Editing Spirit world (section)

== The Spirit Lands (Gaesati) ==


Most travelers to the Spirit land are seeking encrypted information and allies from the animal spirits. 
 
The animal spirits of the Gaesati people live in the Spirit Lands and worshiping the seita is the means of entry to the land. It is a wild and natural kingdom of animals, there are few signs of humans. In the Spirit Land everything is larger and more powerful than the human realm - the sun shines with a more brilliant light, the moon fills a bigger part of the night sky, the night sky itself is higher and deeper and darker. The forest is bigger, the trees are taller and greener, and they cast a longer shadow. The scent of a rose is more intoxicating and the sound of thunder is louder and seems to echo endlessly.
 
In the spirit lands, the more powerful the animal spirit, the more it resembles the ‘essential ideal’ of that animal in the human or corporeal world. Thus, a small spirit bear resembles the bear of the human world in its size and characteristics. On the other hand, a powerful spirit bear  is a giant bear, and in every respect it is more bearish than any bear in the physical world. When angry, the powerful spirit bear is fiercer and more dangerous; when plundering, it plunders more greedily and more haphazardly; and when sleeping, it sleeps more sleepily. Similarly, a powerful hare spirit will be more fearful, more alert, and faster than any hare in the human world.
 
These ‘great’ spirits are strong; they are able to reshape their form, adopting whichever form of their representative species that is best suited to each situation.  They do so quickly, even in front of mortal eyes.
 
The Great Spirits have become truly detached from the shackles of time and place. It is wise to remember that it will be difficult for them to understand that mortals remain bound by these constraints. 
 
The Gaesati believe that if the Great Spirits were to concentrate their minds and wills upon mortals, there would be no hope of survival.  But mortals are not important to the Great Spirits and do not deserve their attention.  While there are humans who believe they have managed to overcome a Great Spirit; such a fighter did not actually defeat the spirit -  he carried his will through the battle because the spirit had no interest in the mortal and had other things to do. These other things need not be important, they are only of more interest to the Spirit than a quarrel with a mortal.  Rather like the ant who carries away a grain of sugar.