Essence of theSoul Devourer

By drinking this essence, you will become a being that feeds on souls.

• Your base form is now that of a shadowy outline of yourself that lives within the Spectral Realm. You are entirely impossible to reach or harm through mundane means as you are.

• You naturally dwell in the Spectral Realm, a twisted mirror of the Material Realm where souls linger on their journey to whatever afterlife awaits them. The Spectral Realm can be twisted or distorted by supernatural power or significant events, but largely reflects the Material Realm. Distance travelled in the Spectral Realm is equivalent to distance travelled in the Material Realm.

• Your spirit-self is sustained by the souls of others and you can easily devour those weaker than you in Spectral Realm or Material Realm, though dead souls won’t linger in the Material Realm for long.

• If you don’t constantly devour souls then you will slowly become lesser, overcome with a hunger that can be quenched by nothing but the vital essence of others. You will never truly die from this starvation, but the gnawing hunger can reduce you to a pale shadow of yourself if you are not careful.

• You are capable of possessing corpses to interact with the Material Realm. If the corpse’s senses aren’t intact enough to be used, because it’s eyes, ears, nose, etc have rotted away or been destroyed, then you will only be capable of perceiving the Spectral Realm, where pale reflections of the Material Realm’s inhabitants can be seen.

• You can use up the energy gained by eating souls to twist the form of a possessed body in a varying ways, be it from creating vicious claws, altering the legs for better jumping or any number of other possible applications. It is also possible to alter the body such that it looks indistinguishable from a living person.

• Your energy is used up in the process of animating a body, with less energy being used the closer a body is to functioning normally. If you possess a corpse whose muscles and connective tissues have decayed into nothingness, then it will cost a great deal of energy to keep it moving and functional as opposed to a fresh corpse whose muscles, bones and tissues are still working.

• A living body, one that you’ve learned to possess or otherwise shaped back into life with your abilities, will cost little to no energy to maintain, none at all if you upkeep like a normal human. If you choose not to eat/drink/breath, then it will cost energy to supplement for the lack, for example.

• You may channel your energy through your body to improve its capabilities to superhuman levels. Strength, toughness, speed, reflexes, senses, etc. These can all be enhanced without limit so long as you have the energy to power the enhancement.