Monster Design: Spirits

For my Final Project (videogame concept) I had to design some enemies. Although I didn't have enough time to create as many as I wanted. I decided to separate them in various categories, this one being the Sprit class.

Ghosts and spectral apparitions are mencioned thoughout history in many cultures. Here's my take in some of them.

They are not highly detailed because they're meant to be seen in a small screen.

ghost haunt spirit specter poltergeist shade revenant calavera catrina wraith lich

This is the most generic type of ghost: a bedsheet with eyes and a mouth.

Weak: Fire

Resistant: None

Immune: Physical

Absorb: None

Reflect: None

A stronger variation of ghost. It changed color for spending long periods of time dwelling in ectoplasm.

Weak: Fire
Resistant: Ice
Immune: Physical
Absorb: None
Reflect: None

Spirits of people whose souls could not move onto the next world. They attach themselves to personal objects and haunt buildings and people.

Weak: Ice
Resistant: Thunder
Immune: Physical
Absorb: None
Reflect: None

Experiments to communicate or bring back the dead that went wrong. Specters are vengeful ghosts who will attack their necromancer once they lose control of them.

Weak: Wind, Fire
Resistant: None
Immune: Physical
Absorb: Thunder
Reflect: None

Highgly dangerous trickster spirits. Poltergeists seek to cause mischief and chaos, some of them attempt to murder people or other ghosts.

Weak: Fire
Resistant: Wind, Thunder
Immune: None
Absorb: None
Reflect: Physical

The ancient greek believed that when people die, they travel to the realm Hades in the form of a shade. Shades are people with a spectral appearance.

Weak: None
Resistant: None
Immune: None
Absorb: Water
Reflect: None

Revenants are ghosts that come back from the grave to hant the living. The word "revenant" is comes from the Latin word reveniens, which means "returning".

Weak: Wind, Fire
Resistant: Thunder
Immune: Ice
Absorb: Physical
Reflect: None

La Calavera Catrina is a zync etching by the artist José Guadalupe Posada. It depicts a woman's skeleton with a hat befitting the upper class outfit of an European of her time. The Catrinas are now symbols to the Mexican Day of the Dead, Día de Muertos.

Weak: Physical
Resistant: None
Immune: None
Absorb: Earth
Reflect: None

Wraiths are evil elemental spirits that obtained human-like intelligence. They scorch the earth when they move and take pleasure in burning their enemies alive.

Wraiths are often mentioned in scottish literature.

Weak: Ice, Water
Resistant: Wind
Immune: Physical
Absorb: Fire
Reflect: Thunder