<<It's not worth it, is it?>>

Blightlings are spirits of urban blight. They feed upon despair, apathy and the physical decay of a city. Fragments of lore call them corrupted or sickened artificial-spirits of glass or brick, or perhaps elementals that became caught up in the destruction of man’s artifice, and tainted by his emotions.

These spirits, no matter their origin, often resemble the cast-offs of humanity, bums or street people. It’s only when Blightlings draw nearer that one sees that their forms are as broken as ruins they seek to create: arms bent at impossible angles, twisted necks, broken fingers and mismatched limbs. Their warped bodies are made from a mélange of asphalt, glass, concrete and garbage.

Blightlings are often harbingers of much nastier spirits, but their efforts often lay the groundwork for spirits of oppression, violence and despair to enter a neighborhood. First, Blightlings simply enjoy trashing places, but they also actively target persons who might seek to reverse an area’s slide into blight. Blightlings are often found in the brood of more powerful urban-spirits.

Simple vandalism, the more permanent, the better, is enough to please a weak Blightling — though more powerful versions of this type might require much more impressive forms of destruction to draw their notice, much less their favor. Repeated acts of vandalism in a neighborhood teetering on the edge of the urban abyss is often enough to invite Blightlings into an area.