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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 5411769" data-attributes="member: 893">Lemme see if I can try to explain...  Spirits in Shadowrun are pretty weird when it comes to exactly what they are.  When a mage or shaman or any other awakened someone summons one they are a tabula rasa and their 'form' is created out of a combination of what the summoner percieves them to be and the location that they are summoned in...In other words, you could summon the 'spirit' of your dead granddad, but it would be your granddad as you perceived him, not an actual manifestation of his 'soul'.  This means that while a druidic shaman might summon a spirit of beasts that looks and acts like a member of the wild hunt a hermetic magician might summon a spirit of beasts that looks and acts the way he would expect a gargoyle or homunculus to behave.The astral space in the background also affects the manifestation of a spirit.  If you summon that same spirit of beasts in a highly toxic area like a nuclear waste site then it might manifest as a rabid dog for example.There are also free spirits and wild spirits that exist independently of any summoner.  These are often drawn to astrally significant areas, sometimes places like Lay Lines or important ritual locations like Stonehenge but also places where there was great human suffering like battlefields and even areas where something of significance happened to the earth itself there.  In that case their form manifests according to the collective understanding of what happened there.  That's where you get "ghosts" from.</blockquote>

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