# Hungry Ghost Style.
> [!infobox|right n-th]+ Collapsible Infobox
> # Charm Concept: Primal Emotions.
> Some Hungry Ghost Charms reference Intimacies of *primal emotions*: simple, straightforward passions like anger, fear, and hunger, the kind experienced by both people and animals.<br>
> Such Intimacies considered “relevant” in battle if they’re directly applicable to the stylist’s current action or to the fight as a whole, or if they relate to her motivation for fighting.
**Summary**: Most stories of this style’s origins tell of a village, city, or temple overrun by the walking dead. Without weapons or training in battle, the few survivors learned from the only teacher they had, drilling in techniques devised by watching the ravenous ghosts at their hunt. While the truth of such tales is disputed, the style’s schools can be found in many places throughout Creation where the living must fear the dead, like the shadowland-haunted streets of Chiaroscuro, the outlying settlements around Whitewall, or the tide-flooded lower neighborhoods of Wu-Jian.
The style’s intense physical discipline, emphasizing forceful blows driven by bursts of speeds, belies the spiritual facets equally important to practitioners. Students cultivate power within their lower soul by embracing their most intense and primal passions, at times attaining an almost ecstatic frenzy in battle. Those unfamiliar with the style who see its techniques in use may believe practitioners to be monsters themselves.
**Style Weapons**: This style’s unarmed attacks emphasize clawing and knifehand strikes to strike at vulnerable areas. They can always be stunted to deal lethal damage. This style is also compatible with axes, kamas, and tiger claws, which are traditionally wielded paired.
**Armor**: This style is incompatible with armor.
**Complementary Abilities**: Athletics is key to this style’s emphasis on speed and pursuing foes.
**Fuente**: Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave, p. 320
```mermaid
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flowchart TB
A --> B & C --> D --> E & H
E --> F --> G
G & H --> I
A( <span style="color:gold">●○○○○</span>
Blood-Scenting Hunger
<span style="color:red">●●○○○</span>)
B( <span style="color:gold">●○○○○</span>
Lunging Phantom Method
<span style="color:red">●●●○○</span>)
C( <span style="color:gold">●○○○○</span>
Shrouded Claw Attack
<span style="color:red">●●●○○</span>)
D( <span style="color:gold">●○○○○</span>
Hungry Ghost Form
<span style="color:red">●●●●○</span>)
E( <span style="color:gold">●●○○○</span>
Scuttling Apparition Defense
<span style="color:red">●●●●○</span>)
F( <span style="color:gold">●●○○○</span>
Unnatural Shambling Deftness
<span style="color:red">●●●●●</span>)
G( <span style="color:gold">●●○○○</span>
Leaping Horror Approach
<span style="color:red">●●●●●</span>)
H( <span style="color:gold">●●○○○</span>
Blood-Freezing Technique
<span style="color:red">●●●●●</span>)
I( <span style="color:gold">●●●○○</span>
Soul-Consuming Transcendence
<span style="color:red">●●●●●</span>)
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| Encantamiento | Costo | Habilidad | Esencia | Prerequisitos | Efecto |
| -------------------------------- | -------- | --------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------ |
| [[Blood-Scenting Hunger]] | 4m | 2 | 1 | — | |
| [[Lunging Phantom Method]] | 4m | 3 | 1 | [[Blood-Scenting Hunger]] | |
| [[Shrouded Claw Attack]] | 3m | 3 | 1 | [[Blood-Scenting Hunger]] | |
| [[Hungry Ghost Form]] | 7m | 4 | 1 | [[Lunging Phantom Method]], [[Shrouded Claw Attack]] | |
| [[Scuttling Apparition Defense]] | 4m, 2i | 4 | 2 | [[Hungry Ghost Form]] | |
| [[Unnatural Shambling Deftness]] | 2m, 1wp | 5 | 2 | [[Scuttling Apparition Defense]] | |
| [[Leaping Horror Approach]] | 5m, 1wp | 5 | 2 | [[Unnatural Shambling Deftness]] | |
| [[Blood-Freezing Technique]] | 3m, 2i | 5 | 2 | [[Hungry Ghost Form]] | |
| [[Soul-Consuming Transcendence]] | 10m, 1wp | 5 | 3 | [[Blood-Freezing Technique]], [[Leaping Horror Approach]] | |