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A spirit is a typically insubstantial type of creature that resides in our world, or in some sort of Spirit World.
Many spirits can take, or automatically take a substantial form in our world. Others must be coaxed to manifest, via a form of magic known as Theurgy.
Working with spirits is the normal business of the shaman but other workers (especially witches and necromancers) may also see a lot of them.
Many entities that simply come from a different dimension are called spirits, and "spirit" is often used as a catch-all term for numerous different supernatural entities.
Spirits can originate in a variety of ways, including the following:
- Uncreated and older than the world
- Deliberately created by one or more deities
- Accidentally created as a by-product of creating the world
- Remanants of a deceased being
- Created as a side effect of a magical working
- 'Echo' of a living being created during astral projection or bilocation (arguably a special case of the above)
- Personification of a concept imagined into existance by collective belief (like a mythago)
- Deliberately created by a magical working
They will also vary in power, sapience (or even sentience) and attitude.
