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As always, anything here should be taken as suggestion, and my suggestions are subject to change without warning. XD
Name: Imami
Meaning: Alteration of "Imamu", a Swahili name meaning 'spiritual guide'.
Title: Migrator Soul
Domain: Spirit Guide
Brief Concept: The Spiritual Guide to the living, Imami is the being that people would have sought out or met during vision quests, in belief systems that involve the use of mind-altering drugs in order to connect with the divine, and so on. She brings advice, premonitions and warnings to mortals in a variety of ways: cryptic visions, a gentle whisper on the breeze, or even appearing to them herself. Imami is also a denizen or ruler of the Spirit-Plane, a higher "realm" those in her following would have tried to connect with or visit in order to gain greater insight about their lives and the world around them, as well as call upon its inhabitants for guidance and protection.
Also, something about being the one behind out-of-body experiences that I can't articulate too fancily right now.
Gender: Female
Jewel Appearance: Ametrine -
2Skin: She's supposed to be spirit-like/ethereal in appearance, so possibly a soft gold-tinted white. Having her gain a bit of moth fuzz would not be something I'd be opposed to, either.
Hair: None, but her antennae would become much longer (enough so to effectively match the behavior of human hair), broader, and more flowing instead, and turn gold as well.
Eyes: Surprise me! c:
Wings: A shape like the top middle of
these. I'd love for her to be able to impose images on them - but as far as their 'default' appearance goes, having them depict colors / patterns associated with the cycle of death (left) and rebirth (right) might be neat. :
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Clothing Style: What clothes Imami has would serve more to accent her form than cover it, most likely - mantles/stoles worn at the arms, and other things to that effect.
Other: She would, ideally, maintain the body plan of her host's species. I'm playing off the idea that visions are more often of the strange than they are of the familiar, and so it would fit that a goddess with this domain would look strange. c:
This would mean I'd have to find a way to pay for custom lineart, though. @_______@;; Uh-oh...
Psyche: Sanguine. Somewhat teasing, the type who will hint at something but leave it to you to find the truth for yourself - she wouldn't be an effective spiritual guide if she held your hand and spelled out for you what was going on the entire way. Playful and adventurous, willing and wanting to show her potential followers all the wonders of the universe. Fond of a bit of harmless mischief now and again, and absolutely
adores mortals.
Abilities: I'm trying to list these in order of what I'd like to see most as well as what abilities she'd be more likely to regain first... and kinda failing at it. XD;
- Astral travel
TO HERSELF: She can travel faster, and be in two (or more) places at once, by moving part of her consciousness/spirit out of her body and towards her destination. Her projected form(s) would be mostly noncorporeal and have a limited ability to interact with the physical world at least at first, and wouldn't even be able to 'speak' with others at the Morph stage. It would also take a larger chunk of concentration and probably not be indefinite early on.
TO OTHERS: By gently pulling one's soul out of their body, she can grant out-of-body experiences to others. This ability would be restricted to her own astrally projected self and last a limited amount of time, due to limitations of both goddess and mortal / other deity involved.
Astral projection means being restricted to the Spirit-Plane - and thus, all but invisible - without some concentrated effort.
- See spirits
NOT of the dead. >u>
- Send visions
The complexity, range, clarity etc. of the visions she can send would start out small at Morph(?) stage and grow with her. At first she'd only be able to send whispers and fleeting images that would be easily dismissed.
- Summon spirits
She can pull denizens of the Spirit-Plane down to earth to act as guides or guardians.
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An ability to know enough about one's life to provide them guidance? Scratching for now, it seems a bit too sketchy and tacked on.
Other thoughts:- Earlier capacity for planestriding?
- Is there possibly a Spiritual Plane that she'd be associated with? Separate from the Realm of the Dead / Underworld - it would concern kami and other such beings that are spirits, but not reaching that state through the life cycle. I keep thinking like the Spirit World in Avatar as a general idea, here. XD;; If such a place can acceptably exist and Imami gained the power to summon guide spirits, they'd come from here and she'd have to regain their acknowledgment / respect in order to have them in her service again. Those in her following would have probably been able to earn personal guides for themselves, as well. o0o
The Spirit-Plane wouldn't be its own separate 'realm' like the Underworld; rather, it would be a 'higher' part of an existing plane.
She might have at least partial dominion over the spiritual plane, I have no idea. XD;
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