Legendary Spirits



The Legendary Spirits (伝説のスピリット Densetsu no Supiritto), or just Spirits (スピリット Supiritto) for short, are a set of twenty ancient artifacts that are used to evolve into Hybrid Digimon. Each contains the sealed power of a member of the Warrior Ten, a group of ten Ultimate Digimon who saved the Digital World in its distant past. The Spirits grant their respective Warrior's power to their users.

The Spirits and Hybrid Digimon were introduced in the anime series Digimon Frontier, where human Chosen Children use them to Spirit Evolve into Digimon.

=Overview= Each Spirit is associated with the elemental power of its respective member of the Warrior Ten. There are two Spirits for each element: a Human Spirit or Spirit H (スピリットH Supiritto eichi), which creates humanoid Hybrid Digimon with Adult-class power; and a Beast Spirit or Spirit B (スピリットB Supiritto bī), which creates animalistic Hybrid Digimon with Perfect-class power. In certain circumstances, multiple spirits can be combined to create Hybrid Digimon of Ultimate-class power: using both spirits of the same element creates Fusion Form Hybrid Digimon such as Raihimon, and using ten spirits in specific combinations creates Transcendent Form Hybrid Digimon such as Kaiser Greymon. The union of all twenty spirits creates the Ultimate Digimon Susanoomon.

Both humans and Digimon can use Spirits to become Hybrid Digimon.

The elemental attributes of the Spirits are each represented by a stylized symbol that is the respective character for that element. Susanoomon bears an eleventh symbol, stylized after the kanji for "heaven" (天 ten).

The Spirit items themselves resemble the Hybrid Digimon that they create in some way, such as being stored arrangements of their armor or body. Every Spirit sits on a hexagonal base, which has the word "SPIRIT" inscribed on it in Digimoji repeating six times in a pattern around its edge.

It is possible for Spirits to be corrupted into alternate, sinister forms that produce different Hybrid Digimon. The only current corrupted Spirits are the Corrupted Human Spirit of Darkness and the Corrupted Beast Spirit of Darkness.

Toy and Video Game-only Spirits
=Appearances=

In Digimon Frontier, the Legendary Spirits are established as having been created in the distant past after the Warrior Ten's final battle with Lucemon. The Warrior Ten released the Spirits and entrusted them to the Three Great Angels. Throughout the series, the Chosen Children seek out the Legendary Spirits and use them to Spirit Evolve. When not in use, the Spirits that they have collected are stored in their D-Scanners.

A Hybrid Digimon who also possesses the other Spirit of their respective element can undergo Slide Evolution to transform into that Spirit's respective Hybrid Digimon at any time. Both the Chosen Children and the Evil Warriors do this.

A recurring theme with the Beast Spirits is that, unlike the Human Spirits, they are very difficult to control. Kanbara Takuya, Minamoto Kouji, Ranamon, and Duskmon are all overwhelmed by their Beast Spirits and run wild when they first obtain them. Himi Tomoki and Shibayama Junpei also has some difficulty, but Orimoto Izumi and Kimura Kouichi do not.

As the series progresses, the Chosen Children's collection of the Spirits is as follows:



Prior to the beginning of the series, the Three Great Angels each possessed some of the Spirits. Seraphimon possessed the spirits of two elements: Light and Wind. Ofanimon possessed the Spirits of three elements: Fire, Ice, and Thunder. Cherubimon possessed the Spirits of five elements: Darkness, Earth, Wood, Steel, and Water. When Lucemon corrupts him, Cherubimon bonds four of his five Spirits to Digimon to create the Evil Warriors, and corrupts the Spirits of Darkness and bonds them to the soul of Kouichi to create Duskmon. However, the Beast Spirit of Water does not appear to have been in his possession at this point, as Ranamon finds it in a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean. Seraphimon and Ofanimon's Spirits were all hidden to protect them from Cherubimon.

The ability to use more than one Spirit at a time requires the power of one of the Three Great Angels. Seraphimon's DigiTama gives power to Takuya and Kouji's D-Scanners to allow them to Double Spirit Evolve using both the spirits of their respective elements. Later, Ofanimon upgrades Takuya and Kouji's D-Scanners into new models that allow them to Hyper Spirit Evolve using twenty Spirits each; when they gain this ability, the group reorganizes their collected Spirits to give the Spirits of Earth and Wood to Takuya, and the Spirits of Water and Steel to Kouji, so that they can be used for their respective Hyper Spirit Evolutions. They keep these Spirits for the remainder of the series.

In the group's second battle with Lucemon, Kouichi gives the Spirits of Darkness back to Kouji when he is killed by Lucemon. The reaction of Kouji's Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness triggers Kouji and Takuya's Ancient Spirit Evolution into Susanoomon.

In the final battle against Lucemon, the Warrior Ten are reborn as the ten Human Form Hybrids as entities in their own right, who protect and encourage the Chosen Children. As a side effect of the powerful bond established between the Spirits and Chosen Children from all of their time spent traveling together and Spirit Evolving, the Warrior Ten have inherited some of the traits of the Chosen Children (for instance, Fairimon now speaks Italian, like Izumi), and there is some sort of link between each Chosen Child-Warrior pair (e.g. Löwemon's time spent with Kouichi allows him to sense that Kouichi is still alive in the Real World).

In "The Gathering of the Legendary Heroes! The Digimon All-star Showdown!!" Kanbara Takuya uses the Spirits of Fire to become Aldamon for the fight against Quartzmon's forces. Near the end of the battle, Himi Tomoki sends the rest of the spirits to Takuya so that he can become Susanoomon by himself.

In the "Frontier Generation" special, Kanbara Takuya and Minamoto Kouji use their Human Spirits to defeat a Megadramon, following the same Spirit Evolution mechanics as in Digimon Frontier. Takuya also uses his Beast Spirit of Fire to Slide Evolve into Vritramon when fighting Metamormon with Yagami Taichi and Zeromaru.

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