Background: Isaiah Freeman was once a devout man of God, an priest who tried to take his message to the streets and restore peace, order and prosperity to the neighborhood.
He paid for his hubris with his life.
Freeman’s spirit rested uneasily and refused to move on. For a full year, it waited, enveloped in its grief, until his murderers desecrated the site of its death.
Eventually through the Ebon Cross's efforts, his anchors were resolved one by one. The blood stain was cleaned. The church was revitalized. And his murderer confessed and devoted himself to helping others.
Description: Freeman ’s ghost rarely manifests visibly. It prefers to create images of itself with its Phantasm Numen. These images are usually an idealized form of what Freeman looked like in life. He appears as a handsome, young, African-American man with short-cropped hair and a preacher’s black suit and white collar.
When it does manifest visibly, the ghost looks like Freeman as he was at the moment of his death. This is a man beaten in every sense of the word. His skin is dark and sallow where it is not bruised or broken. A ragged hole passes clear through his chest, larger in the back than in the front. In either case, freezing cold and the scent of blood and wine accompany the ghost’s manifestations. When the ghost is around, the entire street effectively becomes his grave and reflects the chill of such a place. The wine represents the sacrament Freeman administered during services while alive. The blood stands for the blood of Christ, into which the wine transmutes during services, and for Freeman’s own spilled blood that still stains the street.
Anchors: Freeman’s ghost is anchored to the site of his death, the church he worked at, and the man who killed him.