SAMSR

Reptiles

Lullaby

The Ninth

THE CREATURES THAT REMAINED BELOW MWRT'S SKIN, CLOSE TO ITS HEART, GREW ANGRY. THEY WERE THE OFFSPRING
OF GODS, BUT BY MANY THAT HAD BEEN CAST ASIDE AND FORGOTTEN. FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THEY ROSE FROM
MWRT'S ASHES AS SHELLS, THEY HUNTED. THEY TRACKED DOWN THE DEFECTORS, THOSE MORTAL ANIMALS, AND THEY
FEASTED. IN THEIR ANGER, THEY GLUTTED THEMSELVES ON THE FLESH OF THEIR SIBLINGS AND SO IN THEM ROSE
BLOOD. BLOOD THEY WEPT FROM WOUNDS, AS MWRT HAD WEPT WATER.

THUS WAS BORN THE NINTH SOUL, REBIRTH, AND SHE
WAS NAMED SAMSR. FOR EVERY LIFE THOSE LOYAL DJNN
ENDED AND CONSUMED, ANOTHER MORTAL WAS BORN.
FROM MWRT'S SOIL THEY ROSE IN DIFFERENT FORMS,
UNTIL THERE WERE SO MANY OF THEM THAT MWRT'S
SURFACE CRAWLED. THE WINGED BIRDS AND FINNED
FISH, STINGING INSECTS AND HOOFED MAMMALS. THEY
EACH OF THESE MORTALS GREW AND CHANGED TO TRY
AND AVOID THE FURIOUS DJNN, WHETHER BY HIDING OR
OUTRUNNING OR BY FIGHTING BACK. BUT ALWAYS, THEY
FELL, AND MWRT RECLAIMED THEM. REBIRTH WAS THE
LINK, THE FEEDING OF DESCENDANTS ON ANIMALS
AND ANIMALS ON PLANTS, AND PLANTS ON ALL
THING THAT FELL. REBIRTH KEPT THINGS ALWAYS GREEN
AND CLEAN AND NEW, AND PASSED DOWN IN MORTAL
MINDS, THIS STORY OF CREATION.

The Samsr represent healing and harming. These spirits split, often, into two factions. While both sides are driven by good intentions and a pure moral code, the outcome can often be very different. Very set in their beliefs, they can be the truest of friends - self-sacrificing and sweet-tempered. As good and giving as some of these spirits are, though, they can be poisonous creature when cornered, and will not hesitate to harm those that oppose them or their loved ones. These are, undoubtedly, the most empathetic of spirits.

The Samsr are able to heal or poison at will. Those that have this spirit type will have the ability to spread sickness with physical touch and absorb damage from others’ minor injuries. The proficient will be able to create unique poisons and antidotes from the resources in their immediate surroundings, and can transfer sickness from one creature to another. The Samsr are most powerful when feeling concerned for or guilty about those around them. They will be prone to fits of intense empathy that will override their own sense of safety, or will be debilitatingly protective over those that they consider theirs. At the height of their skills they are able to bring back those on the brink of death with no ill side effects, or breathe acids and poisons into the air. Over time the Samsr’s healing factor falls, making injuries that they sustain slower and more difficult to recover from.