Tormented spirit

Tormented Cannibal

Tormented Spirits are the spirits of tormented criminals that yield their ill-gotten gains when slain. Eager to protect their trove, these spirits flee when encountered and imbue nearby monsters with dangerous powers, which improves their item drops. It's also possible for spirits to possess rare and unique enemies, greatly increasing their threat (and value!) to treasure-seeking exiles.

The various spirits have differing modifiers that they themselves possess as a spirit, in addition to effects that they bestow on normal and magic mobs that they touch, as well as a powerful modifier that they grant to any rare or unique mobs that they possess. Any mob that is bestowed or possessed by a spirit gains a modifier (Spirit's Touch/Grip) based on the spirit that bestowed them, in addition to some slight increase to movement, attack and cast speeds, as well as significantly increased IIQ and IIR. Modifiers are shown in green.

If you kill a tormented spirit, it is guaranteed to drop one rare item. If a rare monster is possessed, at least two rare items are guaranteed to drop, and if a unique monster is possessed, at least three rare items are guaranteed to drop.

Tormented Spirits

Tormented Spirit	Spirit Modifiers	Spirit's Touch	Spirit's Grip
Arsonist	Periodically fires a series of three novas that deal fire damage	Gains extra fire damage and fire resistance.	Monster gains ability to cast a large firestorm that leaves burning ground over a wide area
Aurora Cultist	Leaves ice trail akin to Arctic Armor	Monsters deal additional cold damage	Casts Vaal Cold Snap
Blasphemer	Hexfont	Random curse on hit	Random curse on hit, enemies can have 2 curses
Cannibal	Devours a nearby corpse to heal	Gains Corpse Devouring	Gains Corpse Devouring; periodically summons Cannibal's Devoted as adds (Cannibal from act 1)
Charlatan	Has Physical Degen Aura. Has Allies regenerate life aura.	All affected monsters apply a physical bleed effect on hit. Status icon is the same as the puncture icon	Causes puncture on hit. Summons Purged Fluids. (Mini Blood Elemental from Lunaris 3)
Cutthroat	Has 'Allies Deal Substantial Extra Physical Damage' aura	Monsters gain increased Attack, Cast and Movement speed	Gained 'Allies Deal Substantial Extra Physical Damage' and 'Allies Move and Attack Faster' auras
Embezzler	Embezzler Aura: Enemies recover Life, Mana and Energy Shield 50% slower. Summons Embezzler's Offers (Aurate Warriors)	Periodically summons Embezzler's Offers.	Drops a large amount of currency orbs on death
Fisherman	Very rare	Nothing special seems to happen	Nothing special seems to happen
Forger	Monsters seem to respawn as apparitions (akin to Soul Conduit)	Monsters gain Spell Echo (multistrike pending test?)	Periodically summons corpses and raises specters
Martyr	Gains Frenzy Charges, Casts Detonate Dead	Explodes on Death dealing Fire damage.	Periodically summons Martyr's Devoted as adds (Alira's Martyr from Western Forest)
Mutilator	Casts a Spectral Throw?	Spawns Animated Weapon on death	Casts Vaal Spectral Throw
Necromancer	Summons Raging Spirits	Summons skeleton warrior on death	Summons several skeleton warriors, similar to Catarina's corrupted monster modifier
Poisoner	Leaves a trail of chaos damage similar to Arctic Armor	Monsters Poison on hit, similar to the map mod	Periodically releases a large nova of peircing bolts that do chaos damage
Rogue	Increased movement speed, reduced Character Size	Quick, 20% reduced Character Size, 33% chance to Dodge Attacks	Quick, 20% reduced Character Size, 33% chance to Dodge Attacks, 33% chance to Dodge Spell Damage
Seditionist	?	Summons Tornadoes. Monster Gain "Silence curses" on hit	Guaranteed magic or rare map upon death. Drops around 10-15 scrolls (portal/wisdom)
Smuggler	Has 'Allies have increased energy shield' aura	?	Guaranteed unique on death
Spy	Leaves smoke cloud trail	Gains Blind on hit	Releases smoke clouds over a large area
Storm Cultist	Has a small "Enemies are Shocked" aura around the ghost, resists lightning	Grants lightning resistance	Spawns areas of shocking ground nearby?
Thief	Enemies cannot leech from you.	Life and mana leech	Increased jewelry drops (?)
Thug	Grants increased life and character size.	Grants increased life and character size.	Grants increased life, character size, and area of effect.
Vaal Cultist	Summons Vaal Constructs	Additional elemental damage.	Randomly uses Vaal skills. Chance to drop a Vaal Fragment or Gem on death.
Warlord	Casts Warlords Mark	Reduced Physical Damage taken	Generates Endurance charges. Seems to grant endurance charges to allies as well.