Torment

Torment is a type of Emotional Spirit that was discovered by the Spiritual Travelers on Nurend 40, 308. Its "emotion" seemed to be pain, guilt, and the feeling of being pursued as if hunted. It didn't necessarily inflict any guilt on anyone besides the person it was "bound to", but it was more than capable of causing pain for anyone nearby. It was discovered in the town of Drimures, and seemed to be manifested by the elderly human brewer and farmer named Arjan. It was supposedly manifested by his guilt and the torment he felt over the loss of his family and community after a brutal fire destroyed his original town. The spirit seemed to be capable of manifesting an approximation of the town that Arjan was from, but with changes due to what his guilt addled mind could remember after the memory of the incident was suppressed. The people that were manifested all seemed to have some amount of blame for Arjan over deaths that occurred in the created town, much like how Arjan seemed to feel about the original town. As a brewer of moonshine, Arjan had a distillery that he claims exploded, destroying his barn and starting the fire that quickly spread through the town, uncontrollable. As a result he blamed the light of the Moon for the creation of this spirit he called "The Beast", and seemed to be aware that the town was fake to some degree despite the creature "not letting him remember". The connection to the Moon also seemed to come from stories of werewolves and the full moon as Torment would scratch at his doors every night, howl and constantly pursue him as if hunted.

Torment is currently bound to Frode after he took Arjan's suffering onto himself by summoning Torment to the Obelisk. It has yet to be seen what this means, but he seems to be constantly in pain and smelling smoke. As a servant of Ilmater, this could be somewhat beneficial to him... like a hairshirt of suffering or other Ilmater artifacts that inflict suffering on the user.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Ash, smoke, and darkness illuminated by the light of the Moon. It sometimes has the appearance of a wolf stalking its prey, and its movement seems to be dependent on the light of the Moon. Torment is mostly just smoke and ash, with its body only existing wherever the Moon's light is capable of reaching. Because of this, it is incorporeal and cannot be damaged by conventional means. It doesn't have any internal structure, but when it is challenged with a convincing amount of courage it will begin to become more corporeal. In its corporeal form it has the appearance of a wolf. The more courage is seen around it, the more defiance against its Torment, it becomes more and more wolf-like. The Spiritual Travelers were capable of making it fully into a wolf, to the point that smoke was no longer even billowing from its fur, and its glowing green-yellow eyes became just normal eyes of a wolf. In this form, it is more capable of being harmed even with non-magical weaponry. When Torment was "put down" by Kaswink, it dissipated mostly into smoke which flowed into Frode and granted him control over the Spirit, but some of it also seemed to become moonlight.

Dietary Needs and Habits

As an emotional spirit, Torment feeds off the emotions it creates. In its case, and in the case of Arjan, it creates pain and guilt to become more powerful. Now that Frode has Torment, he can inflict pain on himself to manifest small pieces of Torment or to even transform into it. Meaning that it needs its host's pain to be able to manifest at all, and in this weakened state it can only do a little bit at a time...though Frode's suffering seems to be capable of keeping it alive.

Genetic Ancestor(s)