After awhile I figured out what was missing. 'My other personalities, they're gone.' That was it, everything that was putting an emotional strain on my mind was gone. No more anger and no more bliss. But the more I thought about it, the more incorrect I feel. "I must rectify this problem by creating more... I just need an emotional base..."

Lathran was lost in thought trying to come up with a solution to his predicament. That was until he stumbled upon a set of silvery pony armor that caught his attention. He could feel the magic radiating off the metal like it was a bright light shining in his eyes. He got close to it and did the oldest known investigation technique, he poked it. As Lathran poked the mysterious he felt a presence in his mind. He retracted his finger. 'Could this be what I was looking for?' He decided he would at least study this object to learn of it's nature. So he laid his 'hand' on the armor and focused on his 'mindscape'. Eventually the presence in his mind spoke.

"Greetings wraith." She said in an angry tone. "Have thee cometh to take my magic away?"

Lathran thought about it. "I might have done that if I had the knowledge to do so. Sadly I do not."

The presence gave a mental smile. "You may be of use to me. How about we do a trade?"

"A trade you say, what is it?" Lathran asked.

"I will give you my magic and instinctual knowledge, but I get to hibernate within your mind." She spoke with the smallest hint of desperation.

"And what will happen if I decline."

The presence frowned. "Then I shall be left here forever to waste away, why wouldn't you take such a valuable resource?

"Good to know, how long will this hibernation last?"

"Why do you ask so many questions? Just take the magic already!"

"I ask these questions because I'm your way out, you rely on me to get anywhere, So tell me."

"Fine, it will last till I get sufficient magic to be sentient again, once I am sentient again I'll be like a secondary personality in your mind."

'Or one of many.' "I would gladly take your trade, in fact I will ask nothing more, hibernate away."

"R-really? Ok just allow me inside and I'll do the rest."

Lathran calmed himself and felt the presence seep further into his mind. It is far more feminine and angry than his creator, but It would be good enough for an emotional blueprint. Once the presence settled Lathran reinforced his mind. When that was settled he went into a nearby corner to 'meditate'. In his stoic demeanor, he called forth the instinctual knowledge granted by the new personality hibernating in his mind. Most of it is useless physical body functions that while interesting, was not useful at the time, after a few minutes he found her instinctual emotions. From this he created a replica and brought it out to a separate portion of his mind to modify it.

He split it into various emotional types and gathered all the anger and made a lesser personality with it. This personality would be used for whenever he had to replicate this emotion. Then he put all of the happiness and joy into another, it was far weaker than it's predecessor but it would do. Deciding that he wouldn't let the rest be useless he decided to create a sad personality and a lustful personality. He doubted the usefulness of these but decided that they may have a select few uses. The only 'problem' with these alternate personalities is that they were quite 'feminine' so they may cause stronger or weaker emotional reactions given the scenario. Especially with the lustful one.

Lathran never cared much about 'gender' but now that he lacks a solid form, it put the last nail in the coffin. He truly was gender less, in a way it reflects his logical personality perfectly, he never cared for sex unless it was for procreation or mutual benefit, never 'fun' he doesn't care for emotions they are tools.

Now that I finished creating lesser personalities I decided to go through the pony's instinctual knowledge. There were a few useful things, she instinctively knows how to cast certain spells like levitation and a magic bolt. I studied these techniques she used and casted them using the magic she gave me. These will be useful later. I then found her name, it was interesting to say the least there were two main ones, Luna and Nightmare Moon. I think I've read something mentioning her before. I decided to dive into the other interesting knowledge like quadrupedal movement and body shape. I found that I could easily recreate her large equine body using my incorporeal form, the magic I got from the pony must have made my form more 'solid' because my lower body didn't fall apart when I moved.

I decided to keep the equine form minus the wings for now, as to make myself look more native to this land and blend in better. I walked to the library in my new feminine equine body thinking of future interactions with the natives of the land, surely I could gain more 'friends' (Assets) somewhere in Equestria.

Lathran traveled to the library and read for the entirety of the night, ferociously studying everything he defines useful. While studying he came up with a secondary name that sounds less threatening and pony like for his secondary form. He called 'her' Shadow Sense. He felt this name would be satisfactory for his means. After agreeing with himself he continued reading through the library's books feverishly.

Author's Note

Tell me readers, is Shadow Sense a good name for a large ghostly unicorn mare?

Also feel free to comment on anything else.