[B]A note on Spirits:[/B] When magic came into the world, human emotions, creative acts, and the birth of new life acquired their own power, affecting the world in some small way. Not just that, but the coming of magic brought Earth into contact with another plane, a blank space ready to be affected by events on the physical world. The combination of these factors allowed new beings, ephermal entities known as spirits, to be born.

Spirits are modeled after the emotions, creative acts, and living things that sparked them. Some of them are benign, others are malicious, but there are not too many of them, due to it being only 30 years since the Coming of Magic, and because there have been no previous ages or cycles of magic. It is only in Demenses and places where many Magi live, such as New York, that there are many spirits.