Corrupted

Corrupted aether is obtained and created via taboo methods. These methods include siphoning aether from dead bodies, sacrificing aether users, and infusing a demon's blood with one's aether. Cultists usually are armed with this type of aether. Once a user has corrupted aether, it isn’t gained by natural means. The user would have to siphon beings dead or alive to regain it. Corrupted aether also works very similar to an element, but it doesn’t necessarily fit in the element category due to how different it is. The largest drawbacks of being a corrupted user is the inability to naturally create or gain corrupted aether, and once a user exhausts all of their aether, they become significantly weaker on par with a human non-Quintessian.

Abilities
Corrupted aether is capable of being mixed with an element to change its appearance and enhance any elemental attack. It is able to boost the user's strength and reflexes at the cost of their sanity, hence the more they boost the less sane they are. Corrupted aether may also be used to create beams and waves similar to destructive kinetic and lace the users hand to cause either an explosive attack, or short range erosion from the user's palm. The erosion has a second mode which results in a gaseous attack that decays materials. The aether user is immune to their gas, and holy users can purify and heal decay faster than any other element. Users have another palm ability, called leeching. Leeching either drains the physical life-force of an opponent, which makes them feel weaker, or it drains the aether from an opponent. Corrupted users are able to raise the dead. The raised dead are animated at a fast pace due to the influx of corrupted aether. Should a Quintessian be animated however, they are unable to use their aether unless they had been siphoned prior to death.

Siphoners
Siphoners are regular weapons that are cursed with corrupted aether. The preferred weapons are knives and spears, due to their sharp points and how quick they can be used compared to other weapons, but creating a siphoning tool with other weapons is possible as well.