SUMMONING & MANIFESTATION
( your persona. )

[justify]   personas are summoned using evokers; to do so without a medium is extremely difficult and taxing, but not impossible. the urge to call it out can be quenched via suppressant but it causes stress, violent fits, fatigue, and other side-effects, sometimes leading to death.

   personas have apparition-like forms; they have a physical body that can touch other personas and inanimate objects but pass through humans like ghosts.

   since personas are a part of one’s “soul” it can be given a solid body via machinery & experimentation, usually resulting in death. this is nocturne’s forte but they are nowhere close to making anything solid at all.[/justify]

HOW TO FIGHT
( encounters. )

[justify]   attacks dealt by shadows, whether physical or magical, actually hit. this entails punches, kicks, and low-level elementals like agi, bufu, garu resulting in minor scratches, burns, cold hands, etc.

   major physical/magical attacks such as tempest slash, bufudyne, instant-death, or almighty-based skills on the other hand are dealt psychologically -- targets feel phantom pains & shocks from the attacks, whether dealt on his/her person or persona.

   in relation, all persona attacks toward humans deal damage via phantom pains/nerve shocks to his/her person. this is true for persona-to-persona attacks since users and their personas are linked as “reflections”.

   all persona-to-shadow attacks hit full force; hama skills may kills a shadow (it’s a 50/50 attack), an almighty will deal heavy damage, and vorpal blade will probably slice weak shadows to bits just to name a few.[/justify]