Races of Soul Eater

These are all of the playable races in Soul Eater. If the name of the race is green, you can currently be one. If it is red, it is temporarily closed.

Meister
Meisters are known for being paired and carrying a weapon, but higher-leveled meisters are able to fight on their own if they have a soul fit to it. The skills for meisters can be different to each person, but they all need to know how to channel their soul's wavelength. They can do it through themselves or their weapons. During this, the meister can use a variety of abilities.

There are three different levels of a meister, with each designated with a star. One-star being the lowest and three-star being the best. The difference between the ranks is evident from the focus in battle, types of skills used, and missions taken.

One-star meisters seem to be sent on missions specifically to harvest evil human souls, rarely straying from these types. This likely stems from the fact that most new meisters strive to gather souls and create a Death Scythe. Two-stars and above seem to be sent on specific missions that can have nothing to do with harvesting souls. Often, these meisters are chosen for a mission due to a specific skill that would prove advantageous to them. Sid, for example, is normally sent on missions as a spy. Needless to say, three-star meisters, being the highest ranked, are normally designated as the leader of a group.

Other than the type of missions they undertake, the level of a meister gives them unique rights and privileges, most notably what type of books can be taken from the Shibusen library.

Weapon
Humans with active Weapon genes have the ability to change their entire body into some variety of a weapon. When becoming a weapon, their clothing and everything on their person is carried on into the transformation. After becoming a weapon, the person is seen in his/her human form as some sort of reflection on the weapon and is seen in a completely black space.

Inside their weapon, they seem to be able to have easy access to their souls. Often, in this dark space they are seen without their clothing on, apart from maybe a few details. The Weapons also glow in the color of their souls when inside Weapon Form. This glow is also present when the Weapons are transforming. Some Weapons in their Weapon Form have certain components that move similarly to facial expressions to show emotions and thoughts.

Most Weapons can also transform parts of their body into Weapon Form to enhance lethality in battle, but most are stronger when being paired with a Meister. It seems that transforming parts of their bodies into weapons doesn't affect their clothing either, as Spirit can easily sprout blades from his arms and back without tearing his clothes, and Soul can turn his entire arm into a blade with similar effect.


Witches
Witches are powerful beings and the natural enemies of Shibusen, as almost all of them have a destructive nature. Most witches featured in the series are based on a distinct animal and have some of their traits in both their personalities, fighting styles and appearances. Witches are also distinguished by their uniquely-purple soul.

Kishin/Evil Souls
Kishin are beings created as the final result of a corrupted soul. A soul becomes corrupted when it devours pure human souls to gain power, usually as a means to escape fear. As a result, the person's soul deviates from the path of a human and begins to walk the path of a demon, becoming a Kishin's egg.

Kishin can alter between different races but usually retain their original powers. this means a technician that becomes a Kishin would still have techniques but would have a peculiar Kishin theme.


Enchanters
An Enchanter, or puppet engineer, is the name used to refer to a person who can create Golems. They traditionally wear large brown gloves, so that they can pack in magical power into these and then use them to knead the earth to eventually produce a golem. A large amount of them reside in the village of Loew, where 80% of it's population are considered enchanters. This is a very important place to these people as it is the place where the Oldest Golem was created over 800 years ago by Giriko, under the alias of Enchanter Saw. In the present, it seems that the majority of them have allied themselves with Arachnophobia, most likely due to Giriko's influence within the village.

Immortal
The Immortal Clan is a group of people, like the name suggests, who are immortal. Being part of the immortal clan grants the person in question an immortal body, in that even significant wounds inflicted to such a body, last only mere moments. They also have witch like powers that allows them to alter their form into animals, however this can only be a werewolf and nothing else.