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<blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 5337108" data-attributes="member: 6562">Nobody has a soul, because &quot;souls&quot; are nothing but Pelorian propaganda. Same deal with &quot;alignment&quot;. It's fiction.- - -Everything has a soul, because there's a god for everything, and within each thing resides a spark of its god. We call this spark its &quot;spirit&quot;. Gods of the living dislike the undead because they are fragments of the god who do not return to it on command. Some ancient, long dead gods fragmented into free-roaming spirits (elementals, faeries, angels &amp; demons). Be wary of killing these beings: each time one dies, the &quot;whole&quot; of the ancient dead god grows stronger. This world does not need to know what an ancient undead god is like. (This is why we try to trap or bind elementals, faeries, angels &amp; demons instead of just killing them.)- - -Souls are just ethereal energy clouds generated by living beings. They represent your identity, but they aren't any more special than your fingerprint or dental record. They're used in similar ways to fingerprints: you leave marks wherever you go, especially if you touch stuff. (&quot;Touching stuff&quot; with your soul == using magic.) Undead don't have souls because they aren't living, but they still generate ethereal energy clouds -- it's just that those clouds are different enough that we don't call them &quot;souls&quot;. When you die, your soul detaches from your body and floats through the Ether. We can sometimes make a copy of a dead person by consuming that energy cloud.- - -Vampires won't give you a ride to Brooklyn, because they indeed have no soul.Cheers, -- N</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nifft, post: 5337108, member: 6562"] [u]Nobody[/u] has a soul, because "souls" are nothing but Pelorian propaganda. Same deal with "alignment". It's fiction. - - - [u]Everything[/u] has a soul, because there's a god for everything, and within each thing resides a spark of its god. We call this spark its "spirit". Gods of the living dislike the undead because they are fragments of the god who do not return to it on command. Some ancient, long dead gods fragmented into free-roaming spirits (elementals, faeries, angels & demons). Be wary of killing these beings: each time one dies, the "whole" of the ancient dead god grows stronger. This world does not need to know what an ancient [u]un[/u]dead god is like. (This is why we try to trap or bind elementals, faeries, angels & demons instead of just killing them.) - - - Souls are just ethereal energy clouds generated by living beings. They represent your identity, but they aren't any more special than your fingerprint or dental record. They're used in similar ways to fingerprints: you leave marks wherever you go, especially if you touch stuff. ("Touching stuff" with your soul == using magic.) Undead don't have souls because they aren't living, but they still generate ethereal energy clouds -- it's just that those clouds are different enough that we don't call them "souls". When you die, your soul detaches from your body and floats through the Ether. We can sometimes make a copy of a dead person by consuming that energy cloud. - - - Vampires won't give you a ride to Brooklyn, because they indeed have no soul. Cheers, -- N [/QUOTE]

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