User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/A guide to Fan Characters and Roleplaying./@comment-5142578-20121228042049

By far, this is probably one of the most useful, informative, and well writen pieces of information I have ever read on here. Excellent work, Smash! This will help me with creating great characters and to help keep my current characters from becoming overpowered (something I'd rather avoid.)

So, I would like to help make this more informative by explaining the elemental power 'Spirit' in more detail. As far as I can tell, it can be considered one of three main things.

1) Ghost powers. Abilities that can be compared to a ghost. These include becoming invisible (by ghostly means, not technology or cameoflague), walking through walls (or other items), posessing someone else (not by mind control, but by actually posessing them), and even attacking with ghost-like attacks (such as an energy ray made of ghostly energy.) One of my characters, Crystaline the Wolf (who's character page I have yet to create), has this type of Spirit ability.

2) Manipulating the dead. This category includes talking to the dead, raising the dead, summoning the dead to fight for you, and using the powers of the underworld. (come to think of it, that last part can probably fall under the 'darkness' element.)

3) Using life energy as a power. Taking your own (or someone elses) life force and converting it into a means of attacking, moving, defending, etc.

So, depending on your definition of 'Spirit', these are the three main ways that I can describe the 'Spirit' element. Other types may exist, but these are probably the top three I can think of. Originally, I thought of this Example:

[ 4) A combination of light and darkness elements.]

But I kind of thought that it almost sounded like it would contradict itself (light being 'holy' and darkness being 'evil'). I think it's a possible type of spirit, but difficult to explain. Let me know if this is useful to you.