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<blockquote data-quote="F5" data-source="post: 809085" data-attributes="member: 4607">Wow.&nbsp; So, uh, Sigil...that was just off-the-cuff, huh?&nbsp; I've cut-and-pasted a copy into my gaming stuff folder, to peruse at greater length later, if you don't mind.&nbsp; That's good stuff.One thing I refer to in answering the question of &quot;where is an undead cretures' soul&quot; is an idea that comes up a lot in Eastern philosophies, and in Egyptian mythology; that people have two souls.&nbsp; One which goes on to an afterlife, and one that &quot;stays behind&quot; somehow.&nbsp; One soul often has the being's memories and personality, the other has its' core Essense, so to speak.In my game, I've simplified some of these ideas, and tweaked 'em.&nbsp; The two souls are called many things in many languages, but they translate to &quot;heart-soul&quot; and &quot;mind-soul&quot;.&nbsp; The heart-soul binds the being to the Earth/prime plane, and when the being dies, this soul remains.&nbsp; The Mind-soul's final task is to guide the heart-soul back to Nwth (gaia, basically), where it rests until it is reincarnated.&nbsp; The mind-soul passes on to the outer planes.&nbsp; Undead happen when there is some disruption to this pattern.&nbsp; Ghosts are formed when the mind-soul has its' own agenda, and refuses to guide the heart-soul home.&nbsp; Liches banish their heart-soul from their bodies, and exist as creatures of pure Mind.&nbsp; You can't be brought back from the dead unless both halves of the soul are in their proper place.&nbsp; Now I have to go back to the Sigil's treatise on elemental/existenial waveform-energy, and its' place in the formation of Soul, and figure out how this all ties together.&nbsp; This will take me a while, and my brains may end up leaking form my ears before I'm finished.&nbsp; But I'll have fun doing it...[edited to fix silly typos]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="F5, post: 809085, member: 4607"] Wow. So, uh, Sigil...that was just off-the-cuff, huh? I've cut-and-pasted a copy into my gaming stuff folder, to peruse at greater length later, if you don't mind. That's good stuff. One thing I refer to in answering the question of "where is an undead cretures' soul" is an idea that comes up a lot in Eastern philosophies, and in Egyptian mythology; that people have two souls. One which goes on to an afterlife, and one that "stays behind" somehow. One soul often has the being's memories and personality, the other has its' core Essense, so to speak. In my game, I've simplified some of these ideas, and tweaked 'em. The two souls are called many things in many languages, but they translate to "heart-soul" and "mind-soul". The heart-soul binds the being to the Earth/prime plane, and when the being dies, this soul remains. The Mind-soul's final task is to guide the heart-soul back to Nwth (gaia, basically), where it rests until it is reincarnated. The mind-soul passes on to the outer planes. Undead happen when there is some disruption to this pattern. Ghosts are formed when the mind-soul has its' own agenda, and refuses to guide the heart-soul home. Liches banish their heart-soul from their bodies, and exist as creatures of pure Mind. You can't be brought back from the dead unless both halves of the soul are in their proper place. Now I have to go back to the Sigil's treatise on elemental/existenial waveform-energy, and its' place in the formation of Soul, and figure out how this all ties together. This will take me a while, and my brains may end up leaking form my ears before I'm finished. But I'll have fun doing it... [edited to fix silly typos] [/QUOTE]

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