The Wellspring of Outliers, Spiritualists

Spiritualists comprise ten-to-fifteen percent of the world's population, cropping up as the result of the dawn of reishi into the world. The phenomenon that was their existence originated in different lands to boon historical figures - namely fighters, such as the fabled Guan Yu within Chinese culture, or vast array of popular swordsmen under the band of the Shinsengumi. They are the progenitors to today's spiritualists, originally making up a mere less than five percent of the world's population. Now inadvertently appearing in every continent, small communities just like Zenchou City have emerged as cultural omens, with some even renaming themselves to suit their growing population of Spiritualists. Some accept it, and most non-spiritually attuned people still try to live among them - but as their numbers increase, so does the majority of mundane uneased by the presence of spiritually-inclined, simply trying to live their lives alongside them.


Defined by their inherent spiritual qualities, spiritualists are the cast of spiritually adept people who were never formally trained under the helm of supervision and lack any genetic inherence that could guide them along those paths. They aren't like the Adepts, who bear natural acuity to reishi and are ever-curious of it - nor are they the souls of the Soul Plains that took refuge from the constant dangers by honing their unique soul's capacity to harness its own energy. Their category of specialty is honing that lack of excess, permitting full exploration of what their abilities alone can do. They bear variance in self, and can fully soak in what they're capable of. For that, they have full freedom over the manifestation of their spirit.

Spiritualists do not require a Medium to utilize the word or phrase that defines them. Their Affinity can be channeled from or through every inch of their form, and expressed in any shape or manner of matter, barring defense-related, fully-solid constructs in the case of incompatible Affinities. Their defense from the abnormal & unnatural is their own bodies, and how well they can stretch their talent.

A Spiritualist's Specializations extend what their Affinity itself can do to nearby concepts; primarily through changing its state of matter (i.e. changing the consistency of a vapor or gas to a semi-solid). For broader Affinities this permits them to amplify their manifestation of a specific 'cast' of it; a bearer of the Affinity for "Seasons" or "Weather" would be able to improve how they manifest one of those qualities.

Mechanically this is achieved through the creation of traditional custom perks, tending to be oriented toward 'unlocking' or 'empowering' a manner of an Affinity, and enhancing an existent quality of their Affinity to a small extent (improving the output on a pre-existing clause, applying a status effect etc.). Techniques generally can have their own conditional clauses relative to this application, if they were skewed toward the Affinity itself in effect; otherwise, generic blast/attack techniques can freely utilize them and conduct their passive qualities (such as a perk granting 'Shock' on electricity-based effects).