Vours are evil creatures that take over human bodies and assume the victim’s personality while imprisoning the host’s consciousness in a nightmare-world called a fearscape. Outside of a human victim, Vours manifest as black oily smoke, but can retain this form only for a limited time. Because of their ability to cause hallucinations and psychically manipulate people, a Vour’s true shape is often hard to discern.
Detecting a Vour-possessed person isn’t always easy. Once inside of a person, a Vour assumes the victim’s personality, and has access to all of the host’s memories. A Vour-controlled person shows a few key symptoms, however. They include a fixation with sweet foods and heat, as well as an extreme sensitivity to cold (extreme cold might even cause discoloration and burns on the skin). These signs are most detectible in the recently possessed.
Vours, both in their human and inhuman forms, sense what we fear most. Using both psychic and physical means, they will inflict these fears to assail anyone who crosses them and sometimes merely to amuse themselves. Fear is intoxicating to Vours, and they are drawn to it like sharks to blood.