RACES

A Plus, the ghost of a person who has died, still attached to its body by the Chain of Fate. Once that chain is severed the soul cannot return, and the chain begins to corrode. A Shinigami's job is to reach it with a Konso before the...

Hollows that removed their own masks to gain Shinigami powers, ending up with a sword, a human shape and a Hollow hole they no longer hide. Aizen mass-produced them with the Hogyoku and ranked the ten strongest as the Espada. Releasing the...

What a Plus becomes when grief or regret eats through it, or when it stays in the Human World too long without being sent on. A Hollow wears a mask, carries a hole where its heart was, and feeds on souls to fill it. They have been Soul...

Spiritually aware humans who manipulate Reishi and destroy Hollows outright rather than purifying them, which is the reason Soul Society exterminated most of them two hundred years ago. Killing a Hollow permanently rather than sending it...

Immortal humans created by a Soul Society experiment into eternal life that went wrong. They do not age and they sustain themselves by consuming souls, which is why Soul Society spent centuries hunting the people its own research produced....

Ordinary living people, the default residents of the Human World and the only race in the setting with no spiritual role at all. Almost all of them cannot see Hollows, Shinigami or the things that hunt them, which is why Karakura Town...

Artificial souls built under Project Spearhead to close the numbers gap between Shinigami and Hollows, each enhanced in one specific way. Soul Society cancelled the programme and ordered them destroyed, and the survivors were sold off as...

Humans born with a fragment of Hollow power, inherited from a mother who survived a Hollow attack before their birth. A Fullbring pulls out the soul inside an object and bends it to the user's will, so the ability takes its shape from...

The damned. Humans whose lives were sinful enough that Soul Society will not take them, bound in Hell by chains that cannot be broken and held there indefinitely. They cannot die and they cannot leave, which is the entire design.

Zanpakuto spirits that Muramasa pulled out of their swords and then abandoned. Their Shinigami are dead, and a Zanpakuto spirit is supposed to die with its master, so what is left runs wild in the Rukongai with nothing to anchor it.

A soul with no memory and no past, produced when a Plus is stripped of everything that made it a person. Blanks drift without identity and cannot be sent on by Konso, because there is nothing left to send.

Creatures from Reverse London, the setting of Burn the Witch rather than the main series. They were responsible for a large share of medieval London's deaths, are invisible to ordinary residents, and are now managed by the Wing Bind...

Artificial souls developed by Kirio Hikifune, swallowed to force a Shinigami's spirit out of a gigai or to evict a stubborn spirit from a corpse. The mass-produced version is the Soul Candy dispenser every Shinigami carries in the Human...

Hollows that committed enough sin in life that Hell claims them instead of Hueco Mundo. When a Shinigami kills one, the chains of Hell reach up and take the remains, which is the only time most Shinigami see what happens after a Konso goes...

The guardians of Hell, enormous four-legged figures with elongated skulls and armoured shoulders. They watch the Togabito and eat any that try to leave, which does not kill them: a devoured Togabito reforms and the punishment resumes.

Shinigami carrying Hollow powers, the exact mirror of the Arrancar. All eight were officers caught in Aizen's Hollowfication experiment, saved from full collapse by Kisuke Urahara and exiled to the Human World for a century. Each one holds...

The living part of a Zanpakuto, born with its Shinigami and dying with them, shaped by whatever its wielder is. Learning its name gives access to Shikai and forcing it into submission gives Bankai, which is why the relationship matters...