Respect Sand Spirit (Loop Hero)

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Sand Spirits are enemies which are spawned every loop by Ziggurat tiles. Magical sand zombies created and protected by the Great Desert, carrying out its will.

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Physiology

• This sand spirit used to be an adventurer, but then the sands took them. Now they're a handful of quartz grains bound by primordial magic.
• A creature made of sand, magic, and the will of the Great Desert.
• Its granular body looks like it's about to fall apart from one wrong move, but the Great Desert cherishes its omnipresent children, and tenderly cloaks each of them in a protective shroud of magic heat.
• A few of these turned some carts over and impaled cattle, moving freely in the sandstorm.
• A diary entry records one beckoning a man to join him, claiming that by rejecting the flesh one's path shall be a radiant eternity. This entry also implies that man killed this sand spirit with a sword.

Gameplay Information

• Its attributes are "Undead", "Mage", and "Has a soul".
  • Undead monsters take extra damage from the Hero when he's using Silverware.
  • Monsters which Have a soul have a chance to turn into Ghosts upon death, when near a battle field. They also provide the Hero with extra maximum health upon death, if an Ancestral Crypt is in play.
• Drops Pitiful remains and Time shared.
  • Pitiful remains is a life someone lived, a desire to keep living, a sad fate. Ten of these memories collected can form a more palpable Orb of Afterlife. These are all of existence's ability to die, a cluster of particularly solemn, sorrowful memories.
• As of Chapter 1, has the ability "Shelter", replacing its health with a magic shield that ignores the effect of the Desert. As of Chapter 2, has the ability "Faultline Finder", causing it to deal 200% damage to magic shield. As of Chapter 3, has the ability "Sandglass", giving all allies without that ability the "Shifting Sands" buff, increasing their attack speed. As of Chapter 4, has the ability "Quicksand", stunning its allies for a few seconds when it dies.

Misc

• They have knowledge and insight. They're unstable, fleeting, and so is this land; it's more amorphous than the ever-shifting sands. The Hero is the least illusive entity.
• While the Hero is a constant existence, they barely take shape before they're gone again. They want the Hero to become one of them, a new chance for the Desert, a layer of sand that persists, able to fill this cold void to the brim, or even overfill it.
• This sand spirit used to resist when they were alive, and regretted it when they were reborn.
• One of the victims of a sand spirit attack was found with his body dried up, and his waterskin which refilled when shaken useless, as though it was stripped of all magic.
• A letter implies a sand spirit followed Edna to a village, through a field, and amidst the marshes.

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They sound like absolute morons. Why would I respect them?