Species: Mind Hoarder

Family: Parasite

Risk level: Medium

Weaknesses: Bad mental health

Description: This monster is an invisible menace, that becomes much harder to kill, the longer it lives. No one saw it in its basic form for a simple reason, that it doesn't exist until it manages to gather enough memories. It does that, by sticking to random person it detects and sucking them dry over the course of a few weeks and then moves on onto another prey.

Its victims suffer severe mental damage and usually become vegetables with no hope of recovery. When it manages to secure around five people, it creates for itself a human like shell, looking like the combination of all of them, that allows it to better blend in to the society and better secure its source of food. With every person it absorbs it becomes smarter and more knowledgeable about its surroundings. It uses this knowledge to avoid any monster hunters and to better select its targets.

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Only at the point when it creates for itself a body it can be directly harmed, and at last killed, but it can be damaged before that proccess. The only way to do this is to, in some way, trick it into connecting with mentaly ill person. Due to the instability of the mind those individuals usually possess, it causes the Mind Hoarder to destabilize, which in most cases causes it to dissapear.

In those few instances, where it manages to survive, it basically becomes useless, with no ability to develop further. There is no sure way to detect its presence, so it is simply advised to avoid people with sudden cases of dementia, and if it is regular precedence in your area, to inform the Blood Hunt or the church of it.

Personal notes: "The worst enemy is the one you cannot anticipate. It can strike from anywhere it wants and you can't do a damn thing about it. It doesn't help that it is also cunning and inteligent enough to actively avoid our detection. It could be walking aywhere around us and we would known about it. Fortunately they can't replace someone completely. From what we know about them it seems that they can't change how they look and with every person they consume they transform into another image. Or perhaps the ones we catched couldn't do that. Hopefully not." Victor the Thrall, member of the Blood Hunt