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SELKIES
Long lived creatures who live as seals in the sea.
Sometimes comes ashore where they shed their sealskin to become human.
Often when they come ashore they find a lover, whom they can only see for a
short time, before needing to return to the sea. They can be made to stay if
the human can find and hide or burn the sealskin. Can be both male and
female.

If a female selkie's sealskin is stolen by a human male she is within his
power and is often forced to marry him. While selkie women are said to make
excellent wives, they are often seen starring longingly out at the ocean. Men
should be wary of this for if she finds her skin she will immediately return to
her true home. If she has children it is usually one of them who find her skin
and tells her where it is hidden.

Male selkies are said to be very handsome in their human form and have
seductive powers over human women. They typically seek those who are
dissatisfied with life, such as married women waiting for their husbands.
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SHAPE SHIFTERS
Shape Shifters are born as such and are long lived, ranging around 300+.
They are able to shift into any animal form so long as they have had recent
contact with the creature. As such they become a carbon copy of the original.
In addition they are only able to change into animals and NOT plant life or
other humans**.

In human form, they retain some on the enhanced senses and strength of the
animals they turn into, picking up those of their most recent shift, but it is
only a fragment of what they have in animal form.

In animal form they are virtually indiscernible from the natural creature,
except that they retain their human eye color, and strange human like
behavior for an animal. In addition in both animal and human form, shifters
have a comradeship with animals. It is how they are able to get close enough
to wildlife to be able to shift into them.

**Shifters who posses the ability to change into Humans are called Skin Walkers and are extremely dangerous for they have killer their own kind. This is the only way to obtain the powers of a Skin Walker.
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WITCHES
Witches' lives measure in centuries. Usually 300+

Witches come in circles of six. Generations of several families tend to ban
together and that is how these circles are formed. All witches are from a
hereditary bloodline. These circles can choose to bind themselves together in
a ritual or remain unbound.

The individuals in a bound circle have limited or even no power on their own.
However unbound circles -though still more powerful when the circle is all in
one place ie. The same city- have all of their individual power and tend to be
very strong.

When an unbound circle is separated the members are weaker but still retain
more power than that of a bound witch, and the level to which they are
weakened depends on the witch.

In addition there are power crystals, generally quartz, that magnify a witch’s
power and can amplify even a bound witch to great strength. A bound circle
relies on each other, and need two or more -with each additional member the
stronger the magic- to use their power.

All witches are able to perform spells, incantations, and brew potions. The
source of these is usually from their family’s book of shadows but a witch
can certainly create their own as well. Witches also harbour the abilities of
telekinesis, conjuration, and channeling. A witch in a ring of ashwood is
unable to perform any magic and iron sulphate can be used to weaken them.
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NYMPHS
Immortal creatures connected to nature. They are a part of mother earth, and
tend to be more at home in a natural setting. While they heal faster than a
human, it isn't instant nor are they invulnerable. A sever enough injury will still
cause fatality.

Nymphs are able to control the elements. Each one is connected to a
different aspect of the elements. They can tap in to one of the four, either
fire, water, earth, or air.

Having been the inspiration for the term nympho, they are very sexual
creatures. While it isn't a need in their life, they thrive on human sexuality.
Nymphs tend to be seducers, and are notorious for using such actions to get
their way.
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BOGEYMAN
Immortals who were once human. To become a bogey one must die during a
moment of great fear. Note that this must be something substantial. They
appear completely human -aside from when they are actively using their
power at which time their eyes go completely black-, and can be male or
female despite the 'man' in their name.

They feed on fear in a literal sense. While they don't need food to fuel them,
they must take in the energy produced by fear. As such they are invulnerable
to physical damage and any injury heals as soon as the obstruction is
removed. The only way to kill a bogey is starvation.

Because of their need of fear, they possess a unique ability. They are able to
manifest, though in a hallucinatory state, the fears of others. These obviously
vary from person to person, and those seeing the product of their power
perceive it to be very real.

When tapping into a person's deepest fear it is possible for a bogey to literally
scare someone to death. Usually the actual cause of death is cardiac arrest,
but that is because the fact that the bogey feeding off them is undetectable.
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WEREWOLVES
Wolves are immortal and stop aging either as the point of being bitten or at
full maturity which every happens later, or simply the later for those that are
born wolves.

To become a wolf one must either be born that way or receive a bite from an
Alpha.

Wolves are at the mercy of the moon. During the full moon, young and
uncontrolled wolves are forced to shift. Emotions are heightened pulling
things like rage, lust, ect. To the surface.

They can shift both partial and fully into wolf form. A partial shift causes the
body to become more animal like while still remaining mostly human, for
example the extension of claws, teeth, and longer hair.

Wolves are pack animals. Every pack consists of an Alpha, the only wolf that
can turn humans, and at least one Beta. To become an Alpha the rank must
be passed willingly or taken by force as the result of the death of the former
Alpha. Pack-less wolves, or Omega, also exist but are much weaker. Eye
color is the easiest way to tell wolf rank. In their transformed state, an
Alpha's eyes are red, a Beta's gold, and an Omega's blue.

Even in human form, a wolf is vastly stronger, faster, have accelerated
healing and harbor better senses than a normal human. When calling on their
wolf this is amplified even farther.

Any non-immortal bitten by an Alpha is able to become a werewolf. The bite
has a 30% mortality rate. The bite will either turn a mortal or kill them. When
biting an immortal, it cause a sever infection that in most cases heals in a
few days
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VAMPIRES
Immortals with enhanced senses. They can see, smell, taste, ect thousands
of times stronger than when they were human. All vampires were once
human, and the avenue to making the transition is to consume vampire blood
-which has heal properties for non-vampires- and die while it’s still in your
system. The human must then feed on human blood within twenty-four hours.
If they do, they are a vampire forever, and if not they die.

Once the transition is complete they must feed on blood -human or otherwise-
and without blood they will desiccate into mummification though not die.
Human blood makes them stronger both physically and mentally, though it is
possible to sustain on animal blood.

Vampires have a range of special abilities. There are the normal, or at least
the expected, super strength, speed, and rapid healing. Beyond that they also
are able to mentally control humans, called compulsion, and younger
vampires have the ability to turn off their human emotions -at least for a few
hundred years-.

They aren’t without weaknesses; a vampire can be killed by a wooden stake
to the heart, fire, sunlight, decapitation, or heart extraction. In addition they
can be weakened by magic, vervain -can cause death in large doses and also
prevents compulsion in humans- and must be invited in to enter a home.

Witch magic can be both detrimental and beneficial depending on the
intentions of the witch. A stone called lapis lazuli can be spelled to allow a
vampire to walk in daylight
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There are also DEMONS. To which I will incorporate into the plot.
You can't really be one but your characters can encounter them
and some do use speech so they are technically an NPC.
Demons are inter-dimensional beings who travel from world to world and
destroy everything in their path. They return to their dimension when they die.
Religiously, they are defined as Hell's denizens, the servants of Satan, but
for the purposes of the Clave, they are any malevolent spirit whose origin is
outside of the home dimension. There are many different kinds of demons.
Many demons are poisonous and the Slayers way of healing is ineffective
against it.

Greater Demons are an extension of demons and are far more powerful. They
must be killed both in their physical and ethereal forms to be forced away
from the home dimension. Sunlight and Seraph blades (The one every Slayer
is equipped with) are fatal to both demons and Greater Demons. Greater
Demons, like all demons, never truly die. When they are killed, they are not
simply sent back home, they are scattered in between worlds. It will take a
long time for them to re-form and they will be weak for years to come.

Notes:
Demon's can be summoned, either by witches, slayer, or anyone with
the proper dark book of spells. Most people do it stupidly to gain power,
thinking they can trap the demon and force it to do it's bidding (works
easier with lower level demons).

When demons die they tend to fold into themselves and vanish, generally
with a shriek. Some demons leave things behind when they die (ash, dust,
fluid, etc.).
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