierran's rebellion, Kitsune will often leave the death wraiths
after Kierran's rebellion, as death wraiths usually start to
consider his mutation dangerous and eventually seek to exile him
for being a creature that they usually believe will eventually
turn on them. In some universes like the Exiles universe,
Kitsune is known for his PI group Shadow Realm Investigations,
which he starts after starting a life in the human world after
his exile.
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