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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 2:29 pm
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at a glance.The spirit-bound were erased from existence in the fourth cycle of the original world. Why this was done depends on who you ask. The Sorrowful One, Noeh, insists that they were a real and present danger to the safety of the world around them. The Prideful One says that their existence threatened the cage. Whatever reason led to their destruction, they are returned now.
Born from the moonwalkers and the wargs, the spirit-bound is the best of both. They have an animal familiar, and the ability to shift into that animal's form. They have the ability to communicate with their familiar and see through its eyes, but also access to the fullness of their powers while in their own animal form. The spirit-bound lose access to the half-form of the moonwalker, but maintain the boost to speed and strength while in their animal form. They lack the limiting yoke to the moon cycle, and are not infectious, but in all other ways maintain the details of the moonwalker.
A spirit-bound familiar possesses a greater intelligence than that of a warg's familiar, and their lifespan matches that of their bonded human. The spirit-bound familiar is nigh human in its ability to think logically and recall facts, and is a powerful ally in the magical world and the mundane one. However, should the bonded familiar die before their human, madness is a guarantee: one cannot share one's mind so fully with another creature without incurring an equal cost. A spirit-bonded whose familiar meets an untimely death will find themselves trapped in a warped, twisted version of a moonwalker's half-form and horribly, terribly empty, a danger to all around them.
There is no such thing as a natural spirit-bound. The spirit-bond is a life-changing piece of irreversible magic that must be chosen by a fully trained warg or moonwalker; attempting the bond or the shift without a thorough grounding in one's natural class is a quick trip to living life as a fetch instead of a Visitor. It is impossible to accidentally become spirit-bound; the consequences are so great that the magic demands that this bond be entered into with intention.
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