The Mysterious Spirit Detective

The art of spirit exploration is divided into three branches: Sight, Desecration, and Communion.

Sight is the foundation of spiritual perception, and it takes many forms.

With Desecration, one can learn a dead person's memories and life story by laying a hand on their forehead or the skull of their remains.

Communion is the ability to speak with spirits. Aside from mindless beings such as flowers, plants, trees, and insects, all other living things can be spoken to. By connecting minds, one can learn what they see and feel what they feel.

Spirit explorers seek out strange lands and unusual places invisible to ordinary people. These regions were left behind for future generations by those who sought to build them, sealed away and blocked from view.

There are two kinds of seals: yang seals and yin seals. Yang seals are easy to find, but extremely dangerous. Yin seals are hard to find and vanish without a trace.

No seal is a dead end; each has a Seal Gate.

The path through the gate is called the Passage.

Spirit explorers seeking the method to find a Passage often rely on a spirit compass.

Spirit compasses are usually made of bronze. The six points of the star atop them are engraved with the Six Trigrams, but there is no Qian or Kun.

This is because the guiding principle of spirit exploration, created by Tian Wai Tian, is: Though one may understand yin and yang, the workings of Qian and Kun are beyond judgment.

What explorers seek is no dead tomb, but a living realm.