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Species	Mifraody
Order	The Damned
Classification	Undead
Dominion	Pandemonian
Sphere	Misfortune
Origin	Those who cheated others and caused great harm
Lifespan	Inmortal
Habitat	Rain forests
Food	Souls
Description	A mifraody wears symbols of their status in life that are extremely heavy. They are missing half of their faces and skulls, and their bodies have patches of flesh missing, allowing their muscles, bones, and organs to be seen.
Corruption	Those who cheat at some important deal and ruin the lives of others are corrupted and can become a mifraody if they caused enough harm.
Esoterica	Mifraody are beings of misfortune and msawhat. They retain some of the powers they had in life, but corrupted and distorted, except for any powers of qi, the gates, or heavenly essences. In undeath, they sometimes learn new arts, including those of doom, desperation, sin, thorn energy, certain emotional resonances, brumal aether, brown aether, uafas, quaestus, parasitic energy, viscera, vile energy, Damaskian powers, gebvel, flux, yahas, spirits, symbolism, Raesian energy, some humors, paradox, blasphemy, mashoaab, or mijjit.
Special Powers	Mifraody cause minor unease in those who are near them. The wealth and power they had in life become weights that hold them down in undeath, but each of these weights also stores the souls of those they kill in undeath. They are very stealthy, and if they sneak up behind someone, they can pull the souls out of them by grabbing their ears. The more souls they capture, the more powers they have, including the power to appear as they did in life, to confuse and trick others, to lure them with fell ventriloquism, and to turn victims to gold with their breath.
Damnation	The status weights of a mifraody can have special powers depending on the victims the mifraody harmed in life. The weights' powers are determined by the victims' level of guilt. Those guilty of horrible crimes (mass murder, war crimes, genocide, serial killing or rape, extensive abuse, etc.) make the weights useless but not as heavy. Those who were truly innocent (babies, young children) cause the weights to be extremely heavy but also imbued with powers to cause earthquakes, wildfires, building collapses, and other disasters. Most are somewhere in between.
Necromancy	A wealthy or otherwise powerful person who cheated others out of something important that caused them harm can be turned into a mifraody in death if they are cursed by one of their victims. If they wish to intentionally become one, they must perform a ritual (19) involving shattering a mirror with the bones of a beggar and drinking a mixture of crushed peridot and blood (preferably of a victim). To control a mifraody, one must capture one of their weights. This will also allow one to draw power from the mifraody. To summon a mifraody, their name must be invoked into a mirror broken by accident.
Sending	Fixing the mirror they used to turn themselves into a mifraody will send one, if they became on intentionally. If not, destroying their status weights will send them.
Weaknesses	Fortune and fate can harm them. Light of charity is especially effective. Qi, the gates, or other heavenly essences will work as well.
Behavior	Mifraody stalk the forests around the edges of the communities they were once upstanding members of, seeking to steal souls and gain power so they can replicate their former power in undeath.
Dominion Culture	In the Pandemonian Dominion, mifraody are lower-ranking members of the ruling class or middle-ranking members of the warrior class, depending on their own power. They serve as advisers to the highest rulers.
Other Dominions	Mifraody are often found in other Dominions working as middle-ranking traders and negotiators, using their skills from life to represent the Dominions. They are much sought after. In the Srisian Dominion, they are more stealthy. In the Raesian Dominion, they have stronger bonds to their souls. In the Agikaani Dominion, their powers of confusion are stronger. In the Qhanuum Dominion, they have power to turn victims to jetsteel instead of gold, and in the Durosian Dominion, instead of confusion they cause rage. In the Godless Dominion, they have the power to steal prayers from people's mouths instead of ventriloquism, and in the Kaanian Dominion, they have powers to freeze the blood of those they touch. In the Dun Dominion, their breath powers are stronger and cause illness, and in Campionese, their breath powers are stronger and their stealth is as well. In Wapek, their breath freezes instead of creating gold, and in Sangarian, they cause hunger rather than confusion. And in Fellwood, their soulstealing is much stronger.
Mortal Interactions	Mortals speak of mifraody are beings that are the consequences of a life of trickery and greed. When one is near to a community, the local community often begins taking massive protective measures in an attempt to drive them out and to protect the innocent, where they are well known. Where they are unknown, they often get away on the fringes for years, hidden and preying on those who stray across their paths, and the locals often believe it to be a dangerous animal or other mystic predator.
Afterlife	Because they got their power and corruption in life from ripping people off, they usually do not end up redeemed. Most spend millennia in the in-between before moving on to the Broken Obelisk, Hells, or Grey Lands.
Notables	Firavaka, Mifraody Manifest, Merchant of Mena Port; Fitaratra Maitso, Scheme Master
Special Classes	Merchant, Conman, Trader, Executive
Sample Stats	PRO 11 ATH 14 STR 9 AWA 15 WIL 16 ROG 20 Unease Presence 5 Soulstealing 20 Cause Confusion 18 Breath 16 Ventriloquism 18

Topic revision: r5 - 30 Jul 2020, SallyJaneBlack

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