Carahai, one of my Villains I first spun up for The Mirror Worlds, who I currently use in other settings. Driven mad with moments of lucidity and the one who actively ruined all of her closest friend's lives out of paranoia and desperation to live. She is a shape changing demon that was grown in a lab from a mixture of DNA from different types of demons and other creatures.
For notes design notes, she emotes facially very little, and instead kind of does like a chameleon or a cuttlefish. I kind of picture her moving around and fighting like Double from Skull Girl, but WAY less quick on the changing into other people and more heavily focused on the weirder movements. The bone armor you see are HER BONES. She makes a carapace because its very hard to make functional armor for her because of how she moves and fights. The holes on her face are like viper pits that she can scent the air with. She has about a 300 degree range of vision. And she is a shape shifter and is capable of mimicking people's appearance and voices and powers provided she can ingest some of their DNA. She does not have an inner monologue, and instead thinks in concepts and emotions and pictures. And despite the former, when she is calm she is very eloquent - but was not when her former friends first found her in a fucking magical laboratory.
Spirit Eaters, also called Ghost Eaters in some texts, were a species that quite literally fed on a person’s Spirit, leaving them in a state of wasting that would eventually prove fatal. According to legend, the creatures resided in a state of limbo between this world and what lay beyond the Moira (the “veil”) with no true shape of their own, though there are stories of them taking on the form of animals in pursuit of their prey, an ability called “Spirit Walking”. This paired with their capacity to temporarily take on the traits and abilities of their latest victims made them unpredictable and sometimes quite dangerous.
There are dozens of different stories as to where the species originated, but no one (known) knows the truth. As False Immortals, Spirit Eaters are perhaps the only subject Soul Collectors and Reapers have agreed on in at least 500 years; once it was learned how to kill one, the two groups combined forces to eradicate the species.
How they managed to kill one of the creatures has, as far as I’ve been able to find, been lost to the ages.
My theory on the wasting state of victims:
A living being can survive without a Spirit so long as the Soul remains intact. This combined with information from a few of Alix’s old journals detailing a few of her own Spirit Eater hunts, leads me to conclude that what then was recognized as a wasting disease would, with modern medicine, be treated as a coma. While this might seem like evidence against the eradication of the species, the victims of Spirit Eaters would never have recovered even with today’s medicine as once a Spirit is consumed, it cannot be recovered.
