Although you still can, you do not require sleep, oxygen, or food. You only require water and the emotions of other beings to sustain yourself.
When you are feeding of a creature's emotions, you are not taking emotions away from them, but instead the spiritual energy they exert to express or hide them.
Weaker emotions (happiness, fear, anger, sadness, etc.) aren't that filling to you and can only sustain you for half a day. Along with not being as nutritious, they have a shallow aura, requiring you to physically touch the creature exercising that emotion to feed of them.
Stronger emotions(joy, terror, hatred, love, anguish, etc.) can sustain you for weeks before you require another meal. The aura is much larger, allowing you to feed from 10 feet away from the source or 20 feet if the creature feels this way toward you. Touching a creature expressing these emotions towards you counts as a Short Rest.
If a creature expresses unconditional emotions toward you (true love, friendship, despise, trauma, etc.) you feel the effects of it from any distance. Focusing on the connection you have with a creature (living or not) that is at this level of emotional importance for 20 minutes is treated as a Long Rest and gives you Inspiration. This require Concentration.
Spells that influence ones mind like Fear and Calm Mind don't feed you.
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