Hidden 9 yrs ago Post by Awson
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If, in a universe of fiction, you have spirits that can interact with the physical plane, and ones that can't, which of the many synonyms for spirit would you label each kind?
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Touch-ghosts and No-touch-ghosts.
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One idea might be to use the more 'conventional' terms for spirits as the label for those which can interact with the physical world, as they're the ones more likely to have inspired humans to figure out specific names for them. Ghost, wraith, spook, spirit, angel, fairy, sylph and so on.

Other terms that are less specific would be used for non-interactive spirits because people care about them less. Wisps, shades, flickers, apparitions, tricks of the light, or even more vague terms that don't really acknowledge the independence of the spirit, like referring to non-interactive spiritual activity as omens or 'bad luck/magic'.
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If, in a universe of fiction, you have spirits that can interact with the physical plane, and ones that can't, which of the many synonyms for spirit would you label each kind?


You could just call them whatever works best, and if they can interact with the physical plane, they're 'corporeal wraiths' instead of just 'wraiths.'
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You could call the ones that can interact with the physical plane 'Manifests', seeing as their actions would have some sort of physical manifestation.
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I just call em ghosts and the more powerful they are, the more effect on the material plane they have.
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Thanks, gents.
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