Creature no. 11
Aschestag
Discovery date: February 27, 1946
Creature type: Possessive
Threat potential: 6
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A monster made of ash and seemingly fueled by an unknown source of fire inside it’s body. These flames make the creature glow a yellow light, even including their eyes and mouth. It emits a small amount of smoke thanks to this supernatural blaze.

This smokescreen allows it to disappear into the air, evidently by dampening it’s fire. Which causes the ash composing its body to be unbounded from one other, essentially turning it into smoke. This permits the creature to fly, in a manner of speaking.

Though the Aschestag doesn’t seem to use it’s inferno to burn anyone, instead preferring to enter the orifices of it’s prey by using it’s smoke ability and inflict illusions on the victim’s mind. This process of invading the mind seems to also have other effects, one of which being to make their target’s blood boil. Both figuratively and literally.

It does this using its illusions, wherein it can inflict all sorts of mental damage through either exploiting your fear, sadness, guilt, and anger. Angrier victims seemingly help the Aschestag boil their blood faster and hotter, in one case their arm even catching on fire. Though this is very rare as a heart attack or a stroke would often finish the job.

This creature is rumored to be the souls of Marinus van der Lubbe, Georgi Dimotrov, Vasil Tanev, and Blagoy Popov. The four involved in the Reichstag fire trial and possibly, the Reichstag fire in Germany during February 27, 1933. These myths may have been caused due to the creature being discovered on the 13th anniversary of the fire and that it was found in Berlin.