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* **Audible Phenomenon:** Seers and empaths often report hearing a faint harmonic wail or resonance as essence is released or consumed.
* **Audible Phenomenon:** Seers and empaths often report hearing a faint harmonic wail or resonance as essence is released or consumed.
* **Scent:** Some [[Zekarin]] healers claim they can smell freshly severed essence as “ozone touched by sorrow.”
* **Scent:** Some [[Zekarin]] healers claim they can smell freshly severed essence as “ozone touched by sorrow.”
== Sacred and Forbidden Uses ==
* **Redemption Rites:** In rare cases, Vital Essence from the unjustly slain may be used in **redemptive bonding rituals**, allowing a spirit to ascend to [[It’slémwé]] despite spiritual scarring.
* **Creation of Malisik:** [[Malismorai]] and his Inquisitors use Vital Essence as fuel to **animate** fallen spirits into monstrous forms, making them unwilling thralls of [[Malis]].
* **Voydcrafting:** Dark constructs powered by Vital Essence have been used to anchor [[Voyd Conduits]], animate [[Voyd Jammers]], or poison sacred [[Kroetar]] pathways—though this is a sacrilege.


== Philosophical Implications ==
== Philosophical Implications ==