Species: Animal Remnant
Family: Living Shadow
Risk level: Beneficial
Weaknesses: Corruption
Description: No one knows how any of them come into existance. There are few theories about it, but none of them was ever confirmed. Maybe they are remnants of animal kindness to humans, maybe souls of animals attacked to people, but for now it will remain unanswered. Their appereance is almost identical to normal animals, or rather their outline due to their shadowlike consistency.
From rabbits to bears, they can be seen in many forms, but they don't seem to be able to change them at will. There are no records of them changing their shapes, exept from external factors, so it is likeable that they don't have a say on how they look like. This species has a very interesting way of surviving, and by that I mean connecting itself to willingful hosts and taking a small amount of life essence in exchange granting them unique abilities, depending on the shape of the shadow.
One can give them giantlike strenght, the other eagle eyesight and then another sharp talons. Hosts can reverse those changes any time they want and also add another ones assiociated with said animal. There were also cases where the shadow was unfortunately, corrupted with other monsters aura. In those situations it transformed themself in monster hybrids, partially similar in shape to the original monster. They could then give new abilities to their users, but it caused them much greater instability, and gave the host unwanted animalistic urges to tear through any living thing in the vicinity.
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They are great creatures that can give new hights to human race, but for now there are to few of them to even provide to ten people, not speaking of the entire human population. Researchers are currently running tests to increase their numbers, but for now are largelly unsuccessful.
Personal notes: "They are very interesting test subjects regarding body manipulation. They can, without any bigger obstacles, manipulate and replace human tissue with animal one. This is not only perfectly integrated into hosts body, it can also be withdrawn at will. The process in which they do so is extremely complex, but can be broken down into three simple points.
Firstly they trick the body into thinking that the parts it is exchanging were always a part of it, then they have to provide required energy to power the change and to stabilize the process, and lastly give the body knowledge of how it should use its improved body. For now we don't know how they have the information about how human body works and should work with added changes, but it is still being researched until success. For now we managed to only replicate the ability to change a single finger into claw, and even with that this can be used only on complatible individuals, which are far and few between, but we are still making progress and this is what matters." Dr. Fritz, member of Diseased Order