From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Cover artist - Lee Binding
Spirit
Series:	Gallifrey - Series Two
Release Number:	Chapter Six
Main Character:	Romana II, Leela, K9
Featuring:	Cardinal Braxiatel
Enemy:
Setting:	Gallifrey
Writer:	Stephen Cole
Director:	Gary Russell
Post Production:	David Darlington
Publisher:	Big Finish
Release Date:	May 2005
Format:	1 CD
Prod. Code:	BFPGALLCD06
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84435-122-X
Previous Story:	Lies
Following Story:	Pandora

Publisher's Summary

‘They can bewitch at a glance, these ones. Fan fires you did not know burned inside you.’

Leela is tired. Tired of the backbiting politics and intrigues in the sterile society of Time Lords. With the fate of her husband now known, she feels lonely and out of place on Gallifrey.

Romana is tired. Tired of justifying herself and her policies to a hostile council. With the line between allies and enemies beginning to blur, she persuades Leela to go with her to the presidential retreat of Davidia, a protected paradise.

Then an anomalous time ship arrives, carrying a single passenger. His hands are crushed, his tongue torn out, his mind destroyed. Is this broken man a victim of some terrible crime or part of a trap now primed and ready to spring? After this strange encounter, Romana and Leela may never be the same again.

Cast & Characters

• President Romana - Lalla Ward
• Leela - Louise Jameson
• K9 - John Leeson
• Cardinal Braxiatel - Miles Richardson
• Coordinator Narvin - Sean Carlsen
• Pandora - Brenda Longman
• Romana - Mary Tamm
• Commander Hallan - Michael Cuckson
• Melyin - Heather Tracy

References

• Romana mentions the Great Vampires.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

to be added

External Links

• Big Finish Spirit page
• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Spirit

From DC Database

This is the Spirit disambiguation page.

It serves to clarify the difference between several closely named or closely related articles.
A = Appearances · I = Images · G = Gallery · F = Fan Art · Q = Quotes

Spirit could refer to:

Spirit (Denny Colt)

Spirit (Earth-AD)

"Spirit" episode of Smallville

From EQ2i, the EverQuest II wiki

Spirit

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From Final Fantasy Wiki

Spirit may refer to:

• The recurring stat.
• An enemy from Final Fantasy IV.
• An enemy from Final Fantasy IV: The After Years.
• An enemy from Final Fantasy X.
• An enemy from Final Fantasy XI.
• The plot element in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

From GuildWiki

This article is about the creature type Spirit in the context of skill descriptions. For information on spirits of mortal creatures that have died, see Ghost.

General

Spirits are immobile, temporary creatures typically created by rituals. Their level and natural lifetime depend upon the linked attribute of the ritual skill creating them. The creature name is derived from the ritual creating them, and is typically (but not always) of the form "Spirit of name of ritual".

Spirits have the following properties:

• Skills that affect all creatures within the skills range, such as Heal Area and effects of Nature Rituals, have no effect on Spirits.
• Boon of Creation, Explosive Growth and Spirit's Gift count spirits as creatures.
• Death of a spirit does not trigger a Necromancer's Soul Reaping.
• Spirits are immune to Hexes, Enchantments, general Healing skills, and all Conditions except Burning.

There are three different types of Spirits: those created by a Ranger's Nature Rituals, those created by a Ritualist's Binding Rituals and the Spirit of Winds summoned by an Ebon Vanguard Ritual. They all have additional generic properties.

A popular way to dispatch of Spirits is by using area-of-effect spells such as Fire Storm or Chaos Storm as the Spirit cannot leave the strike zone without use of skills like Draw Spirit, or Summon Spirits (PvE only).

Spirit Range

"Spirit range" is approximately 2.7 times the aggro circle radius. If a second allied spirit of the same name is created within the range of the first spirit, the first spirit will die without taking any damage. However, if one of the same name is teleported to within the range of the first spirit, the teleported spirit itself will die without taking any damage, rather than the original spirit.

Note that a spirit's effect only has spirit range if the skill description says "its range".

Spirit Health

A spirit's health, whether Ritualist or Ranger, can be determined by this equation: (50 + (Spirit Level * 20)) * (1 + Spawning Power * 0.04) The following is a chart containing the health of spirit depending on both its level and its creator's level in Spawning Power.

¹The columns are the level of the spirit (which varies per each skill that creates a spirit), while the rows correspond to the character's rank in Spawning Power.

Spirit Armor

A Spirit has approximately Armor = 6*lvl + 3, thus a level 9 or lower Spirit suffers more than listed damage, while a level 10+ Spirit will suffer less than listed damage from sources affected by armor.

Spirit Energy

All spirits have 31 energy regardless of level. Skills and effects of spirits do not actually use any of the spirit's energy. They also have an energy regeneration of 4 pips.

Spirits created by Nature Rituals

A Druid style spirit

Spirits created by Nature Rituals (sometimes referred to as Nature Spirits) have the appearance of a diminutive Druid. They are totems that emit environmental enchantments affecting all creatures, allies and foes alike, with the pointed exception that they never affect other spirits. Thus it is often a good idea to place beneficial spirits far in the backline so most of the enemies are out of the effect range, to plan the team build to be minimally affected by any negative effects of the spirit, and to use beneficial ones against enemy builds that can't take advantage of the benefits.

Note that every Spirit created by a Nature Ritual faces to the East.

Spirits created by Binding Rituals

A Destruction style spirit.

Spirits created by Binding Rituals (sometimes referred to as Binding Spirits) can additionally be classified into sub-types.

• Spirits that cause a one-time effect upon allies or enemies (but not both) in the area upon the spirits' death.
• Spirits that cause triggered effects on all allies or enemies (but not both) within its range, but takes damage each time the effect is triggered.
• Spirits that cause constant effect on all allies or foes (but not both) within its range.
• Attack Spirits which actively target and attack enemies of the summoner

Attack Spirits

A Banshee style spirit.

Attack Spirits resemble Banshees chained to the ground (see image at right). The spirit Life, even though it is a passive spirit, also uses this graphic (this is likely an error). Non-attacking Binding Spirits use a different graphic of a human-like form with its face covered and arms crossed (this graphic used to only be used for the Destruction spirit).

• While none of the spirits can perform combat attacks, some can use attack skills to damage enemies. Attack skills of binding spirits typically have the same name as the ritual that created the spirits, and have longbow range (1.6 aggro circle radius).
• Spirits attack at a rate of one attack every 2 seconds, with the exception of Bloodsong (1.75 seconds) and Vampirism (2.15 seconds).
• Spirits need a clear line of sight to attack their target.
• Spirits appear to gain a range advantage due to increased height above the target, similar to how bow fire works.
• Attack Spirits will automatically attack any creature within their aggro circle. If a target is already being attacked by an ally, the spirit has a propensity to attack that target. Otherwise, if multiple targets are available, it is unclear which target it selected, although preference will be given to the target with the lowest Armor, or to the target with the closest proximity to the spirit. If a creature in range drops below 50% health, the spirit may give preference to that creature and sometimes, even to the point of switching targets.
• If an enemy is within attack range (longbow range) but outside of the aggro circle, a spirit will not attack unless an ally (including another spirit) hits with an attack against that enemy.
• Unlike henchmen and pets, spirits will not react to a called target if you do not attack the target as well (i.e., in order to get the spirit to attack, you must use Ctrl-Space instead of Ctrl-Shift-Space).
• If attacked in melee by an enemy, Spirits will always attack that enemy to defend itself.
• The attacks made by these spirits will trigger shouts, chants, and other effects that trigger on attack. It is not known how they will react to environmental effects that trigger on attack such as Quicksand at the Nomad's Isle Guild Hall

Other Spirits

The following Spirits are encountered as monsters.

Region	Type	Collectable Drop
Factions Campaign
Sunjiang District (mission)	24 Spirit of Portals	none
Imperial Sanctum (mission)	24 Spirit of The Mists1	none

1. Although Spirits of the Mists do not use any player skills, they do use the same spirit-only skills as some of the spirits summoned with Binding Rituals.

For a full list of non-summoned spirits, including quest-related non-summoned spirits, see category:Spirits.

Related Skills

• For a list of skills that create Nature Spirits, see Nature Ritual skills quick reference or Category:Nature Rituals.
• For a list of skills that create Binding Spirits, see Binding Ritual skills quick reference or Category:Binding Rituals.

Note: The following descriptions are limited to effects in relation to spirits, which might not be the skills' full effect.

• Skills that target spirits
  • Consume Soul - steal all of target summoned creature health.
  • Draw Spirit - makes target allied spirit shadow step to your location.
  • Gaze of Fury - destroy target spirit and create a Spirit of Fury
  • Rupture Soul - destroy target allied spirit to damage and blind nearby foes.
  • Spirit Siphon - target spirit loses all energy, caster gain a portion of it.
  • Spirit to Flesh - destroy touched allied spirit to heal nearby allies.
  • Soul Twisting - destroy allied spirit to improve recharge of next ritual.
  • Spirit Walk - shadowsteps to target spirit.
  • Swap - switch places with target summoned creature.

• Skills that directly affect spirits
  • Armor of Unfeeling - lowers damage taken, immunity to critical attacks
  • Feast of Souls - destroy all nearby allies' spirits to heal party members.
  • Gaze from Beyond - nearest spirit lose health to fuel damage on enemy.
  • Signet of Creation (PvP) - grants all spirits within earshot health regeneration, but destroys them after 30 seconds.
  • Spirit Boon Strike - nearby spirits gain health (different from healing)
  • Spirit Transfer - nearest spirit lose health to fuel healing on ally.
  • Spiritleech Aura - spirits do less damage but steal health
  • Summon Spirits - makes all spirits you control shadow step to your position and makes them gain health.

• Skills that are affected by spirits in general
  • Clamor of Souls - gain energy if any spirits are within earshot
  • Essence Strike - gain energy if any spirits are within earshot.
  • Ghostly Haste - spells recharge faster when within earshot of a spirit.
  • Mend Body and Soul - number of spirits within earshot of a caster affect number of conditions lost on target.
  • Painful Bond - target and nearby foes lose health when they are hit by a spirit's attack.
  • Signet of Spirits (PvP) - gain energy when within earshot of a spirit.
  • Spirit Burn - burning applied on target if any spirits are within earshot.
  • Spirit Light - prevents the sacrifice cost for this skill if any spirits are within earshot.
  • Spirit Light Weapon - target gains double health per second if in earshot of a spirit.
  • Unnatural Signet - does double damage and recharges instantly if targeted on a summoned creature.
  • Spiritual Pain - instantly recharges if it hits a spirit

• Other
  • Anguished Was Lingwah - summons a Spirit of Pain (which is otherwise created by the binding ritual Pain).

From Halopedia, the Halo Wiki

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Spirit Production information Model Type-25 Class Dropship Technical specifications Length 27.80 Meters (91.30 Feet) Width 18 Meters (59.1 Feet) Height/depth 11.8 Meters (38.8 Feet) Maximum acceleration Cruising - 350 KPH (217.35 MPH) Maximum - 1,100 KPH (683.1 MPH) Maximum speed (atmosphere) under Mach 1 Slipspace Drive None Shielding None Hull 1 Fuel rod cannon hit Armament Shade (1) Complement 30 passengers 2 Ghosts Crew 1 Pilot 1 Ops Minimum crew 1 Pilot Passengers Pilot, crew, and troops for transport Usage Role(s) Dropship Gunship Scoutship Era(s) Human-Covenant War Affiliation Covenant, probably Covenant Separatists

[Source]

The Type-25 Dropship^[1], otherwise known as the Spirit or T25 TC^[1], is a Covenant infantry and logistical transport craft.^[2] It is generally thought that they ceased to be in widespread use after the Battle of Onyx.

Background

Spirits are angular, tuning fork/U shaped spacecraft with two parallel personnel bays along the exterior of each "prong". They are known to be used to transport Elites, Jackals, Grunts, and Brutes. Hunters have been reported being seen coming out of the bays. Spirits have been known to ferry Covenant vehicles within the blue colored energy field between their prongs, usually Ghosts and Wraiths, or other small objects such as supply canisters.

Around the time of the Battle of Earth, it would seem that the Spirits were completely replaced with the more heavily built Phantoms, though, since great numbers were probably produced, were still used in the Battle of Onyx. A modified Spirit was used by SPARTAN-117 to get him and his team aboard the Unyielding Hierophant in Operation: First Strike. During the Battle of Harvest, a destroyed Spirit was used by the Huragok Lighter Than Some as raw material to create a vehicle that would later be adopted by the Brutes as the "Brute Chopper".

It is speculated that the Spirit is not designed for combat drops, but is instead a cargo transport, though it is armed with a heavy plasma auto-cannon. During the events of the Battle of Installation 04, Spirits were the dropships the UNSC encountered on Alpha Halo.

Operation

The Spirit is a moderately large craft, similar in size to the Pelican dropship of the UNSC. Capable of powered flight and hovering, this dropship appears quite cumbersome and awkward to pilots based on battlefield observations but has been known to reach speeds of 350 kilometers per hour while cruising and has a suspected maximum speed of 1,100 kph.

The craft is a dedicated transport of infantry and vehicles. As such it possesses only one defensive weapon, a heavy plasma cannon nearly identical to that of the Shade plasma turret. The weapon is located beneath the main fuselage of the vessel. It fires slowly but with fairly high accuracy. The gun's invincibility makes up for its bad defense of the ship, as each bolt from the cannon takes a long time to reach its target, allowing for easy evasion especially when in a vehicle.

The Spirit possesses two troop bays each capable of holding four Grunts, Jackals, or Elites. Within each of these bays there appears to be a door hinting at the possibility that more soldiers could be unleashed from deeper within the vessel. Each of these troop bays has two doors that open and close vertically; however, they do not close fully and leave a small opening along the length of the bay. Keen eyed snipers can take advantage of this and terminate soldiers before they even touch the ground.

Between these extended personnel bays, an energy field fluctuates visibly as it generates the ship's anti-gravity propulsion (similar in appearance to the energy pulse of the "gravity lift" elevators the Covenant use to commute between the ground and the hovering ships). This same gravity-beam is used to ferry Shades, Ghosts and other ground vehicles to their destinations.

While these dropships have life support for use in vacuum, they do not have a Slipspace drive. In Halo: First Strike, a Spirit was modified so it could be launched out of a ship already in Slipspace. Even with this modification, the Spirit became severely damaged after the exit and was still unable to travel into Slipspace on its own accord.

Appearances

In the games, Spirits appear in Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo Wars, and Halo: Reach as the primary dropship of the Covenant. They do not make any appearance in Halo 2, Halo 3, or Halo 3: ODST, having been replaced by the sleeker, larger, heavier, and faster Phantom. In the books, they are mentioned in Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, Halo: First Strike, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, Halo: Contact Harvest, and the Halo Graphic Novel.

It is not specifically known why the Spirit was removed from Halo 2 and 3, however it could be that the Phantom was in the process of replacing it as a newer model, or that the Phantom was preferred by Bungie.

Spirit in Combat

Halo: Combat Evolved

A Covenant Spirit dropship.

The Spirit is indestructible, unless a mod for the PC version is used to enable one shot kills. If so, it will then simply look as if burned, it will lose its ball-turret, and all occupants will die. No amount of firepower that the player can bring to bear is capable of bringing the ship down if no mods are added.

The best tactic, if on lower difficulty levels, is to attack the vulnerable infantry (shoot or toss a grenade) as they disembark from the Spirit. On higher difficulties, this would be unwise; hiding behind cover until the ship leaves is often the best course of action in this situation. Without cover or good tactics, a careless player might die quickly. As well as being able to drop of a rather large amount of Covenant troops on the battlefield, the Spirit is also capable of providing heavy support in combat. When dropping off troops, the Spirit will be stationary in the mid-air for a few seconds, before descending and opening it's troop bay doors located at the outer side of either arm of the vehicle.

Another easy tactic, especially on later parts of the level "Halo", is to simply drive your Warthog across the area where the enemies jump out. If timed correctly, you can easily run over all of the disembarking Covenant units.

Halo Wars

A Spirit dropship as it appears in Halo Wars.

The Spirit is used to deliver quite large amounts of troops on the battlefield, including units that normally wouldn't fit inside it, including Hunters, to enhance gameplay. It's quite fast, and quite resistant to damage: it is advisable to take it out just before the troops it carries disembark, as you will then be able to focus your fire on a single unit rather than a dozen. Once the troops are on the ground, it cannot be destroyed.

The preferred units for taking down an airborne Spirit are Wolverines, Hornets, and Hawks. Spirits in Halo Wars don't engage enemy targets and are only seen in the Campaign, mainly on the mission "Dome of Light". Spirits in Halo Wars utilize gravity lifts to deploy and pick up troops, rather than the side-mounted troop bay doors as in Halo: Combat Evolved.

Halo: Reach

Spirits are confirmed to be returning in Halo: Reach. Presumably, they will have the same combat system as in Halo: Combat Evolved.

Known Spirits

• Brilliant Gift - Destroyed inside the Infinite Succor.

Trivia

• The Spirit did not get an official and sanctioned name until Halo: Ghosts of Onyx was released in October 2006. Up until that point, the ship was simply referred to as the "Covenant dropship". Other sources unofficially referred to it as the "Apparition", the "Spook", the "Harbinger", and even the "Bandit", based on the military term for an enemy used by a Marine to refer to a Spirit in "Halo".^[3]

• The Marathon logo can be seen on the front of the cockpit.

• Lorraine McLees described the Spirit as "having the coolest rear-end of all the Covenant ships."

• Many Covenant vehicles share a similar name to "Spirit". The definition of the word spirit is also similar to that of Phantom, Wraith, Spectre, Ghost, and Banshee.

• Captain Jacob Keyes commandeered one of the Spirit dropships to ferry himself, John-117, and a squad of Marines off of the Covenant ship Truth and Reconciliation during Halo: Combat Evolved. He uses the dropship itself to kill the two Hunters (by ramming them with the prongs).

• The Spirit seems to be slower than the Pelican, as described in Halo: First Strike its maximum velocity was "under Mach 1" while the Pelican could reach "Mach 3", although it may be due to the fact the Pelican in question was almost in freefall.

• The Spirit was incorrectly referred to as a Banshee in Halo: The Flood.

• In Halo Wars, when a Spirit was picking up the Arbiter, after he had captured Ellen Anders, it used a gravity lift to pick him up, showing that some earlier models possibly used gravity lifts.

Gallery

A Spirit dropship hovers over a battlefield.	A Spirit fires upon enemy infantry.	Concept art of the Spirit dropship.	The Spirit from Halo: Reach.
The Brilliant Gift (crashed Spirit).	A screenshot of the Halo: Reach-era Spirit dropship.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Bungie.net: Type-25 Dropship
2. ↑ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
3. ↑ "...Phantoms, Spirits, and even Banshees..." Pg. 195 of Ghosts of Onyx

Links

Internal

• Phantom - The successor of the Type-25 Spirit Dropship.
• D77-TC Pelican Dropship - The UNSC Defense Force's equivalent to the Type-25 Spirit Dropship.

From Marvel Database

Spirit

Gallery

Real Name

Xira

Current Alias

Spirit

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Height

5' 7"

Weight

140 lbs (64 kg)

Eyes

Brown

First appearance

Death Metal #2
(February, 1994)

History

History of character is unknown.

Links

• Appearances of Xira (Earth-616)
• Character Gallery: Xira (Earth-616)
• Images that feature Xira (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Xira (Earth-616)
• Quotations by Xira (Earth-616)

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From the RuneScape Wiki, the wiki for all things RuneScape

Spirit can refer to many things:

NPCs inhabiting the Spirit Realm:

The Spirit Realm can only be entered after Spirit of Summer and Summer's End.

Summoning familiars:

This is a disambiguation page, distinguishing subjects with similar names.

If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

From Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki.

"Spirit"
Homeworld	Unidentified planet, near Bedlam Pulsar
Skin color	None
Distinctions	Ability to change their form
Famous members	Tilotny Horliss-Horliss Cold Danda Sine Splendid Ap

[Source]

The Bedlam Spirits inhabited an unidentified planet near the Bedlam Pulsar. During the Galactic Civil War Princess Leia Organa encountered them while escaping from Imperial troops. The spirits were very powerful beings, capable of manipulating time and mass, but prone to childish behavior.

Appearances

• Tilotny Throws a Shape (First appearance)

Sources

• The Essential Atlas

From Yu-Gi-Oh!

Spirit Monsters, originally as a rule, could not be Special Summoned, and are sent back to the owner's hand during the End Phase of the turn they are Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned, or flipped face-up. This also happens if they wound up in the opponent's hand via effects like "Exchange". However, new Spirits have been released in The Duelist Genesis, one of which can be Special Summoned for a cost.

Spirit Monster Cards are designated by having "Spirit" in the place where "Effect" would be. They are also the first secondary type of Effect monsters to have this indicator (the Flip effect monsters prior to them simply had "FLIP:" at the beginning of their effects).

Many of the Spirit Monsters' designs were based on icons from Japanese mythology and they all have very similar backgrounds, supposedly of the spirit world. Their OCG names would be given in kanji, but the furigana would be given in katakana which normally would indicate a foreign-language word.

One Spirit monster in particular, "Yata-Garasu", is infamous for its complete lockdown of the opponent's hand when combined with "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End", and is believed to be one of the two cards responsible for the forbidden list.

Play Style

Spirit monsters can only remain on the field temporarily (unless Set face-down), and thus their controllers run into a major problem of maintaining field presence, but many Spirit monsters have devastating special effects to make up for this deficiency. "Mirror of Yata" and "Izanagi" keep the spirits on the field permanently or until they are removed, making these cards a must for any spirit deck.

In addition, there is a loophole with spirit monsters that lets them stay on the field regardless of their return-to-owner's hand effect. The exact text on Spirit Monster cards states they must return to their owner's hand "during the End Phase of the turn [they are] Normal Summoned or flipped face-up". Therefore, if they stay on the field for more than one turn you don't have to worry about them returning to your hand. For instance, a "Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi" monster equipped with "Mirror of Yata" who then had its Mirror destroyed (e.g. by "Heavy Storm" or "Mystical Space Typhoon") would stay on the field the subsequent turns. Another card that can help bypass the common effect of Spirit monsters that returns them to the hand is Future Visions. When Spirit monsters are Normal Summoned, and afterwards removed from play by the card, the End Phase would have already passed when they return, so they can no longer return to the hand.

Two of the strongest Spirit Monsters ("Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi" and "Yamata Dragon") focus on maintaining a significant hand advantage over the opponent, and when combined with "Spiritual Energy Settle Machine" or other effects like "Dimensionhole" that allow them to remain on the field, they can easily turn the tide of any duel in their owner's favor. Though it wasn't an option in the past, there is currently enough support for decks entirely themed around Spirit monsters to be viable. Because Spirit monsters return to the player's hand, the player runs the risk of having too many cards during the End Phase, forcing a discard, so "Infinite Cards" is an effective way to counter this problem. Cards like "Exchange", "Creature Swap", and "Mystic Box" are staples.

A commonly used card with Spirits is "Mausoleum of the Emperor", which allows users to pay a life point cost to get high-level Spirit monsters out without tribute. Trap Monsters are also often used either as tributes or as a method of maintaining a field defense when the Spirits leave the field.

Their effects range from Beatdown, Direct Attack, hand control, and even field control, making a dedicated spirit deck very flexible regardless of what the opponent has. However, due to their habit of returning to the hand, cards that make you discard will be a serious hamper, as Spirit Monsters in general are rather useless in the Graveyard. Cards that recover discarded cards are thus suggested, but not recommended as Spirit Monsters do not have much in the way of deck thinning. Once the problem of field presence is resolved, spirit monsters can be quite annoying as well as devastating, since it is hard for the opponent to destroy them, and even with cards that forces discards, it is hard to target a particular spirit monster (unless something like "Card Destruction" is used). This is particularly true for "Inaba White Rabbit", as it can attack directly while avoiding opponents' counterattacks, making it quite annoying as well as devastating (Inaba has one of the highest ATKs in the game for a direct-attack monster).

Example

From Yu-Gi-Oh Card Maker Wiki

Spirit Monsters, originally as a rule, could not be Special Summoned, and are sent back to the owner's hand during the End Phase of the turn they are Normal Summoned, Flip Summoned, or flipped face-up. This also happens if they wound up in the opponent's hand via effects like Exchange. However, new Spirits have been released in The Duelist Genesis, one of which can be Special Summoned for a cost.

Spirit Monster Cards are designated by having "Spirit" in the place where "Effect" would be.

Many of the Spirit Monsters' designs were based on icons from Japanese mythology and they all have very similar backgrounds, supposedly of the spirit world.

Play Style

Spirit monsters can only remain on the field temporarily (unless Set face-down), and thus their controllers run into a major problem of maintaining field presence, but many Spirit monsters have devastating special effects to make up for this deficiency. Two of the strongest Spirit monsters focus on maintaining a significant hand advantage over the opponent, and when combined with Spiritual Energy Settle Machine or other effects like Dimensionhole that allow them to remain on the field, they can easily turn the tide of any duel in their favor. Though it wasn't an option in the past, there is currently enough Spirit support for decks entirely themed around them to be viable. Because Spirit monsters return to the player's hand, the play runs the risk of having to many cards during the end phase, forcing a discard, so Infinite Cards is an effective way to counter this problem.