Lore Ideas

Ideas based from various anime or shows, usually anthology series.

Skull Snails
Snails (or technically slugs) that use skulls as a shell. They're very large, but otherwise nothing is clearly special about them They might consume the person (or being) that the skull belonged to, or they just use skulls they come upon. In the case of using ones they find, they're found predominately in ill-cleaned battlefields

Inspiration
Slug Girl by Junji Ito

Soul Fruit
Soul Fruit are what fruit, or other naturally occurring edibles, become after someone's died nearby. They're adverse affects can only be seen and absorbed by someone who, at the time, does not have a soul. More often then not, a soul fruit is instinctively avoided by those with souls, and once it rots away and becomes inedible, the soul finally passes on. They only occur if someone died from something other than old age or sickness. They must either be killed or die from a freak accident.

An Undead's Shadow
Most undead do not have shadows. This represents their lack of souls, but if they do eat a Soul Fruit, they regain their shadow. Whilst the shadow is NOT the soul, the shadow is an adverse effect of having a soul or proper being. Generally speaking, inanimate objects do not have souls, but they do properly belong, whereas undead were meant to be dead, but because they are no longer dead, they do not belong.

Shadow Smith (Ability)
A very rare ability that allows people to 'smith' weapons or objects from shadows. Once the abiltiy is used on a shadow (lets say to make a spear), the shadow would have a blank spot the light shines on that would be in shape of said spear. The objects, though appearing solid, do not cast a clear shadow.

Inspiration
GioGio's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo - Baby Face (Part 6) by Hirohiko Araki