Igitanda < Shem

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Species	Igitanda
Order	Tutelary Undead
Classification	Undead
Dominion	Fellwood
Sphere	Nightmare
Origin	Predators who attack people in their bedrooms
Lifespan	Inmortal
Habitat	Family homes
Food	Fear resonance
Description	Igitanda appear to be scaly, shrunken forms of their living selves.
Corruption	Sexual predators who prey on people in their bedrooms or other private areas of their homes become corrupted by their actions. If they die with enough corruption on their souls, they may become igitanda. It takes a moderate amount of msawhat (9) to create one from a predator, but they must be some kind of molester, rapist, or sexual assaulter.
Esoterica	Igitanda are beings of uafas and msawhat. They usually only have a fraction of any powers they had in life (1-5), except for powers of qi, the gates, and heavenly essences. They don't learn any new arts in undeath.
Special Powers	Igitanda cause unease when they are seen. They have the ability to hide themselves in dark corners of homes, under beds or other furniture, or even in the walls. They creep out only at night to feed off the terror of victims in the house, usually children or other vulernable people, sometimes the same people they victimized in life. They have two special words: one to blind and one to cause nausea. They are bound to specific homes.
Locus	The locus of an igitanda is a one of their victims' homes, where they hide in dark corners, often under beds or in the attic or basement. Those homes often become abandoned places that they lurk in, waiting for new children to victimize.
Necromancy	To create an igitanda, a necromancer must corrupt a predator with msawhat (9) or socially engineer a predator out of a normal person. They may also convince or trick a predator to commit a ritualistic murder of a victim which will ensure their fate as an igitanda. Controlling one is relatively easy (6) with msawhat or uafas; summoning one only works at night at the same power. Capturing one to draw power from it is also the same difficulty, and it gives the user the words of power and ability to hide. It may also cause the user to grow scales.
Sending	A victim can banish an igitanda by standing up to them, flooding them with light, and attacking them with anything they already own in the house. Sunlight can also weaken an igitanda.
Weaknesses	Glory energy is especially effective against them. Qi, the gates, and other heavenly essences also work.
Behavior	Igitanda lurk in the homes of their victims, tormenting them, filling them with terror, making them relive the traumas of their life.
Dominion Culture	Igitanda are slaves in the Fellwood Dominion, used to terrorized specific targets, considered tools more than anything else.
Other Dominions	Most Dominions have igitanda, many occurring by happenstance. In all of them but the Kaanian Dominion, they are slaves or nuissances. Among the Kaanian, they are favored as part of the warrior class.
Mortal Interactions	For many Ages, igitanda had no nomenclature, but they became so common in colonized Taggarus they gained one, as colonizing forces preyed on the local populations. They are thus known mostly as predators, creatures caused by invaders.
Afterlife	Igitanda are doomed to an afterlife in the Grey Lands, Broken Obelisk, or Hells. They spend a long time in the in-between, many millennia, before moving on. No redemption is possible.
Notables	Lelafin'ny, Igitanda Manifest
Special Classes	Stalker, Creeper
Sample Stats	PRO 8 ATH 9 STR 9 AWA 9 WIL 7 ROG 10 Hiding 16 Unease Presence 11 Feeding 11 Words of Power 11

Topic revision: r3 - 30 Jul 2020, SallyJaneBlack

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