Aspects
Aspects are born from violent and intense concentrations of emotion left behind in a certain locations. These aspects grow and feed off a specific emotion as it is experienced by beings passing by. Unlike gods, who typically align themselves with a specific realm of influence (be it justice, peace, or victory in battle), Aspects are always focused on one specific, raw emotion (such as rage, hate or love). At birth, an Aspect will have no consciousness of its own; it will simply be a spirit of force based on the emotion that birthed it. As a young Aspect develops it will feed from the emotion it is aligned to, and which causes it to grow in power and strength. If an Aspect gains a group of followers who feed it the emotion daily, it will gain consciousness. Once sentience has been gained, it is possible for the Aspect to actively seek out more emotion to increase its power. Over time, Aspects may gain enough power to be considered by many to be Lesser God. Aspects can be starved of their base emotion, ultimately weakening them into a state of dormancy, but they will never truly die. Instead, they wait until enough of their base emotion is experienced by mortals and they are born again.
It is possible to ‘serve’ an Aspect like one would serve a God, although this is a rare phenomenon, and little is understood about the relationship between Aspect and servant.