Ghosts and Haunting

NOTICE: This page is currently marked as speculation, and as such may not be accurate. "Ghosts", not unlike true spirits, are clumps of emotional energy which take form, hold memory, and require additional emotional energy to sustain themselves. Unlike true spirits, however, Ghosts inhabit nonliving objects, and are much more vulnerable to suggestion. Ghosts are most comonly found in graveyards and well visited haunted houses, and will take on the form expected by the visitors.

Ghosts and Energy
It is well known that objects do not hold emotional energy in the same way that people do. That said, objects can still become emotionally charged. (link). But because objects can not generate emotions, nor maintin an emotional charge, ghosts require frequent contact with humans to maintain their charge. Ghosts also require the energy in their contact with humans to be of sufficiently similar type to replenish their energy store.

This is most easily provided in graveyards or frequently toured haunted locations, as the enviornment envokes a predictable emotional responce from visiting humans.

Ghosts and Memory
Ghosts are notorious for their poor memory. It is not uncommon for ghosts to pick up memories from the unsuspecting humans they come across. These "memory imprints" can often completely rewrite the personality of the ghost within moments of meeting a new human.

Ghost memory also degrades relatively quickly, with significant events completely erased from a ghost's memory within a week. Ghosts that appear to remember events from earlier times typically are using freshly imprinted memories to build the story.

Ghosts and graveyards
Graveyards are often successful breeding and feeding grounds for ghosts due to the frequency of visitors in similar emotional states. The pain of loss often causes graveyard ghosts to take on a demon-like form which is often said to inhabit the very soil of the graveyard.

Graveyard ghosts are also often easily spooked, and thanks to their voltility, sudden changes in the emotional state of humans around them can have drastic effects.

Calm humans might, on a clear night, be able to coax the ghost to take on the form of their loved one by focusing on their own memories of said individual. This is usually accomplished unintentionally, and the illusion may be shattered if the ghost gets spooked.

Known Ghosts
As of this time, no ghosts have appeared in cannon.