Sprites

Sprites are sentient creatures widely ranging in form and type. They can be formed from any type of material or substance, be it man-made, such as glass or slime; or more commonly, naturally occurring substances, such as water or wood. Depending on the malleability of the substance, sprites usually possess some primitive version of the ability to shapeshift; while they are not able to change the composition of the shapes they take in the way true Shapeshifters are able to do, they may be able to disguise or enhance their bodies by changing into different sizes, according to how much substance they are made out of. The volume of material in their bodies can be increased or decreased by adding compatible substances (e.g. a water sprite may increase his size by taking in liquids) to their bodies.

Little is known about them due to their wide ranging forms, although they all share one quality; each sprite contains a 'prism core', a shard of crystal containing highly concentrated energy, which acts as the basis of a sprite's life force. With this core, no matter how badly damaged their vessels, or how depleted their bodies become, they will still remain 'alive' and sentient. Only through the destruction of their prism cores will a sprite be returned to the ordinary materials they were originally formed from. As a result, a sprite's prism core is its most precious and heavily guarded object.

Sprites are able to take on the body of a flesh-and-blood human being through animating a corpse, although it largely depends on the composition of the sprite; wood and fire sprites may experience difficulty in animating a body due to the very nature of their own bodies, which may damage the vessel before it can be used. However, some sprites such as wind and water sprites can easily animate a body due to such substances being naturally found inside the human body. 'Fleshsuits' can also be formed from scratch if a sprite is powerful enough, although the strain may cause their prism cores to shatter.

For the full list of sprites on the wiki, refer to Category:Sprites.