Species: Shattered Mind
Family: Ghost
Risk level: Low/Medium
Weaknesses: Life Essence
Description: One of the rarer monsters in terms of life essence, due to its major weakness to it. It still uses it to function and use any of its unnatural abilities, but it cannot regain the lost energy, which causes this spirit to slowly burn out the more it stays active. And it isn't one of those calmer spirits that only care about self preservance, but the one focused on attacking anything in its sight.
They don't stay around for long, the longest noted lifespan of Shattered Mind is one month and the average lifespan is around one week. But they can still wreak havoc if left unchecked. They form themself after someone who witnessed something trully horrible, which caused them to experience severe trauma, dies because of it and isn't confronted in their final moments. Their appereance mimics the original looks of the dead, but more like a painting on cracked wall than literal copy. Every aspect of it is in some way disproportional, or otherwise malformed in ways that the only thing it can be described as is unnatural.
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From time to time they emit sounds like voices of patients in mental hospitals or otherwise unstable people. As written above the only thing they do is hunt anything that comes near them, no matter if it is an animal, monster or even human, it will attack them with no discimination. They attack others by assaulting the victim with horrid imaginery created from its broken psyche and then ripping appart their body using its claws and teeth.
The best way to stop them is to in some way force them to absorb life essence of another beeing. It is a hard process, made significally easier if there is a mage near, but possible with enough time and preperation. This causes the ghost to disintegrate into fine particles, with nothing left to hunt anybody.
Personal notes: "They are like containers on the verge of collapse. Imagine that every monster is some kind of a box. Some are larger, some smaller, but every single on of them can be filled with life force and it can be emptied of it. Human mages are similar to them in this aspect, because we also have to in some way absorb life essence into ourself to use it. Now Shattered Minds are like crumbled boxes forced by its content to remain in one defined shape. If what is inside of it is taken out it cannot operate normally, it becomes useless. This is how the existance of this spirit looks like, it is so fragile it cannot function for long. This is a risk of using life essence and we must be vary to not become like them." Unnamed life essence mage