Fantasme

A Fantasme is a creature, whether it is human or not, whose genetic material has degenerated to mix with everything around, whether it is visible or not. What has left has been assimilated by the Leto to form pure dark matter.

So, a man who became a Fantasme becomes Leto's energy, but cannot go out of the jungle.

Some people describe a Fantasme as "a sight of a souvenir" or "a smell", or even "a living emotion". Basically, it takes the form it wants... to make you join him.

The number of Fantasmes is impossible to give but everyone agrees on one point : everyone will become one if the Leto isn't stopped.

SEEING THE FANTASME

Very few people actually ever "saw" a Fantasme, even when confronted to one. It is important to say that the Fantasme seems to have access to our minds when we're close enough, which leads to highly realistic hallucinations, where time and space are completely different. The Fantasme can litteraly create a virtual reality where he can keep his target going for years, when in reality, this event only lasts one minute.

The Fantasme's objective is to keep the prey hypnotized long enough for him to become himself a Fantasme and join the Leto. Some other Fantasmes want to have enough time to get into the target's body, where they'd be able to move away from the Leto. These cases of possessed people, despite being rare, trouble very much the Dies Irae, but also mean that Fantasmes still have feelings. Which means that once the whole humanity will be turned into such creatures, our consciousness will stay.

A DEFEATED FANTASME

According to some legends, twisting the hallucination's logic may "defeat" the Fantasme. According to these legends, beating a Fantasme strangely makes the Leto "dry" for a few seconds, as if it needed to "refuel" its dark matter.