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Kreptis Overview
Skye Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:02 pm
APPEARANCE AND ANATOMY
A Kreptis is a being entirely of shadow, and is never usually solid. They have a slight ability to solidify, but without any sort of density. Kreptis have a very thin surface, but applying pressure would cause it to give quickly and phase right through. These beings usually take on the forms of animals or mythical creatures in shape, but the form is featureless, shadowy smoke billowing off their silhouettes.
Inside the Kreptis's shadow-frame lies a core. The very soul, essence, and energy of the Kreptis is in this core. It too is relatively formless, basically just spherical, but encased and protected by the Kreptis's shadow-form. This core glows and emanates from their black shapes in various markings, the color depending on the type of soul it harbors. The intensity of the core and the size of the Kreptis depends on the strength and power of its essence, and of course its darkness.
They are able to change, stretch and grow their forms to a certain extent, but this depends on the capacity and strength of the essence in their core. Weaker Kreptis cannot shift or stretch for long without exhausting themselves.
FEEDING
All Kreptis possess shadow tendrils in which to feed. They act as sapping appendages, drawing out and absorbing the soul energy/essence of living things to keep their own essences strong and healthy. All Kreptis must feed to maintain their forms, any who do not feed slowly lose their essences; cores fading and fizzing out until eventually they die.
A Kreptis can typically make themselves seen to living beings as they wish, including during feeding. Typically though they are only seen as dense shadows in the corner or dark shapes that flit from your vision. While possible to feed enough on living beings to kill them, it would take multiple Kreptis to do so. And if done, the victim turns into a Kreptis when they pass, falling prey to a scarily traumatic death. Many of the species consider this unjust and wrong, as the life of a Kreptis stuck to wander the middle realm is an ugly fate. Many don't wish the same destiny for other living beings.
Kreptis are physically capable of feeding on each other. But this practice is incredibly taboo. This is because the result of a Kreptis "stealing" another Kreptis's essence may cause an unwanted or even dangerous response. If the two essences don't match and mesh well, it could possibly cancel out both essences and kill them both. There's also a possibility one essence might match, but one is stronger and the lesser dies. Legend says that there are some essences that mesh and bind so well that they forcefully merge into one, whole new Kreptis.
FIGHTING
A Kreptis battle would be like watching masses of shadows clashing, thrashing into each other, their forms crashing and mingling. You could picture two shadow wolves fighting each other and actually connecting with one another as if they were solid. Much of it depends on the one with a stronger essence. Imagine the shadow wolf biting the other one's leg. You can picture some resistance given, but it will eventually "snap" off or vanish only to re-materialize. But the more a Kreptis materializes, the more the opposing one is eating away at its opponent's core's source. They'll slowly dwindle and fade. Very similar to exhausting it to death, depleting it of all its essence until it is gone.
While Kreptis have the ability to "fight" one another, a living being cannot exactly touch a Kreptis, and physical contact with one is extremely limited. Hurting a Kreptis would be impossible, unless light was involved.
Light is a shadow's worst enemy, and a Kreptis is no exception. All Kreptis avoid daylight. The light eats away at the Kreptis's shadowy form, and leaves the core unprotected and eventually it fizzles out as soon as a matter of minutes.
BREEDING
Not just simply shadows, this species can in fact "breed". Though not in the traditional sense, Kreptis pairs that fall in love and wish to bring another Kreptis into the world combine their essences and merge their cores. Because the couple gives each other their cores in a special union, there is no possible dangerous core conflictions. But the parents must make a decision. Bringing a life into the dark, trapped Kreptis realm is a matter of judgement. If they do decide to, they become one briefly before a female essence takes on the newly formed core. A sort of "pregnancy" of 3-5 days follows, in which the newborn core develops inside the shadowy vessel of its mother. Once the core is strong and stable enough, it splits from the female Kreptis. The split is simply a division of cores and shadow. The newborn Kreptis phases and tears from its mother into its own unique form, with its own core.
Newborns are capable of regular Kreptis growth by feeding on living essence. Their growth limits and capacities are typical to a regular Kreptis. There are certain Kreptis though that were created from a being who died very young, like a child or infant. These Kreptis are called Younglings, and are different from Newborns. While Newborns are free to grow and develop, Younglings are trapped to their smaller size and form, with a very limited and small core and essence capacity. No matter how much they feed and try to stretch and grow their forms, they will keep that limit.
A Kreptis is a being entirely of shadow, and is never usually solid. They have a slight ability to solidify, but without any sort of density. Kreptis have a very thin surface, but applying pressure would cause it to give quickly and phase right through. These beings usually take on the forms of animals or mythical creatures in shape, but the form is featureless, shadowy smoke billowing off their silhouettes.
Inside the Kreptis's shadow-frame lies a core. The very soul, essence, and energy of the Kreptis is in this core. It too is relatively formless, basically just spherical, but encased and protected by the Kreptis's shadow-form. This core glows and emanates from their black shapes in various markings, the color depending on the type of soul it harbors. The intensity of the core and the size of the Kreptis depends on the strength and power of its essence, and of course its darkness.
They are able to change, stretch and grow their forms to a certain extent, but this depends on the capacity and strength of the essence in their core. Weaker Kreptis cannot shift or stretch for long without exhausting themselves.
FEEDING
All Kreptis possess shadow tendrils in which to feed. They act as sapping appendages, drawing out and absorbing the soul energy/essence of living things to keep their own essences strong and healthy. All Kreptis must feed to maintain their forms, any who do not feed slowly lose their essences; cores fading and fizzing out until eventually they die.
A Kreptis can typically make themselves seen to living beings as they wish, including during feeding. Typically though they are only seen as dense shadows in the corner or dark shapes that flit from your vision. While possible to feed enough on living beings to kill them, it would take multiple Kreptis to do so. And if done, the victim turns into a Kreptis when they pass, falling prey to a scarily traumatic death. Many of the species consider this unjust and wrong, as the life of a Kreptis stuck to wander the middle realm is an ugly fate. Many don't wish the same destiny for other living beings.
Kreptis are physically capable of feeding on each other. But this practice is incredibly taboo. This is because the result of a Kreptis "stealing" another Kreptis's essence may cause an unwanted or even dangerous response. If the two essences don't match and mesh well, it could possibly cancel out both essences and kill them both. There's also a possibility one essence might match, but one is stronger and the lesser dies. Legend says that there are some essences that mesh and bind so well that they forcefully merge into one, whole new Kreptis.
FIGHTING
A Kreptis battle would be like watching masses of shadows clashing, thrashing into each other, their forms crashing and mingling. You could picture two shadow wolves fighting each other and actually connecting with one another as if they were solid. Much of it depends on the one with a stronger essence. Imagine the shadow wolf biting the other one's leg. You can picture some resistance given, but it will eventually "snap" off or vanish only to re-materialize. But the more a Kreptis materializes, the more the opposing one is eating away at its opponent's core's source. They'll slowly dwindle and fade. Very similar to exhausting it to death, depleting it of all its essence until it is gone.
While Kreptis have the ability to "fight" one another, a living being cannot exactly touch a Kreptis, and physical contact with one is extremely limited. Hurting a Kreptis would be impossible, unless light was involved.
Light is a shadow's worst enemy, and a Kreptis is no exception. All Kreptis avoid daylight. The light eats away at the Kreptis's shadowy form, and leaves the core unprotected and eventually it fizzles out as soon as a matter of minutes.
BREEDING
Not just simply shadows, this species can in fact "breed". Though not in the traditional sense, Kreptis pairs that fall in love and wish to bring another Kreptis into the world combine their essences and merge their cores. Because the couple gives each other their cores in a special union, there is no possible dangerous core conflictions. But the parents must make a decision. Bringing a life into the dark, trapped Kreptis realm is a matter of judgement. If they do decide to, they become one briefly before a female essence takes on the newly formed core. A sort of "pregnancy" of 3-5 days follows, in which the newborn core develops inside the shadowy vessel of its mother. Once the core is strong and stable enough, it splits from the female Kreptis. The split is simply a division of cores and shadow. The newborn Kreptis phases and tears from its mother into its own unique form, with its own core.
Newborns are capable of regular Kreptis growth by feeding on living essence. Their growth limits and capacities are typical to a regular Kreptis. There are certain Kreptis though that were created from a being who died very young, like a child or infant. These Kreptis are called Younglings, and are different from Newborns. While Newborns are free to grow and develop, Younglings are trapped to their smaller size and form, with a very limited and small core and essence capacity. No matter how much they feed and try to stretch and grow their forms, they will keep that limit.
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