What is a spirit (Apath)

Unofficial rules compendium

What is a Spirit?

Several of the shugenja’s abilities affect spirits. For purposes of the shugenja’s ability, a “spirit” includes any of the following creatures:

• All aberrations
• All constructs
• All fey
• All magical beasts
• All Monstrous Humanoids and Humanoids of the (giant) subtype
• All outsiders
• All creatures of the Plant type (not normal plants)
• All undead
• Creatures created by spells, such as animate object.
• Creatures summoned by spells, such as summon nature's ally.
• Creatures in astral, ethereal, or incorporeal form – but only as long as the shaman is in material form and on her home plane

In the shugenja’s worldview, elementals and fey are simply spirits of nature, and undead are the spirits of the dead. Magical beasts, constructs, plants, monstrous humanoids, and aberrations are either spirit-possessed or spirits bound in corporeal form.