Creatures/IdentifyingBeings

Identifying Beings

by FourWillowsWeeping

1. Are you Exalted?
   1. Yes: You are done with this test. Make me a sandwich.
   2. No: Can you learn (De)Materialise or some variant?
      1. Yes: Are you native to Creation?
         1. 1. Yes: You are an elemental. You're naturally materialised, and can dematerialise with a Charm.
            2. No: Do you always have the privilege to enter Creation?
               1. Yes: Can you create a sanctum?
                  1. Yes: You are a god, native to Yu-Shan. Depending on your station, you make your home in the celestial city or some other sanctum. You are naturally dematerialised.
                  2. No: You are a ghost. Fie! You are naturally dematerialised and native to the Underworld.
               2. No: You are a demon. Fie! You are naturally dematerialised and native to Malfeas.
      2. No: Can you naturally (i.e. without special training) channel Essence?
         1. Yes: You are a Hundredfold.
         2. No: You are a human.

Yu-Shan and other sancta, Malfeas, and the Underworld are spirit realms. If you are native to a spirit realm, then you are a spirit. All beings are equally fleshly in the spirit realms; materialisation is a distinction that only carries weight in Creation.