Spirit Walkers

The spirit walkers emerged from the pooling souls of those slain in the Gods' War. As the war waged for decades, an overwhelming number of dead languished in the Dream Cradle as untended and forgotten souls. As the Nerim fell in battle these numbers grew, and began to coalesce around the largest of souls, drawn in and subsumed into writhing masses. The tensions keeping souls and dreams separate began to tear, and as Kuuth's life ended, the spirit walkers began to emerge as their own finite dreams.

In the early stages of this phenomenon, only the smallest of souls successfully coalesced, leaving many to believe these were merely fledgeling lifeforms. Over the course of several decades, increasingly powerful souls began to emerge, eventually bringing individuals capable of interspecies communication. Many emerging spirit walkers entered the reconstructing settlements of the dream cradle, living as drifters amid the chaos of city life. Nearly sixty years following the war's end, dozens of spirits coalesced within a matter of weeks, culminating in the rebirth of the twisted soul of Minara.