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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M_Natas" data-source="post: 9315006" data-attributes="member: 7025918">Hrm, it would be pretty hard to find a sapient being in D&D 5e that doesn't have or isn't a soul. Even elementals and devils are souls themselves.Of course you can change that in your Homegame as you which.But D&D 5e makes a difference between the Animus/spirit and the Soul.Like speak with dead doesn't grant the corpse sapience- it just raises the animus so the caster is able to access the memories of the dead creature. But it can't make new memories or is sapient.So the Animus/Spirit is just the energy to move the body, but the soul is the actual essence of the person.So you have Body - Animus - Soul.So in 5e you can have a Ghost (which is the soul) of a person, a Zombie of the same person and then you could have a non sapient speaking zombie if you cast speak with dead on it ....In 1e in contrast Elves donhave souls.</blockquote>