The Spirit

The Spirit is the persistent object which is responsible for the communication between a User and an AnimatedObject, usually a Character. It contains a Command Parser, which is used to map the User's input onto the verbs of the abilities available to the host AnimatedObject by virtue of the skills which inhere in it, and it also interacts with the AnimatedObject?'s components (in the case of a Character, the Body, Mind, Soul, Perception Object, etc.) to provide feedback and status messages. It is also (potentially) the container of one of the parts of the Artificial Intelligence model (The subconscious??).

The Spirit also has three developmental statistics, which are loosely associated with the three primary statistics of the Character class. The spirit, and these statistics, are the record of the individual player's accomplishments in FaerieMUD. It remains associated with the player through the lifetime of multiple characters, and as it develops, allows the player to play increasingly exotic characters.

When the Spirit has developed sufficiently, it may undergo Apotheosis.

The Spirit is the player's token in the Elder Game.

— Ged The Greys Hain - 26 May 2000