Have you ever looked into the eyes of your reflection for too long and gotten a strange feeling, like something wasn’t quite right? That’s because the Illusion living in your mirror couldn’t hold their form much longer. These mischievous little creatures like to mimic what they see, but there’s a limit to how long they can hold onto an image.

Specular Illusions (sometimes called Specillu, or just Illusions, for short) live in mirrors. They can shift to look like whoever is looking in, but they can’t hold it long, and meeting their eyes will give someone a glimpse into their soul and cause their face to change from the onlookers’ to the Specillu's true selves. However, doing so opens the person up to the chance that the creature will peer into their soul, too.

They don’t like to live in the mirror space, so the more malicious or desperate ones will take a soul’s place when given that opportunity, inhabiting someone’s body and kicking their victim out to take their place in the mirror. Taking over a body at a young age can be a confusing experience after a while and some specular illusions may come to believe that they are the original inhabitors of their host, but will experience frequent discomfort/irritation with being trapped by the age, gender, or capabilities of their host, if it does not match their own.

Some of these Illusions have been known to whisper things to whoever owns their mirror, causing mischief or helping people out depending on the individual Illusion's morals and what they believe the person deserves. They have made deals in the past to spy through other mirrors and report back to the owner of the mirror as well.

Breaking a mirror that one of these Specular Illusions dwells in will result in a strong grudge that humans tend to perceive as bad luck. They latch onto the nearest reflective surface and hound after the person, tormenting them until either a new mirror is brought into the home for them to move into, they catch the owner’s gaze long enough to take over the body, or they lose strength and fade away (usually seven years).

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