Sylphs

Ghost-like beings associated with the element of air. They desire humanity and can gain this by absorbing the souls of humans.

Description
Sylphs are elemental phantoms that prey on humans. Sylphs lurk near human settlements. A sylph will pass through unsuspecting humans, draining their life essence and leaving the human as a lifeless shell. When they gain enough souls to gain human form, they live as ordinary mortals and mingle with ordinary people until they require more energy to maintain this solid form. Because of the danger they present, there are sylph hunters, humans who specialize in tracking sylphs and when in their solid form, they capture them and put them down.

Nature
Sylphs are unfortunate creatures as they are unhappy with what they are and wish to be human. However they are selfish as they take many innocent lives in order to get what they want. It is unknown what a sylph-turned human is like in terms of psychology.

Physical Description
Sylphs take the form of human-like women made from dark mist. As they consume souls, the mist that makes up their bodies grows lighter and the sylph becomes more substantial until they become perfectly human in shape and colouring.

Powers and Abilities

 * Flight: Sylphs have the magical ability to soar through the air without wings.
 * Intangibility: Sylphs do not have a physical form which enables them to pass through solid matter.
 * Life force absorption: By passing through a living creature, the sylph absorbs that creature's life force, leaving the poor thing as an empty shell of its former self. It is unknown if they can return these souls and even sylph hunters do not know if it is possible.
 * Human form: By absorbing souls, sylphs become more solid until, after they consume enough souls, they can gain a human form. However, this shape does not last long. The sylph's collection of souls will soon fade and she will revert back to her true, intangible form.

Island of Fog

 * Castle of Spells