AUGSEPT REWARDS 13 (Patreon)

Darkfire57 

A maze of mirrors where distorted reflections are tracking you  until the exit.

The rest that I picked are horror themed ones, as I'm getting geared up for next month's horror theme and some of these were too good to not do! So here we go~

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is an entity known as a Zhànshì or mostly as a Reflection, Shimmer Facet, Fractal Doppelganger, or a Mirror Mimic.

These creatures are related to the Shimmer Men that I'd posted in years prior, and are among the lowest ranks of the mirror entities. 

Long ago, the realm of man and the mirror realm, known by some as the  mirror world, the reflection world, or by some esoteric scholars, "The  Fractal". The beings of which emerge from within are known as the Fauna  of Mirrors.

Thought to be some of the first beings that existed  within the cosmos, they wander a constantly shifting and reflecting  universe that has no true shape and simply reflects the universes around  it through it's infinite facets. As other worlds and realms came to be,  their dimension would take the shape of those worlds, reflecting the  images and shapes of those worlds.

The Shimmer men, take the form  of and mimic those beyond a mirror's edge. Silvered or reflective  surfaces that shed light through the fractal to be a window into another  dimension, however end up reflecting nothing but our own. The entities  within exist as reflections of ourselves, mimicking our every movement  and following our every motion, though some notice reflections changing  or warping on occasion, or seeming somewhat off.

The entities  beyond the mirrors could once come and go as they wished from the  realms. In China there were legends of fish swimming through the  shimmering walls of a mirror, and of some who were mauled by "Tigers"  that would emerge from the reflective surfaces and tear them apart with  great violence. However in 2697BC the beings ceased their mimic and  emerged from mirrors and reflective surfaces and began attacking humans  until the Yellow Emperor sealed the mirror dimension with an alchemical  silver, barring the entities from returning. It is unknown why they  attacked humans. Some scholars believe that they may be forced to mimic  us due to strange dimensional or eldritch laws of space, and others  believe them to be jealous of our world, while some also think a darker  reason, that it was done simply to inflict carnage or to feed a violent  curiosity.

Whenever a Shimmer man takes a creature's reflection, it becomes a culmination of every bit of that person's physical being, and as such it possesses millions of limbs, faces, and actions constantly ready to present at a moment's notice. Whenever a mirror is broken when a creature is being viewed through it, or when a creature enters a hall of mirrors, these ideas become fractured and split apart, breaking the shimmer man into fragments. This can also be done on the Shimmer Man's behalf, splitting it's self into various fragments to pursue a creature. When in this form it is a twisted, parody of the original creature's form, and cannot use it's full form, but can still shapeshift using what little ability it still possesses to do so. By touching another Reflection they can fuse back together. Shimmer Men possess a hive mind between themselves and all of the other reflections so they can coordinate their attacks, and to ambush an enemy that may be prepared otherwise. When fragmented like this however they do have a singular mindset and once they set out to complete a task they can focus on little else but that task for as long as they remain solitary.

Some of the reflections have been trapped as fragments after being separated from the others for too long and slowly become almost zombie like mindless killing machines over time.